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The release of KnotDNS 2.9.0 has been published, a high-performance authoritative DNS server (the resolver is implemented as a separate application), supporting all modern DNS features. The project is developed by the Czech registry CZ.NIC, written in C, and distributed under the GPLv3 license. KnotDNS is distinguished by its focus on high-performance request processing, utilizing a multithreaded and mostly non-blocking implementation, well-scalable for […]
Today, Yandex's shares sharply fell in price amid discussions in the State Duma regarding a bill on significant information resources, which proposes to impose restrictions on foreigners' rights to own and manage internet resources that are significant for the development of the infrastructure. According to the RBC resource, within an hour from the start of trading on the American NASDAQ exchange, Yandex's shares dropped by more than 16%, and their price […]
An official post appeared on Microsoft’s blog that clarifies the timelines and readiness for the release of the fall update for Windows 10. It also announces the official name — November 2019 Update. Previously, this build was referred to as Windows 10 (1909) or Windows 10 19H2. It is expected that the final version number will be 18363.418. It is reported that November […]
Recently, the Linux version of the free email client BlueMail was released. You might think that yet another email client for Linux is unnecessary, and you would be completely right! Since the source code is not available, your emails could be accessed by countless people—from the developers of the client to some of their associates. So, what makes BlueMail special? No one really knows. What it's built on is also […]
Developers of the anonymous Tor network have warned about a major cleanup of nodes using outdated software, whose support has been discontinued. On October 8, approximately 800 outdated nodes operating in relay mode were blocked (there are over 6000 such nodes in the Tor network). The blocking was done by placing at directory servers a blacklist of problematic nodes. The exclusion from the network of unmapped bridge nodes […]
Mozilla developers reported the successful completion of the removal of XBL (XML Binding Language) components from Firefox's code. During the work, which began in 2017, approximately 300 different bindings that used XBL were removed from the code, and about 40,000 lines of code were rewritten. The specified components were replaced with analogs based on Web Components, written […]
Adam Jackson, who was responsible for preparing several previous releases of X.Org Server, suggested in his report at the XDC2019 conference to transition to a new version numbering scheme. To more clearly indicate how long ago a particular release was published, it has been proposed to reflect the year in the first digit of the version, while the second digit will indicate the ordinal number of significant […]
If a corporate blog publishes 1-2 articles a month with 1-2 thousand views and only half a dozen likes, it indicates that something is not right. Practice shows that in most cases, blogs can be made both interesting and useful. Perhaps, many opponents of corporate blogs will rush in now, and I agree with them on some points. […]
PyTorch, the popular open-source framework for machine learning, has been updated to version 1.3.0 and continues to gain momentum due to its focus on meeting the needs of both researchers and application programmers. Some changes include experimental support for named tensors. It is now possible to reference tensor dimensions by name instead of specifying the absolute position: NCHW = [‘N’, ‘C’, ‘H’, ‘W’] images = torch.randn(32, 3, […]
On June 3, Stasiek Michalski started a discussion in the openSUSE mailing list about the possibility of changing the logo and name of the project. Among the reasons he mentioned were: Logo: Similarity to the old version of the SUSE logo, which could be misleading. There is also a mention of the need for an agreement between the future openSUSE Foundation and SUSE for the right to use the logo. The colors of the current logo are too bright and light […]
Tuukka Turunen, the director of Qt development, announced a change in the licensing of certain Qt modules from LGPLv3/Commercial to GPLv3/Commercial. By the time Qt 5.14 is released, the license will change for the Qt Wayland Compositor, Qt Application Manager, and Qt PDF modules. This means that a commercial license will need to be purchased to bypass the GPL restrictions. Since January 2016, most additional […]
Following a call from several maintainers for a reorganization of the GNU project, Richard Stallman stated that as the leader of the GNU project, he would like to assure the community that there will be no radical changes to the goals, principles, and rules of the GNU project. At the same time, Stallman intends to gradually modify the decision-making processes, as he is not eternal and needs to prepare the ground […]