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The final version of the cryptographic utility cryptoarmpkcs. Creating Self-Signed SSL Certificates

The final version of the cryproarmpkcs utility has been released. The fundamental difference from previous versions is the addition of functions related to the creation of self-signed certificates. Certificates can be created either by generating a key pair or using previously created certificate requests (PKCS#10). The created certificate, along with the generated key pair, is placed in a secure PKCS#12 container. The PKCS#12 container can be used when working with openssl […]

The official forum of Comodo was hacked by a hacker

This Sunday, users and fans of the popular American antivirus and firewall, as well as one of the largest providers of SSL certificates, Comodo, were surprised to find that when they tried to open the official forum at https://forums.comodo.com/ they were redirected completely to another site, namely to the personal page of the hacker INSTAKILLA, where he offers a large list of his own services from the development […]

RPM 4.15 release

After almost two years of development, the package manager RPM 4.15.0 was released. The RPM4 project is developed by Red Hat and is used in such distributions as RHEL (including derivative projects CentOS, Scientific Linux, AsiaLinux, Red Flag Linux, Oracle Linux), Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, ALT Linux, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, Tizen and many others. Previously, an independent team of developers developed the RPM5 project, […]

Xbox One can now be controlled with Google Assistant voice commands

Microsoft has announced the integration of Google Assistant into Xbox One. Users can use voice commands to control their console. The public beta of Google Assistant voice commands on Xbox One has already started and is only available in English. Microsoft says Google and Xbox are working together to expand language support in the near future ahead of a full […]

Chrome OS Release 77

Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome OS 77 operating system, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild/portage assembly tools, open components and the Chrome 77 web browser. The Chrome OS user environment is limited to a web browser, and instead of standard programs, web browsers are used. apps, however, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. Building Chrome […]

Found a way to hack millions of iPhones at the hardware level

It looks like the once popular iOS jailbreak theme is making a comeback. One of the developers has discovered a bootrom vulnerability that can be used to hack almost any iPhone at the hardware level. This applies to all devices with processors from A5 to A11, that is, from iPhone 4S to iPhone X inclusive. A developer under the pseudonym axi0mX noted that the exploit works on most processors […]

Stallman stepped down from leadership of the GNU project (announcement removed)

A few hours ago, without explanation, Richard Stallman announced on his personal website that he would immediately resign as director of the GNU Project. It is noteworthy that just two days ago he announced that the leadership of the GNU project remains with him and he does not intend to leave this post. It is possible that the said message is vandalism published by an outsider as a result of hacking […]

Assassin's Creed is Ubisoft's best-selling series with over 140 million copies sold

For quite some time, the Assassin's Creed series has remained the most successful for Ubisoft in terms of the number of copies sold. Recently, the company shared updated data, and the situation as a whole remained the same - we just learned about the new achievements of the French publishing house. In a statement published by industry analyst Daniel Ahmad, Ubisoft updated its sales figures for all major series. Assassin's […]

Second beta release of FreeBSD 12.1

The second beta release of FreeBSD 12.1 has been published. The FreeBSD 12.1-BETA2 release is available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64 and armv6, armv7 and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments. FreeBSD 12.1 is scheduled for release on November 4th. An overview of the innovations can be found in the announcement of the first beta release. Compared […]

The path to typechecking 4 million lines of Python code. Part 1

Today we bring to your attention the first part of the translation of material about how Dropbox deals with Python code type control. Dropbox writes a lot in Python. This is a language that we use extremely widely - both for backend services and desktop client applications. We also use Go, TypeScript and Rust a lot, but Python is […]

Alibaba Introduces AI Processor for Cloud Computing

Developers from Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd presented their own processor, which is a specialized solution for machine learning and will be used to improve the quality of services provided by the cloud computing division. The unveiled product, called Hanguang 800, is the company's first self-developed AI processor, which is already used by Alibaba to support product search, translation and personalized recommendations on […]