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In this humorous tale, I wanted to imagine what a "hack" of a washing machine might look like in the near future using a voice interface, intelligent systems, and ubiquitous donations. I couldn't sleep. The smartphone showed 3:47, but it was already quite bright outside the summer window. Yarik kicked off the edge of the blanket and sat up. * "I won’t get enough sleep again; I'll be going […]
A stable release of the Weston 7.0 composite server has been published, advancing technologies that support full Wayland protocol integration in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other user environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, televisions, and other consumer devices. […]
The developers of yaxim, the free XMPP client for Android, are celebrating the project's ten-year anniversary. Ten years ago, on August 23, 2009, the first commit of yaxim was made, meaning that today this XMPP client is officially half as old as the protocol it operates on. Since then, many changes have occurred both in XMPP itself and in the Android system. 2009: […]
After nearly two years of development, the Enlightenment 0.23 user environment has been released, built on the EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Library) and Elementary widget libraries. The release is available in source code, but packages for distributions are not yet prepared. The most notable innovations in Enlightenment 0.23 include: Significantly improved support for running under Wayland; Transition to the Meson build system; A new Bluetooth module has been added […]
Google announced the discontinuation of assigning sweet and dessert names to Android platform releases in alphabetical order and is transitioning to a standard numeric numbering system. The previously used scheme was borrowed from the practice of naming internal branches used by Google engineers but caused a lot of confusion among users and third-party developers. Thus, the currently developed Android Q release is now officially […].
In August 1969, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie from Bell Labs, dissatisfied with the size and complexity of the Multics operating system, after a month of intense work, introduced the first working prototype of the Unix operating system, created in assembly language for the PDP-7 minicomputer. Around the same time, a high-level programming language called B was developed, which evolved into the language […] several years later.
Nearly three years after the creation of the previous significant branch, Apple has released version 2.3 of the open printing system CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), used in macOS and most Linux distributions. The development of CUPS is fully overseen by Apple, which acquired Easy Software Products, the creator of CUPS, in 2007. Starting with this release, the code license has been changed […]
Recently, fans have often been using neural networks to enhance classic iconic projects. This includes Doom, Final Fantasy VII, and now a piece of Counter-Strike 1.6. YouTube channel author 3kliksphilip used artificial intelligence to increase the resolution of the Dust 2 map textures — one of the most popular locations in the old competitive shooter from Valve. The modder recorded a video showcasing the changes. […]
The Document Liberation project, initiated by LibreOffice developers to separate libraries for working with various file formats, has released two new libraries for Microsoft Visio and AbiWord formats. With this standalone delivery, the project’s libraries enable work with different formats not only in LibreOffice but also in any external open project. For example, […]
The Linux Foundation has announced the establishment of the Confidential Computing Consortium, aimed at developing open technologies and standards related to secure data processing in memory and confidential computing. Companies such as Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, Google, IBM, Intel, Tencent, and Microsoft have already joined the collaborative project, intending to develop technologies for data isolation in a neutral environment […]
Several months have passed since the launch of our secure owner call service. Currently, 325 individuals are registered on the service. A total of 332 ownership objects have been registered, of which 274 are vehicles. The rest includes various types of real estate: doors, apartments, gates, passageways, etc. To be frank — it’s not a lot. However, during this time, some significant events have occurred in our immediate world […]
Details have been revealed about a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-14378) in the SLIRP handler, which is used by default in QEMU to establish a communication channel between the virtual network adapter in the guest system and the network backend on the QEMU side. This issue also affects KVM (in Usermode) and VirtualBox virtualization systems that utilize the QEMU slirp backend, as well as applications that use the network […]
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