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Daniel Robbins announced that after March 1, 2020, he will cease support and maintenance for release 1.3. Surprisingly, the reason for this is that the current release 1.4 has proven to be better and more stable than 1.3-LTS. Therefore, Daniel recommends those using version 1.3 to plan an upgrade to 1.4. In addition, a second maintenance release is expected in January for […]
In April of this year, Google released a beta version of the Android 10 software platform, one of the features of which is a new message notification function called Bubbles. Although this feature was not included in the stable version of Android 10, it may return in the next version of the operating system. Network sources suggest that […]
Experts from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a series of hacker attacks targeting telecommunications and financial companies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. As part of this campaign, the attackers sought to gain access to the funds and financial data of their victims. Reports indicate that the hackers attempted to siphon tens of millions of dollars from the accounts of the attacked companies. In each documented case, the hackers used […]
For a long time, there have been rumors that machine translation will be able to replace human translators, and sometimes statements are heard like, "Translations done by a human and Google Neural Machine are nearly indistinguishable," when Google announced the launch of its neural machine translation system (GNMT). Of course, neural networks have made significant strides recently and are becoming increasingly sophisticated […]
When choosing courses, you should be interested in two numbers — the percentage of people who completed the course and the percentage of graduates who found employment within three months of finishing the course. For example, if 50% of those who started the course finish it, and 20% of graduates find a job within three months, then your chances of entering the profession with these specific courses […]
The release of the experimental project Lilith 0.0.5 has been published, which develops the operating system, kernel, and user space tools implemented in the Crystal language (a compiled language similar to Ruby with static typing). The code is distributed under the MIT license. Notable features include: A kernel for x86-64 systems that partially supports POSIX and implements typical Unix system calls (open, read, write, spawn, etc.); […]
The FreeDB project has announced its closure. Starting March 31, 2020, the website and all associated services will cease operations. It is worth noting that the FreeDB project developed tools and a database with information about artists and musical compositions supplied on compact discs. The database includes additional details about tracks covering more than two million music CDs. Similar […]
The upcoming year 2020 may become the year of foldable and dual-screen devices. Many companies, including Microsoft, are preparing such gadgets; previously, it presented the Surface Neo tablet based on Windows 10X and the Surface Duo smartphone on Android, both with two screens. Similar solutions are expected from the corporation's partners — HP, Dell, and Lenovo. Additionally, Windows 10X will make its appearance […]
Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a new series of attacks against financial and telecommunications companies based in Europe. The primary goal of the attackers is to steal money. Furthermore, cybercriminals are attempting to penetrate data to access financial information of interest. The investigation revealed that criminals exploit a vulnerability in the VPN solutions implemented across all targeted organizations. This vulnerability allows for the acquisition of data from accounts […]
Disclaimer: this material contains only the author's subjective opinion, filled with stereotypes and conjectures. The facts in the material are presented in the form of metaphors, which may be distorted, exaggerated, embellished, or entirely fabricated. ASM Discussions are still ongoing about who originally started all this. Yes, I am referring to how people transitioned from normal communication […]
The Microsoft Teams client is the first Microsoft 365 application released for Linux. Microsoft Teams is a corporate platform that integrates chat, meetings, notes, and attachments into a workspace. Developed by Microsoft as a competitor to the popular corporate solution Slack, the service was introduced in November 2016. Microsoft Teams is part of the Office 365 suite and is distributed through corporate subscriptions. In addition to Office 365 […]
The third candidate for the Wine 5.0 releases, an open implementation of the Win32 API, is now available for testing. The codebase is currently in a freeze before the release, which is expected in early January 2020. Compared to the Wine 5.0-RC2 release, 46 bug reports have been closed and 45 fixes have been made. Bug reports related to the functioning of games and applications have been addressed, including Blood 2: […]