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This text is not the result of scientific research but rather one of many opinions regarding our near-term technological development. It also serves as an invitation for discussion. Gary Marcus, a professor at New York University, believes that deep learning plays a crucial role in the advancement of AI. However, he also thinks that excessive enthusiasm for this method can lead to its discreditation. In his book Rebooting […]
A lightweight Live distribution of AntiX 19 has been prepared, built on the Debian package base and targeted for installation on outdated hardware. The release is based on Debian 10 (Buster), but comes without the system manager systemd and with eudev instead of udev. The default user environment is created using the IceWM window manager, but fluxbox, jwm, and […] are also available for selection.
Google has announced enhancements to Chrome's site isolation mode, which ensures that pages from different websites are processed in separate isolated processes. The site-level isolation mode helps protect users from attacks that may occur via third-party blocks used on the site, such as iframe embeds, or to prevent data leakage through the embedding of legitimate blocks (for example, with requests […])
Last week, Microsoft officially stated that the next version of its desktop OS will be called the Windows 10 November 2019 Update. Now, details have emerged about the release timeline. It is noted that the new version will be released in November, specifically on the 12th. The rollout of the update will occur in phases. The patch will be offered to everyone using Windows 10 May 2019 Update or […]
The dream of every person is to stay young for as long as possible. We do not want to age and fall ill, fearing everything — cancer, Alzheimer's disease, heart attacks, strokes… It’s time to figure out where cancer comes from, whether there is a connection between heart failure and Alzheimer's disease, infertility and hearing loss. Why do antioxidant supplements sometimes do more harm than good? And most importantly: can we […]
On October 17, a new release of the OpenBSD operating system was announced — OpenBSD 6.6. Release cover: https://www.openbsd.org/images/sixdotsix.gif Key changes in the release: Switching to the new release can now be done through the sysupgrade utility. In release 6.5 it was provided through the syspatch utility. Upgrading from 6.5 to 6.6 is possible on amd64, arm64, and i386 architectures. The amdgpu(4) driver has been added. startx and xinit are now back to […]
On October 18, 2019, yet another iteration of the popular GNU/Linux distribution was released — Ubuntu 19.10, codenamed Eoan Ermine (Rising Ermine). Key updates include: ZFS support in the installer. It uses the ZFS On Linux driver version 0.8.1. ISO images include proprietary NVIDIA drivers: in addition to open-source drivers, users can now select proprietary ones. System boot times have been accelerated by the use of a new compression algorithm. […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2019-17666) has been identified in the rtlwifi driver for wireless adapters using Realtek chips, which could potentially be exploited to execute code in the kernel context through specially crafted frames. The vulnerability arises from a buffer overflow in the code implementing P2P mode (Wi-Fi Direct). There is a lack of size checks when parsing NoA (Notice of Absence) frames […]
"Mutation is the key to understanding the mystery of evolution. The path from the simplest organism to the dominant biological species takes thousands of years. But every hundred thousand years, there is a sudden leap forward in evolution" (Charles Xavier, X-Men, 2000). Leaving aside all the sci-fi elements present in comics and films, Professor X's words hold a grain of truth. The development of […]
Cloudflare has prepared a module to provide support for the HTTP/3 protocol in NGINX. The module is built as an extension over Cloudflare's developing quiche library, which implements the QUIC transport protocol and HTTP/3. The quiche code is written in Rust, but the NGINX module itself is written in C and interacts with the library using dynamic linking. The developments are open under […]
The release of the Ubuntu 19.10 distribution "Eoan Ermine" is now available. Ready-made images have been created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and UbuntuKylin (the version for China). Key innovations include: The GNOME desktop has been updated to version 3.34 with support for grouping application icons in overview mode, an improved wireless connection configurator, and a new wallpaper selection panel […]
The release of the free cross-platform UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 6.6 has taken place. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 after a conflict with the NetBSD developers, which led to Theo being denied access to the NetBSD CVS repository. After that, Theo de Raadt and a group of like-minded individuals created a new […]