ea Ninth Circuit Denies Malwarebytes' Petition for Rehearing - Court Rules Enigma Software can Proceed with its Lawsuit Against Malwarebytes for Anticompetitive Practices By www.prleap.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 00:00:00 PST Ninth Circuit rules against Malwarebytes in Enigma Software's lawsuit for claims of unfair trade practices. Ninth Circuit denies Malwarebytes petition for rehearing and orders that no further petitions will be entertained. Enigma Software is permitted to proceed with its lawsuit against Malwarebytes. Full Article
ea Coronavirus Malware Exploits Global COVID-19 Fears to Infect Devices & Steal Data By www.prleap.com Published On :: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:00:00 PDT Coronavirus malware is sweeping the online world with hackers taking advantage of the borderline panic that is gripping the world in the wake of COVID-19. The new threats themed after COVID-19 and preying on people's fears range from ransomware to info-stealer Trojans and are spread through every infection vector imaginable. Full Article
ea EnigmaSoft Releases SpyHunter for Mac to Combat Mac Malware's Unprecedented Rise By www.prleap.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:00:00 PDT EnigmaSoft has released SpyHunter for Mac, an anti-malware detection and removal program built with advanced technologies. SpyHunter for Mac delivers comprehensive security in an easy-to-use interface and helps Mac users to combat increasingly prevalent and evolving malware threats. Full Article
ea Manage Your Remote Team with PA Server Monitor By www.prleap.com Published On :: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:00 PDT Power Admin's flagship product, PA Server Monitor, comes with the Active Directory Login Monitor, which helps companies monitor employees in remote locations. Full Article
ea Active Directory Change Monitor Will Keep Your Team on Target By www.prleap.com Published On :: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 03:30:00 PDT Power Admin's Active Directory Change Monitor allows businesses to detect unauthorized alterations to this vital directory service and thereby safeguard system security. Full Article
ea DriveLock Named as Leader for Data Leakage / Loss Prevention Solutions By www.prleap.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 08:00:00 PST DriveLock SE, a leading global provider of IT and data security solutions, announced that the "ISG Provider Lens Cyber Security Solutions & Services Report Germany 2020" named it as the leader in the Data Leakage/Loss Prevention (DLP) segment in the German-speaking market. Full Article
ea SpyHunter 5 Earns AppEsteem's "Deceptor Fighter" Certification & Blocks 100% of "Deceptor" Apps By www.prleap.com Published On :: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:00 PDT AppEsteem has awarded SpyHunter 5 "Deceptor Fighter" Certification under its "Unwanted Software Handling Certification Test." SpyHunter 5 detected and blocked potentially unwanted applications and unwanted software identified by AppEsteem with 100% accuracy. Full Article
ea EnigmaSoft Releases NEW SpyHunter Pro to Fight Malware, Enhance Privacy Protection, & Optimize PCs By www.prleap.com Published On :: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:00 PST SpyHunter Pro combines highly effective anti-malware detection and blocking along with new functionality to enhance privacy protection and optimize computer systems. SpyHunter Pro extends standard anti-malware scanning by adding specialized scans designed to detect potentially unneeded data that can be deleted by users to reduce the risk of privacy invasion and free up disk space. Full Article
ea eM Client email app launches groundbreaking version 10 with AI support By www.prleap.com Published On :: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 05:30:00 PDT Prague - 17.7.2024 - The Czech company [url=https://www.emclient.com/?lang=en]eM Client[/url] releases a new version of the eponymous application for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. eM Client is a popular tool for managing (not only) emails, which has become the main challenger to Microsoft Outlook for both end users and businesses. Version 10 brings the largest number of new features and improvements in the history of the product. Full Article
ea Unseasonably Speaking – Stefan Zweig, Brexit and the meaning of Europe By www.threemonkeysonline.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:34:26 +0000 The Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig was once among the most popular and most translated writers in the world. English Heritage's widely criticised refusal to commemorate his residence in London provides an entry point into a discussion on the role of the intellectual, Brexit, and the meaning of Europe. The post Unseasonably Speaking – Stefan Zweig, Brexit and the meaning of Europe appeared first on Three Monkeys Online Magazine. Full Article featured home page Literature / Books literature top4
