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The release of the Firefox 72 web browser has taken place, along with the mobile version Firefox 68.4 for the Android platform. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch 68.4.0 has been generated. The Firefox 73 branch will soon enter beta testing, with a release scheduled for February 11 (the project has shifted to a 4-week development cycle). Key innovations: In the default standard blocking mode […]
Researchers from the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) have presented the Shambles attack method (PDF), which is touted as the first practical implementation of an attack on the SHA-1 algorithm that can be used to create spoofed digital signatures for PGP and GnuPG. The researchers believe that now all practical attacks on MD5 can also be applied to […]
As is known, Windows 10 version 2004 (20H1) is close to reaching release candidate status. This means the codebase is frozen and bugs are being fixed. One of the steps is optimizing the load on the processor and hard disk during searches. Microsoft claims to have conducted extensive research over the past year to identify critical issues in the Windows search system. The culprit turned out to be […]
NFP founder Sergey Lozhkin explained to me what simulation modeling is, digital twins, why our developers are cheap and great for Europe, and why Russia has a high level of digitization. Come along if you want to learn how it works, who needs Digital Twin in Russia, the cost of a project, and how to learn this. A digital twin is an accurate virtual copy of a real […]
The world around us is a collective result of numerous phenomena and processes from a variety of sciences, making it practically impossible to highlight the single most important one. Despite some degree of competition, many aspects of different sciences share similar features. Take geometry, for example: everything we see has a particular shape, one of the most common in nature is […]
Firefox 72 is now available. This is the first release for which the preparation time has been reduced from 6 to 4 weeks. The picture-in-picture mode is enabled on Linux and macOS platforms. In the OpenBSD builds, filesystem isolation is implemented using unveil(). Tracking protection now blocks requests to resources identified as collecting digital fingerprints (fingerprinting) by default. Sites can no longer request […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 4.2 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base and designed for ensuring anonymous internet access, has been announced. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by a packet filter by default. To store user data persistently between sessions, […]
Lenovo has introduced its external box for graphics cards. The new product, named Legion BoostStation eGPU, is showcased in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA) at CES 2020. The device, made of aluminum, measures 365 × 172 × 212 mm. It can accommodate any modern dual-slot video adapter up to 300 mm in length. Moreover, one 2.5/3.5-inch storage drive can also be additionally installed in the box […]
Start the new year with a new PBX! However, there's not always time or desire to delve into the intricacies of transitioning between versions, gathering information from various sources. In this article, we have gathered all the information necessary for a simple and quick update to 3CX v16 Update 4 from older versions. There are many reasons to upgrade — we will cover all the features that have appeared in […]
The release of the web browser qutebrowser 1.9.0 has been announced, offering a minimal graphical interface that does not distract from content viewing, and a navigation system in the style of the Vim text editor, entirely based on keyboard shortcuts. The code is written in Python using PyQt5 and QtWebEngine. The source code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The use of Python does not affect performance, as rendering and content parsing […]
Commenting on the Fedora developers' intention to include the earlyoom background process by default for early memory shortage responses, Lennart Poettering discussed plans to integrate another solution into systemd — oomd. The oomd handler is developed by Facebook, whose employees are also working on the kernel subsystem PSI (Pressure Stall Information), which allows memory shortage handling in user space […]
After 2 years of development, the new version of the open forum engine phpBB 3.3, code-named "Proteus", has been released. Changes include support for PHP versions 7.1-7.4, an expanded emoji set, convenient quoting, easy updates, reCAPTCHA 2.0, improved notifications, and new icons (using CSS). Source: linux.org.ru