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Among the innovations: It is now allowed to reference enum variants through type aliases, for example, via Self. cargo vendor is now included in the standard distribution. With cargo vendor, you can explicitly download and use a full copy of all source codes of all dependencies. This is useful for companies with monorepositories that want to store and analyze all the source code used in […]
Google will add a new feature to its assistant that will allow users to assign reminders to other users if they are part of a trusted user group in Assistant. This feature is primarily intended for familiesāit will work with the Family Group featureāso for example, a father can send reminders to his children or spouse, and that reminder will appear […]
Currently, Microsoft is testing the Edge browser based on Chromium as part of its insider program. New features are added almost daily, which should ultimately make the browser fully functional. One of Microsoft's main focuses is the widely popular dark mode. They want to extend it to the entire browser, not just to individual pages. And […]
The PHP language developers have proposed creating a new dialect, P++, which will help elevate PHP to a new level. Currently, PHP's development is hampered by the need to maintain compatibility with existing web project codebases, which keeps developers within limited frameworks. As a solution, it is suggested to start developing a new PHP dialectāP++āin parallel, with its development being carried out […]
The capacity of hard drives continues to increase, but growth rates have steadily declined in recent years. For instance, it took the industry only two years to release the first 4 TB drive after the 2 TB HDDs hit the market; it took three years to reach the 8 TB mark, and it was only after a lengthy period that the capacity of 3.5-inch hard drives was able to double again […]
A series of vulnerabilities (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) in Ghostscript, a toolkit for processing, converting, and generating documents in PostScript and PDF formats, continues. Like previous vulnerabilities, the new issue (CVE-2019-10216) allows bypassing the isolation mode '-dSAFER' when processing specially crafted documents (through manipulation with '.buildfont1') and gaining access to the file system contents, which can be exploited […]
The FreeBSD developers announced the plan to remove GCC 4.2.1 from the source code of the FreeBSD base system. GCC components will be removed by the time the FreeBSD 13 branch is created, which will include only the Clang compiler. GCC can still be installed from the ports, where GCC 9, 7, and 8 are available, as well as already deprecated releases of GCC […]
Oracle has announced its efforts to port DTrace-related changes upstream and plans to implement dynamic debugging technology DTrace over the standard Linux kernel infrastructure, specifically using subsystems like eBPF. Initially, the main issue with using DTrace on Linux was licensing incompatibility, but in 2018, Oracle relicensed the code […]
Bandai Namco Entertainment has released another trailer for its psychological thriller The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan. Back in July, the developers announced that the upcoming game would feature two multiplayer modes. A week ago, they released a trailer dedicated to the two-player gameplay mode called 'Shared Story'. Now, they have released a video that discusses 'Movie Night'. Supermassive Games noted that […]
Updates for the stable branch of OpenBSD have been announced. Previously, using the '-stable' branch only allowed for binary updates to the base system through syspatch. Packages were built once for the release branch and were no longer updated. Now, however, three branches are planned to be supported: '-release': a frozen branch, from which packages are built once for release and no longer […]
A corrective update for Firefox 68.0.2 has been released, addressing several issues: A vulnerability (CVE-2019-11733) allowing saved passwords to be copied without entering the master password has been fixed. When using the 'copy password' option provided in the context menu while in the Saved Logins dialog ('Page Info / Security / View Saved Password'), copying to the clipboard is performed without the need to enter a password (the password input dialog appears, but the data is copied […]
The EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) project, which maintains a repository of additional packages for RHEL and CentOS, has announced that the EPEL 8 repository is ready for release. The repository was created two weeks ago and is now deemed ready for integration. Through EPEL, users of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux are offered an additional set of packages from Fedora Linux, supported by communities […]