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In mid-April, Bloober Team announced Observer: System Redux — an enhanced edition of Observer for next-generation consoles. The project was discussed in a recent interview with GamingBolt by the development lead, Szymon Erdmanski. He shared insights about the added content in System Redux, technical improvements, and versions for different platforms. The journalists asked the project head about the expected growth […]
Facebook has removed the ‘lite’ Instagram app from the Google Play catalog. Launched in 2018, it was designed for users in Mexico, Kenya, and other developing countries. Unlike the full-featured app, the simplified version took up less space, operated faster, and was more economical with internet traffic. However, it lacked certain features like messaging. Reports indicate that […]
On the company's Twitter, EdgeSecurity, founded by the author of WireGuard, announced the creation of a native and fully supported implementation of the WireGuard VPN for OpenBSD. A screenshot demonstrating the functionality was shared as confirmation. The readiness of patches for the OpenBSD kernel has also been confirmed by Jason A. Donenfeld, the author of WireGuard, in the announcement of updates for wireguard-tools. Currently, only external patches are available, […]
AOL has released version 2.3 of the Moloch system for capturing, storing, and indexing network packets, providing tools for visualizing traffic flows and searching for information related to network activity. The code is written in C (with an interface in Node.js/JavaScript) and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It supports operation on Linux and FreeBSD. Pre-packaged versions are available for various CentOS releases. […]
In the nightly builds of Firefox, on which Firefox 78 will be based as of June 30, a new about:processes page has been added, introducing a process manager. This new page allows users to assess which processes and handlers are running, which internal threads are executing in each process, and how much CPU and memory each thread and process consumes. The CPU usage is separated by user-space code […]
The hacker group ShinyHunters breached the databases of ten major companies and gained access to the personal information of 73 million people. The stolen data is already being sold on the dark web for a total of about $18,000. Details of the incident were shared by ZDNet. Each database is sold separately. To prove the authenticity of the stolen information, the group released part of it publicly. […]
The Linux Foundation has introduced a new version of the SPDX 2.2 (Software Package Data Exchange) standard, offering a set of specifications for publishing and sharing information about licenses and intellectual property details. The specification allows for the indication of not only the overall license for the entire package but also the specifics of licensing for individual files and fragments, specifying the owners of property rights to the code and the individuals […]
A new release of the FreeRDP 2.1 project has been published, offering an open-source implementation of the RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) remote access protocol, developed based on Microsoft specifications. The project provides a library for integrating RDP support into third-party applications and a client that can be used for remote connection to Windows desktops. The project's code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. In the new […]
After three years of development, a new version of ECL – the Common Lisp interpreter – was released on April 24. ECL, published under the LGPL-2.1+ license, can be used both as an embedded interpreter and to build stand-alone libraries and executable files (with the ability to compile to C). Changes include: support for local nicknames in packages; support for atomic operations; specialized representation of complex types […]
According to network sources, Microsoft is working on a new feature called 'dual screen emulation,' which is intended for the Chromium platform. This tool will primarily benefit developers who are optimizing websites for display on dual-screen devices. Regular users will also find this feature helpful as it will make browsing web pages on […] more comfortable.
Some users utilizing the 'hintfull' hinting method may have noticed that when transitioning from Pango version 1.43 to 1.44, the kerning for certain font families has deteriorated or completely broken. This issue is caused by the Pango library switching from using FreeType for obtaining kerning information (the spacing between glyphs) to HarfBuzz, and the developers of the latter decided not to support rendering […].
After more than six months of development, the latest release of the XMPP client Kaidan has arrived. The program is written in C++ using Qt, QXmpp, and the Kirigami framework and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Builds are available for Linux (AppImage), macOS, and Android (experimental build). The release of the Windows builds and in Flatpak format is delayed. Qt 5.12 and QXmpp 1.2 are required for the build […]