ea HMRC Security Breach: What You Can Do to Protect Yourself From Us By www.socialscrutiny.org Published On :: In the light of the recent security breach at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), The Department of Social Scrutiny (DoSS) has issued the following statement on the subject of Identity Theft (IT) on behalf of The Government. This statement contains vital advice and the answers to a number... Full Article
ea OpenBSD 7.6 Released By undeadly.org Published On :: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 20:42:13 GMT The OpenBSD project has announced OpenBSD 7.6, its 57th release. The new release contains a number of significant improvements, including but not limited to: There is initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite [arm64] laptops. Initial support for Suspend-to-Idle has been added on amd64 and i386, enabling suspend on machines which do not support S3. UDP parallel input has been enabled. [See earlier report] Libva's VA-API (Video Acceleration API) was imported into xenocara. [See earlier report] The default write format for tar(1) has changed to "pax". [See earlier report] pfctl(8) and systat(1) now display fragment reassembly statistics. [See earlier report] A configurable passphrase timeout for disk decryption at boot (a potential battery lifesaver) has been added. [See earlier report] Local-to-anchor tables are now available in pf(4) rules. [See earlier report] rport(4), a driver providing point-to-point interfaces for layer 3 connectivity between rdomain(4) instances, has been added. dhcp6leased(8), a DHCPv6 client daemon for IPv6 PD has been added. [See earlier report] dhclient(8) has been removed (now that dhcpleased(8) is well established). [See earlier report] OpenSSH 9.9, featuring: sshd(8) has been split into multiple binaries. [See earlier report] Options to penalize undesirable behavior [See earlier report] support for a new hybrid post-quantum key exchange [See earlier report] and of course there is the full changelog which details the changes made over this latest six month development cycle. Installation Guide details how to get the system up and running with a fresh install, while those who already run earlier releases should follow the Upgrade Guide, in most cases using sysupgrade(8) to upgrade their systems. Now please dive in and enjoy the new release, and while the installer runs, please do donate to the project to support further development and more future goodies for us all! Full Article
ea OpenSMTPD 7.6.0p0 Released By undeadly.org Published On :: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 06:02:08 GMT Omar Polo (op@) has announced the release of version 7.6.0p0 of OpenSMTPD. The changes (including the table protocol change on which we reported earlier) are: - Introduced a new K_AUTH service to allow offloading the credentials to a proc table for non-crypt(3) authentication. Helps with use cases like LDAP or custom auth. - Implement report responses for proc-filters too. - Changed the table protocol to a simpler text-based one. Existing proc tables needs to be updated since old ones won't work. The new protocol is documented in smtpd-tables(7). - Fixed the parsing of IPv6 addresses in file-backed table(5) - Document expected MDA behavior and the environment set by OpenSMTPD. - Set ORIGINAL_RECIPIENT in the environment of MDA scripts for compatibility with postfix. - Updated the bundled libtls. See the release announcement for full details. Full Article
ea LibreSSL 4.0.0 Released By undeadly.org Published On :: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:46:29 GMT The LibreSSL project, a closely associated subproject of the OpenBSD project, has announced the availability of their new stable release, LibreSSL 4.0.0, which comes with a number of improvements and a sprinkling of fixes. The release announcement reads, Subject: LibreSSL 4.0.0 Released From: Brent Cook <busterb () gmail ! com> We have released LibreSSL 4.0.0, which will be arriving in the LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. This is the first stable release for the 4.0.x branch, also available with OpenBSD 7.6 It includes the following change from LibreSSL 3.9.2: * Portable changes - Added initial Emscripten support in CMake builds. - Removed timegm() compatibility layer since all uses were replaced with OPENSSL_timegm(). Cleaned up the corresponding test harness. - The mips32 platform is no longer actively supported. - Fixed Windows support for dates beyond 2038. Read more… Full Article
ea Game of Trees 0.104 released By undeadly.org Published On :: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:12:10 GMT Version 0.104 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated). * got 0.104; 2024-10-22 see git repository history for per-change authorship information - gotd.conf: document the macro syntax - tog: prevent a segfault upon unexpected object type in ref list view - fix pack file creation in the presence of tagged tag objects - plugged some memory leaks - fix a crash when unstaging a file which has been removed from disk - gotwebd: fix out of bounds access while handling the configuration Full Article
