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GitHub launched financial support and vulnerability notification services

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GitHub has implemented a sponsorship system to provide financial support for open projects. The new service offers a new form of participation in project development—if a user is unable to contribute to development, they can connect to interesting projects as a sponsor and assist through financing specific developers, maintainers, designers, documentation authors, testers, and other participants involved in the project. With […]

Bug Clearing House — a marathon for eliminating old bugs

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How many open bugs do you have in your backlog? 100? 1000? How long have they been there? A week? A month? Years? Why does this happen? No time? Need to focus on higher priority tasks? "We’ll implement all the urgent features right now, and then we’ll definitely have time to tackle the bugs"? … Some use a Zero Bug Policy, while others have a well-developed work culture […]

Bug hunting: How to find 200 bugs in a day

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Hello everyone! My name is Yulia, and I am a tester. Last year, I shared information about Bug Cleaning Day — an event held at our company to clean up the bug backlog. It’s a viable way to significantly reduce it (by 10 to 50% in different teams) in just one day. Today, I want to tell you about our spring format of Bug Cleaning Day — […]

Microsoft Defender for Mac has been released

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Back in March, Microsoft first announced the release of Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac. Now, after internal testing of the product, the company has announced that it has released a public preview version. Microsoft Defender has added localization in 37 languages, improved performance, and enhanced protection against unauthorized access. You can now submit virus samples through the main interface of the program. There […]

Perl 5.30.0 has been released

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A year after the release of Perl 5.28.0, Perl 5.30.0 has been released. Important changes include: support for Unicode versions 11, 12, and the draft version 12.1 added; the upper limit 'n' specified in the regular expression quantifier in the form '{m, n}' has been doubled to 65534; metacharacters in Unicode property value specifications are now partially supported; support for qr’N{name}’ has been added; Perl can now be compiled to […]

The UMIDIGI A5 Pro smartphone with a triple camera — today only at the price of $89

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The Chinese electronics manufacturer UMIDIGI introduced the UMIDIGI A5 Pro smartphone during the annual brand sale — the UMIDIGI Fan Festival, held on the AliExpress platform. During the sale, which will last only 24 hours, the new model can be purchased at a significant discount for $89.37 (with a $6 coupon). The UMIDIGI A5 Pro features a 6.3-inch display made of […]

Release of openSUSE Leap 15.1

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On May 22, the new version of the openSUSE Leap 15.1 distribution was released. This version features a completely updated graphics stack. Although this release uses the 4.12 kernel, it has backported support for graphics hardware relevant to the 4.19 kernel (including improved support for the AMD Vega chipset). Starting with Leap 15.1, Network Manager will be used […]

Mushkin Helix-L: NVMe SSD drives with capacities up to 1 TB

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Mushkin has released SSDs from the Helix-L series, the first information about which appeared at the January CES 2019 electronics show. The products are made in the M.2 2280 format (22 × 80 mm). This allows them to be used in desktop and portable computers, including ultrabooks. The drives are PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 solutions, utilizing 3D TLC flash memory chips [...].

Codemasters announced the continuation of the GRID racing series

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Codemasters has announced the development of a sequel to one of its most popular series—GRID. The new racing simulator will be released on September 13, 2019, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Although this will be the fourth installment in the series, the developers chose not to include a number in the title, simply naming the simulator GRID. "Get ready for intense racing competitions on city streets [...].

New vulnerabilities have been discovered in Windows that allow for privilege escalation in the system.

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A new series of vulnerabilities has been found in Windows that allows access to the system. A user under the pseudonym SandBoxEscaper presented exploits for three vulnerabilities at once. The first allows a user to elevate privileges in the system using the task scheduler. An authorized user has the opportunity to elevate their rights to system level. The second vulnerability affects the Windows error reporting service. This allows attackers to exploit it [...].

"Open Organization": How to Avoid Getting Lost in Chaos and Unite Millions.

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It's an important day for Red Hat, the Russian open source community, and all involved – Jim Whitehurst's book "Open Organization: The Passion that Yields Results" has been released in Russian. It vividly and thoroughly describes how we at Red Hat pave the way for the best ideas and the most talented people, as well as how to avoid getting lost in chaos and unite [...].

Release of OpenSCAD 2019.05.

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On May 16, after four years of development, a new stable version of OpenSCAD – 2019.05 was released. OpenSCAD is a non-interactive 3D CAD program, somewhat like a 3D compiler that generates a model based on a script written in a special programming language. OpenSCAD is well-suited for 3D printing and for automatically generating a large number of similar models based on a given set of parameters. Full usage requires […]

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