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In 2013, Microsoft had dominated the technology industry for three decades, achieving incredible success with its OS. The company gradually lost its leading positions, not because the model stopped working, but because Google's Android followed the precepts of Windows while being completely free. It seemed that it would become the leading OS for smartphones. This, obviously, did not […]
The release of an email client with end-to-end encryption has taken place. In the new version ElectronMail 4.0.0, support for the Tutanota service has been removed, leaving support for ProtonMail. The program was developed by Vladimir Yakovlev on the Electron framework and has open source code (MIT license). The main difference from the free versions of official clients is the search capability, no volume restrictions, and additional features in offline mode. Package builds are available […]
The release of the Delta Chat 1.0 messenger for the Android platform has been introduced (the latest version for desktop is 0.901, and for iOS it is 0.960). The Delta Chat project is notable for using regular email as a transport for instant messages (chat-over-email), functioning as a specialized email client that operates like a messenger. The application code is distributed under the GPLv3 license, and the core library is available under […]
The release of PyPy 7.3 has been formed, which develops the Python language implementation written in Python (using a statically typed subset of RPython, Restricted Python). The release has been prepared simultaneously for the PyPy2.7 and PyPy3.6 branches, supporting the syntax of Python 2.7 and Python 3.6. The release is available for Linux (x86, x86_64, PPC64, s390x, Aarch64, ARMv6, or ARMv7 with VFPv3), macOS (x86_64), […]
Chinese hackers have been caught bypassing two-factor authentication, though this is unconfirmed. Below are the assumptions of the Dutch company Fox-IT, which specializes in cybersecurity consulting services. It is suggested, albeit without direct evidence, that a group of hackers known as APT20 works for Chinese government entities. The hacking activity attributed to APT20 was first discovered in 2011. In 2016-2017, the group […]
Following the material on developer salaries in Armenia, we would like to address the topic of benefits packages—how, besides salaries, companies attract and retain specialists. We gathered information on compensation from 50 Armenian IT companies: startups, local companies, offices of international corporations, in product, and outsourcing. The list of bonuses does not include perks such as coffee, cookies, fruits, etc.; […]
One of the major scientific challenges of our time is the race to create the first useful quantum computer. Thousands of physicists and engineers are participating in this endeavor. Concepts are being developed by IBM, Google, Alibaba, Microsoft, and Intel. How will this powerful computing device change our world, and why is it so important? Imagine for a moment: a fully functioning quantum computer has been created. It has become a normal and integral part of everyday life […]
The latest version of Windows 10, numbered 1909, has a problem that dates back to the days of Windows XP. The issue is that the context menu of some programs, such as the Pidgin messenger, gets partially obscured by the taskbar. As a result, some options are inaccessible. It is noted that the problem was fixed in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, but it persists in the current version of Windows 10 […]
In the end, as always, there is a brief summary. Do you remember the story about a guy? He recently came over and told a funny story. I think you’ll find it interesting. It’s not about the story itself, but about how, well, these things happen. I reflected on my own experiences and spotted several similar situations. Back in the mid-2000s […]
A release of the lightweight Live distribution AntiX 19.1 has been published, built on a Debian package base and aimed at installation on outdated hardware. The release is based on Debian 10 (Buster) but comes without the system manager systemd and uses eudev instead of udev. The default user environment is formed using the IceWM window manager, though fluxbox, jwm, and other alternatives are also offered […]
Security researchers from the Chinese company Tencent have presented a new variant of the Magellan vulnerability (CVE-2019-13734), which allows for code execution when processing SQL constructs formatted in a specific way in the SQLite database. A similar vulnerability was published by the same researchers a year ago. The vulnerability is notable as it enables remote attacks on the Chrome browser and permits control over the user's system when opening web pages controlled by the attacker. […]
The Hyperbola project, which is listed among the fully free distributions supported by the Free Software Foundation, has published a plan to transition to using the kernel and user utilities from OpenBSD while porting some components from other BSD systems. The new distribution is planned to be released under the name HyperbolaBSD. HyperbolaBSD is intended to be developed as a full fork of OpenBSD, which will be expanded with new code provided under GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licenses. The ongoing development […]