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The FreeBSD developers have announced a survey for users of the project, aimed at helping prioritize development and identify areas that need special attention. The survey consists of 47 questions and takes about 10 minutes to complete. The questions cover topics such as application areas, development tool preferences, attitudes towards default settings, and wishes regarding timelines […]
The release of Parrot 4.6 distribution has taken place, based on the Debian Testing package base and including a selection of tools for system security assessment, forensic analysis, and reverse engineering. Three versions of ISO images are available for download: with a MATE environment (full 3.8 GB and minimal 1.7 GB) and with a KDE desktop (1.8 GB). The Parrot distribution is positioned as a portable laboratory with […]
Yesterday's publication inspired by Dell's presentation unveiling Intel's processor plans has captured public attention. What has long been rumored has found some confirmation in official documents. However, we will likely hear Intel representatives' comments on the pace of adoption of 10nm technology tomorrow at the quarterly earnings conference, but it's unlikely they will differ significantly from […]
There have long been rumors that Google is working on an operating system for feature phones. In March of this year, mentions of a special mode that allows controlling the OS with buttons were found in the Chromium Gerrit repository, and now new information has emerged. The resource Gizchina published a screenshot of the main page of the Chrome browser, which has been adapted for feature phones. This […]
ASRock has introduced a rather unusual motherboard called the A320TM-ITX, designed in the less common Thin Mini-ITX form factor. The uniqueness of this product lies in the fact that such motherboards for AMD processors in the Socket AM4 implementation simply did not exist before. Thin Mini-ITX motherboards are distinguished not only by their small length and width (170 × 170 mm), […]
The ninth corrective update of the Debian 9 distribution is now available, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes in the installer. This release includes 70 updates addressing stability issues and 52 updates addressing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 9.9 include the removal of 5 packages: gcontactsync, google-tasks-sync, mozilla-gnome-keyring, tbdialout, and timeline due to incompatibility with the new ESR branches of Firefox […]
Google has announced the recipients of the Open Source Peer Bonus, awarded for contributions to the development of open projects. A unique aspect of this award is that candidates are nominated by Google employees, but nominees do not need to be affiliated with the company. This year, the award has been expanded and now recognizes not only developers but also technical writers, designers, community activists, mentors, experts in […]
Mozilla plans to discontinue the use of IRC as the main platform for live communication among project participants. The IRC.mozilla.org server is set to be decommissioned in the coming months, following migration to one of the modern web-oriented communication platforms. A decision on the new platform has yet to be made, though it is known that Mozilla will not develop its own system but will utilize a popular […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 4.7 is now available. Since the release of version 4.6, 34 bug reports have been closed and 264 changes made. The most significant changes include support added to ntdll for loading embedded libraries (provided by the Wine project rather than native Windows DLLs) in the PE (Portable Executable) format, including on Unix-like platforms. […]
Users of Docker Hub, the official container catalog for the Docker system, received a notification about a breach of the project's infrastructure. As a result of the attack, a database of accounts containing information on 190,000 service users was compromised, including hashes of their passwords and tokens for accessing repositories on GitHub and Bitbucket. To prevent the spread of the attack, assembly creation has been paused, and tokens […]
Aiming to make biomanufacturing more accessible, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are combining 2D bio-printing, a robotic arm for 3D assembly, and instant freezing in a method that could one day allow for the printing of living tissues and even entire organs. By printing organs as thin sheets of tissue and then freezing them and stacking them sequentially, the new technology enhances the survival rate […]
Without a doubt, the number one premiere worldwide today is the release of the film ‘Avengers: Endgame.’ Google decided not to miss such an event: the company dedicated another doodle to it — a whimsical 'Easter egg' on the search page. If you enter queries like ‘Thanos,’ ‘Infinity Gauntlet,’ and so on in Russian, English, and obviously, […]