ea MinQ:ExtrA by NukegaraDHP released By www.msx.org Published On :: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:25:25 +0000 A new RPG coming from the Land of the Rising Sun. read more Full Article Software adventure game jrpg msx2 rpg MSX-MUSIC
ea Inflation Is About Expections, Not Only Reality By www.mwilliams.info Published On :: Tue, 17 May 2022 10:24:53 -0600 In this new era of stagflation it's important to remember that inflation is caused by expectations as much as by reality. If people and companies expect prices to go up, they'll start charging more for their products and services -- which is inflation. Inflation will only abate when expectations change. So when we see a chart like this one it's not only that President Biden's policies created inflationary conditions, his policies also created the self-fulfilling expectation of inflation. Presidents Obama and Trump spent boatloads of borrowed money and ran up the deficit, but something about President Biden (and, of course, the global environment) really spooked people. Full Article Politics Government & Public Policy
ea Friendly Reminder: "Prices don't drop when inflation eases" By www.mwilliams.info Published On :: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 11:30:54 -0600 Many people I talk to are eager for "prices to get back to normal", but that's not how inflation works. Medora Lee does a good job reminding us of that. When talking about inflation, it's important to remember that inflation is a rate that measures how fast prices are rising. If the consumer inflation rate drops from its 40-year high of 8.6% in May, prices are still rising - just not as fast. Consumers won't feel immediate relief even as the inflation rate slows because many of those elevated prices are likely here to stay, said Michael Ashton, managing principal at Enduring Investments in Morristown, NJ. "The price level has permanently changed," said Ashton. "Until your wages catch up (to inflation), it will continue to hurt." Even when inflation returns to target 2% levels, prices won't return to "normal" 2019 levels. Prices will continue to grow, but at a slower and more predictable rate. "Once core prices go up, generally they don't come down," Roussanov said. "In the last 40 to 50 years, we've never seen deflation in core goods. Most durable goods and services don't really come down in price." And deflation is more dangerous than inflation because it can lead to a total economic collapse. When people believe that their money will buy more in a year than it will now, they stop consuming and just wait. Additionally, modest, predictable inflation is seen as a sign of a growing economy. It incentivizes people to spend money now rather than waiting, allows wages to increase either in line or above inflation to boost the standard of living and makes it easier for businesses to plan, according to the Federal Reserve and IMF. Full Article Business & Economics
ea "There are already thousands of people alive, right now, in Texas who would have been aborted." By www.mwilliams.info Published On :: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 11:28:35 -0600 Ross Douthat says that this fact is the heart of the abortion issue, and I agree. Our tolerance, acceptance, and promotion of at-will abortion is a shame and humiliation for our generation and civilization. Our descendants will look back on this era with horror and disgust, much like we view slavery and the Holocaust. They will ask, how could any people kill a million of their own children every year? How did they talk themselves into accepting the slaughter of the weakest and most vulnerable among them? How did they dehumanize the unborn, to be exterminated like insect infestations? As is often the case, the solution to abortion -- and the general mistreatment of children and other vulnerable people -- won't be found in laws or courts. The solution is for each of us to honor the divine spark in each other. To recognize that we are each made in God's image, and each uniquely valuable because of that likeness. Deuteronomy 27:19 -- 'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' Exodus 22:22 -- You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry. Psalm 68:5 -- Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. Full Article Morality Religion & Philosophy Politics Government & Public Policy
ea Boston University scientists create 80%-lethal COVID variant By www.mwilliams.info Published On :: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:33:20 -0600 This seems insane. Why create a more transmissable and lethal version of COVID? DailyMail.com revealed the team had made a hybrid virus -- combining Omicron and the original Wuhan strain -- that killed 80 per cent of mice in a study. The revelation exposes how dangerous virus manipulation research continues to go on even in the US, despite fears similar practices may have started the pandemic. Professor Shmuel Shapira, a leading scientist in the Israeli Government, said: 'This should be totally forbidden, it's playing with fire.' Gain of function research - when viruses are purposefully manipulated to be more infectious or deadly - is thought to be at the center of Covid's origin. We may never know the origin of COVID-19 with certainty, but gain-of-function research needs to stop. Full Article Science Technology & Health
