Category: Internet News

So, what will happen with authentication and passwords? The second part of the Javelin report, "The State of Strict Authentication"

Recently, the research company Javelin Strategy & Research published a report titled 'The State of Strong Authentication 2019'. Its creators gathered information on the authentication methods used in corporate environments and user applications, as well as made interesting conclusions about the future of strong authentication. We have already published the translation of the first part with the authors' findings on Habrahabr. Now we present […]

Release of the IPFire 2.23 distribution for creating firewalls

The release of the distribution for creating routers and firewalls — IPFire 2.23 Core 131 — has been formed. IPFire features an extremely simple installation process and a configuration organization through an intuitive web interface filled with clear graphics. The size of the installation ISO image is 256 MB (x86_64, i586, ARM). The system is modular; in addition to basic packet filtering and traffic management functions, modules implementing […]

FastCGI Implementation in Modern C++

A new implementation of the FastCGI protocol, written in modern C++17, is now available. The library is notable for its ease of use and high performance. It can be connected as either a statically or dynamically linked library or embedded into an application in the form of a header file. In addition to Unix-like systems, support for use in Windows is ensured. The code is distributed under the free zlib license. Source: opennet.ru

Microsoft has opened the source code of the vector search library used in Bing

Microsoft has released the source code of the SPTAG (Space Partition Tree And Graph) machine learning library, which implements an approximate nearest neighbor search algorithm. This library was developed at Microsoft's research division and the Microsoft Search Technology Center. In practice, SPTAG is used in the Bing search engine to determine the most relevant results based on the context of search queries. […]

Japan Display is suffering losses and cutting staff

One of the latest nearly independent Japanese display manufacturers, Japan Display (JDI), reported its performance for the fourth quarter of the 2018 fiscal year (the period from January to March 2019). Nearly independent means that almost 50% of Japan Display's shares are owned by foreign companies, specifically a Chinese-Taiwanese consortium, Suwa. Earlier this week, new partners were reported for the company […]

ObjectRepository — .NET in-memory repository pattern for your home projects

Why store all data in memory? When it comes to storing website or backend data, most rational people would choose an SQL database. However, sometimes it occurs to one that the data model may not fit SQL: for instance, when building search functionality or a social graph, complex relationships between objects need to be queried. The worst situation arises when working in a team, […]

The Khronos Group is forming a working group for the development of open 3D commerce standards.

The Khronos Consortium, which develops graphics standards, has announced the creation of a working group to advance open standards for 3D e-commerce. The group's main objectives include product visualization technologies based on WebGL and Vulkan, expanding the capabilities of the glTF graphic format, and developing methods for presenting products using virtual and augmented reality (based on the OpenXR standard). Members of the working group include […]

Paint will receive new features

In 2017, Microsoft halted the development of the Paint graphic editor. Since then, the program has merely been carried over from version to version, without changing its core or adding anything new. There was then information that the application would 'move' to the Windows Store, and recently it became known that the program would not be removed from Windows 10 May 2019 Update. Now, it seems intentions […]

Intel has published details about a new class of vulnerabilities.

Intel has published information about a new class of vulnerabilities in its processors — MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling). Like past attacks in the Spectre class, these new issues could lead to the leakage of sensitive data from operating systems, virtual machines, and foreign processes. It is claimed that the problems were first identified by Intel's employees and partners during an internal audit. In June and August […]

Clear Linux Release — a distribution for application development

The Clear Linux Developer Edition distribution has been released by Intel. Key features include: Full application isolation through containers (KVM). Applications are provided as Flatpak packages, which can in turn be bundled into bundles. There is also an application catalog with ready-made bundles for setting up the working environment. Distribution update modes: the ability to download necessary patches […]

Work is ongoing to stabilize Gnome on Wayland.

A developer from Red Hat named Hans de Goede has introduced his project "Wayland Itches", aimed at stabilizing, fixing bugs, and addressing issues that arise when using Gnome on Wayland. The motivation behind this was the developer's desire to use Fedora as his primary desktop distribution, but he is currently forced to switch back to Xorg due to numerous minor problems. Among the described […]

Web browser Min 1.10 available

The release of the Min web browser 1.10 has been published, offering a minimalist interface designed around address bar manipulations. The browser is built using the Electron platform, which allows for the creation of standalone applications based on the Chromium engine and Node.js platform. The Min interface is developed in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Builds are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Min supports navigation […]

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