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David Lieb, the lead developer of Google Photos, shared some details about the future of the popular service during a conversation with users on Twitter. Although the goal of the discussion was to gather feedback and wishes, Mr. Lieb revealed what new features will be added to Google Photos in response to questions.
Hello, Habr! While leisurely reading an interesting article about becoming a programmer, I realized that we are all navigating the same minefield filled with pitfalls on our career paths. It begins with a dislike for the educational system that is supposed to turn us into seniors, and ends with the understanding that the heavy burden of learning falls solely on us.
The development team is excited to present Rust 1.36! What's new in Rust 1.36? The Future trait has been stabilized, and among the new features are: the alloc crate, MaybeUninit, NLL for Rust 2015, a new implementation of HashMap, and a new flag —offline for Cargo. Now, more details: In Rust 1.36, the Future trait has finally been stabilized. The alloc crate. Starting with Rust 1.36, parts of std that depend on it...
Vulnerabilities have been identified in Magento, an open platform for e-commerce that holds about 20% of the market for online store creation systems. The combination of these vulnerabilities allows an attacker to execute their code on the server, gain complete control over the online store, and redirect payments. The vulnerabilities have been patched in Magento releases 2.3.2, 2.2.9, and 2.1.18, which together fixed 75 issues...
Axel Rietschin, an engineer at Microsoft working on the Windows kernel, has questioned the possibility of developing the ReactOS operating system without borrowing code from Windows. In his opinion, the developers of ReactOS utilized code from the Windows Research kernel, the source texts of which were licensed for universities. Leaks of this code have been published in various environments, including GitHub. Rietschin is confident...
The power of a quantum computer is measured in qubits, the basic unit of measurement in quantum computing. Source. I facepalm after each reading of such phrases. This has not led to good outcomes, my vision is starting to decline; I will soon have to turn to Meklon. I think it's time to systematically summarize the main parameters of a quantum computer. There are several: Number of qubits, Coherence time (decoherence time), Error rate, Processor architecture […]
When visiting any country, it's important not to confuse tourism with immigration. Folk wisdom. Today, I would like to address perhaps the most pressing issue – financial balance while studying, living, and working abroad. In the previous four parts (1, 2, 3, 4.1), I did my best to avoid this topic, but in this article, we will draw a firm line under […]
On July 1, 2019, the release of GNU Rush 2.0 was announced. GNU Rush is a Restricted User Shell designed to provide limited non-interactive access to remote resources via ssh (for example, GNU Savannah). Its flexible configuration gives system administrators complete control over the capabilities available to users, as well as control over the use of system resources such as virtual […]
The release of ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Linux Desktop version 4.0.93.0 took place. Key changes: Fixed potential GUI crashes. Resolved an issue when running the command 'sudo apt --reinstall install wget'. A 'Privacy Policy' button was added to the installer. A rare error when opening directories on GNOME environments was fixed. Source: linux.org.ru
On May 14, the French non-profit organization Framasoft, which recently introduced the federated video hosting project PeerTube, began fundraising for a new initiative — Mobilizon, a free and federated alternative to Facebook Events and MeetUp, servers for organizing planned meetings and events. Three funding levels were proposed with the following objectives: €20,000: a tool for organizing events; work on graphic […]
Intel has released version 0.6 of the SVT-AV1 library (Scalable Video Technology AV1), which provides alternative encoders and decoders for the AV1 video encoding format, utilizing the hardware parallel computing capabilities present in modern Intel CPUs. The main goal of SVT-AV1 is to achieve a level of performance suitable for on-the-fly video transcoding and for use in on-demand video (VOD) services. […]
A third unofficial candidate for the installer release of the upcoming major release of Debian 10 'Buster' has been prepared. The reason for creating this latest test version of the installer is the need to test last-minute changes related to the selection of recommended dependencies for kernel packages and the inclusion of the shim-signed package among the recommended dependencies for grub-efi-{arm64,i386}-signed packages. The Debian 10 release is expected on July 6. […]