ea DnD situation is a symptom of a larger problem: our insanely long copyright protection (life of the author + 70 years!) By www.mwilliams.info Published On :: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 07:24:25 -0600 (I posted this to the DnD subreddit also: link.) The Open Gaming License fiasco with Dungeons & Dragons producer Wizards of the Coast is a symptom of a larger problem: our insane Intellectual Property system that currently protects material for the life of the author plus 70 years. As a comparison, patents generally only protect inventions for 20 years. The purpose of intellectual property laws is to balance public and private interests. IP law is an agreement between society and creators: the creator is guaranteed an exclusive right to their creation for a period of time, and in exchange the public gets rights to the creation afterwards. It's intended to be a balance of interests, but the balance has gotten completely out of whack thanks to (obviously) lobbying throughout the 20th century by major copyright holders like Disney. In my opinion, the current copyright term, life of the author plus 70 years, is grossly unfair to the public. I believe that the internet era has demonstrated that creators would be incentivized to create even without such a long period of exclusivity. Think about it: would you create less stuff if your great-grandkids didn't get exclusive rights? I doubt it. Listen: creators should be able to make money from their work. I don't think copyright should go to zero, but why not bring it in line with patent protection with a 20-year term? Disney, DnD, and many other creations are part of our generation's cultural legacy, part of a 10,000+ year inheritance that has been handed down through time to our grandparents, our parents, and now us. It's morally wrong for our ancestors and corporations to lock our inheritance away from us. Copyright protections must be re-balanced to protect both creators and the public. This problem with WotC shouldn't be just about a license, it should be about the IP laws that grant them exclusive rights to creations that are over 50 years old. Our generation should re-open these negotiations and come up with a fair copyright term. Full Article Law & Justice
ea Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) Seems Like a Good Idea to Me By www.mwilliams.info Published On :: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:07:42 -0600 It seems that most conservatives are calling the new Bank Term Funding Program a "bailout" for the rich, but as far as I can tell preventing a contagious bank-run is good for everyone. Shareholders and bondholders of any failed banks are not being guaranteed in anyway, only depositors (i.e., bank customers). The additional funding will be made available through the creation of a new Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), offering loans of up to one year in length to banks, savings associations, credit unions, and other eligible depository institutions pledging U.S. Treasuries, agency debt and mortgage-backed securities, and other qualifying assets as collateral. These assets will be valued at par. The BTFP will be an additional source of liquidity against high-quality securities, eliminating an institution's need to quickly sell those securities in times of stress. Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are being "resolved" and shareholders are being wiped out. Bondholders will probably get some of their money back, but they won't be made whole. Depositors will be fully protected. Bank runs are caused by depositors panicking and withdrawing their money, so the BTFP should be sufficient to forestall that catastrophe without "bailing out" banks using taxpayer dollars. I guess we'll find out. Full Article Business & Economics
ea SplineTech JavaScript Debugger PRO update boosts unique new features By www.RemoteDebugger.com Published On :: Sun, 10 Jul 2012 20:23:43 -0700 Spline Technologies Corporation announces a major update to SplineTech JavaScript Debugger PRO, an independent standalone Web development tool that enables Web developers to easily edit and debug JavaScript and VBScript inside HTML and AJAX pages, without the need for any add-ons, plugins or changes of their code to handle the debugging process. Client-side JavaScript, JScript and client-side VBScript debugging languages are fully supported for simple and complex HTML, DHTML and AJAX debugging scenarios. SplineTech JavaScript Debugger PRO offers following main features to address the most common Web development issues: - Advanced form debugging for JavaScript form validation - Programmers to cause order