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LG Electronics (LG) has announced that its 2019 model year 'smart' ThinQ AI TVs will start receiving an update on July 25, enabling support for Apple AirPlay 2 and HomeKit. The AirPlay technology allows users to stream videos, photos, music, and other content from Apple devices directly to the large television screen. Users will be able to cast to LG TVs […]
As the QuakeCon festival approached, Bethesda Softworks, along with developers from Avalanche and id Software, unveiled a new trailer for the open-world shooter Rage 2. In it, the authors discussed the second major update for their project, which was released on July 25 and included a host of free enhancements such as new game modes, another difficulty level, and much more […]
The story of a small tragedy and great victories of a very good developer who needs help. At the Far Eastern Federal University, there is a project activity center — where master's and bachelor's students find engineering projects that already have clients, funding, and prospects. There, lectures and intensives are also held. Experienced specialists talk about modern and applied topics. One of the intensives […]
GitHub has published a new revision of the rules defining its policy regarding compliance with U.S. export regulation laws. The rules impose restrictions on private repositories and corporate accounts of companies operating in areas subject to sanctions (Crimea, Iran, Cuba, Syria, Sudan, North Korea), but until now, they have not been applied to individual developers of non-commercial projects. New […]
When chatting with fellow administrators about literature, we discovered that we enjoy books from a wide range of genres and styles. This piqued our interest to conduct a survey among Selectel's system administrators on three topics: their favorite classics, their current favorite books, and what they are reading now. The result is an extensive literary selection where sysadmins share their personal impressions of the books they've read. In […]
Good day to everyone. Would you like to travel a bit? If so, I present to you a small surreal universe containing a variety of strange fairy-tale fantasy worlds. We will visit some of the atmospheres that I create for use in my role-playing games. Unlike detailed, heavy settings, these atmospheres contain only the broadest details, conveying the atmosphere and uniqueness of the world. […]
usbrip is a forensic tool with a command-line interface that allows tracking artifacts left by USB devices. It is written in Python3. It analyzes logs to create event tables, which may contain the following information: date and time of device connection, user, vendor ID, product ID, and more. Additionally, the tool can: export collected information as a JSON dump; generate a list of authorized […]
It’s hard to give a universal definition of the roles and responsibilities of a product manager: in each company, they differ, making the transition to this position a challenging task with unclear requirements. Over the past year, I have interviewed more than fifty candidates for the junior product manager position and noticed that most of them have no idea about […]
The release of the wayland-protocols 1.18 package has been announced, containing a set of protocols and extensions that enhance the capabilities of the base Wayland protocol and provide the necessary functionalities for building composite servers and user environments. Version 1.18 includes minor additions to existing protocols, improved documentation, and fixes for identified bugs. The release of Weston 7.0 and Wayland 1.18 is expected on August 23. Currently included in […]
An unscheduled release of the Exim mail server 4.92.1 has been published, which fixes a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-13917) allowing remote code execution with root privileges if certain specific configurations are present. The vulnerability manifests starting from release 4.85 when using the operator '${sort }' settings, in cases where elements in the 'sort' list can be passed by an attacker (for example, through […]
The release of the SDL 2.0.10 (Simple Direct Layer) library has taken place, aimed at simplifying the development of games and multimedia applications. The library provides tools such as hardware-accelerated output for 2D and 3D graphics, input handling, sound playback, 3D output through OpenGL/OpenGL ES, and many other related operations. The library is written in C and is distributed under the zlib license. To utilize the capabilities of SDL […]
The last few years have been marked not only by the rapid development of internet technologies and the penetration of the internet into regions of the planet where even ordinary mobile communication is difficult. Tools for internet censorship have been developed and adopted by officials, including bans on websites and services, monitoring user messages in email and chat services, DPI packet filtering, and much more. Journalists from well-known […]