Internet News Section
A few days ago, the developers of Telegram released a fresh update that added several features regarding privacy and usability of the messenger. One of these features is the ability to hide the mobile number for specific groups and chats. Now, users can choose in which groups to display their number. This will allow them to keep their data private in personal chats while showing it in work-related ones. Also […]
On the priority of work in the field of information transmission. A pioneer in this modern issue is V.A. Kotelnikov. During his post-graduate studies at MEI, works were published in 1932, one of which was titled “On the bandwidth of the 'ether' and wires in telecommunications” and was presented at the I All-Union Congress on issues of technical reconstruction of communications and development of low-voltage industry. The Congress did not […]
The open release of the Tizen 5.5 M1 platform has occurred, providing developers with the Tizen kernel, a set of drivers, middleware subsystems, as well as APIs for native development, web, and TizenFX. Key changes include the addition of an integrated speech recognition mechanism in the STT (Speech To Text) engine. There is support for the (multi-assistant) framework, allowing the use of multiple voice assistants simultaneously. The .NET Wearable UI extension (Tizen.Wearable.CircularUI) has been added […]
Firefox Lockwise, formerly known as Lockbox, has been introduced as a password manager. Lockwise includes mobile applications for Android and iOS that allow access to saved passwords in the Firefox browser across all devices without needing to install Firefox on them. There is an autofill feature available in any applications (enabled in system settings). The project's source code is distributed under the MPL 2.0 license. For […]
The GNU Project has released a new version of the IceCat web browser, version 60.7.0. This release is built on the Firefox 60 ESR codebase, modified to meet the requirements for fully free software. Specifically, non-free components have been removed, UI elements have been replaced, the use of registered trademarks has been discontinued, the search for non-free plugins and add-ons has been disabled, and privacy-enhancing add-ons have been integrated. The base […]
We did it! “The goal of this course is to prepare you for your technical future.” Hello, Habr. Remember the awesome article “You and Your Work” (+219, 2588 saved, 429k readings)? Well, Hamming (yes, the one with self-checking and self-correcting Hamming codes) has an entire book written based on his lectures. We're translating it because the man knows what he's talking about. This […]
A stable release of 4MLinux 29.0 has been published, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can be used not only as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks but also as a system for recovery after failures and a platform for launching LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB […]
I am 33 years old, a programmer from Saint Petersburg, and I have never had a smartphone. Not that I don't need one — I do need it, very much so: I work in IT, all my family members have one (my child already has a third one), I have had to manage mobile development, and I […]
A new release of GnuPG 2.2.16 has been released, an open and free tool for data encryption. Key changes: gpg: added option —delete-key, allowing the removal of secondary keys (subkeys). gpg: when updating own digital signatures using options —quick-set-expire or —quick-set-primary-uid, SHA-1 hashes are replaced with SHA-256. gpg: improved image viewer selection. gpg: fixed decryption with the —use-embedded-filename option. gpg: […]
Do you remember the charming little cat that sneezed in the opening of the Soviet cartoon? We remember, and we found it — along with a lot of other animated fantasies. In childhood, it was frightening and disconcerting because it raised serious, adult themes. It's time to revisit the old cartoons to find out what kind of future people dreamed of in that country. 1977: 'Polygon' Animator Anatoly Petrov had a hand in […]
Mozilla has introduced a password management app called Firefox Lockwise, which was developed under the code name Lockbox. Lockwise includes mobile applications for Android and iOS, allowing users to access passwords saved in Firefox on any of their devices without the need to install Firefox on them. The app supports the autocompletion of passwords in authentication forms of any mobile […]
Currently, there are about 180,000 extensions available in the Chrome online store. Some of the extensions listed are collecting user data without proper permissions. This will soon change as Google begins to introduce new privacy policies for Chrome extensions. It is known that the rules announced by the company will take effect this fall. If any extension does not comply with the new privacy requirements, then […]