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Microsoft has expanded the reach of its Chromium-based Edge browser for users of Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Developers have released Canary preview builds for these operating systems. Reportedly, the new versions have almost the same functionality as the version for Windows 10, including compatibility mode with Internet Explorer. This should be of interest to business users who need […]
The success of an IT project heavily depends on how well the testing and quality assurance (QA) system is organized at all stages of its lifecycle. For a QA specialist, one of the most reliable ways to validate their professional skills is to hold an international ISTQB certification. Today, we will discuss what such a certification offers to the employee, employer, and business, as […]
Following the releases of Firefox 67.0.3 and 60.7.1, additional corrective releases 67.0.4 and 60.7.2 have been published, which resolved a second 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-11708) that allows bypassing the sandbox isolation mechanism. The issue exploits manipulation of the IPC call Prompt:Open to open web content chosen by the child process within the parent process, which does not apply sandboxing. In conjunction with another vulnerability, this issue enables bypassing all […]
Cumulative updates have been released for all supported branches of PostgreSQL: 11.4, 10.9, 9.6.14, 9.5.18, and 9.4.23. The release cycle for the 9.4 branch will continue until December 2019, 9.5 until January 2021, 9.6 until September 2021, 10 until October 2022, and 11 until November 2023. The new versions fix 25 bugs and address […]
Google has introduced the cryptographic protocol for confidential multi-party computation called Private Join and Compute, enabling analysis and computation on encrypted datasets from multiple participants while preserving the privacy of each participant's data (each participant cannot access the data of others but can perform aggregate computations on it without decryption). The code for the protocol's implementation is open-sourced under the […]
Have you ever met people who, at the first sign of trouble, don't try to overcome it themselves but run to a more experienced colleague for help? The senior colleague suggests a solution, and it seems everyone is happy, but the senior gets distracted, and the junior doesn't gain any experience. Then there are people who seem to be excellent specialists and professionals. But they have low […]
Free as in Freedom in English: Chapter 1. The Fateful Printer Free as in Freedom in English: Chapter 2. 2001: A Hacker Odyssey Portrait of a Young Hacker Alice Lippman, Richard Stallman's mother, still remembers the moment when her son showed his talent. "I think this happened when he was 8 years old," she says. It was 1961 […]
Two years ago, the developers of the Ubuntu distribution ceased the release of 32-bit builds of the operating system. Now, a decision has been made to finalize the formation and corresponding packages. The deadline is the autumn release of Ubuntu 19.10. The last LTS branch with support for 32-bit memory addressing will be Ubuntu 18.04. Its free support will last until April 2023, while a paid subscription will ensure coverage until 2028. […]
A new, significant release of the SVG rasterization library — resvg, has been issued. Key changes include: A completely new implementation of text rendering: Nearly the entire stack from character to Bézier curve is now implemented in Rust, including font matching and fallback, TrueType parsing, and the layout of glyph clusters according to SVG rules. The exception is text shaping, for which HarfBuzz is used. […]
Humbly and discreetly, Gabor Nagy works on his unique creation, rarely delighting us with releases, but this is precisely what I want to share with you (a surprise at the end). EQUINOX-3D is a modest, minimalist package for 3D modeling, animation, and photorealistic rendering, working on Linux, Mac OS X, and even SGI IRIX. In the new version v0.9.9, EQUINOX-3D: The binary file format […]
The release of Alpine Linux 3.10 has occurred, a minimalist distribution built on the Musl system library and the BusyBox utility set. The distribution boasts increased security requirements and is built with SSP (Stack Smashing Protection) patches. OpenRC is used for the initialization system, and its own package manager apk is utilized for package management. Alpine is used to create official Docker container images. The bootable […]
Corrective updates have been published for the stable branches of the DNS server BIND 9.14.3, 9.11.8, and 9.12.4-P2, as well as for the experimental branch 9.15.1 currently in development. At the same time, it was announced that support for the 9.12 branch will cease, and updates for it will no longer be released. The updates are noteworthy for addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2019-6471) that allows for denial of service (process termination with assertion REQUIRE). The issue was caused by a race condition. […]