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Portal - a puzzle game in first person. The game takes place in the laboratories of the fictional company Aperture Science. Unlike other games of Valve, in that there are no weapons – only device that creates portals with which to solve various puzzles, playing for a girl named Chell. Portal is available free of charge to participants beta-testing Steam for Linux, which took place last year.

Left 4 Dead 2 - first-person shooter. You play in a ubiquitous virus, brainwashed people with immunity to it. You – Survivors. Your goal – to destroy all infected. Your team consists of four people: Coach, Nick, Rochelle, Ellis. The game has six campaigns as well as guns you have to take first-aid kit and a defibrillator to revive fallen comrades.
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HElib - library that provides functions of homomorphic encryption . At the moment it includes the implementation of a cryptosystem Brakerski-Gentry-Vaikuntanathan (BGV) , optimized for speed, including through the effective use of technology packages ciphertext Smart-Vercauteren and optimizations Gentry-Halevi-Smart .

On the library staffed IBM Watson Research Center Victor Shoup (Victor Shoup) and Shai Halevi (Shai Halevi).

Homomorphic encryption allows data operations (such as, for example, addition and multiplication of numbers) without decrypting them. The idea of ​​creating such systems was first proposed in the second half of the XX century, one of the creators of the RSA, Ronald Rivest, but was mistakenly assessed as unrealizable. The first homomorphic system that allows to simultaneously perform operations of addition and multiplication, and was invented by IBM employee Craig Gentry (Craig Gentry) in 2009.
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After more than two years of development team OpenWRT presented to the public the final version of OpenWRT Attitude Adjustment 12.09.

The main changes compared to the Backfire 10.03.1:

• Dropped support for the old platform Broadcom (brcm-2.4).
• The kernel Linux 3.3.
• uClibc 0.9.33.2.
• Images of the x86 translated from ext2 to ext4.
• Improved support for multi-threaded assembly.
• The new demon netifd, intended to replace the old system of network configuration, based on the script.

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Along with the release of Ubuntu 13.04 came out and Kubuntu 13.04 – Ubuntu version with the working environment KDE.

From the release:

• KDE 4.10 - Desktop Environment ( details ).
• Muon Suite 2 - the package manager, based on the framework, QApt . Added the ability to install add-ons Plasma and a new graphical interface called Muon Discover .
• Rekonq 2 - lightweight web browser based on WebKit ( the details ).
• Homerun - alternative to the standard widget application launcher Kickoff in the style of Unity ( details ).
• New tools to manage the configuration of monitors. (more…)

At last week’s meeting in Nuremberg developers Plasma Workspaces, which was defined a work plan for the upcoming release of a new version of the desktop environment KDE.

So, the upcoming changes:

• Switching to KDE Frameworks 5 and Qt5.
• The inclusion of Wayland in the list of supported servers. Most of the work done in Qt5, but remains an unsolved problem c Oxygen.  (more…)

BeagleBone Black – the new version of the famous mini-computer BeagleBoard. It is designed for enthusiasts and developers of embedded devices. The project was created by Texas Instruments, and developed together with the community, conforming to the principles of open hardware. Card available documentation, diagrams, firmware source code (except for the driver 3D), so that everyone can gather the computer itself. (more…)

A new version of the billing system and the corporate Internet gateway – TraffPro 1.4.5.

The new version is updated and added features, such as the long-awaited authorization only MAC-address records per subnet, introduced compatibility with newer versions of OS Linux, SMS-notification and other important changes

Quietly released a new release Pica Pica Messenger – software for organization of decentralized, distributed secure instant messaging system.

The composition of Pica Pica includes two programs: pica-node – the node server (node) distributed network and pica-client – a graphical client. A distributed network of nodes pica-node supported by volunteers.Everybody can install on your computer pica-node and provide for the transfer of routing traffic and communications between members of the network. (more…)

The new version of the popular document-oriented database Apache CouchDB – 1.3.0.

The main changes:

• Support Server-Sent Events ;
• experimental support for (more…)

Changes in release:

• Lava near the water turns into obsidian.
• Added jungle.
• Posted gold.
• The growth of papyrus (in water) and cactus (on the sand).
• Added diamonds and diamond tools.
• Added copper, bronze and bronze tools.
• Added stone bricks.
• Wooden steps and mid-blocks are now burning.
• Love is no longer renewable.
• Changes in the slot oven.
• Mese now more rare.

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