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On March 29 and April 20, versions 0.20.0 and 0.20.1 of the popular free planetarium Stellarium were released, visualizing the realistic night sky as if you were observing it with the naked eye or through binoculars or a telescope. In total, 119 changes were made between versions 0.19.3 and 0.20.0, and 43 changes between versions 0.20.0 and 0.20.1 […]
Netmarketshare has published a report summarizing another study, which determined the market share of popular operating systems and browsers as of April 2020. The data indicates that the share of Windows 10 decreased during the reporting period, while the Edge browser continues to gain popularity. The report states that in April, the distribution share of Windows 10 […]
Last month, Microsoft announced that a major update to the Windows 10 software platform (2004), which is set to be publicly available in May this year, has been completed and was recently made accessible to participants in the Insider program. However, sources now report that the launch of the update has been postponed as developers aim to address a zero-day vulnerability before the official release. According to available information, Microsoft intended to […]
Mozilla has announced the start of testing a new service called Private Relay, which generates temporary email addresses. These addresses are suitable for signing up on websites, for example. With this service, users can avoid giving out their real email addresses, helping them to eliminate spam and numerous promotional messages. To interact with the Private Relay service, it will be necessary to install the corresponding extension […]
The release of the Qbs 1.16 build tool has been announced. This is the third release after the Qt Company stepped away from development, prepared by a community interested in continuing the development of Qbs. Qt is required to build Qbs, although Qbs itself is designed to facilitate the build of any projects. Qbs uses a simplified version of the QML language to define project build scripts, which allows for […]
Drew DeVault, the author of the Sway user environment and the Aerc email client, announced the implementation of a project hub in his developing collaborative platform, SourceHut. Developers can now create projects that combine multiple services, as well as view a list of existing projects and search among them. The SourceHut platform is notable for its full functionality without JavaScript, high performance, and organization […]
Mozilla is enhancing the Firefox Private Relay service, allowing users to generate temporary email addresses for website registrations to keep their real addresses private. With a one-click extension, users can obtain a unique anonymous pseudonym, with messages sent to it being forwarded to the user's actual address. To use the service, users are encouraged to install the extension, which requests an email […]
Valve has released Proton 5.0-7, which is based on the developments from the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of Windows-based games on Linux through the Steam catalog. The project developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows users to run Windows-only games directly within the Steam client for Linux. The package includes an implementation of DirectX […]
System76, a company specializing in producing laptops, PCs, and servers pre-installed with Linux, has launched the Pop!_OS 20.04 distribution, designed to be shipped on System76 hardware instead of the previously offered Ubuntu distribution and comes with a redesigned desktop environment. Pop!_OS is based on the Ubuntu 20.04 package base and is also touted as a long-term support (LTS) release. The project developments are distributed […]
A new version of the QtProtobuf library has been released. QtProtobuf is a free library distributed under the MIT license. It enables easy use of Google Protocol Buffers and gRPC in your Qt project. Changes include: support for JSON serialization has been added, static compilation for Win32 platforms has been introduced, migration to camelCase for field names in messages has been implemented, and release RPM packages and the capability to […]
Microsoft has released the Rust/WinRT toolkit, enabling the use of the Rust language for developing applications based on the WinRT (Windows Runtime) architecture. The code associated with the project is published under the MIT license. Rust/WinRT allows developers to create applications similarly to C++/WinRT using the standard tools of Rust, enabling calls to any existing or future WinRT APIs using code generated on-the-fly from metadata, […]
An experimental version of the Firefox Preview 5.0 browser has been released for the Android platform, developed under the codename Fenix as a replacement for the Firefox edition for Android. The release will soon be available in the Google Play catalog (requires Android 5 or later). Firefox Preview uses the GeckoView engine built on Firefox Quantum technologies and a set of Mozilla Android libraries […]