A corrective release of Firefox 132.0.2 is now available, which fixes several issues: An error that caused crashes during certain operations in the Network Monitor panel in web development tools has been corrected. For instance, it was sufficient to open the network activity tracking panel for the website X.com to trigger a crash. Issues with playing encrypted multimedia content via some streaming services using Widevine L3 DRM protection have also been addressed. […]
The startup Trasec is developing the programming language TrapC, which is a dialect of C, designed to ensure safe memory operations. To prevent memory errors such as buffer overflows and dereferencing freed memory, TrapC employs a fundamentally different approach to pointers and a special error handling mechanism based on exception handlers (trap). […]
The release of version 1.19.0 of the cross-platform (Linux, MacOS, Windows) console utility hyperfine, written in Rust and distributed under the Apache-2.0 and MIT licenses, has occurred. The utility is designed for benchmarking the performance of other console utilities. Change log: added the option —reference that allows you to manually specify the command to compare the results of executing other commands; added the option —conclude , which executes the command […]
The release of the CachyOS 241110 distribution, based on the Arch Linux package base and developed under a continuous delivery model, has been announced. The distribution is notable for including optimizations to enhance performance and providing the ability to install various desktop environments. In addition to the base environment based on KDE, the installation options include GNOME, XFCE, i3WM, Wayfire, LXQT, OpenBox, Cinnamon, Cosmic, UKUI, LXDE, Mate, Budgie, […]
Google DeepMind has released the source code for the machine learning system AlphaFold 3, which is designed to predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins and model protein interactions with other types of molecules. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded this year for the machine learning algorithms implemented in the second version of AlphaFold. The toolkit related to AlphaFold 3 is written in Python and C++, and is distributed […]
The release of GNU Wget 1.25, a program for automating file downloads using HTTP/HTTPS and FTP/FTPS protocols, has been presented. The utility supports features such as resuming interrupted downloads, mirroring websites with filtered downloads based on masks, converting links within documents, setting Cookies, and updating only modified files. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. In […]
Broadcom, which acquired VMware's business a year ago, has introduced new terms for distributing proprietary virtualization products for workstations — VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion, which operate on Linux, Windows, and macOS platforms. The opportunity for free personal use provided in spring has now been expanded to cover all applications, including commercial use. The supply of individual paid products Workstation Pro […]
The new release of the Memtest86+ memory testing program 7.20 is now available. The program is not tied to operating systems and can be launched directly from the BIOS/UEFI firmware or from a bootloader for a complete memory check. In case of detected problems, the built-in Memtest86+ faulty memory map can be used in the Linux kernel to exclude problematic areas with the memmap option. […]
The release of the composite server Niri 0.1.10 has been published, implementing a tiling layout method in the style of the GNOME extension PaperWM, where windows are grouped in an endlessly scrollable ribbon on the screen. Opening a new window expands the ribbon, while previously added windows do not change size. The project is based on the use of the Wayland protocol but allows running X11 applications with the help of the Xwayland DDX server. […]
The release of the optical character recognition system Tesseract 5.5.0 has been published, supporting Unicode and text recognition in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. The results can be saved in plain text as well as in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. The system was originally created between 1985-1995 in a laboratory at Hewlett Packard, in 2005 […]
Aaron Plattner, one of the leading developers of NVIDIA's proprietary drivers, assessed the state of Wayland support in NVIDIA's proprietary drivers and listed areas where the Wayland-related capabilities still lag behind X11. This information corresponds to the NVIDIA driver branch 565, which is currently in beta testing. The lag is associated with issues in the NVIDIA driver itself as well as general […]
After a year of development, the release of the classic toolkit for managing the iptables packet filter 1.8.11 has been published, which has recently focused on components for maintaining backward compatibility — iptables-nft and ebtables-nft, providing utilities with the same command-line syntax as iptables and ebtables, but translating the received rules into nftables bytecode. The original set of iptables programs, including ip6tables, arptables […]