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Recently, Eurostat released the results of a survey conducted among citizens of member countries about their 'digital' skills. The survey was conducted in 2019, prior to the entire COVID-19 pandemic situation. However, this does not diminish its value, as it’s better to prepare for troubles in advance, and as European officials found out, having children in the family increased the digital skills of adults. So, in […]
Paradox Interactive and Double Eleven have announced an expansion for the prison escape simulator Prison Architect called Island Bound. It will be released on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch on June 11. Prison Architect was released in 2015. Over the years, the indie game has attracted more than four million gamers. The project was originally developed by Introversion Software, but in 2019 […]
Mozilla developers have rolled out an update among users of Firefox 76 and Firefox 77-beta, disabling the new access confirmation mechanism for saved passwords, applied on systems without a master password, without creating a new release through the experiment system. Recall that in Firefox 76, a dialog for OS authentication started to appear for Windows and macOS users without an installed master password to view the saved passwords in the browser […]
The release of Tor 0.4.3.5 toolkit has been announced, used for organizing the work of the anonymous Tor network. Tor 0.4.3.5 is recognized as the first stable release of the 0.4.3 branch, which has been developing for the last five months. The 0.4.3 branch will be accompanied within the standard support cycle — updates will cease after 9 months or 3 months after the release of the 0.4.4.x branch. Long-term support (LTS) is ensured […]
Microsoft has long envisioned a unified operating system for all devices, yet none of its attempts to realize this have succeeded so far. However, the company is now closer than ever to achieving this idea with the upcoming release of Windows 10X. That said, the development of this revolutionary OS is not going as smoothly as hoped. According to sources, […]
⇡#The Birth of a Legend Historically, the Microsoft Windows operating system family has become the dominant OS worldwide. The supremacy of a particular operating system was also historically predetermined. If the Soviet Union hadn't collapsed at the turn of the 90s, a completely different operating system might have been in use across 1/6 of the earth's land and many other places. […]
The release of the Q4OS 3.11 distribution has become available, based on the Debian package base and featuring KDE Plasma 5 and Trinity desktops. The distribution is positioned as lightweight in terms of hardware resources while offering a classic desktop design. It includes several in-house developed applications, such as ‘Desktop profiler’ for quick installation of themed software packages, ‘Setup utility’ for installing third-party applications, […]
The release of Kali Linux 2020.2 has occurred, intended for testing systems for vulnerabilities, conducting audits, analyzing residual information, and identifying the consequences of attacks by malicious actors. All original developments created within the distribution are licensed under GPL and available through a public Git repository. Several ISO images have been prepared for download, sized at 425 MB, 2.8 GB, and 3.6 GB. The builds […]
The release of Chrome OS 81, based on the Linux kernel, upstart system manager, ebuild/portage build tools, open components, and Chrome 81 web browser, has taken place. The user environment in Chrome OS is limited to the web browser, and instead of standard programs, web applications are utilized; nevertheless, Chrome OS features a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. The Chrome OS 81 build […]
The Fedora mailing list has published a proposal for standardizing macros in RPM spec files, allowing RPM packages to select compilation flags and additional dependencies during the build stage. Example usage: %if %{use ssl} BuildRequires: openssl-devel %endif %prep %configure %{use_enable ssl openssl} %check make test %{?_use_ssl:-DSSL} In this example, when the USE macro ssl is defined in the spec file, an additional dependency will be added […].
Despite the upheavals in the world, we are pleased to introduce the amazing update of Kali Linux 2020.2! It is already available for download at https://www.kali.org/downloads/. A brief overview of the changes: Updated KDE Plasma look and login screen, Improvements in Kali ARM, New packages and icons, Redesigned installer, Enhanced infrastructure, Updated KDE Plasma look and login screen. Our Xfce and […]
A major release of Deno has occurred – an open, secure runtime for TypeScript programs, featuring the following: Explicit access to the filesystem, network, and environment through user-defined permissions; Execution of TypeScript without Node.JS and tsc; Backward compatibility with JavaScript: any subset of programs for Deno that does not reference the global namespace Deno and is valid […]