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The release of Rspamd 2.0, a spam filtering system, has been announced, providing tools for evaluating messages based on various criteria, including rules, statistical methods, and blacklists, from which the final weight of the message is derived for making a blocking decision. Rspamd supports almost all features implemented in SpamAssassin and has several unique aspects that enable it to filter emails on average 10 […]
Are you brave enough at 25-30-35-40-45 to sit down for self-study? Not corporate, not covered under the 'company pays' rate, not forced or previously unfinished higher education, but independent? To sit at your desk with the books and textbooks you choose, in front of your strictest self, and master what you need or have long wanted to learn, to the point that you just can't take it anymore […]
American telecommunications operator Verizon and Japanese company NEC have just successfully completed field tests of a comprehensive city environment and event monitoring system using existing optical communication lines. No new global investments were needed — all optical cables were already laid underground by Verizon and are used for data transmission within its network. This is the uniqueness of […]
Larry Wall, the creator of the Perl language and the 'benevolent dictator for life' of the project, has approved the proposal to rename Perl 6 to Raku, putting an end to the renaming debate. The name Raku was chosen as a derivative of Rakudo, the name of the Perl 6 compiler. It is already familiar to developers and does not overlap with other projects in search engines. In his comment, Larry quoted a phrase from […]
Raymond Hill, the author of the content blocking systems uBlock Origin and uMatrix, faced the inability to publish the latest test release (1.22.5rc1) of the uBlock Origin ad blocker in the Chrome Web Store. The publication was rejected, citing the unacceptable listing of "multipurpose extensions" that include functions unrelated to the main declared purpose. In accordance with […]
What do Wolverine, Deadpool, and jellyfish have in common? They all possess the amazing ability of regeneration. Of course, in comics and films, this skill—common among a very limited number of actual living organisms—is slightly (and sometimes greatly) exaggerated, yet it remains entirely real. And what is real can be explained, which is what scientists decided to tackle in their new research […]
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.
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