forms to validate in clients' browser windows before they are submitted. - JavaScript pop-up debugging - Debug DHTML menus and JavaScript menus - Debug JavaScript and VBScript events: Debug JavaScript Pop-ups, onclick, onmouseover, onfocus and any other event. - Debug DHTML behavior - Debug client-side JavaScript controls: Debug calendars and any other control - Multi-Functional VBScript and JavaScript script editor for HTML and AJAX - Full Support for native VBScript and JavaScript syntax (color-coded) - Explicit JavaScript runtime error information - Execution line highlighting: Display the current line of the code to be executed Aside from a vast array of main features, this major update of SplineTech JavaScript Debugger PRO includes these new and unique features: - Pause code execution in 3, 5 or more seconds (user adjustable) - Reformat unreadable JavaScript and AJAX scripts (turns large one-line AJAX scripts into properly formatted readable multi-line code) - Step Through multiple lines of code at once (user adjustable) - Go back (and forth) to any step within your code - Call Stack enables developers to view all function names taken from function lists (since IE reports most of them as anonymous) - View all current variables in a dedicated Current Variables panel Without requiring any manual configuration or network configuration, SplineTech JavaScript Debugger PRO runs on the Windows 7/2008/2000/2003/XP and Windows Server 2008 platforms (both x86 and x64) with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or better. SplineTech JavaScript Debugger PRO is priced at $90 per single-user license, and is available for purchase at http://www.RemoteDebugger.com/javascript_debugger/javascript_debugger.asp Immediate online product delivery and full support is included with all Spline Technologies products. ABOUT: Spline Technologies Corporation is a growing dynamic international software development company, specializing in web development tools, with headquarters in beautiful downtown Montreal, Canada, since 1999. Full Article Web Development Tools Software
ea Pentagon leaker sentenced to 15 years in jail By news.sky.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:01:00 +0100 A member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who leaked classified Pentagon information has been jailed for 15 years. Full Article
ea Man jailed for loading illegal streaming services on to Amazon Fire Sticks By news.sky.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 23:10:00 +0100 A 29-year-old man has been jailed for more than three years for loading illicit TV streaming services onto Amazon Fire Sticks. Full Article
ea Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? - 40th anniversary track revealed By news.sky.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:27:00 +0100 An "ultimate" version of Band Aid's famous festive hit Do They Know It's Christmas? is set to be released to mark the song's 40th anniversary, featuring the voices of original singers as well as younger artists. Full Article
ea Nearly £50m spent on P&O firing and replacing 800 British workers By news.sky.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0100 P&O Ferries spent more than £47m summarily sacking hundreds of seafarers in 2022, helping it cut losses by more than £125m and putting it on a path to profitability, according to accounts due to be published in the coming days. Full Article
ea Human head washes up on Florida beach By news.sky.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:49:00 +0100 A human head has been found washed up on a beach in Florida, according to police. Full Article
ea Sara Sharif's father tells court he beat her and 'takes full responsibility' for her death By news.sky.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:40:00 +0100 Sara Sharif's murder-accused father has told jurors he "takes full responsibility" for the death of his daughter. Full Article
ea Israeli construction along buffer zone with Syria violates ceasefire, UN says By www.bbc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:04:10 +0100 New trenches and berms are being constructed along the frontier in the occupied Golan Heights. Full Article
ea French headteacher describes spiral of events that led to teacher's beheading By www.bbc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:29:15 +0100 Audrey F tells a court how a 13-year-old student's lie to her parents led to Samuel Paty's murder. Full Article
ea OSNews fundraising goal reached in less than a week By www.osnews.com Published On :: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 19:10:51 +0000 It’s been less than a week, and late Friday night we reached the fundraiser goal of €2500 (it sat at 102% when I closed it) on Ko-Fi! I’m incredibly grateful for each and every donation, big or small, and every new Patreon that joined our ranks. It’s incredible how many of you are willing to support OSNews to keep it going, and it means the absolute world to me. Hopefully we’ll eventually reach a point where monthly Patreon income is high enough so we can turn off ads for everyone, and be fully free from any outside dependencies. Of course, it’s not just those that choose to support us financially – every reader matters, and I’m very thankful for each and every one of you, donor/Patreon or not. The weekend’s almost over, so back to regular posting business tomorrow. I wish y’all an awesome Sunday evening. Full Article OS News
