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Thanks to the open-source Chromium, Microsoft has made its first significant and positive impact on the Google Chrome browser. Reports indicate that this new feature should resolve a long-standing issue with 'Chrome'—its 'greediness' regarding laptop battery consumption. Shawn Pickett from Microsoft stated that media content is cached to disk during download and playback. And this […]
The Open Wireless Link project, which examines Apple's proprietary wireless protocols, presented a report at the USENIX 2019 conference analyzing vulnerabilities in Apple's wireless protocols (including possibilities for conducting Man-in-the-Middle attacks to modify files transmitted between devices, Denial of Service attacks to block device interactions and cause device hangs, as well as using AirDrop for user identification and tracking). During the study […]
The release of the nftables 0.9.2 packet filter has taken place, evolving as a replacement for iptables, ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables by unifying packet filtering interfaces for IPv4, IPv6, ARP, and network bridges. The nftables package includes user-space packet filter components, while the kernel-level operation is provided by the nf_tables subsystem integrated into the Linux kernel […]
This will be a narrative about the impression of a book, and we will also explore some concepts and knowledge that were learned thanks to this book. Architecture Can you, while reading this publication, give a clear answer to the question, what is architecture? What is architecture in the context of programming and design? What role does it play? There is quite a lot of ambiguity in this term. […]
A bit about what school 'informatics' was like in the 90s and why all programmers were essentially self-taught back then. What kids were taught to program In the early 90s, Moscow schools began selectively outfitting classrooms with computers. The buildings immediately had bars placed on the windows and heavy, iron-clad doors installed. An informatics teacher appeared from somewhere (looking like the most important person […]
A group of researchers from Georgetown University and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory analyzed the resilience of the anonymous Tor network to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Research on compromising the Tor network mainly revolves around censorship (blocking access to Tor), identifying requests through Tor in transit traffic, and analyzing the correlation of traffic flows before the entry node and after the exit node […]
The release version of the QEMU 4.1 emulator has been launched, allowing programs from one processor architecture to run on another. For example, an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. It is claimed that the emulator provides execution speeds close to native performance and supports full emulation of 14 architectures and over 400 devices. The support for Hygon Dhyana and Intel CPU models was provided in version 4.1 […]
Dear engineers and future engineers, the Metarkhia community is opening enrollment for a free course titled 'Fundamentals of Programming,' which will be available on YouTube and GitHub without any restrictions. Some lectures were recorded at the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, while others will be delivered at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in the fall of 2019 and immediately available on the course channel. Experience […]
From any internet-connected kettle, one can hear about how AI is beating esports professionals, providing new opportunities to old technologies, and drawing cats based on your sketch. However, discussions about the machine intelligence also caring for the environment are less frequent. Cloud4Y decided to address this oversight. Let's talk about some of the most interesting projects being implemented in […]
Juuso Alasuutari, specializing in sound processing system development for Linux (creator of jackdbus and LASH), has formed the Proton-i project, aimed at porting the current Proton codebase to newer versions of Wine, without waiting for significant new releases from Valve. A version of Proton based on Wine 4.13 has already been proposed, functionally similar to Proton 4.11-2 […]
The release of the lightweight window manager IceWM 1.6 is now available. Features of IceWM include full keyboard shortcut management, the ability to use virtual desktops, taskbars, and application menus. The window manager is configured through a fairly simple configuration file, with support for themes. Built-in applets are available for monitoring CPU, memory, and traffic. Several third-party GUIs for configuration and desktop implementations are being developed separately […]
The head of the OpenGLAM public platform at CreativeCommons published links to the presentation materials of the 'Public Domain Awareness Project' on Twitter during the Creative Commons 2019 Global Summit. This project addresses the issue of licensing works and digital copies under the terms of 'public domain'. Source: linux.org.ru