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Zhabogram — a transport (bridge, gateway) from the Jabber (XMPP) network to the Telegram network, written in Ruby, a successor to tg4xmpp. This release is dedicated to the Telegram team, which decided that third parties have the right to access the chat history stored on my devices. Dependencies: Ruby >= 1.9 ruby-sqlite3 >= 1.3 xmpp4r == 0.5.6 tdlib-ruby == 2.0 and compiled tdlib == 1.3 Features: […]
Researchers who discovered the plutoid 2007 OR10, which is the largest nameless dwarf planet in the Solar System, have decided to assign a name to the celestial body. The corresponding message was published on the Planetary Society's website. The researchers selected three options that meet the requirements of the International Astronomical Union, one of which will become the name of the plutoid. The celestial body in question was discovered in 2007 by planetary scientists Megan […]
The NixOS 19.03 distribution has been released, based on the Nix package manager and providing a range of proprietary developments that simplify system configuration and maintenance. For example, NixOS uses a single system configuration file (configuration.nix), offers the ability to quickly roll back updates, supports switching between different system states, allows individual users to install packages separately (packages are installed in the home directory), and supports simultaneous installation […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 4.6 is available. Since the release of version 4.5, 50 bug reports have been closed and 384 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Initial implementation of the WineD3D backend based on the Vulkan graphics API; The ability to load Mono libraries from shared directories has been added; Libwine.dll is no longer required when using Wine DLL […]
Gaijin Entertainment and developers from StarGem studio have announced the release of update 1.6.2 "Evolution. Path to the Top" for their multiplayer space shooter Star Conflict. In honor of Cosmonautics Day, the information screens at the space stations have been temporarily updated, and satellites are flying in space instead of drones. Pilots can achieve a special accomplishment and use special holiday rockets. Additionally, a limited […]
After six months of development, Cisco has released Snort 2.9.13.0, a free attack detection and prevention system that combines signature matching methods, tools for protocol inspection, and mechanisms for detecting anomalies. Key innovations include: Support for rule reloading after updates has been added; A script for adding a packet to the blacklist has been implemented, ensuring that the new session will be allowed; […]
Hugin is a suite of programs designed for stitching panoramas, transforming projections, and creating HDR images. It is built around the libpano library from the panotools project but significantly expands its functionality. It includes a graphical user interface, a batch processing manager, and a number of command line utilities. Key changes since version 2018.0.0: Added the ability to import original images from RAW files into TIFF using external […]
New details have been published regarding the breach of the decentralized messaging platform Matrix's infrastructure, reported earlier this morning. The vulnerable link through which attackers infiltrated was the Jenkins continuous integration system, which was compromised back on March 13. Subsequently, an SSH session of one of the administrators was intercepted on the Jenkins server, allowing attackers access to other servers in the infrastructure on April 4. […]
Sisvel has announced the creation of a patent pool covering technologies that intersect with the open coding formats AV1 and VP9. Sisvel specializes in managing intellectual property, collecting royalties, and filing patent lawsuits (a patent troll, which led to the temporary suspension of OpenMoko builds). Although AV1 and VP9 formats do not require patent royalties, […]
Facebook’s development aims at a more rapid and selective termination of processes consuming excessive memory before the Linux kernel’s OOM handler is triggered. The oomd code is written in C++ and is licensed under GPLv2. Oomd is already in use in Facebook's infrastructure and has proven effective under industrial loads (specifically, the project has nearly eliminated the occurrence of […]
Google has suggested that browser developers implement a practice of blocking the download of dangerous file types when the referring page is opened over HTTPS, but the download is initiated without encryption over HTTP. The issue is that during the download, there is no security indication; the file simply downloads in the background. When such a download is initiated from a page opened over HTTP, […]
Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.4 is now available, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and managing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and serving as a replacement for products like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer. The size of the installation ISO image is 640 MB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully prepared virtual system […]