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The release of the functional programming language Erlang 23 has taken place, aimed at developing distributed fault-tolerant applications that provide parallel processing of requests in real time. The language has found use in areas such as telecommunications, banking systems, e-commerce, computer telephony, and instant messaging. Simultaneously, the OTP 23 (Open Telecom Platform) release was issued — a companion set of libraries and components for […]
Bitdefender Labs, a software security research company, has revealed details about a new malware targeting Android devices. According to experts, it behaves somewhat differently than most common threats, as it does not attack all devices. Instead, the virus selects users from whom it can extract the most useful data. The malware developers have restricted it from attacking users in certain […]
Micron has introduced two new series of M.2 solid-state drives with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface: Micron 2210 and Micron 2300. These new products are positioned as affordable storage devices for consumer laptops and desktops. The more budget-friendly Micron 2210 series is built on 3D QLC NAND memory chips, which allow storage of four bits of information in one […]
Five vulnerabilities have been fixed in FreeBSD, including issues that could potentially lead to data overwriting at the kernel level when certain network packets are sent, or could allow a local user to escalate their privileges. The vulnerabilities have been patched in updates 12.1-RELEASE-p5 and 11.3-RELEASE-p9. The most critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-7454) was caused by a lack of proper packet size checking in the libalias library when parsing protocol-specific […]
After two years of development, the first major release of Deno 1.0 has been unveiled, a platform for executing applications in isolation using JavaScript and TypeScript, which can be used for creating server-side handlers. The platform is being developed by Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js. Like Node.js, Deno uses the V8 JavaScript engine, which is also used in Chromium-based browsers. […]
The Windows 10 May 2020 Update, also known as Windows 10 (2004), will be available to consumers at the end of this month. Alongside the preparations for the release of this major update, Microsoft has updated its documentation, emphasizing the requirements for PC processors to install the new version of the software platform. The main innovation concerns support for the AMD Ryzen 4000 processor series. Regarding Intel processors, it is reported […]
Synopsys analyzed 1,253 commercial codebases and concluded that almost all (99%) of the examined commercial applications contain at least one component with open-source code, and 70% of the code in the reviewed repositories is open. In comparison, in a similar study from 2015, the proportion of open source was 36%. In most cases, the third-party open-source […]
After six months of development, the release of the user environment Cinnamon 4.6 has been formed, within which the Linux Mint distribution community is developing a fork of the GNOME Shell desktop, the Nautilus file manager, and the Mutter window manager, aimed at providing a classic GNOME 2 style environment with successful interaction elements from GNOME Shell. Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these components […]
Opera 58 for Android is now available, bringing users several new features designed to enhance performance and usability. The company stated that the update contains fewer new functions than usual; however, all the new capabilities should significantly improve the browsing experience. Today's update greatly enhances the visual aspect of the Speed Dial feature and simplifies the editing and deletion of pinned items. […]
The release of CoreBoot 4.12 has been announced, which develops a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. 190 developers participated in the creation of the new version, preparing 2,692 changes. Key innovations: Support for 49 motherboards has been added, most of which are used in devices with Chrome OS. Support for 51 motherboards has been removed. The removal mainly concerns the discontinuation of support for outdated […]
A new version of the notcurses library v1.4.x has been released, "the saga continues! wu-tang! wu-tang!" Notcurses is a TUI library for modern terminal emulators. Literally translated – not curses. It is written in C, using C++-safe headers. Wrappers for Rust, C++, and Python are available. What it is: a library that simplifies complex TUI on modern terminal emulators, fully supporting vibrant […]
The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.2 has taken place, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and managing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of replacing products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix Hypervisor. The size of the installation ISO image is 900 MB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully ready virtual system […]
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