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Jakarta EE 8 is available, the first release after the transfer of the Java EE project to Eclipse.

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The Eclipse community has introduced the Jakarta EE 8 platform, which succeeds Java EE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition) after the specification development, TCK processes, and reference implementation were handed over to the nonprofit organization Eclipse Foundation. Jakarta EE 8 offers the same set of specifications and TCK tests as Java EE 8. The differences are limited to a name change and […]

Release of the GNOME 3.34 user environment

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After six months of development, the GNOME 3.34 desktop environment has been released. Compared to the previous release, around 24,000 changes were made, involving 777 developers. To quickly evaluate the capabilities of GNOME 3.34, specialized Live builds based on openSUSE and Ubuntu have been prepared. Key innovations include the ability to group application icons into folders in the overview mode. For creating […]

Tom Hunter's Diary: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'

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Delaying a signature is common for any large company. The contract between Tom Hunter and an online pet store for thorough penetration testing was no exception. It was necessary to check both the website and the internal network, as well as the working Wi-Fi. It's no surprise that the urge to scan the site arose even before all formalities were settled. Just to scan the site just in case, unlikely […]

Manuscripts do not burn: the secret of the longevity of the Dead Sea scrolls, dating back to 250 BC.

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In modern museums and archives, ancient texts, manuscripts, and books are stored under specific conditions that allow their original appearance to be preserved for future generations. The most prominent example of eternal manuscripts is the Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran Scrolls), first discovered back in 1947 and dated to 408 BC. Some of the scrolls have survived only partially, but there are […]

iOS for Creativity: Drawing

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Hello! In the last article, I reviewed the music writing capabilities of iOS, and today’s topic is drawing. I'm going to discuss Apple Pencil and other applications for working with raster and vector graphics, pixel art, and various forms of drawing. The focus will be on iPad applications, although some are available for iPhone as well. The iPad has become interesting […]

GNOME 3.34 has been released

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Today, September 12, 2019, after nearly six months of development, the latest version of the desktop environment — GNOME 3.34 — has been released. It includes about 26,000 changes, such as "visual" updates for several applications, including the desktop itself — for example, the settings for choosing the desktop background have been simplified, making it easier to change the default wallpaper […]

Version 1.3 of the Mumble voice communication platform has been released

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After nearly ten years since the last release, a new major version of the voice communication platform Mumble 1.3 has been launched. It is primarily focused on creating voice chats for players in online games and aims to reduce latency while ensuring high audio quality. The platform is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. It consists of two modules — the client […]

VK has finally launched the long-promised dating app

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VK has finally launched its dating app Lovina. The social network began accepting user registration applications back in July. Users can register with their phone number or through their VK account. After authorization, the app will automatically match users with conversation partners. The main communication methods in Lovina are video stories and video calls, as well as a "carousel of video calls" that allows users to interact with random partners who change […]

Comparison of network driver performance in 10 programming languages

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A group of researchers from German universities published the results of an experiment in which 10 variations of a standard driver were developed for 10-gigabit Intel Ixgbe (X5xx) network cards using different programming languages. The driver operates in user space and is implemented in C, Rust, Go, C#, Java, OCaml, Haskell, Swift, JavaScript, and Python. The primary focus during coding was on achieving […]

The author vkd3d has passed away.

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CodeWeavers, the company sponsoring the development of Wine, announced the passing of its employee — Józef Kucia, the author of the vkd3d project and one of the key developers of Wine, who also contributed to the development of Mesa and Debian projects. Józef made over 2500 changes to Wine and implemented most of the code related to Direct3D support. Source: linux.org.ru

Release of Out Of Memory Handler oomd 0.2.0

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Facebook has released the second version of oomd, a user-space Out Of Memory (OOM) handler that forcefully terminates processes consuming too much memory before the Linux kernel's OOM handler is triggered. The oomd code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Ready-made packages are available for Fedora Linux. For more details on oomd, see […]

DNS over HTTPS is disabled by default in Firefox port for OpenBSD

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The maintainers of the Firefox port for OpenBSD did not support the decision to enable DNS over HTTPS by default in new versions of Firefox. After a brief discussion, it was decided to leave the original behavior unchanged. Consequently, the network.trr.mode setting is set to '5', which unconditionally disables DoH. The following arguments were made in favor of this decision: Applications should adhere to system-wide DNS settings, and […]

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