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Perfect World Entertainment and Panic Button Games have announced pre-order bonuses for the upcoming console version of Torchlight II. You can already pre-order Torchlight II from the PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store, while the game’s page on Nintendo eShop will appear later. Bonuses for purchasing the game before its release include one universal and one exclusive for […]
The release of Slackel 7.2 has been announced, built on the developments from the Slackware and Salix projects, and is fully compatible with the repositories offered in them. A key feature of Slackel is the use of the constantly updated Slackware-Current branch. The graphical environment is based on the Openbox window manager. The size of the bootable image, which can operate in Live mode, is 1.5 GB (32 and 64 bit). The distribution can be used on systems with […]
Hello everyone! A year ago, I wrote an article about how I organized a university course on signal processing. Judging by the feedback, there are many interesting ideas in the article, but it's large and difficult to read. I have long wanted to break it into smaller parts and write them more clearly. However, rewriting the same thing twice doesn't seem to work. Additionally, […]
The release of the Deepin 15.11 distribution, based on the Debian package base, has been presented, but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment and around 30 custom applications, including the DMusic music player, DMovie video player, DTalk messaging system, and Deepin Software Center installation and app management center. The project is started by a group of developers from China but has transformed into an international project. The distribution supports […]
The release of the cross-platform open-source build script generator CMake 3.15 has taken place, serving as an alternative to Autotools and utilized in projects such as KDE, LLVM/Clang, MySQL, MariaDB, ReactOS, and Blender. The CMake code is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. CMake is notable for offering a simple scripting language, functionality extension through modules, and minimal dependencies (no binding to […]
After participating in the State of the Union session at WWDC 2019, I decided to delve deep into SwiftUI. I spent a lot of time working with it and have now started developing a real application that could be useful to a wide audience. I named it MovieSwiftUI — it's an app for searching for new and old movies and collecting them […]
Correction updates have been released for stable branches of the DNS server BIND 9.14.4 and 9.11.9, as well as for the experimental branch 9.15.2 currently in development. The new releases address a vulnerability (CVE-2019-6471) caused by a race condition that could lead to a denial of service (process termination upon assertion failure) when blocking a large number of incoming packets. Additionally, the new version 9.14.4 introduces support for the GeoIP2 API […]
Microsoft is working on a new global control for multimedia in its Edge browser based on Chromium. Reportedly, the control activated by clicking the 'Multimedia' button in the address bar will now be able to display not only a list of currently playing audio or video files but also other active multimedia sessions, which can then be switched between and managed individually. […]
In accordance with the amendments to the law 'On Communications' in Kazakhstan that have been in effect since 2016, many Kazakh providers, including Kcell, Beeline, Tele2, and Altel, have today implemented systems to intercept clients' HTTPS traffic by substituting the originally used certificate. Initially, the interception system was planned to be implemented in 2016, but this operation has been constantly delayed, and the law has already become […]
Cisco has released Snort 2.9.14.0, a free intrusion detection and prevention system that combines signature matching methods, protocol inspection tools, and mechanisms for anomaly detection. Key new features include: support for port number masks in host caches and the ability to override application ID bindings to network ports; new client software templates for output requests […]
Google has announced an increase in the amounts awarded under its vulnerability reward program for the Chrome browser and its underlying components. The maximum payment for creating an exploit to escape the sandbox environment has increased from $15,000 to $30,000, and for a method of bypassing access controls in JavaScript (XSS) from $7,500 to $20,000, […]
In large groups of people, a leader always emerges, whether consciously or not. The distribution of power from the highest to the lowest levels of the hierarchical pyramid has several advantages for the group as a whole and for individual members. After all, order is always better than chaos, right? For thousands of years, humanity has implemented a power hierarchy in various civilizations in diverse ways […]
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