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Oracle has released a corrective update for its virtualization system VirtualBox 6.1.2, which addresses 16 issues. Concurrently, corrective updates for VirtualBox 6.0.16 and 5.2.36 have also been released. The main changes in version 6.1.2: 18 vulnerabilities were fixed, 6 of which have a high severity level (CVSS Score 8.2 and 7.5). Details are not disclosed, but judging by the CVSS level, some issues may allow […]
The premiere of the second season of the series 'The Mandalorian' from Disney+ is scheduled for the end of this year. Already, rumors are circulating that a popular character from 'Star Wars', who first appeared in a game created under the new canon of the popular universe, may make an appearance. In one of the Twitter messages, a fan asked actress Janina Gavankar if she plans to […]
February 2009 Hacker News celebrated its second anniversary last week. It was originally intended as a parallel project — an app for refining Arc and a place for current and future Y Combinator founders to share news. It grew larger and required more time than I expected, but I don’t regret it because I learned a lot while working […]
August 2005 Thirty years ago, you had to climb the corporate ladder. Now that's no longer the rule. Our generation wants to earn money in cutting-edge positions. Instead of developing a product for some large company while waiting for a job guarantee, we are creating products in startups and selling them to large companies. At least […]
The Khronos Consortium, which is responsible for developing graphics standards, has published the Vulkan 1.2 specification, defining the API for accessing the graphics and computational capabilities of GPUs. The new specification incorporates corrections and expansions accumulated over the past two years. Drivers supporting the new version of Vulkan have already been released by companies such as Intel, AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies, and NVIDIA. Vulkan 1.2 support has been proposed in Mesa for […]
In the experimental branch of the Xfce 4.15 desktop currently in development, which will form the basis for the stable release 4.16, the interface has been translated to use the GtkHeaderBar widget, enabling client-side decoration (CSD), where the title and window frames are rendered by the application itself rather than the window manager. The use of CSD has drawn parallels with GNOME […]
Isn't it remarkable that in a world steeped in baseless hatred threatening civilization itself, men and women, young and old, partially or fully detach from the malicious flow of everyday life to dedicate themselves to cultivating beauty, spreading knowledge, healing the sick, and alleviating suffering, as if at the same time there are no fanatics multiplying pain, ugliness, and torment? […]
Snowfall in central Russia has been scarce this winter. While some snow has fallen, January has seen a lack of the colder, snowier weather one might expect. The dull grayness and unpleasant slush detract from the joy of usual winter pastimes. Therefore, Cloud4Y suggests adding a bit of snow to our lives by talking about… snowflakes. It is believed that snowflakes come in only two […]
An update to the Solaris 11.4 operating system, SRU 17 (Support Repository Update), has been released, which offers a series of new fixes and enhancements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the proposed fixes included in the update, simply run the command ‘pkg update’. In this release: Issues in sudo, python 3.7, OpenSSH, and sstored have been resolved; versions of Mesa 18.1.9, accountsservice 0.6.43, and xkeyboard-config 2.24 have been updated; […]
The maintainer of the Mercurial version control system has summarized the work on porting the project from Python 2 to Python 3. Although the first porting attempts were made back in 2008, and the rushed adaptation for Python 3 began in 2015, full support for Python 3 was only realized in the latest branch […]
Valve has released a new version of the Proton project 4.11-12, which is based on the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of Windows-based games on Linux that are available in the Steam catalog. The project is distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows for the direct launching of games that are provided only for Windows in the Steam Linux client. The package includes […]
In the article about Spain, I mentioned the electronic navigation equipment for my yacht for sea passages. One of the readers commented, "It's very interesting how this is all done seriously for sailing on the sea." I will try to describe what electronic equipment was on my yacht and how it was connected. In my opinion, the main idea of a yacht is to maximize modern technologies essential for survival […]