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YubiKey touch detector

This is a tool that will tell you when the YubiKey is waiting for the user to touch it for authorization. Integrates with the UI to display an indicator. YubiKey may require physical touch to confirm the following operations: sudo command (via pam-u2f) gpg --sign gpg --decrypt ssh to a remote host (and related commands like scp, rsync, etc.) ssh from one remote host to [ …]

Valve has released Proton 4.11, a launch package Windows-games in Linux

Valve has released a new branch of the Proton 4.11 project, which is based on the work of the Wine project and is aimed at ensuring the launch in Linux gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog. The project's work is distributed under a BSD license. As changes are developed in Proton, they are ported to the original Wine and related projects, such as DXVK and vkd3d. […]

xrdesktop project for using GNOME and KDE in VR headsets

Developers from Collabora presented the xrdesktop project, which, with the support of Valve, is developing a library of elements for interacting with traditional desktops within 3D environments created using 3D glasses and virtual reality headsets. The library code is written in C and distributed under the MIT license. Ready-to-use builds are available for Arch. Linux Šø Ubuntu 19.04/18.04. […]

Xfce 4.14 Environment Preview Third Release

The third preliminary release of the Xfce 4.14 user environment has been proposed for testing. The release is expected on August 11. To test Xfce 4.14pre3, a container image in Docker format has been prepared. An overview of Xfce 4.14 innovations can be found in the previous announcement. Compared to the first test release, it is mainly marked by bug fixes. For example, xfce4-session minimizes the risk of race conditions due to […]

Xbox Live Gold subscribers get two Xbox One exclusives for free in August

With August just around the corner, it's time to find out which games will be free for Xbox Live Gold subscribers next month. As before, two games will be distributed on Xbox One and Xbox 360, and owners of the current Microsoft console will be able to download all four thanks to backward compatibility. This time on Xbox One they decided to give subscribers […]

beauty is in the eye of the beholder

I have been developing web applications for a long time. A long time ago. I created my first web applications in the Lotus Domino environment at a time when the word ā€œgoogleā€ was not yet a verb, and people used Yahoo! and Rambler. I used Infoseek - they had a narrowing search and not such an ugly overloaded interface as […]

Working with light and optics: how to start a career at a university - the experience of graduates of four specialized master's programs

Last time we talked about how graduates of the Faculty of Photonics and Optical Informatics combined work and study. Today we continue the story, but this time we talked with masters representing such areas as ā€œLightguide Photonicsā€, ā€œLED Technologies and Optoelectronicsā€, as well as ā€œPhotonics Materialsā€ and ā€œLaser Technologiesā€. We discussed with them how and how […]

Zeiss CEO: Smartphone cameras will always be severely limited

ā€œOver the years, smartphone cameras may have changed the way we take pictures, but there is a limit to what a phone camera can achieve,ā€ says Zeiss Group President and CEO Dr. Michael Kaschke. This man knows what he’s talking about, because his company is one of the leading players in the optical systems segment and produces […]

Samsung comes up with a smartphone with two hidden displays

The LetsGoDigital resource has discovered Samsung patent documentation for a smartphone with a very unusual design: we are talking about a device with multiple displays. It is known that the patent application was sent to the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) about a year ago - in August 2018. As you can see in the images, Samsung offers to equip the smartphone with two […]

Chrome Release 76

Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 76 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which serves as the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by the use of Google logos, the presence of a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, the ability to download a Flash module on request, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, and transmitting RLZ parameters when searching. The next release of Chrome 77 […]

Release of Electron 6.0.0, platform for building applications based on the Chromium engine

Electron 6.0.0, a self-contained framework for developing cross-platform user applications based on Chromium, V8, and Node.js components, has been released. This significant version number change is due to the update to the Chromium 76 codebase, Node.js 12.4 platform, and V8 7.6 JavaScript engine. Support for 32-bit systems has been previously expected to end. Linux The release of 6.0 has been postponed for now […]

The second Grand Prix in Crash Team Racing starts simultaneously with the advent of microtransactions

It was strange to see that neither the remake of the Crash Bandicoot trilogy nor the updated Crash Team Racing publisher Activision decided to add microtransactions. However, if it is difficult to fit them into a platformer, then in the case of a racing game it is much easier, and next month the notorious ā€œdonationā€ will appear in Crash Team Racing. As you know, for earnings in [...]

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