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Microsoft has launched its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service, which allows users to literally run Windows on an Azure virtual machine. The concept of a 'virtual desktop' essentially progresses the trendy notion of streaming gaming and video services, where the client merely needs a low-powered terminal and internet access. The project is noted to have launched globally.
The release of strace 5.3 has been presented, a utility for diagnosing and debugging programs for operating systems that use the Linux kernel. The utility allows tracking and, starting from version 4.15, intervening in the interaction between the program and the kernel, including the system calls being made, signals generated, and changes in process state. Strace utilizes the ptrace mechanism for its operations. Starting from version 4.13, the release generation of the program has been synchronized.
Linus Torvalds has accepted a set of 'lockdown' patches into the upcoming release of the Linux kernel 5.4, proposed by David Howells (working at Red Hat) and Matthew Garrett (working at Google) to restrict root user access to the kernel. The functionality associated with 'lockdown' has been moved to an optionally loadable LSM module (Linux Security Module), which establishes a barrier between UID 0 and.
The release of the Nextcloud 17 cloud platform has been announced, evolving as a fork of the ownCloud project, created by the main developers of this system. Nextcloud and ownCloud allow deployment of a full cloud storage system on their server systems with support for synchronization and data sharing, as well as offering accompanying features such as tools for video conferencing, messaging, and, starting from the current release, integration of functions for.
The release of Milton 1.9.0 has occurred, a drawing program for an infinite canvas oriented towards computer artists. Milton is written in C++ and Lua, licensed under GPLv3. It uses SDL and OpenGL for rendering. Binary builds are available for Windows x64. Despite the presence of build scripts for Linux and MacOS, there is no official support for these systems. If you want to compile it on your own, it may be.
The Wine 4.17 release for developers is now available. It fixes 14 bugs and includes 274 changes. Major changes: the Mono engine has been updated; support for compressed textures in the DXTn format has been added; an initial version of the Windows Script runtime library has been proposed; support for processing device change notifications via the XRandR API; RSA key generation support; seamless proxy support has been implemented for the ARM64 architecture […]
In the nightly builds of Firefox, support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 is disabled by default (the setting security.tls.version.min is set to 3, establishing TLS 1.2 as the minimum version). In stable releases, TLS 1.0/1.1 is planned to be disabled in March 2020. Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 will be discontinued in Chrome 81, expected in January 2020. The TLS specification […]
An emergency release of the Exim mail server, version 4.92.3, has been published, fixing yet another critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-16928) that potentially allows remote code execution on the server via the transmission of a specially crafted string in the EHLO command. The vulnerability manifests itself after privilege escalation and is limited to code execution with the rights of an unprivileged user under which the incoming message handler runs. The issue occurs only in the […]
jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in the world. It was created by the web development community in the late 2000s, leading to the emergence of a rich ecosystem of websites, plugins, and frameworks that use jQuery under the hood. However, in recent years, its status as the main tool for web development has waned. Let's explore why jQuery became popular and why it has fallen out of favor, as well as in […]
On September 27, 2019, Oracle announced in their blog the planned support timelines for Java SE and Solaris. The Java SE 8 branch will be supported until March 2025, while Java SE 11 will be supported until September 2026. Oracle also noted that these dates are not final and support may extend until 2030. Maintenance for these branches of Java […]
Google has launched the release of the Chrome OS 77 software platform, which opens access to the Google Assistant voice assistant for most owners of devices running this operating system. Previously, only Pixel device owners could use the voice assistant. With the release of the new operating system version, Google Assistant will be available on many Chromebooks. To start interacting with the assistant, simply […]
According to reports from network sources, thousands of computers running Windows have been infected with a new type of malware that downloads and installs a copy of the Node.js infrastructure, turning infected systems into proxy servers used for conducting fraudulent operations. The malware, named Nodersok in a Microsoft report and Divergent in a Cisco Talos report, was discovered this summer. It was spread through […]
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