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The first release candidate of the installer for the next significant release of Debian 10 'Buster' is now available. Currently, there are 146 critical bugs blocking the release (down from 316 a month ago, 577 two months ago, 275 at the time of Debian 9 freeze, 350 in Debian 8, and 650 in Debian 7). The final release of Debian 10 is expected in the summer. Compared to […]
A vulnerability has been found in the Adblock Plus ad blocker that allows the execution of JavaScript code in the context of websites when using unverified filters created by malicious actors (e.g., when connecting third-party rule sets or through rule substitution during a MITM attack). Authors of filter lists can execute their code in the context of user-opened websites by adding rules with the 'rewrite' operator.
Instead of the release 1.1, which was canceled due to a GPU hang issue, a new release of the DXVK 1.0.3 layer has been prepared, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 10, and Direct3D 11, working through call translation to the Vulkan API. DXVK 1.0.3 includes some fixes and improvements from the 1.1 branch, such as: The DLL now includes version information for DXVK; On systems with...
Gene was born in the Soviet Union. Even though it was already during the twilight of the great empire, he managed to see the portrait of Lenin against the red flag, located on the first spread of the primer. And of course, Gene adored everything related to space. He was proud to live in a country with the most impressive list of achievements in astronautics, each item of which began with the word 'first'. Gene...
After NVIDIA demonstrated real-time ray tracing on GeForce RTX series graphics cards, it's hard to doubt that this technology (in a reasonable combination with the rasterization algorithm) is the future of computer games. However, graphics processors based on the Turing architecture with specialized RT cores were considered until recently the only category of discrete GPUs with suitable for...
The developers of the NetBSD project have announced the creation of a new hypervisor and its associated virtualization stack, which are already included in the experimental branch of NetBSD-current and will be offered in the stable release of NetBSD 9. NVMM is currently limited to support for the x86_64 architecture and provides two backends for utilizing hardware virtualization mechanisms: x86-SVM with support for AMD CPU virtualization extensions and x86-VMX for...
The release of the Bedrock Linux 0.7.3 meta-distribution is available, allowing the use of packages and components from various Linux distributions, mixing distributions within a single environment. The system environment is formed from stable Debian and CentOS repositories, and you can also install newer versions of programs from Arch Linux/AUR, as well as compile Gentoo ports. Compatibility at the library level is ensured for installing third-party proprietary packages […]
Sberbank has announced the implementation of several new features in its mobile application that will help customers save time on visits to branches and finding ATMs. One of the innovations concerns the mobile phone number associated with the bank card: it can now be changed directly through the app — without a visit to the bank. Additionally, it is now possible to set up notifications about transactions. […]
The developers of the decentralized messaging system Matrix announced that they are shutting down the servers Matrix.org and Riot.im due to a breach of their infrastructure. It turned out that the servers were compromised twice, and the hackers posted complete information about the server configuration on the project's main page. They also clarified that they copied the database with password hashes of almost five and a half million Matrix users. As proof […]
"A Day in the Life of a Squirrel" or From Modeling Processes to Designing the Automated Inventory System "Belka-1.0" (Part 1) An illustration from A.S. Pushkin's "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", published by "Children's Literature", Moscow, 1949, Leningrad, illustrations by K. Kuznetsov. What does 'squirrel' have to do with it? Let me explain right away what the 'squirrel' is about. Coming across amusing projects on the Internet for studying UML with […]
A significant new release of the AWK programming language implementation from the GNU project has been introduced — Gawk 5.0.0. AWK was developed in the 1970s and has not undergone significant changes since the mid-1980s, which defined the core structure of the language, allowing it to maintain its original stability and simplicity over the decades. Despite its age, […]
[:ru] On March 30, 2019, a new version of Trinity DE (DE), a fork of KDE 3, was released. This version mainly includes bug fixes. Among the most significant announced changes is more accurate work with third-party display managers. Source: linux.org.ru [:en] On March 30, 2019, a new version of Trinity DE (DE), a fork of KDE 3, was released.