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The release of the most popular CMS, WordPress 5.3, has taken place. Version 5.3 pays significant attention to enhancing the Gutenberg block editor. The new features of the editor expand capabilities and offer additional layout options and style variations. Improved styles address many accessibility issues, enhance color contrasts for buttons and form fields, and enable consistency between the editor interface and admin panel, updating the color […]
Linux on DeX is a development by Samsung and Canonical that allows users to run Ubuntu on the Galaxy Note 9 and Tab S4 when connected to Samsung DeX. Linux on DeX has remained in beta status. Enterprising users have already created a petition requesting the open-sourcing of the code: petition. Source: linux.org.ru
A group of researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Lübeck, and the University of California, San Diego, has developed a side-channel attack method that allows for the recovery of the values of private keys stored in the TPM (Trusted Platform Module). The attack has been codenamed TPM-Fail and affects the fTPM (a software implementation based on firmware running on a separate microprocessor within the CPU) from Intel (CVE-2019-11090) and hardware […]
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google is collaborating with one of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S. on a project to collect and analyze detailed information about the personal health of millions of people in 21 states. The initiative, codenamed Project Nightingale, appears to be the biggest attempt by the search giant to gain a foothold in the healthcare industry through data processing […]
The U.S. Department of Health's federal agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has reported a breakthrough in investigating the causes of lung illnesses among e-cigarette users. CDC specialists have identified that samples of fluid from the lungs of 29 patients across 10 states contain the same chemical — vitamin E acetate. According to […]
When choosing a "home" for your website or online project, it's important to keep in mind several simple recommendations to avoid regretting lost time and money later. Our tips will help you build a clear algorithm for selecting paid hosting based on various paid and free content management systems. Tip one: Carefully choose the hosting provider. There are […] in the Russian market.
In this article, we will discuss functional dependencies in databases — what they are, where they are applied, and what algorithms exist for their discovery. We will consider functional dependencies in the context of relational databases. To put it simply, in such databases, information is stored in the form of tables. We will further use approximate concepts, which in […]
Researchers from Graz University of Technology (Austria) have disclosed details about a new side-channel attack method, ZombieLoad 2.0 (CVE-2019-11135), which enables the extraction of confidential information from other processes, the operating system, virtual machines, and secure enclaves (TEE, Trusted Execution Environment). The issue affects only Intel processors. Components to mitigate this problem were proposed in yesterday's microcode update. This issue falls under the MDS class […]
After six months of development, the release of the web content management system WordPress 5.3 has been announced. The main changes in the new release are related to the modernization of the visual block editor, which now offers more intuitive management, new layout options, enhanced style support, and improved support for inserting high-resolution images. For those who prefer keyboard management, new […]
Red Hat has announced the formation of a new open project Quay, which will continue the development of the previously closed-source container image registry of the same name that underpins the Red Hat Quay and Quay.io services. The project came under Red Hat’s ownership after the acquisition of CoreOS and was opened as part of an initiative to convert proprietary products of acquired companies into open-source software. […]
For the second consecutive year, research conducted by Forbes and the non-profit research group Just Capital shows that Microsoft is the most ethical public company in the USA. Just Capital researchers surveyed over 4,000 Americans, gathering opinions on 1,000 of the country’s most profitable corporations across 29 questions, including wage pay, benefits, prioritizing diversity, and accommodating individual abilities, while […]
The LinuxBoot project has been around for nearly two years, achieving significant progress during this time. This project is positioned as an open alternative to proprietary UEFI firmware. However, until recently, the system was quite limited. Now, Chris Koch from Google has presented a new version at the Security Summit 2019. It is reported that the new build of LinuxBoot supports booting […]
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