2023-07-27 16:52:27
In a year particularly rich in news for the “lazy” of WhatsApp, today arrive instant video messages, or rather the equivalent with the videos of the famous voice messages; a function common to many messaging apps but which until now was missing from the most used app of all. You can send clips up to 60 seconds long: just press the same voicemail button to switch to video mode and hold to record. Likewise, you can swipe up to lock the function and save the video without having to hold it constantly. The videos sent will be played automatically by the recipient, but without audio: to activate it, just touch them. And like all WhatsApp messages, Quick Videos are protected with end-to-end encryption, for maximum privacy. The feature is rolling out for Android and iOS, but won’t be rolling out for the next few weeks, so don’t worry if you don’t have the ability to immediately impress your friends with instant video.
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Over 1,300 classic games: Anstream Arcade starting July 21 for Xbox
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-07-14 12:15:08
Xbox will support a third-party cloud gaming service for the first time with Anstream Arcade, which launches on January 21. The retro streaming platform will bring over 1,300 games from the 80s, 90s and 00s to Xbox Series and Xbox One for gamers, including R-Type II, Star Raiders II, Adventure, Impossible Mission, Armalyte, Day of the Tentacle, Gaiares, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Charged, Super Star Wars, Saboteur, Fatal Fury, Pit Stop, Elevator Action, Bubble Bobble, and more. New games are added every month. The catalog includes MSX 1 & 2, Super NES, NES, Mega Drive, DOS, Lynx, Atari 2600/7800, Arcade, Amiga, PlayStation and many more games. The price in the Xbox Store is €29.99 for one year of access. Alternatively, the Anstream Arcade is also available with a lifetime pass for €79.99 (unlimited access)
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Latest version of Firefox v115.0.2: Fixes, Updates, and Download Options
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-07-11 23:24:47
“Firefox” v115.0.2 Mozilla released the latest version of “Firefox” for desktop v115.0.2 on July 11 (US time) in the release channel. This is the second minor update in the past week. The changes in this release are as follows. Addressed an issue where blocking a maliciously injected DLL instance would cause Firefox to crash on startup on some Windows 10/11 environments. Fixed a bug where text editors would not display the caret on some websites. Fixed a bug where audio rendering was broken on websites Fixed a bug where patternTransform translation was using the wrong units Addressed a DLL blocklist issue that might cause a crash on Windows 7 Addressed post-free memory usage issue in workers (CVE-2023-3600). Severity level is “Moderate”, the third from the top of the four levels. The desktop version of “Firefox” is free software that welcomes donations for Windows / Mac / Linux, etc., and is currently available for download from Mozilla’s website. The Windows version is compatible with Windows 7 or later, and can be downloaded from the window forest library.
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Red Hat is trying to protect its flagship Linux distro by partially shutting down sources
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-06-22 21:00:00
The small world of GNU/Linux distributions is not necessarily a quiet world: in a somewhat surprising move, the company Red Hat, which distributes the commercial Linux distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in particular, has announced that the sources of this distribution would no longer be public. Only those of CentOS Stream remain accessible.
All of this may sound a bit complicated, but we will explain it. A GNU/Linux distribution (Linux in the following) can be seen as a complete operating system, with all the tools necessary for its operation. Some are limited to a specific use, others are aimed at a wider audience, and RHEL is a commercial distribution that is aimed at companies, in particular because Red Hat offers paid support for its distribution.
Red Hat Entreprise Linux (Grimes, GPL)
In his blog post, Red Hat explain that the RHEL sources are no longer publicly available — they remain available to customers and partners — and that the only Red Hat distribution whose sources remain available is CentOS Stream. This is a so-called version upstream of RHEL, i.e. a derived version which is developed upstream. In a simpler way, Red Hat developers first test new features through CentOS Stream, which therefore contains more recent versions of the various software… but also potentially more bugs.
The comparison with the different versions of macOS is a little complicated: CentOS Stream cannot be directly compared to a beta version of Apple’s OS, and Apple does not offer an equivalent of RHEL, which might possibly be seen as a version stabilized and followed by a previous macOS.
A problem related to forks
But why is Red Hat partially shutting down its main distribution? Probably to partly protect its main cast. Indeed, the world of Linux distributions is essentially composed of what are called fork. The literal translation is fork, because a fork part of a distribution to create a new branch. And Red Hat isn’t too keen on companies offering forks fully compatible with RHEL. The distributions that derive from RHEL can indeed replace the distro, which is obviously a potential loss for Red Hat. The best known are AlmaLinux (quite recent), Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux.
AlmaLinux (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
As’explain PhoronixAlmaLinux developers reacted to this change. They obviously discovered this change by chance, and they don’t know Red Hat’s intentions. For the moment, the development is therefore likely to be complicated: cloning CentOS Stream is obviously not an option. The main problem comes from the differences between RHEL and CentOS Stream, which is a little too experimental to offer the perfect compatibility expected by AlmaLinux users. In a sense, the survival of distributions that derive from RHEL is therefore compromised, at least in the current configuration.
Let’s end with a point: the only Linux distribution compatible with Apple Silicon Macs — Asahi Linux — does not derive from a Red Hat distribution, but from Arch Linux.
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