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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 […]
Introduction You can see an excavator at any construction site in the city. A regular excavator is operated by a single operator. Complex automation systems are not required for its management. But what if the excavator is many times larger than usual, reaches the height of a five-story building, can fit a Land Cruiser in its bucket, and its 'filling' consists of electric motors, cables, and gears the size of a car? And it works […]
If you don't have a flip phone, you probably have wanted to create your mobile app at least once. Improve some task manager or client for Habr. Or implement a long-standing idea, like those students who wrote an app to find movies in the evening in 10 seconds by clicking on an emoji. Or come up with something fun, like an app for a treadmill […]
Cisco has announced a significant new release of the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.102.0. Recall that the project came under Cisco's control in 2013 following the acquisition of Sourcefire, which developed ClamAV and Snort. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key improvements: The functionality of on-access scanning has been moved from clamd to a separate process […]
The Pine64 community, known for its free laptops Pinebook and Pinebook Pro, has announced the start of production of a new free smartphone running Plasma Mobile — PinePhone. The first batch will be released at the end of 2019, but only for developers. Retail sales will begin in March 2020. Besides Plasma Mobile, images of Maemo Leste, UBPorts, PostmarketOS, and LuneOS are also offered. Moreover, the community is working […]
The Pine64 community, which recently announced the production of the free smartphone PinePhone, is introducing its new project — the PineTime smartwatches. Key features of the watch include: Heart rate monitoring. A large battery that lasts several days. A desktop docking station for charging the watch. A case made of zinc alloy and plastic. WiFi and Bluetooth support. A Nordic nRF52832 ARM Cortex-M4F chip (at a frequency of 64MHz) with support for Bluetooth 5 technologies, […]
Benjamin Berg, one of the engineers at Red Hat working on GNOME development, summarized the results of the transition of GNOME to session management solely with systemd, without using the gnome-session process. Systemd-logind has long been used for managing GNOME logins, tracking session states tied to users, managing session IDs, and handling switching between active sessions […]
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