Category: Internet News

Release xine 1.2.10

The release of xine-lib 1.2.10, a cross-platform library for playing video and audio files, has been announced, along with a set of accompanying plugins. The library can be utilized in various video players, including Xine-UI, gxine, and kaffeine. Xine supports multi-threading, accommodates a wide array of popular and obscure formats and codecs, and can handle both local content and multimedia streams transmitted over the network. […]

Firefox 73 will introduce a single-site browser mode. Enhanced security for developer accounts of add-ons

After adding support for kiosk mode in Firefox 71, Mozilla developers introduced the ability to open a link using the 'Site Specific Browser' (SSB) concept in the nightly builds of Firefox, which will serve as the basis for the Firefox 73 release. This new mode restricts openings in a window to only links from the current site (external links open in a separate browser window), and […]

Recent versions of Android have revealed an issue with unlocking devices.

It has been reported that Android 9 (Pie) and Android 10 contain a bug that causes users to experience issues unlocking their devices. Owners of Pixel, Sony, and OnePlus smartphones who use a PIN code to protect their gadgets from unauthorized access may encounter certain difficulties. The problem manifests as follows: the user enters the PIN code to access the device, […]

Cloud Solution Architecture. A new course from OTUS

Attention! This article is not technical in nature and is intended for readers interested in education related to the development and support of cloud solutions. If you are not interested in learning, this material is likely not relevant to you. Until recently, when people heard the word "cloud," they thought of an atmospheric phenomenon, but now most associate it with cloud storage services. More […]

D9VK 0.40 release, providing Direct3D 9 implementation over Vulkan

The release of project D9VK 0.40 has occurred, providing a Direct3D 9 implementation that operates through call translation to the Vulkan graphics API. The project is based on the DXVK codebase, which has been extended to support Direct3D 9. Compared to the Direct3D 9 implementation based on WineD3D, D9VK achieves higher performance, as Direct3D 9 translation through OpenGL operates slower than translation […]

How I Got into ThoughtWorks or a Model Interview

Doesn’t it seem strange that when you are about to change your job and need to go through an interview, your first thought is, "I need to prepare for the interview"? You might want to solve problems on HackerRank, read Crack the Coding Interview, or memorize how ArrayList works and how it differs from LinkedList. Oh, and they might also ask about sorting algorithms, definitely […]

Robolinux 10.6

John Martinson announced the release of Robolinux 10.6, the latest update of the Ubuntu-based distribution with built-in VirtualBox for operating systems other than Linux. This release is aimed at users of Microsoft Windows 7, whose support ends next month. As Windows 7 reaches its end of life on January 14, 2020, Robolinux anticipates a surge of new Linux users, […]

Candidate release for Wine 5.0 and the launch of the Windows gaming package Proton 4.11-10

Testing has begun on the first release candidate for Wine 5.0, an open implementation of the Win32 API. The codebase has been frozen in preparation for the release, which is expected by the end of December or early January. Compared to the Wine 4.21 release, 37 bug reports have been closed and 475 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: The Wine Gecko rendering engine, which is used in the library […]

The Zulip 2.1 messaging platform is available

The release of Zulip 2.1 has been introduced, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers suitable for facilitating communication among employees and development teams. The project was originally developed by Zulip and was made open-source after its acquisition by Dropbox under the Apache 2.0 license. The server-side code is written in Python using the Django framework. The client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and […]

The naked truth

Dear friends, I’m glad to see you again. I personally really missed our communication. My long absence from this resource was due to an extremely high influx of patients. Among them, I am pleased to note, were many readers of my previous articles. And even, I dare say, commentators! The occasion that inspired me to pick up the pen once again was the fact that […]

Release of the spam filtering system SpamAssassin 3.4.3

After a year of development, the release of the spam filtering platform — SpamAssassin 3.4.3 is now available. SpamAssassin implements a comprehensive approach in determining whether to block a message: the message undergoes a series of checks (context analysis, black and white lists DNSBL, trainable Bayesian classifiers, signature checks, sender authentication via SPF and DKIM, etc.). After evaluating the message through various methods, a certain weight is accumulated […]

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