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Oracle has released a corrective update for its virtualization system VirtualBox 6.1.2, which addresses 16 issues. Concurrently, corrective updates for VirtualBox 6.0.16 and 5.2.36 have also been released. The main changes in version 6.1.2: 18 vulnerabilities were fixed, 6 of which have a high severity level (CVSS Score 8.2 and 7.5). Details are not disclosed, but judging by the CVSS level, some issues may allow […]
The premiere of the second season of the series 'The Mandalorian' from Disney+ is scheduled for the end of this year. Already, rumors are circulating that a popular character from 'Star Wars', who first appeared in a game created under the new canon of the popular universe, may make an appearance. In one of the Twitter messages, a fan asked actress Janina Gavankar if she plans to […]
Hello! On Thursday, January 23, we will hold our first meetup about Apache Kafka. We will discuss integration, source connectors, and launching scalable applications in Kubernetes. Engineers from Booking.com, Confluent, and Avito will give presentations. Weāll meet at 6:00 PM. Register yourself and invite your colleagues. Below are the announcements of the talks, registration link, and video livestream of the meetup. Presentations Connectors: Why Are There So Many of You ā Anatoly […]
Hello everyone. We are actively getting to work and already preparing many powerful launches in January. Among other things, we are announcing the enrollment for a new cohort of the popular āLinux Administratorā course. In anticipation of the launch, we traditionally share a translation of useful material. File permissions provide a secure alternative to SUID executable files, but they may seem a bit confusing at first glance. We all know that […]
Readers are invited to familiarize themselves with the principles of building a fault-tolerant infrastructure for a small enterprise within a single data center, which will be discussed in detail in a series of articles. Introduction Under a Data Center (DC), it can be understood: a dedicated rack in its own 'server room' on company premises, meeting minimum requirements for power supply and equipment cooling, and also having access to […]
February 2009 Hacker News celebrated its second anniversary last week. It was originally intended as a parallel project ā an app for refining Arc and a place for current and future Y Combinator founders to share news. It grew larger and required more time than I expected, but I donāt regret it because I learned a lot while working […]
August 2005 Thirty years ago, you had to climb the corporate ladder. Now that's no longer the rule. Our generation wants to earn money in cutting-edge positions. Instead of developing a product for some large company while waiting for a job guarantee, we are creating products in startups and selling them to large companies. At least […]
The Khronos Consortium, which is responsible for developing graphics standards, has published the Vulkan 1.2 specification, defining the API for accessing the graphics and computational capabilities of GPUs. The new specification incorporates corrections and expansions accumulated over the past two years. Drivers supporting the new version of Vulkan have already been released by companies such as Intel, AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies, and NVIDIA. Vulkan 1.2 support has been proposed in Mesa for […]
In the experimental branch of the Xfce 4.15 desktop currently in development, which will form the basis for the stable release 4.16, the interface has been translated to use the GtkHeaderBar widget, enabling client-side decoration (CSD), where the title and window frames are rendered by the application itself rather than the window manager. The use of CSD has drawn parallels with GNOME […]
Isn't it remarkable that in a world steeped in baseless hatred threatening civilization itself, men and women, young and old, partially or fully detach from the malicious flow of everyday life to dedicate themselves to cultivating beauty, spreading knowledge, healing the sick, and alleviating suffering, as if at the same time there are no fanatics multiplying pain, ugliness, and torment? […]
Snowfall in central Russia has been scarce this winter. While some snow has fallen, January has seen a lack of the colder, snowier weather one might expect. The dull grayness and unpleasant slush detract from the joy of usual winter pastimes. Therefore, Cloud4Y suggests adding a bit of snow to our lives by talking aboutā¦ snowflakes. It is believed that snowflakes come in only two […]
An update to the Solaris 11.4 operating system, SRU 17 (Support Repository Update), has been released, which offers a series of new fixes and enhancements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the proposed fixes included in the update, simply run the command āpkg updateā. In this release: Issues in sudo, python 3.7, OpenSSH, and sstored have been resolved; versions of Mesa 18.1.9, accountsservice 0.6.43, and xkeyboard-config 2.24 have been updated; […]