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From treating depression to reducing the effects of Parkinson's disease and awakening patients in a vegetative state, electrical brain stimulation has enormous potential. One new study aims to reverse cognitive decline by improving memory and learning abilities. An experiment conducted by scientists from Boston University demonstrated a non-invasive technique that can restore working […]
The other day, Intel issued a notice about the assignment of the official Spoiler vulnerability identifier. The Spoiler vulnerability became known a month ago after a report by specialists from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and the University of Lübeck (Germany). If it's any consolation, Spoiler will be listed in vulnerability databases as vulnerability CVE-2019-0162. For pessimists, we inform you: Intel is not going to release patches for […]
The VSCodium project is developing a build of the Visual Studio Code (VSCode) code editor, containing only open-source components, stripped of Microsoft branding elements, and free of telemetry collection code. VSCodium builds are prepared for Windows, macOS и Linux, and come with built-in support for Git, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js. VSCodium replicates the functionality of Visual Studio Code and provides […]
On Cosmonautics Day, another joyful event happened - the release of the Lisp runtime environment Emacs, best known for the best (according to Emacs users) text editor. The previous release took place a little less than a year ago, so there are not many noticeable changes: support for version 11 of Unicode; support for building modules in an arbitrary directory; a convenient file compression command in the built-in file manager […]
Giorgio Maone, creator of the NoScript project, presented the first release of the add-on for the Chrome browser, available for testing. The build corresponds to version 10.6.1 for Firefox and was made possible thanks to the transfer of the NoScript 10 branch to WebExtension technology. The Chrome release is in beta status and is available for download from the Chrome Web Store. NoScript 11 is scheduled to be released at the end of June, […]
Microsoft's April cumulative update package brought problems not only to users Windows 7. Certain difficulties also arose for those who use Windows 10 (1809). According to available information, the update is causing various problems due to conflicts with antivirus programs installed on users' PCs. Reports have surfaced online from users stating that after […]
The Intel processor shortage began back in late summer last year: growing and prioritized demand for data center processors led to a shortage of consumer 14nm chips. Difficulties with the transition to more advanced 10nm processes and an exclusive deal with Apple to produce modems for iPhone, which use the same 14nm process, have exacerbated the problem. In the past […]
A year after the release of GNU Awk version 4.2.1, version 5.0.0 was released. In the new version: Support for the POSIX printf %a and %A formats has been added. Improved test infrastructure. Simplified content of test/Makefile.am and now it is possible to generate pc/Makefile.tst from test/Makefile.in. Regex procedures have been replaced with procedures from GNULIB. Infrastructure updated: Bison 3.3, Automake 1.16.1, Gettext 0.19.8.1, makeinfo […]
New systemd has been released. The following changes are worthy of special mention (according to the author of the news): networkctl commands now support globbing public DNS from Cloudflare added to the fallback DNS list generated .device units (for example via systemd-fstab-generator) now do not hook the corresponding .mount as an automatic dependency ( Wants=) - that is, the connected device will not necessarily be mounted; the option CPUQuotaPeriodSec= […]
Matrix's largest server, matrix.org, and its infrastructure were subject to a hacker attack that exposed security problems. User matrixnotorg created tickets on Github describing problems existing in the matrix.org infrastructure and their possible solution. The infrastructure was accessed through a hole in an outdated version of Jenkins, the continuous deployment system used by matrix.org. According to the statement [...]
PowerShell is an extensible, open-source automation tool from Microsoft. This week Microsoft announced the next version of PowerShell Core. Despite all expectations, the next version will be PowerShell 7, not PowerShell Core 6.3. This signals a significant change in the project's development as Microsoft takes another major step towards replacing the built-in PowerShell 5.1 […]
Exactly 50 years ago - on April 7, 1969 - Request for Comments was published: 1. RFC is a document containing technical specifications and standards widely used on the World Wide Web. Each RFC has its own unique number, which is used when referring to it. Currently, the primary publication of RFCs is handled by the IETF under the auspices of the open organization Society […]