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On October 12, the SPO Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Creative Commons, Document Foundation, and other human rights organizations will hold an international day against digital rights management (DRM) tools that limit user freedom. Supporters believe that users should have full control over their devices, from cars and medical devices to phones and computers. This year, the event organizers […]
The release of the Mir 1.5 display server is now available, which is still being developed by Canonical despite the abandonment of Unity shell development and the Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand for Canonical's projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a compositor for Wayland, allowing environments to run […].
As is well known, some time ago at the annual Surface event, Microsoft announced the new Windows 10X. This system is optimized for use on dual-screen and foldable smartphones. It is noteworthy that previously users had already launched a petition to make the Start menu in Windows 10 the same as in Windows 10X. Now the first leaks regarding […] have emerged.
Qt Group announced a change in the licensing of the Qt Wayland Compositor, Qt Application Manager, and Qt PDF components, which will be offered under the GPLv3 license starting with the Qt 5.14 release instead of LGPLv3. In other words, linking with these components will now require under GPLv3-compatible licenses to make the source code of programs available or purchasing a commercial license (previously, use […].
It also begins to publish weekly reports on the work done. Here’s what has been accomplished over the past two weeks: Plasma Nano Shell — the primary shell option for mobile and embedded devices; new APIs PagePool and PagePoolAction have been added to Kirigami for desktop and mobile applications; the MauiKit framework has been integrated into KDE Frameworks 5 and received new features; Nota — […]
A corrective update for Firefox 69.0.3 has been released, which addresses the issue with the file download dialog display when clicking on email in Yahoo webmail. Additionally, it resolves file download issues when launching the browser in Windows 10 with parental control enabled. The ongoing development of the WebRender compositing system, written in Rust and offloading […], can also be noted.
The release of the cryptographic library Botan 2.12.0 is now available, used in the NeoPG project, a fork of GnuPG 2. The library provides a large collection of ready-made primitives used in the TLS protocol, X.509 certificates, AEAD ciphers, TPM modules, PKCS#11, password hashing, and post-quantum cryptography (hash-based signatures and key agreement based on McEliece and NewHope). The library is written in C++11 and is provided under […].
Introduction Hello, Habr users. Recently, I was working on a test task for a QA Lead position at a fintech company. The first task, to create a test plan with a complete checklist and examples of test cases for testing an electric kettle, is trivial: GOST 7400-81. Electric kettles and household electric samovars. Technical conditions (with Changes No. 1-8) GOST IEC 60335-1-2015 Household and similar electrical appliances. Safety.
A bullet is a compensation system. Nothing supernatural, the idea is straightforward, and results are quick to appear. The name wasn’t created by me; it was coined by the owner of the company where this system was implemented. He listened to the arguments and features and simply said, "This is a Bullet!" He likely meant that he liked the system, rather than anything else.
On October 9, the official project website announced the release of NixOS 19.09, codenamed Loris. NixOS is a distribution with a unique approach to package management and system configuration. The distribution is built on a "functionally pure" package manager Nix and its own configuration system using a functional DSL (Nix expression language), allowing a declarative description of the desired system state. […]
It all started a little over a year ago, in July 2018, when the first hardware device from Yandex was introduced — the ‘smart’ speaker Yandex.Station, indexed as YNDX-0001. Before we could properly marvel at it, devices from the YNDX series, equipped with the proprietary voice assistant Alice (or designed to work with it), began pouring out like a cornucopia. And now, for testing […]
Cisco has released Snort 2.9.15.0, a free intrusion detection and prevention system that combines signature matching techniques, protocol inspection tools, and mechanisms for anomaly detection. The new release includes the ability to identify RAR archives and files in egg and alg formats in transit traffic. New debugging calls for outputting information about detection have also been implemented […]