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Google has finally implemented the tab scrolling feature, which has long been present in Firefox. It allows for not 'packing' dozens of tabs across the width of the screen, but only showing part of them. This feature can be disabled. Currently, it is only available in the test version of the Chrome Canary program. To enable it, you need to go to the flags section and activate it — chrome://flags/#scrollable-tabstrip. […]
The release of the main branch nginx 1.15.12 is available, which continues to develop new features (the parallel stable branch 1.14 only receives changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities). In version 1.15.12, a crash (segmentation fault) of the worker process has been fixed that could occur if variables were used in the ssl_certificate or ssl_certificate_key directives and the OCSP stapling mechanism was enabled, […]
On April 13, the American daily newspaper The New York Times published an article on its website discussing how the U.S. police turn to Google for assistance in investigating crimes when no other means are available to search for witnesses and suspects. The article tells the story of Jorge Molina — a simple warehouseman accused of murder committed in December […]
The Sun will hardly set twice below the horizon before all IT Jedi, Padawans, and Younglings flock to the star system 'Forest Depths' to affirm their IT status. The testing of the Force adepts will be handled by Rostelecom, RT Labs, and Habr. The initiation point will be the Russian Internet Forum (RIF), where warriors of information technology will gather for a council on numerous questions of galactic importance — small and medium business [...]
Surely, each of us has wondered what this dream team looks like? Is it Ocean's group of cool friends? Or perhaps the French national football team? Maybe it’s a team of developers from Google? In any case, we would like to be in such a team or even create one. Amid all this, I want to share […]
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 […]