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The story of Xerox's intentions to take over HP Inc. has been going on a little longer than since November last year, when the first proposal was announced publicly. Published by HP Inc. The document explains that both Carl Icahn and Xerox management have been discussing possible alliance options in private negotiations with the company's management since August. White paper sent by HP Inc. to the Commission on […]
The inevitability of the announcement of new NVIDIA graphics solutions is confirmed by many analysts, but there is still little real evidence. As the latter, we can consider the results of testing the mysterious products of this brand in Geekbench, which allow us to speak of superiority over the Tesla V100 (Volta). The results of testing two different NVIDIA products in Geekbench 5.0.2, which were obtained back in October and November last year, […]
A few months ago, the number of extensions for the new Microsoft Edge was 162. Now the number is approximately 1200. And although this is small compared to similar figures for Chrome and Firefox, the fact itself is respectable. However, the blue browser also supports working with Chrome extensions, so there shouldn’t be any special problems. Note that when starting [...]
Researcher Amol Baikar, who works in the field of information security, has published data on a ten-year-old vulnerability in the OAuth authorization protocol used by the social network Facebook. Exploitation of this vulnerability made it possible to hack Facebook accounts. The mentioned problem concerns the “Login with Facebook” function, which allows you to log in to different web sites using your Facebook account. For […]
The release of the Porteus Kiosk 5.0.0 distribution kit, based on Gentoo and intended for equipping autonomously operating Internet kiosks, demonstration stands and self-service terminals, has been prepared. The boot image of the distribution takes 104 MB. The basic build includes only the minimum set of components required to run a web browser (Firefox and Chrome are supported), which is limited in its capabilities to prevent unwanted activity on the system (for example, […]
New editions of manuals have been released Linux From Scratch 9.1 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 9.1 (BLFS), as well as LFS and BLFS editions with the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch, instructions are provided on how to create a basic Linux-systems using only the source code of the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch supplements LFS instructions with assembly information […]
After eight months of development, the earlyoom 1.4 background process has been released, which periodically checks the amount of available memory (MemAvailable, SwapFree) and tries to respond at an early stage to memory shortages. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. If the amount of available memory is less than the specified value, then earlyoom will force (by sending SIGTERM or SIGKILL) […]
A new release of the source-based distribution has taken place Linux From Scratch. Differences from the previous release 9.0: bc-2.1.3 -> bc-2.5.3 binutils-2.32 -> binutils-2.34 bison-3.4.1 -> bison-3.5.2 check-0.12.0 -> check-0.14.0 e2fsprogs-1.45.3 -> e2fsprogs-1.45.5 elfutils-0.177 -> elfutils-0.178 eudev-3.2.8 -> eudev-3.2.9 expat-2.2.7 -> expat-2.2.9 file-5.37 -> file-5.38 findutils-4.6.0 -> findutils-4.7.0 glibc-2.30 -> glibc-2.31 gmp-6.1.2 -> gmp-6.2.0 grep-3.3 -> grep-3.4 iproute2-5.2.0 -> iproute2-5.5.0 […]
Hello everyone! We continue our free and open source software (and a little hardware) coverage. We cover everything important about penguins and more, in Russia and around the world. In issue #5 for February 24 – March 1, 2020: "FreeBSD: Much Better Than GNU/"Linux" – a slightly provocative and detailed comparison from an experienced author. The SPO Foundation plans to launch a new collaborative platform […]
Yesterday, March 1, free access for Russians to socially significant Internet resources was supposed to start. However, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications could not agree on the release of the corresponding government resolution. Now only by April it is planned to present a list of such resources, and a draft resolution on reimbursement of costs to operators will appear by mid-summer. The estimated amount will be 5,7 billion rubles. per year, but operators call the amount [...]
Following the removal of Bethesda and Activision games, NVIDIA also removed The Long Dark from its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. According to the developers of this adventure about survival in the harsh and cold wilderness, NVIDIA did not ask for their permission to host the project on its service. Raphael van Lierop from the Hinterland studio in […]
A study conducted by Accenture analysts suggests that most IT companies have high hopes for fifth generation (5G) mobile communication technologies. The 5G network market is, in fact, just beginning to develop. Last year, about 19 million 5G smartphones were sold worldwide. This year, as expected, deliveries of such devices will increase by an order of magnitude - [...]