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In August, the father of Free Software, Richard Stallman, comes to St. Petersburg.

The father of Free Software, Richard Stallman, comes to Russia. They are looking for someone who is ready to shelter him for a couple of days. Richard comes to St. Petersburg on August 24-25, 2019, to the TechTrain festival with a report “Free software and your freedom.” Richard indicated a request as one of the points of participation: Please try to find some other place instead of the hotel. Hotels are the last […]

CoreCtrl 1.0 introduced, for linking hardware settings to applications

The first release of the CoreCtrl application has been published, which allows you to define profiles for changing hardware settings that change the operating parameters of the GPU and CPU depending on the application being executed (for example, for games and 3D modeling programs you can link the maximum performance profile, and for the browser and office applications you can enable power saving mode and reduce the frequency to reduce cooler noise). The project code is written in […]

Squid 4.8 Proxy Released with Critical Vulnerability Fixed

A corrective release of the Squid 4.8 proxy server has been published, in which 5 vulnerabilities are fixed. One vulnerability (CVE-2019-12527) allows code to potentially be executed with the rights of the server process. The issue is caused by a bug in the HTTP Basic authentication handler and can trigger a buffer overflow when passing specially crafted credentials when accessing Squid Cache Manager or the built-in FTP gateway. The vulnerability appears starting […]

The International 2019 prize pool exceeded $28 million

Participants in The International 2019 tournament will compete for more than $28 million. This was reported on the Dota 2 Prize Pool Tracker portal. Since the launch of the Battle Pass, the amount has increased by $26,5 million (1658%). The prize money exceeded last year's tournament record by $2,5 million. Thanks to this, Battle Pass owners received 10 bonus levels of the Battle Pass. If the mark is exceeded [...]

Malicious changes detected in npm package dependencies with PureScript installer

In the dependencies of the npm package with the PureScript installer, malicious code was detected that appears when attempting to install the purescript package. Malicious code is embedded via the load-from-cwd-or-npm and rate-map dependencies. It is noteworthy that the maintenance of packages with these dependencies is carried out by the original author of the npm package with the PureScript installer, who until recently was maintaining this npm package, but about a month ago the package was transferred to other maintainers. […]

Xiaomi Mi 9 owners can already install MIUI 10 based on Android Q

The punishing hand of American lawmen has not yet been laid over the Chinese Xiaomi, so the company continues to remain one of Google’s closest partners. She recently announced that Xiaomi Mi 9 owners participating in beta testing of the MIUI 10 shell can already join the beta testing program for the version based on the Android Q Beta platform. Thus, this flagship smartphone of the Chinese brand is […]

Xiaomi spoke about four new features of MIUI 10

After the recent announcement of MIUI 10 based on the beta version of Android Q for users of the Mi 9 smartphone, Xiaomi spoke about several new functions that are currently under development and should soon appear in its shell. These features will be available soon to early testers, but will be released to a wider […]

Agent Smith malware has infected more than 25 million Android devices

Check Point specialists working in the field of information security discovered malware called Agent Smith, which infected over 25 million Android devices. According to Check Point employees, the malware in question was created in China by one of the Internet companies that helps local Android application developers localize and publish their products in foreign markets. The main source of distribution [...]

Video from Gears 5: the struggle for points in the "Escalation" mode

YouTuber Landan2006 posted a recording of a match in Gears 5 in the Escalation PvP mode. As the developers said earlier, in it two teams of five people fight for control points on the map. The match is divided into 13 rounds. Depending on the number of points captured, teams are awarded points at different speeds. The winner is the five that first scores 250 points or completely […]

AMD will fix a bug with running Destiny 2 on Ryzen 3000 with X570 chipset. Users will need to update the BIOS

AMD has solved the problem of running the shooter Destiny 2 on the new AMD Ryzen 3000 processors coupled with the X570 chipset. The manufacturer stated that to resolve this issue, users need to update the BIOS on their motherboards. The update will be released soon. The company's partners have already received the necessary files and now all that remains is to wait for their publication on the Internet. A few days […]