ea Windows Server 2025 released By www.osnews.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:59:27 +0000 Microsoft has confirmed the general availability of Windows Server 2025, which, as a long-term servicing channel (LTSC) release, will be supported for almost ten years. This article describes some of the newest developments in Windows Server 2025, which boasts advanced features that improve security, performance, and flexibility. With faster storage options and the ability to integrate with hybrid cloud environments, managing your infrastructure is now more streamlined. Windows Server 2025 builds on the strong foundation of its predecessor while introducing a range of innovative enhancements to adapt to your needs. ↫ What’s new in Windows Server 2025 article It should come as no surprise that Windows Server 2025 comes loaded with a ton of new features and improvements. I already covered some of those, such as DTrace by default, NVMe and storage improvements, hotpatching, and more. Other new features we haven’t discussed yet are a massive list of changes and improvements to Active Directory, a feature-on-demand feature for Azure Arc, support for Bluetooth keyboards, mice, and other peripherals, and tons of Hyper-V improvements. SMB is also seeing so many improvements it’s hard to pick just a few to highlight, and software-defined networking is also touted as a major aspect of Server 2025. With SDN you can separate the network control plane from the data plane, giving administrators more flexibility in managing their network. I can just keep going listing all of the changes, but you get the idea – there’s a lot here. You can try Windows Server 2025 for free for 180 days, as a VM in Azure, a local virtual machine image, or installed locally through an ISO image. Full Article Windows
ea Windows Server IoT 2025 released By www.osnews.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:08:31 +0000 Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Server IoT 2025. This new release includes several improvements, including advanced multilayer security, hybrid cloud agility, AI, performance enhancements, and more. Microsoft claims that Windows Server IoT 2025 will be able to handle the most demanding workloads, including AI and machine learning. It now has built-in support for GPU partitioning and the ability to process large datasets across distributed environments. With Live Migration and High Availability, it also offers a high-performance platform for both traditional applications and advanced AI workloads. ↫ Pradeep Viswanathan at Neowin Windows Server IoT 2025 brings the same benefits, new features, and improvements as the just-released regular Windows Server 2025. I must admit I’m a little unclear as to what Windows Server IoT has to offer over the regular edition, and reading the various Microsoft marketing materials and documents don’t really make it any clearer for me either, since I’m not particularly well-versed in all that enterprise networking lingo. Full Article Windows
ea QNX becomes free for non-commercial use, releases Raspberry Pi 4 image By www.osnews.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:54:56 +0000 A long, long time ago, back when running BeOS as my main operating system had finally become impossible, I had a short stint running QNX as my one and only operating system. In 2004, before I joined OSNews and became its managing editor, I also wrote and published an article about QNX on OSNews, which is cringe-inducing to read over two decades later (although I was only 20 when I wrote that – I should be kind to my young self). Sadly, the included screenshots have not survived the several transitions OSNews has gone through since 2004. Anyway, back in those days, it was entirely possible to use QNX as a general purpose desktop operating system, mostly because of two things. First, the incredible Photon MicroGUI, an excellent and unique graphical environment that was a joy to use, and two, because of a small but dedicated community of enthousiasts, some of which QNX employees, who ported a ton of open source applications, from basic open source tools to behemoths like Thunderbird, the Mozilla Suite, and Firefox, to QNX. It even came with an easy-to-use package manager and associated GUI to install all of these applications without much hassle. Using QNX like this was a joy. It really felt like a tightly controlled, carefully crafted user experience, despite desktop use being so low on the priority list for the company that it might as well have not been on there at all. Not long after, I think a few of the people inside QNX involved with the QNX