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Mainstream. Honorable workers of labor. Biographical novel

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Publisher "Library of the Proletarian". In this novel, the author depicts the challenging fate of the working class in the software development industry. It discusses honorable workers and the development of personal relationships amidst memory shortages. Highly recommended. /*Critic*/ All coincidences are not accidental. C++ has a complex personality due to a difficult childhood. It grew up in the hungry '80s and remembers how often there wasn’t enough space even for […]

Publishing houses complain about piracy on Telegram

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Russian publishing houses are suffering losses of 55 billion rubles a year due to piracy, reports Vedomosti. The total volume of the book market is 92 billion. The main culprit is said to be the blocked (but not banned) messenger Telegram in Russia. According to Maxim Ryabiko, the General Director of the Association for the Protection of Rights on the Internet (AZAPI), around 200 channels are distributing […]

Google plans to merge email, cloud service, and messenger for corporate clients

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According to online sources, the company Google plans to release an application that combines the email service Gmail, cloud storage Google Drive, and the proprietary corporate messenger Hangouts. The new Google application is likely being created to attract the attention of corporate clients who have switched to using services from competing companies, including Microsoft. For example, Microsoft Teams and Slack provide […]

Paint and WordPad will become optional in Windows 10 20H1

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The upcoming Windows 10 20H1 build, also known as version 2004, will feature many new capabilities upon release. One of the innovations will be the optional status of Paint and WordPad. These two programs are among the oldest, and it seems they will be installable or removable independently, just like any other applications. Testing in build 19041, which was conducted […]

The development of Thunderbird has been moved to MZLA Technologies Corporation

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Developers of the email client Thunderbird have announced the transition of the project's development to a separate company, MZLA Technologies Corporation, which is a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. Until now, Thunderbird was under the auspices of the Mozilla Foundation, which oversaw financial and legal matters, but the infrastructure and development of Thunderbird were separated from Mozilla, and the project developed independently. The transition to a separate division is due to […]

Google released a browser application for installing Android firmware

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Google has introduced a new service, Android Flash Tool (flash.android.com), which allows users to install firmware on connected Android smartphones via a browser. The builds are generated based on the latest snapshots from the master branch of the AOSP (Android Open Source Project), which have been verified through a continuous integration system and may be of interest to developers looking to test the latest changes in Android code or check the performance of their applications. […]

Intel to equip its GPUs with hardware acceleration for ray tracing

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Speculations about Intel potentially implementing hardware acceleration for ray tracing in its upcoming Intel Xe GPU family have been around for quite some time. The company later confirmed this, but only for data center GPUs. Now, clear evidence of ray tracing support in Intel's consumer GPUs has been found in the drivers. A network source with the alias […]

A vulnerability in OpenSMTPD that allows remote code execution with root privileges.

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A critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-7247) has been discovered in the OpenSMTPD mail server of the developing OpenBSD project, allowing remote execution of shell commands on the server with root user privileges. The vulnerability was identified during a re-audit conducted by Qualys Security (the previous audit of OpenSMTPD was conducted in 2015, and this new vulnerability has been present since May 2018). The issue has been fixed in OpenSMTPD release 6.6.2. All users are recommended to […]

Release of the distribution for creating network storage FreeNAS 11.3

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iXsystems has released FreeNAS 11.3, a distribution for quick deployment of Network-Attached Storage (NAS). The distribution is based on the FreeBSD code base, featuring integrated ZFS support and management capabilities through a web interface built using the Python framework Django. Access to the storage can be organized using FTP, NFS, Samba, AFP, rsync, and iSCSI, and software […] can be applied to enhance storage reliability.

LTS versions of Qt will only be available under a commercial license.

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The Qt Company has announced changes to the licensing model of the Qt framework, which may have a significant impact on communities and distributions using Qt. Starting with version 5.15, LTS branches of Qt will be supported until the next major release is formed, i.e., for approximately six months (updates for LTS branches are issued for three years). This move is expected to accelerate the adoption of new branches and increase the number of […]

L1DES (CacheOut) and VRS — new vulnerabilities in the microarchitectural structures of Intel CPUs.

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Intel has disclosed information about two new vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs, caused by data leakage from the L1D cache (CVE-2020-0549, L1DES — L1D Eviction Sampling) and vector registers (CVE-2020-0548, VRS — Vector Register Sampling). These vulnerabilities belong to the MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling) class and are based on the application of side-channel analysis methods to data in microarchitectural structures. AMD […]

The TrafficToll 1.0.0 utility for selective traffic limitation of applications has been released.

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The TrafficToll 1.0.0 utility has been released, positioned as a Linux alternative to the proprietary NetLimiter program for Windows. This program simplifies the process of setting bandwidth limits for individual local applications as well as already running processes. For instance, it allows you to reduce the bandwidth for a download manager while increasing it for a video chat. Settings are defined in a simple configuration text file. Incoming and outgoing traffic limits are applied at […]

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