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PostgreSQL 12 release

After a year of development, a new stable branch of the PostgreSQL 12 DBMS has been published. Updates for the new branch will be released over five years until November 2024. Main innovations: Added support for β€œgenerated columns”, the value of which is calculated based on an expression covering the values ​​of other columns in the same table (analogous to views, but for individual columns). The generated columns can be of two […]

Installing the shooter Terminator: Resistance will require 32 GB

Publisher Reef Entertainment has announced the system requirements for the first-person shooter Terminator: Resistance, which will be released on November 15 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The minimum configuration is designed for gaming with medium graphics settings, 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second: operating system: Windows 7, 8 or 10 (64-bit); processor: Intel Core i3-4160 3,6 GHz […]

Firefox 69.0.2 update to fix YouTube issue on Linux

A corrective update for Firefox 69.0.2 has been published that fixes a crash that occurs on the Linux platform when the YouTube video playback speed is changed. In addition, the new release resolves issues with detecting whether parental controls are enabled in Windows 10 and fixes a crash when editing files on the Office 365 site. Source: opennet.ru

Digital Workspace Architecture on the Citrix Cloud Platform

Introduction The article describes the capabilities and architectural features of the Citrix Cloud cloud platform and the Citrix Workspace set of services. These solutions are the central element and basis for the implementation of the digital workspace concept from Citrix. In this article, I tried to understand and formulate the cause-and-effect relationships between cloud platforms, services and Citrix subscriptions, which are described in open […]

NVIDIA and SAFMAR Introduce GeForce Now Cloud Service in Russia

The GeForce Now Alliance is expanding game streaming technology around the world. The next stage was the launch of the GeForce Now service in Russia on the website GFN.ru under the appropriate brand by the industrial and financial group SAFMAR. This means that Russian players who have been waiting to access the GeForce Now beta will finally be able to experience the benefits of the streaming service. SAFMAR and NVIDIA reported this on […]

Announced psychological thriller Martha is Dead with a mystical plot and photorealistic environments

Studio LKA, known for the horror The Town of Light, with the support of the publishing house Wired Productions, announced its next game. It's called Martha is Dead and it's in the psychological thriller genre. The plot intertwines a detective story and mysticism, and one of the main features will be a photorealistic environment. The narrative in the project will tell about the events in Tuscany in 1944. After […]

ARIES PLC110[M02]-MS4, HMI, OPC and SCADA, or how much Chamomile tea a person needs. Part 2

Good afternoon friends. The second part of the review follows the first, and today I am writing a review of the top level of the system indicated in the title. Our group of top-level tools includes all the software and hardware above the PLC network (IDEs for PLCs, HMIs, utilities for frequency converters, modules, etc. are not included here). The structure of the system from the first part I […]

KDE moves to GitLab

The KDE community is one of the largest free software communities in the world, with over 2600 members. However, the entry of new developers is quite difficult due to the use of Phabricator - the original KDE development platform, which is quite unusual for most modern programmers. Therefore, the KDE project is starting a migration to GitLab to make development more convenient, transparent and accessible for beginners. The page with gitlab repositories is already available […]

openITCOCKPIT for everyone: Hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest 2019 Celebrate Hacktoberfest by getting involved in the open source community. We would like to ask you to help us translate openITCOCKPIT into as many languages ​​as possible. Absolutely anyone can join the project; to participate, you only need an account on GitHub. About the project: openITCOCKPIT is a modern web interface for managing a monitoring environment based on Nagios or Naemon. Description of participation […]

GNOME switched to using systemd for session management

Since version 3.34, GNOME has completely switched to systemd user session instrumentation. This change is completely transparent to both users and developers (XDG-autostart is supported) - apparently, that’s why it went unnoticed by ENT. Previously, only DBUS-activated ones were launched using user sessions, and the rest was done by gnome-session. Now they have finally gotten rid of this extra layer. Interestingly, [...]

Update Ruby 2.6.5, 2.5.7 and 2.4.8 with vulnerabilities fixed

Corrective releases of the Ruby programming language 2.6.5, 2.5.7 and 2.4.8 were generated, in which four vulnerabilities were eliminated. The most dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2019-16255) in the standard Shell library (lib/shell.rb), which allows code substitution. If data received from the user is processed in the first argument of the Shell#[] or Shell#test methods used to check the presence of a file, an attacker can cause an arbitrary Ruby method to be called. Other […]

Chrome's TLS 1.0 and 1.1 deprecation plan

Like Firefox, Chrome plans to soon stop supporting the TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols, which are in the process of being deprecated and not recommended for use by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). Support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will be disabled in Chrome 81, scheduled for March 17, 2020. According to Google in […]