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The source code of the ProtonVPN client applications has been opened.

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Proton Technologies, which develops a secure email service and VPN, has announced the release of the source code for its ProtonVPN client applications for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS (the console Linux client was originally open). The code is licensed under GPLv3. Simultaneously, reports on the independent audit of these applications have been published. No issues that could lead to VPN traffic decryption or privilege escalation were found during the audit […]

Release of nginx 1.17.8 and njs 0.3.8

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The main branch release of nginx 1.17.8 has been formed, within which the development of new capabilities continues (only serious bug fixes and vulnerabilities are addressed in the concurrently supported stable branch 1.16). Key changes: The grpc_pass directive now supports the use of a variable in the parameter that defines the address. If the address is specified as a domain name, it is searched among the described groups of servers […]

New version of the embedded JavaScript engine from the founder of QEMU and FFmpeg

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French mathematician Fabrice Bellard, who founded the QEMU and FFmpeg projects, has published an update for his compact embedded JavaScript engine, QuickJS. The engine supports the ES2019 specification and additional mathematical extensions such as BigInt and BigFloat types. In terms of performance, QuickJS significantly outperforms existing alternatives (35% better than XS, over twice as fast as DukTape, and three times faster than JerryScript).

GameMode 1.5 is available, a game performance optimizer for Linux

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Feral Interactive has released version 1.5 of the GameMode optimizer, implemented as a background process that dynamically changes various Linux system settings to achieve maximum performance for gaming applications. The project’s code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. A special library, libgamemode, is provided for games, allowing specific optimizations to be enabled during gameplay.

Release of GhostBSD 20.01

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The desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 20.01, based on the TrueOS platform, is now available, offering the MATE desktop environment. GhostBSD uses OpenRC as the default initialization system and ZFS as its file system. It supports both live mode operation and installation on a hard disk (utilizing its own ginstall installer written in Python). Bootable images are available for the x86_64 architecture (2.2 GB).

Intel has released the OSPRay 2.0 distributed ray tracing engine

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Intel has introduced a significant release of the scalable 3D rendering engine OSPRay 2.0, designed for realistic high-quality visualization using ray tracing, suitable for interactive applications. The engine is being developed as part of the larger Intel Rendering Framework project, aimed at creating software visualization tools for scientific calculations (SDVis), which include the Embree ray tracing library, the photorealistic rendering system GLuRay, […]

Ayar Labs has introduced the TeraPHY optical chiplet transceiver.

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Developments in hybrid electronics that combine traditional and optical technologies have been underway for a long time. The startup Ayar Labs and its innovations have been known since 2015. Now, the company is ready to launch a serial product, which was detailed in WikiChip Fuse. Ayar Labs is focusing on creating an optical interconnect system to replace current SerDes technologies. The first […]

CRM 2020

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The IT sector is thankless, and forecasts are as dependable as last summer's weather; you'll either freeze, get soaked, or suffer a sunstroke. However, our predictions for 2019 turned out well, so we decided to discuss the CRM trends for 2020 as we see them for small and medium-sized businesses. We have […]

Complex, vulnerable, misconfigured: Cyber threats of 2020.

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Technologies are evolving and becoming more complex year by year, and along with them, attack methodologies are improving. The current realities demand online applications, cloud services, and virtualization platforms, so it's no longer sufficient to hide behind a corporate firewall and avoid venturing into the 'dangerous internet.' All of this, coupled with the proliferation of IoT/IIoT, the growth of fintech, and the increasing popularity of remote work, has drastically […]

Office plankton — an evolution

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Work — home, work — home, and that’s every day. They say life is a great adventure, but in the monotony of days, you don't even feel alive. This led to reflections on the theme of 'Is there a meaningful life in the realm of office plankton?' and the conclusion was — perhaps, provided each unicellular strives to perform its duties […]

Richard Hamming. "The Unwritten Chapter": How We Know What We Know (full version)

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(If you've read the previous parts of this lecture's translation, skip to the timestamp 20:10) [Hamming sometimes speaks very unclearly, so if you have suggestions for improving the translation of specific fragments, please send me a message.] This lecture was not in the schedule, but it had to be added to avoid any gaps between sessions. The lecture is essentially about how we know what we know, […]

Canonical urges Windows 7 users to switch to Ubuntu

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On the Ubuntu distribution site, there is a post by Canonical's product manager, Riz Davis, addressing the end of support for the Windows 7 operating system. In his post, Davis points out that after Microsoft stops supporting this operating system, millions of Windows 7 users have two ways to secure themselves and their data. The first option is to install Windows 10. However, […]

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