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Firefox Package Maintainer for Fedora Linux announced the availability of hardware-accelerated video decoding in Firefox using the VA-API in Fedora. Acceleration currently only works in Wayland-based environments. VA-API support in Chromium was implemented in Fedora last year. Hardware-accelerated video decoding in Firefox is made possible thanks to a new backend for […]
Several recently identified vulnerabilities: Vulnerability (CVE-2020-13765) in QEMU that could potentially lead to code being executed as the QEMU process on the host side when a specially crafted kernel image is loaded in the guest. The problem is caused by a buffer overflow in the ROM copy code during system boot and manifests itself when loading the contents of a 32-bit kernel image into memory. Correction […]
A corrective update to Firefox 77.0.1 has been published that disables automatic DNS over HTTPS (DoH) provider selection during testing to be gradually enabled later to avoid peaking DoH providers. Firefox 77's DoH test with 10 probe requests per client turned into a DDoS attack on the NextDNS service that failed […]
Ahead of the release of the Green Living expansion, EA Maxis has released a major update for The Sims 4. It added additional character actions, ladders, and the fire department, as well as changes to the inventory and the way windows and doors were placed. However, along with the patch, bugs appeared in the game, and one of them is quite funny. According to the website Rock, Paper, […]
Recently, the Escape from Tarkov shooter from the Battlestate Games studio received a major update that reset the progress of the players. After the patch, the developers reported that their BattlEye anti-cheat system blocked 3 thousand violators, and now this number has grown to 10 thousand. Battlestate is not going to stop and intends to take on sellers and buyers of in-game items for real money. According to the portal […]
Recently, due to a new package of US sanctions, Huawei lost the ability to place orders at TSMC facilities. Since then, various rumors have arisen about how the Chinese tech giant could find alternatives, and turning to MediaTek has been cited as a viable option. But now MediaTek has officially denied some of the claims that the company could help Huawei circumvent new […]
Taiwanese HTC, whose smartphones were once very popular, is forced to make further layoffs of employees. It is expected that this measure will help the company survive the pandemic and difficult economic environment. HTC's financial position continues to deteriorate. In January of this year, the company's revenue fell year-on-year by more than 50%, and in February - by about a third. In March […]
Today we are witnessing how scientists are trying to put into practice the wonderful properties of the relatively recently synthesized material graphene. A nitrogen-based material just synthesized in the laboratory, whose properties hint at the possibility of high conductivity or high energy density, holds similar promise. The discovery was made by an international group of scientists at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. According to […]
Sylvestre Ledru published the result of rebuilding the package archive Debian GNU/Linux using the Clang 10 compiler instead of GCC. Of 31014 packages, 1400 (4.5%) failed to build, but applying it to the toolchain Debian An additional patch reduced the number of failed packages to 1110 (3.6%). For comparison, when building in Clang 8 and 9, the number of packages that failed […]
In the 118th episode of the SDCast podcast (mp3, 64 MB, ogg, 47 MB) there was an interview with Dmitry Marakasov, developer of the Repology project, which is engaged in aggregating information about packages from various repositories and forming a complete picture of support in distributions for each free project in order to simplify work and improve the interaction of package maintainers. The podcast discusses Open Source, packaged […]
Last week, a new app codenamed "Mercury" was spotted by Xbox Insiders. It appeared on the Xbox One console by mistake, but it was impossible to use at that time. As it turns out, "Mercury" is the code name for the new Xbox Store, which features a modern design and uses a new architecture. Twitter user @WinCommunity managed to upload […]
Google today announced the introduction of W3C WebAuth support for Google accounts on Apple devices running iOS 13.3 and above. This improves the usability of Google hardware encryption keys on iOS and allows you to use more types of security keys with Google accounts. Thanks to this innovation, iOS users are now able to use Google Titan Security […]