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A minimalistic browser, Links 2.20, has been released, working in both text and graphical modes. The browser supports HTML 4.0, but without CSS and JavaScript. In text mode, the browser consumes about 2,5 MB of RAM. Changes: Fixed a bug that could allow user identification when accessing via Tor. When connected to Tor, the browser sent DNS queries to regular DNS servers […]
The GNU Project has published the release of the GNU Emacs 26.3 text editor. Until the release of GNU Emacs 24.5, the project developed under the personal leadership of Richard Stallman, who handed over the post of project leader to John Wiegley in the fall of 2015. Among the changes in the new release is the inclusion of a new GPG key for verifying packages from the GNU ELPA catalog. Also proposed is a new option 'help-enable-completion-auto-load' […]
Three vulnerabilities have been identified in the driver for wireless devices on Marvell chips (CVE-2019-14814, CVE-2019-14815, CVE-2019-14816), which can lead to data being written beyond the allocated buffer when processing specially designed packets sent through the interface Netlink. The issues can be exploited by a local user to cause a kernel crash on systems using Marvell wireless cards. The possibility of exploitation of vulnerabilities [...]
Developers from NVIDIA introduced libvdpau 1.3, a new version of the open library with support for the VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation) API for Unix. The VDPAU library allows you to use hardware acceleration mechanisms for processing video in h264, h265 and VC1 formats. At first, only NVIDIA GPUs were supported, but later support for open Radeon and Nouveau drivers appeared. VDPAU allows GPU […]
In this (third) part of the article about applications for e-books on the Android operating system, the following two groups of applications will be considered: 1. Alternative dictionaries 2. Notes, diaries, planners Brief summary of the previous two parts of the article: In the 1st part, the reasons were discussed in detail , for which it turned out to be necessary to conduct massive testing of applications to determine their suitability for installation on […]
According to a recent Gallup study, the number of Russians wishing to move to another country has tripled over the past 11 years. Most of these people (44%) are under the age group of 29 years. Also, according to statistics, the United States is confidently among the most desirable countries for immigration among Russians. I decided to collect in one topic useful links to materials about [...]
Is it difficult to grasp the main point when talking about DevOps? We have collected for you vivid analogies, striking formulations and advice from experts that will help even non-specialists get to the point. At the end, the bonus is Red Hat employees’ own DevOps. The term DevOps originated 10 years ago and has gone from a Twitter hashtag to a powerful cultural movement in the IT world, a true […]
One of the Microsoft engineers announced in a blog post that support for the exFAT file system has been added to the Linux kernel. Microsoft has also published a specification for exFAT for developers. Source: linux.org.ru
Proxmox, known for developing the Proxmox Virtual Environment distribution kit for deploying virtual server infrastructures, has released the Proxmox Mail Gateway 6.0 distribution kit. Proxmox Mail Gateway is presented as a turnkey solution for quickly creating a system for monitoring mail traffic and protecting the internal mail server. The installation ISO image is available for free download. Distribution-specific components are open under the AGPLv3 license. For […]
A year after the publication of the last significant release, the Thunderbird 68 email client was released, developed by the community and based on Mozilla technologies. The new release is classified as a long-term support version, for which updates are released throughout the year. Thunderbird 68 is based on the codebase of the ESR release of Firefox 68. The release is available for direct download only, automatic updates […]
The release of the composite manager Sway 1.2 has been prepared, built using the Wayland protocol and fully compatible with the i3 mosaic window manager and the i3bar panel. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The project is aimed at use on Linux and FreeBSD. i3 compatibility is provided at the command, configuration file and IPC levels, allowing […]
6D.ai, a San Francisco startup founded in 2017, aims to create a complete 3D model of the world using only smartphone cameras without any special equipment. The company announced the start of cooperation with Qualcomm Technologies to develop its technology based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform. Qualcomm expects 6D.ai to provide better understanding of the space for Snapdragon-powered virtual reality headsets and […]