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Mitchell Baker steps down as head of Mozilla Corporation

Mitchell Baker announced her resignation from the position of chief executive officer (CEO) of Mozilla Corporation, which she held since 2020. From the post of CEO, Mitchell will return to the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mozilla Corporation (Executive Chairwoman), which she held for many years before being elected head. The reason for leaving is the desire to share leadership of the business and the mission of Mozilla. The work of the new CEO […]

Release of Savant 0.2.7, a computer vision and deep learning framework

The Savant 0.2.7 Python framework has been released, making it easier to use NVIDIA DeepStream to solve problems related to machine learning. The framework takes care of all the heavy lifting with GStreamer or FFmpeg, allowing you to focus on building optimized output pipelines using declarative syntax (YAML) and Python functions. Savant allows you to create pipelines that work the same on accelerators in a data center […]

Suricata 7.0.3 and 6.0.16 update with critical vulnerabilities fixed

The OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) has published corrective releases of the network intrusion detection and prevention system Suricata 7.0.3 and 6.0.16, which eliminate five vulnerabilities, three of which (CVE-2024-23839, CVE-2024-23836, CVE- 2024-23837) has been assigned a critical danger level. The description of the vulnerabilities has not yet been disclosed, however, the critical level is usually assigned when it is possible to remotely execute the attacker’s code. To all Suricata users […]

M**a and TikTok did not want to pay the EU to supervise themselves

M**a and TikTok have decided to challenge the fees they are required to pay to the European Union under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to enforce its content moderation requirements. In other words, social media companies have to fund their own surveillance, and they don't like it. Image source: Ralph / pixabay.comSource: 3dnews.ru

VirtualBox is adapted to run on top of the KVM hypervisor

Cyberus Technology has opened the code for the VirtualBox KVM backend, which allows you to use the KVM hypervisor built into the Linux kernel in the VirtualBox virtualization system instead of the vboxdrv kernel module supplied in VirtualBox. The backend ensures that virtual machines are executed by the KVM hypervisor while fully maintaining the traditional management model and VirtualBox interface. It is supported to run existing virtual machine configurations created for VirtualBox in KVM. Code […]

Chrome OS Release 121

A release of the Chrome OS 121 operating system is available, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild / portage assembly toolkit, open components and the Chrome 121 web browser. The Chrome OS user environment is limited to a web browser, and web applications are used instead of standard programs, however, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop and taskbar. The source code is distributed under […]

Cisco has released the ClamAV 1.3.0 antivirus package and fixed a dangerous vulnerability

After six months of development, Cisco has published the release of the free antivirus suite ClamAV 1.3.0. The project passed into the hands of Cisco in 2013 after purchasing Sourcefire, the company developing ClamAV and Snort. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The 1.3.0 branch is classified as regular (not LTS), updates to which are published at least 4 months after […]

Charge an electric car in 8 minutes: Huawei will install 100 thousand 600 kW charging stations in China

There are already electric vehicle models on the Chinese market whose traction batteries can replenish the charge from 0 to 80% in 15 minutes or a little more, so the relevance of developing a network of high-speed charging stations is increasing. By the end of this year, Huawei plans to install 100 charging stations in China, allowing them to replenish 000 km of power reserve in a second. The average electric car […]

Apple introduced AI for photo editing using text commands

Apple's research division, together with researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has released MGIE, a multimodal artificial intelligence model designed for image editing. To make changes to a snapshot, the user only needs to describe in natural language what he wants to get as an output. Image source: AppleSource: 3dnews.ru