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American Casey Viner was sentenced to 15 months in prison for conspiracy related to swatting due to a conflict in the shooter game Call of Duty. As reported by PC Gamer, he will also be banned from playing online games for two years after his release. Casey Viner admitted to being an accomplice of Tyler Barriss, who was convicted for a deadly swatting incident […]
There is a strong stereotype about the backwardness of the African continent. Yes, there are indeed a lot of problems. However, IT in Africa is developing rapidly. According to venture firm Partech Africa, in 2018, 146 startups from 19 countries raised $1.16 billion. Cloud4Y has provided a brief overview of the most interesting African startups and successful companies. […]
The release of the CentOS 7.7 distribution (1908) is now available, incorporating changes from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7. The distributions are fully binary compatible with RHEL 7.7, and the changes made to the packages generally consist of rebranding and design updates. CentOS 7.7 builds are currently available for x86_64, Aarch64 (ARM64), i386, ppc64le, Power9, and ARMv7 (armhfp) architectures. For the x86_64 architecture […]
Today, the developers announced that they are shortening the release preparation cycle. Starting in 2020, the next stable version of Firefox will be released every 4 weeks. For the past few years, Firefox development has looked approximately like this: Nightly 93 (development of new features) Developer Edition 92 (evaluation of new features' readiness) Beta 91 (bug fixing) Current Release 90 (critical bug fixes until the next […]
Nine months after the formation of the last significant branch, Oracle has released the first beta of the VirtualBox 6.1 virtualization system. Key improvements include: Support for hardware mechanisms introduced in the fifth generation Intel Core i (Broadwell) processors for nested virtualization; The old 3D graphics support method based on the VBoxVGA driver has been removed. For 3D, the new VBoxSVGA drivers are recommended […]
Firefox developers have announced a reduction in the release preparation cycle for new browser versions to four weeks (previously, releases were prepared in 6-8 weeks). Firefox 70 will be released according to the old schedule on October 22, followed by the release of Firefox 71 six weeks later on December 3, after which subsequent releases will be formed every four weeks (January 7, February 11, March 10 […]
Messaging applications share a similar set of features, making it difficult for many of them to attract widespread attention. Currently, a few major players dominate the market, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger. Developers of other applications in this category must seek ways to encourage people to use their products. One such […]
The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 19.09 has been presented, built on TrueOS and offering the MATE user environment. By default, GhostBSD uses the OpenRC initialization system and the ZFS file system. Both live mode operation and installation on a hard drive are supported (using its own installer ginstall, written in Python). Boot images are created for the amd64 architecture (2.5 GB). In […]
In the upcoming release and current beta versions of kernel Linux 5.4, support for the Microsoft exFAT file system driver has appeared. However, this driver is based on an older code from Samsung (branch version 1.2.9). In its own smartphones, the company is already using a version of the sdFAT driver based on branch 2.2.0. Now, information has been released that a developer from South Korea, Park Joo Hyun […]
Last week, developers of the popular password manager LastPass released an update that addresses a vulnerability that could lead to the leak of user data. The issue was announced after it was resolved, and users of LastPass were advised to update their password manager to the latest version. The vulnerability allowed attackers to steal data entered by users on the last visited website. […]
It seems that autumn is not a good time for Windows 10 developers. Otherwise, it is hard to explain the fact that nearly a year ago, build 1809 displayed a whole bunch of issues, even after being re-released. This includes incompatibility with older AMD graphics cards, issues with Windows Media search, and even crashes in iCloud. However, it seems that the situation is still […]
In the world of engineering education, there are many excellent courses, but often the training programs built around them have one serious drawback — a lack of good coherence between different topics. One might argue: how is that possible? When forming a curriculum, prerequisites and a clear order of subjects to be studied are specified for each course. For example, in order to gather and [...]