desktop community left the company, and the entire thing just fizzled out afterwards when the company was acquired by Harman Kardon. Not long after, it became clear the company lost all interest, a feeling only solidified once Blackberry acquired the company. Somewhere in between the company released some of its code under some not-quite-open-source license, accompanied by a rather lacklustre push to get the community interested again. This, too, fizzled out. Well, it seems the company is trying to reverse course, and has started courting the enthusiast community once again. This time, it’s called QNX Everywhere, and it involves making QNX available for non-commercial use for anyone who wants it. No, it’s not open source, and yes, it requires some hoops to jump through still, but it’s better than nothing. In addition, QNX also put a bunch of open source demos, applications, frameworks, and libraries on GitLab. One of the most welcome new efforts is a bootable QNX image for the Raspberry Pi 4 (and only the 4, sadly, which I don’t own). It comes with a basic set of demo application you can run from the command line, including a graphical web browser, but sadly, it does not seem to come with Photon microGUI or any modern equivalent. I’m guessing Photon hasn’t seen a ton of work since its golden days two decades ago, which might explain why it’s not here. There’s also a list of current open source ports, which includes chunks of toolkits like GTK and Qt, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Honestly, as cool as this is, it seems it’s mostly aimed at embedded developers instead of weird people who want to use QNX as a general purpose operating system, which makes total sense from QNX’ perspective. I hope Photon microGUI will make a return at some point, and it would be awesome – but I expect unlikely – if QNX could be released as open source, so that it would be more likely a community of enthusiasts could spring up around it. For now, without much for a non-developer like me to do with it, it’s not making me run out to buy a Raspberry Pi 4 just yet. Full Article QNX
ea LXQt 2.1.0 released with optional Wayland session By www.osnews.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 23:51:37 +0000 LXQt, the desktop environment that is to KDE what Xfce is to GNOME, has released version 2.1.0, and while the version number change seems average, it’s got a big ace up its sleeve: you can now run LXQt in a Wayland session, and they claim it works quite well, too, and it supports a wide variety of compositors. Through its new component lxqt-wayland-session, LXQt 2.1.0 supports 7 Wayland sessions (with Labwc, KWin, Wayfire, Hyprland, Sway, River and Niri), has two Wayland back-ends in lxqt-panel (one for kwin_wayland and the other general), and will add more later. All LXQt components that are not limited to X11 — i.e., most components — work fine on Wayland. The sessions are available in the new section Wayland Settings inside LXQt Session Settings. At least one supported Wayland compositor should be installed in addition to lxqt-wayland-session for it to be used. There is still hard work to do, but all of the current LXQt Wayland sessions are quite usable; their differences are about what the supported Wayland compositors provide. ↫ LXQt 2.1.0 release announcement This is great news for LXQt, as it ensures the desktop environment is ready to keep up with what modern Linux distributions provide. Crucially and in line with what we’ve come to expect from LXQt, X11 support is a core part of the project, and they even go so far as to say “the X11 session will be supported indefinitely”, which should set people preferring to stay on X11 at ease. I personally may have gleefully left X11 in the dustbin of history, but many among us haven’t, and it’s welcome to see LXQt’s clear promise here. Many of the other improvements in this release are tied to Wayland, making sure the various components work and Wayland settings can be adjusted. On top of that, there’s the usual list of bug fixes and smaller changes, too. Full Article Wayland
ea Valve ends Steam’s support for Windows 7 and 8 By www.osnews.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:54:24 +0000 Steam has finally stopped working on several older Windows operating systems, following a warning from Valve that it planned to drop support earlier this year. With little fanfare, Windows 7 and Windows 8 gaming on Steam is no longer possible following the most recent Steam client update on November 5. ↫ Ben Stockton at PCGamesN It’s honestly wild that Valve supported Windows 7 and 8 for this long for Steam in the first place. They’ve been out of support for a long time, and at this point in time, less than 0.3% of Steam users were using Windows 7 or 8. Investing any resources in continuing to support them would be financially irresponsible, while also aiding a tiny bit in allowing people to use such unsupported, insecure systems to this day. I’m sure at least one of you is still rocking Windows 7 or 8 as your daily driver operating system, so I’m sorry if you don’t want to hear this, but it’s really, really time to move on. Buying a Windows 10 or 11 license on eBay or whatever costs a few euros at most – if you’re not eligible for one the free upgrade programs Microsoft ran – and especially Windows 10 should run just fine on pretty much anything Windows 7 or 8 runs on. Do note that with Windows 10, though, you’ll be back in the same boat next year. Full Article Games
