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MaSzyna is a free railway transport simulator created in 2001 by Polish developer Martin Wojnik. The new version of MaSzyna includes over 150 scenarios and about 20 scenes, including one realistic scene based on the actual Polish railway route "Ozimek — Częstochowa" (with a total track length of approximately 75 km in the southwestern part of Poland). The fictional scenes are presented as […]
In the nightly builds of Firefox, on which the release of Firefox 71 will be based on December 2, a new design of the address bar has been activated. The most noticeable change is the move away from displaying a full-width list of recommendations in favor of transforming the address bar into a clearly defined window. To disable the new appearance of the address bar, an option "browser.urlbar.megabar" has been added to about:config. Megabar continues […]
Mastodon is referred to as a "decentralized Twitter," where microblogs are scattered across numerous independent servers linked together in one network. This version has a lot of updates. Here are the most important ones: OStatus is no longer supported, the alternative is ActivityPub. Some outdated REST APIs have been removed: GET /api/v1/search API has been replaced by GET /api/v2/search. GET /api/v1/statuses/:id/card is now using the card attribute. POST /api/v1/notifications/dismiss?id=:id, instead of […
The PostgreSQL development team has announced the release of PostgreSQL 12, the latest version of the open-source relational database management system. PostgreSQL 12 significantly improves query performance, especially when working with large volumes of data, and optimizes overall disk space usage. Among the new features: the implementation of the JSON Path query language (a crucial part of the SQL/JSON standard); […]
Google has warned about a new approach to handling mixed content on pages served over HTTPS. Previously, a special indicator was displayed when there were non-secure (HTTP) components on HTTPS pages. In the future, it will be decided to block such resources from loading by default. Thus, pages opened via "https://" will guarantee to contain only resources loaded […]
I think many of you have heard of Sign In with Apple (abbreviated SIWA) after WWDC 2019. In this article, I will talk about the specific pitfalls encountered when integrating this feature into our licensing portal. This article is not exactly for those who are just looking to understand SIWA (I've provided a number of introductory links at the end […]
A corrective update for Firefox 69.0.2 has been released, fixing a crash that occurred on the Linux platform when changing the playback speed of videos on YouTube. Additionally, this release addresses issues regarding the detection of parental control activation in Windows 10 and resolves a crash while editing files on the Office 365 website. Source: opennet.ru
The company 'Baikal Electronics' presented its new Baikal-M processor at the 'Microelectronics 2019' Forum in Alushta, designed for a wide range of consumer and B2B target devices. Technical specifications: http://www.baikalelectronics.ru/products/238/ Source: linux.org.ru
The antivirus blog ClamAV, developed by Cisco, features a post about the release of version 0.102.0. Among the changes: on-access scanning has been moved from clamd to a separate clamonacc process, allowing clamd to operate without root privileges; the freshclam program has been revamped, now supporting HTTPS and allowing operation with mirrors handling requests on the network […]
Mozilla has released a patch update for Firefox 69.0.2. It addresses three issues: a crash when editing files on Office 365 (bug 1579858); fixes for problems related to enabling parental controls in Windows 10 (bug 1584613); and a Linux-specific bug that causes a crash when changing the playback speed on YouTube (bug 1582222). Source: […]
Researchers from Masaryk University have revealed details about vulnerabilities in various implementations of the ECDSA/EdDSA digital signature algorithm, which allow for the recovery of the private key value through the analysis of information leaks concerning individual bits that arise during the application of side-channel analysis methods. The vulnerabilities have been codenamed Minerva. The most notable projects affected by the proposed attack method include OpenJDK/OracleJDK (CVE-2019-2894) and […]
After a year of development, the new stable branch of the PostgreSQL database management system, version 12, has been released. Updates for this new branch will be available for five years until November 2024. Key innovations include the addition of support for 'generated columns,' whose values are calculated based on expressions covering the values of other columns in the same table (analogous to views, but for individual columns). Generated columns can be two […]