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The head of ION LANDS, Marko Dieckmann, published the first-ever footage of the first-person mode in the cyberpunk adventure Cloudpunk on the studio's official microblog. Currently, the ability to switch cameras in Cloudpunk is in the testing phase. To try the feature yourself, switch to the beta version of the game through its properties in the Steam library. The transition from third-person […]
According to reports from online sources, the Google Messages app, which serves as the default messaging tool on Android smartphones, might soon introduce support for end-to-end encryption. Mentions of this feature were discovered in the code of one of the app's beta versions. Enthusiasts examined the code of internal build Google Messages version 6.2 and found references to several new features, most notably […]
Developers of the Chromium project analyzed 912 dangerous and critical vulnerabilities detected in stable releases of Chrome since 2015, concluding that 70% of them were caused by unsafe memory handling (pointer errors in C/C++ code). Half of these issues (36.1%) were due to buffer access after the associated memory had been released […]
SQLite 3.32.0 has been released, a lightweight DBMS presented as a plug-in library. The SQLite code is released into the public domain, meaning it can be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. Financial support for the SQLite developers is provided by a specially formed consortium that includes companies like Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Key changes: An approximate version of the command has been implemented […]
After three and a half years since the last release, the GoboLinux 017 distribution has been formed. GoboLinux uses a stack-based model for creating the directory tree instead of the traditional file hierarchy found in Unix systems, where each program is installed in a separate directory. The installation image size is 1.9 GB, which can also be used to explore the capabilities of the distribution in live mode. The root in GoboLinux […]
The Children and Youth Center for Technical Creativity and Information Technologies, in partnership with Calculate Linux, is holding the first open competition for children and teenagers in GNU/Linux. Participants will be offered theoretical questions and practical tasks of varying complexity. The competition will start online in Russian on May 25, 2020, at 1 PM Moscow time. Participation is free. All participants will receive diplomas. […]
Checkpoint has introduced the Safe-Linking protection mechanism, which complicates the creation of exploits that manipulate the definition or modification of pointers to buffers allocated during a malloc call. While Safe-Linking does not completely block the possibility of exploiting vulnerabilities, it significantly complicates the creation of certain categories of exploits with minimal overhead, as in addition to the exploitable buffer overflow, one must find another vulnerability that causes information leakage about […]
The developers of OpenBSD have released a portable version of the OpenBGPD routing package 6.7, which can be used in operating systems other than OpenBSD. Portability has been achieved using code from the OpenNTPD, OpenSSH, and LibreSSL projects. In addition to OpenBSD, support for Linux and FreeBSD has been declared. OpenBGPD has been tested on Debian 9, Ubuntu 14.04+, and FreeBSD 12. The development of OpenBGPD is supported by the regional […]
An experimental release of the open WinAPI implementation — Wine 5.9 — has occurred. Since the release of version 5.8, 28 bug reports have been closed and 337 changes made. The most significant changes include: Significant progress in the development of the WineD3D backend based on the Vulkan graphics API; Initial support for splitting DLLs into PE format and Unix shared libraries (.so). Initial […]
On this day, exactly 30 years ago, Microsoft introduced the Windows 3.0 operating system, which included the legendary solitaire game that captured the hearts of tens of millions of users worldwide. Although Windows 3.0 was essentially just a graphical shell for MS-DOS, it sold over […] in an unprecedented circulation for its time in just a couple of years.
In anticipation of the release of Intel Comet Lake-S processors, ASUS gathered several successful extreme overclocking enthusiasts at its headquarters, giving them the opportunity to experiment with the new Intel processors. As a result, this set a very high bar for the maximum frequency of the flagship Core i9-10900K right at launch. Enthusiasts began their acquaintance with the new platform using 'simple' liquid nitrogen cooling […]
Microsoft has announced the release of the source code for the GW-BASIC programming language interpreter, which was included with the MS-DOS operating system. The code is open under the MIT license. It is written in assembly for 8088 processors and is based on a snapshot of the original source code dated February 10, 1983. The use of the MIT license allows for free modification, distribution, and use of the code in products, […]
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