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As part of the Verso project, a new web browser is being developed, built on the Servo engine. Verso's code, like Servo's, is written in Rust and distributed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. The browser is still at an early stage of development and, in addition to the tools provided by the Servo engine for processing web content, implements a simple user interface. Assemblies ready for testing are published […]
Next week, Cisco will announce a new round of staff cuts during its quarterly report, which will lay off approximately the same number of employees as in the first wave of cuts in February of this year - about 4000 people, Reuters reports, citing informed sources. According to Cisco reporting, as of July 2023, the company […]
After more than a year of development, the first working port of the Firefox browser has been prepared for the open Haiku operating system, which continues the development of BeOS ideas. Ready-made installation assemblies are not yet published; those who want to use Firefox in Haiku are offered to build from source texts. Until now, Haiku offered WebPositive, Epiphany and Falkon browsers, the use of which created difficulties due to excessive […]
Microsoft has announced it is ending support for the Paint 3D app and plans to remove it from its app store in November. Despite generally high user ratings, Microsoft has no plans to further invest in Paint 3D, according to XDA. Paint 3D was introduced in 2017 with an update. Windows 10 Creators and was distinguished by its modern design and capabilities […]
Genre Adventure Publisher BearBoneStudio Developer BearBoneStudio Minimum Requirements Intel Core i3-8100 3,6 GHz / AMD Ryzen 5 2600X 3,6 GHz processor, 8 GB RAM, DirectX 11 capable graphics card and 2 GB memory, such as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super / AMD Radeon RX 570, 6 GB storage, Steam account Recommended requirements Intel processor […]
The experimental release of the open source Win32 API implementation, Wine 9.15, has been published. Since the release of 9.14, 18 bug reports have been closed and 240 changes have been made. The most important changes: Support for prototypes and object constructors has been added to the MSHTML engine. Support for compiled for Windows ODBC drivers for DBMS. Bug reports related to the following applications have been closed: WinProladder 3.x, FTDI […]
The developers of the experimental Ladybird browser have announced their intention to use the Swift programming language as the main language for their project. Inclusion in Swift code is planned to begin in the fall, after the release of Swift 6 (the use of the Swift 5 branch is prevented by the connection to the old version of Clang, which is incompatible with the current Ladybird code base in C++). Thanks to the ability to combine C++ code […]
Researchers from IOActive have identified a vulnerability (CVE-2023-31315) in AMD processors, which, with privileged local access to the system, allows you to change the SMM (System Management Mode, Ring -2) configuration, even if the SMM Lock mechanism is enabled, and also potentially makes it possible to achieve code execution at the SMM level. The SMM layer, which has a higher priority than the hypervisor mode and […]
Genre Puzzle Publisher Tomorrow Corporation Developer 2D Boy Minimum requirements Processor Intel Core i5-2500K 3,3 GHz / AMD Ryzen 3 1200 3,1 GHz, 8 GB RAM, integrated graphics card with DirectX 12 support, such as Intel Iris Xe, 1 GB hard drive disk, Internet connection and Epic Games Store account Recommended requirements Intel Core i5-2500K processor […]
Researchers from IOActive have discovered a critical vulnerability in AMD processors that allows hackers to introduce virtually uninstallable malware. The problem affects millions of computers and servers around the world, Wired reports. A vulnerability dubbed Sinkclose was discovered in the system management mode (SMM) of AMD processors. This mode has high privileges and is designed to perform critical system functions. […]
AI search engine startup Perplexity AI has seen its monthly revenue increase sevenfold over the past two quarters, and the number of monthly hits to the system has grown to 250 million, up from 500 million in all of 2023. The Perplexity search engine has become one of the fastest growing generative AI applications since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT […]
Tim Peters, the author of the hybrid sorting algorithm Timsort, a member of the Python Core Team and one of the project's long-time members who has been involved in development since the first versions of CPython, was suspended by the Steering Council for three months due to a complaint about a violation of the code of conduct. Examples of violations that resulted in suspension include participation in the discussion of rule changes allowing the board of directors […]