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Update 1.6.1 has been released for the Telegram messenger, which has added a number of expected features. In particular, this is the function of deleting any message in the correspondence. Moreover, it will be deleted from both users in a private chat. Previously, this feature worked for the first 48 hours. You can also delete not only your messages, but also the messages of the interlocutor. Now you can limit […]
On the first day of spring (or the fifth month of winter, whatever you like), the submission of applications for KnowledgeConf, a conference on knowledge management in IT companies, ended. Frankly, the results of Call for Papers exceeded all expectations. Yes, we understood that the topic was relevant, we saw it at other conferences and meetups, but that it would open up so many new facets and […]
HTC announced at its annual Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen on Monday that it will launch the Vive Focus Plus VR headset aimed at professional users and developers. Announced in February this year, the novelty is positioned as a single hardware device for corporate clients. Starting April 15, the self-contained VR headset will be available in 25 markets via the […]
Cooler Master officially introduced the MasterFan SF120R ARGB cooling fan, which was demonstrated during the January CES 2019 electronics exhibition. The developer calls the square casing design a feature of the novelty: this solution is used in MasterFan products for the first time. This design is designed to maximize the coverage area and increase the pressure of the air flow. The cooler is equipped with Addressable RGB multi-color illumination. We are talking about compatibility with […]
Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a sophisticated cyberattack that could have killed up to a million users of ASUS laptops and desktops. The investigation revealed that cybercriminals added malicious code to the ASUS Live Update utility, which delivers BIOS, UEFI and software updates. After that, the attackers organized the distribution of the modified utility through official channels. “The Trojanized utility was signed with a legitimate […]
A few days ago, the Odyssey competition ended, in which engineering teams were looking for the best technology to find people missing in the forest. In the summer I talked about the semi-finals, and yesterday I posted a big report from the finals. The organizers set a colossally difficult task - to find two people in an area of 314 km2 in 10 hours. The ideas were different, but (spoiler) not […]
In game development, you often need to tie something up with randomness: Unity has its own Random for this, and in parallel with it there is System.Random. Once upon a time, on one of the projects, I got the impression that both could work differently (although they should have an even distribution). Then they didn’t go into details - it was enough that the transition to System.Random corrected all the problems. […]
1. Credit Card Form A cool credit card form with smooth and enjoyable micro-interactions. Includes number formatting, verification and automatic card type detection. It is built on Vue.js and is also fully responsive. (You can view it here.) credit-card-form What you will learn: Process and validate forms Handle events (for example, when fields change) Understand how to display and place elements on a page, especially […]
Microsoft has signed the Oracle Contributor Agreement, which gives it the right to participate in the development of OpenJDK. According to a Microsoft employee, the company and its subsidiaries use Java in their products, so they decided to actively participate in Java development: Microsoft and its subsidiaries are heavily dependent on Java in many aspects, and also offers Java runtimes in […]
A new significant version of KeePassXC has been released. KeePassXC is a cross-platform password manager with a graphical interface. The source code is distributed under the GPLv2 or GPLv3 license. You can read more about KeePassXC on the official website. Some features of the release: added the ability to export the password database to an HTML file (for printing); added a panel with information about the password database and some statistics; added guide […]
Mozilla Thunderbird is getting a big update that will include built-in email encryption using OpenPGP. Now you can opt out of addons such as Enigmail and Mailvelope. The implementation of encryption is based on the developments of the Enigmail add-on, the author of which helps the Mozilla team in transferring functionality to the mail client. The main difference is that instead of using an external GnuPG program, it is proposed to use […]
Microsoft has announced the expansion of the capabilities of the WSL2 layer (Windows Subsystem for Linux), which ensures the launch of executable files Linux в WindowsIn experimental assemblies Windows Insider (build 19013) in the WSL2 layer added support for returning memory to the system (Memory Reclamation) released by processes running in the kernel-based environment. LinuxPreviously, if memory consumption by applications or the kernel increased, memory […]