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Hugin is a suite of programs designed for stitching panoramas, transforming projections, and creating HDR images. It is built around the libpano library from the panotools project but significantly expands its functionality. It includes a graphical user interface, a batch processing manager, and a number of command line utilities. Key changes since version 2018.0.0: Added the ability to import original images from RAW files into TIFF using external […]
New details have been published regarding the breach of the decentralized messaging platform Matrix's infrastructure, reported earlier this morning. The vulnerable link through which attackers infiltrated was the Jenkins continuous integration system, which was compromised back on March 13. Subsequently, an SSH session of one of the administrators was intercepted on the Jenkins server, allowing attackers access to other servers in the infrastructure on April 4. […]
The construction of data centers is considered one of the most rapidly growing industries. Progress in this area is tremendous, but whether groundbreaking technological solutions will emerge in the near future remains a big question. Today, we will explore the main innovative trends in global data center construction to find an answer. The Shift Toward Hyperscale The development of information technology has necessitated building […]
Typically, monitoring and analyzing the performance of Nginx involves commercial products or established open-source alternatives like Prometheus + Grafana. This is a good option for monitoring or real-time analytics, but it's not the most convenient for historical analysis. On any popular resource, the volume of data from Nginx logs grows rapidly, and for analyzing large datasets, it makes sense to use something more […]
Sisvel has announced the creation of a patent pool covering technologies that intersect with the open coding formats AV1 and VP9. Sisvel specializes in managing intellectual property, collecting royalties, and filing patent lawsuits (a patent troll, which led to the temporary suspension of OpenMoko builds). Although AV1 and VP9 formats do not require patent royalties, […]
Facebook’s development aims at a more rapid and selective termination of processes consuming excessive memory before the Linux kernel’s OOM handler is triggered. The oomd code is written in C++ and is licensed under GPLv2. Oomd is already in use in Facebook's infrastructure and has proven effective under industrial loads (specifically, the project has nearly eliminated the occurrence of […]
Google has suggested that browser developers implement a practice of blocking the download of dangerous file types when the referring page is opened over HTTPS, but the download is initiated without encryption over HTTP. The issue is that during the download, there is no security indication; the file simply downloads in the background. When such a download is initiated from a page opened over HTTP, […]
Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.4 is now available, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and managing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and serving as a replacement for products like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer. The size of the installation ISO image is 640 MB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully prepared virtual system […]
After two months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 242 has been presented. Notable new features include support for L2TP tunnels, the ability to control the behavior of systemd-logind during restarts via environment variables, support for extended boot partitions XBOOTLDR for mounting /boot, the capability to boot with the root partition in overlayfs, and a large number of new settings for various unit types. Key changes: In systemd-networkd […]
The developers of the Matrix decentralized messaging platform announced an emergency shutdown of the Matrix.org and Riot.im (the main Matrix client) servers due to a hack of the project's infrastructure. The first shutdown occurred last night, after which the servers were restored, and the applications were recompiled from the reference source code. But just a few minutes ago, the servers were compromised for the second time. The attackers posted on the main […]
On April 10, 2019, GitHub, without prior notice, deleted the repository of the popular utility GoodByeDPI, designed to bypass government blocking (censorship) of websites on the Internet. What is DPI, how is it related to blocking, and why fight it (according to the author): Providers in the Russian Federation predominantly use deep packet inspection (DPI) systems to block websites […]
On March 31, 2019, five years after the previous release, a new version of the Dylan language compiler was released — Open Dylan 2019.1. Dylan is a dynamic programming language that implements the ideas of Common Lisp and CLOS in a more familiar syntax without parentheses. The main features in this version include: stabilization of the LLVM backend for i386 and x86_64 architectures on Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS; the compiler has been added […]