ea Improving Steam Client stability on Linux: setenv and multithreaded environments By www.osnews.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:09:14 +0000 Speaking of Steam, the Linux version of Valve’s gaming platform has just received a pretty substantial set of fixes for crashes, and Timothee “TTimo” Besset, who works for Valve on Linux support, has published a blog post with more details about what kind of crashes they’ve been fixing. The Steam client update on November 5th mentions “Fixed some miscellaneous common crashes.” in the Linux notes, which I wanted to give a bit of background on. There’s more than one fix that made it in under the somewhat generic header, but the one change that made the most significant impact to Steam client stability on Linux has been a revamping of how we are approaching the setenv and getenv functions. One of my colleagues rightly dubbed setenv “the worst Linux API”. It’s such a simple, common API, available on all platforms that it was a little difficult to convince ourselves just how bad it is. I highly encourage anyone who writes software that will run on Linux at some point to read through “RachelByTheBay”‘s very engaging post on the subject. ↫ Timothee “TTimo” Besset This indeed seems to be a specific Linux problem, and due to the variability in Linux systems – different distributions, extensive user customisation, and so on – debugging information was more difficult to parse than on Windows and macOS. After a lot of work grouping the debug information to try and make sense of it all, it turned out that the two functions in question were causing issues in threads other than those that used them. They had to resort to several solutions, from reducing the reliance setenv and refactoring it with exevpe, to reducing the reliance on getenv through caching, to introducing “an ‘environment manager’ that pre-allocates large enough value buffers at startup for fixed environment variable names, before any threading has started”. It was especially this last one that had a major impact on reducing the number of crashes with Steam on Linux. Besset does note that these functions are still used far too often, but that at this point it’s out of their control because that usage comes from the libraries of the operating system, like x11, xcb, dbus, and so on. Besset also mentions that it would be much better if this issue can be addressed in glibc, and in the comments, a user by the name of Adhemerval reports that this is indeed something the glibc team is working on. Full Article Linux
ea Infekcje szkodliwym oprogramowaniem typu infostealer By cert.pl Published On :: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0100 Przestępcy próbują doprowadzić do infekcji komputera ofiary wszelkimi możliwymi sposobami. Bardzo częstym wektorem ataku są masowo wysyłane emaile zawierające złośliwe załączniki, które mają zostać otworzone i uruchomione przez ofiarę. Full Article zagrożenia aktualne zagrożenia
ea Ataki spear phishing na pracowników polskich firm i instytucji publicznych By cert.pl Published On :: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0100 Spear phishing jest oszustwem o charakterze socjotechnicznym, wykorzystującym presję autorytetu i czasu, aby skłonić atakowanego do podjęcia niekorzystnego dla niego działania. Fakt, że zazwyczaj informacje potrzebne do przeprowadzenia ataku są publicznie dostępne lub łatwe do uzyskania, czyni to oszustwo popularnym wśród cyberprzestępców. Full Article zagrożenia aktualne zagrożenia
ea Rosyjska Służba Wywiadu Zagranicznego (SVR) wykorzystuje podatność w oprogramowaniu TeamCity do szeroko zakrojonych działań. By cert.pl Published On :: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:00:00 +0200 Zespół CERT Polska oraz Służba Kontrwywiadu Wojskowego wraz z zagranicznymi partnerami wykryły, że Rosyjska Służba Wywiadu Zagranicznego (SVR) wykorzystuje podatność CVE-2023-42793 (w JetBrains TeamCity) do szeroko zakrojonych działań, skierowanych przeciwko podmiotom wytwarzającym oprogramowanie. Full Article News ostrzeżenie podatność apt29
ea Computer Vision in Healthcare Industry Worth $11.5 billion by 2029, with a CAGR of 24.0% By www.emailwire.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700 (EMAILWIRE.COM, October 23, 2024 ) The global Computer Vision in Healthcare market growth forecasted to transform from USD 3.9 billion in 2024 to USD 11.5 billion by 2029, driven by a CAGR of 24.0%. Market growth is propelled by the regulatory initiatives and incentives promote the adoption of computer... Full Article
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