A vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils package has affected all versions from 1.9.3 to 2.7 inclusive. Although telnet seems to have been left behind along with modems and dial-up, it has unexpectedly become the source of a serious vulnerability. A bug in GNU InetUtils allows remote login as root without a password simply by sending a specially crafted environment variable value. […]
The release of service manager s6-rc 0.6.0.0 is now available, designed to manage the startup of initialization scripts and services. It supports dependency tree tracking and automatic starting or stopping of services to achieve the specified state. The s6-rc toolkit can be used in both initialization systems and for organizing the startup of arbitrary services in response to events reflecting changes in system state. The system supports initialization scripts, […]
Cong Wang, managing the traffic control (TC) subsystem in the Linux kernel and developing the Multikernel project, has introduced a new file system DAXFS in the list of Linux kernel developers. DAXFS uses RAM for data storage, operates in read-only mode, and resembles the functionality of the trimmed-down file systems ramfs and tmpfs. The kernel module implementing […]
Windows 11 users attempting to remove the problematic update KB5074109 have encountered a new issue: the removal process ends with error 0x800f0905. Windows Central has published step-by-step instructions on how to resolve the issue and restore the ability to roll back the update. Best games of 2025: readers' and editors' choice. It should be noted that the January 2026 security update (KB5074109) for Windows 11 caused […]
DAXFS is a simple read-only file system that interacts directly with shared physical memory via the DAX (Direct Access) subsystem. It completely bypasses the traditional block I/O stack, with file reading conducted through direct loading into memory without page caching or copying. Features include: files are read as direct loads from memory, without duplication in the cache; support for […]
WhatsApp developers continue to enhance the platform by adding popular features. This time, they have implemented a functionality that allows sharing message histories in group chats with new participants. Currently, this feature is available to a limited number of beta users of WhatsApp. According to the announcement, group members can decide whether to share the message history with newly […]
The OSS-Fuzz infrastructure for continuous fuzz testing has added the capability to test projects written in the Lua programming language, in addition to previously supported languages such as C/C++, Go, Swift, Rust, Python, JavaScript, and Java. The integration is achieved through the luzer project, which develops specialized tools for fuzz testing Lua code and Lua extensions written in C/C++. The project utilizes the libFuzzer library and […]
Enthusiast Jiacheng Liu made an unusual modification to a graphics card by installing the main components of the professional Nvidia Titan RTX onto a consumer GeForce RTX 2080 Ti — it now features an unlocked processor and a full memory set. While standard RTX 2080 Ti cards had a GPU with 4,352 CUDA cores, the modified version received a 4,608-core TU102-400-A1 chip, and the maximum power jumped from 300 […]
On the morning of January 24, Russians began reporting widespread issues with services that allowed them to bypass mobile internet restrictions. According to the resource "Kод Дурова", a number of VPN services suddenly lost access to many servers used to bypass mobile internet restrictions in Russian regions. Data from "Код Дурова" indicates that several VPN services successfully circumvented the restrictions of the "white lists" […]
After six months of development, the release of the GNU C Library 2.43 (glibc) has been published, which fully complies with the ISO C23 and POSIX.1-2024 standards. A total of 69 developers contributed to the creation of this new release. Notable improvements in glibc 2.43 include: An experimental feature for Clang compiler support, currently available only for aarch64-linux-gnu and x86_64-linux-gnu platforms using […]
The Node.js project is changing its bug bounty program after developers faced a flood of reports generated by artificial intelligence that are difficult to assess. Now, submitting vulnerability reports to the Node.js project on HackerOne requires a Signal score of 1.0 or higher. The Node.js security team has experienced a significant increase in low-quality reports. This trend has been ongoing for […]
The next stable release of the Rust compiler and language standard has been published. The update of the musl standard library to version 1.2.5 ensures that various target platforms *-linux-musl come with musl 1.2.5. This mainly affects static musl builds for x86_64, aarch64, and powerpc64le, which previously used version 1.2.3. This update includes several fixes and improvements, along with one 'breaking' change, […]