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LibreOffice 24.2

The Document Foundations announced the release of LibreOffice 24.2. Starting with this release, the numbering system has changed to a year-month scheme, so the next release will be version 24.8. LibreOffice 24.2 includes the following changes: Writer Another batch of improvements in the Navigator. Added styles for comments, now their appearance can be customized. Improvements in MS Word support for floating tables. […]

LibreOffice 24.2 office suite release

The Document Foundation presented the release of the office suite LibreOffice 24.2. Ready-made installation packages are prepared for various Linux, Windows and macOS distributions. 166 developers took part in preparing the release, of which 108 are volunteers. 57% of the changes were made by 50 employees of the three companies supervising the project - Collabora, Red Hat and Allotropia, 20% - by eight employees of The Document […]

Scientists have created a tiny living heart on a chip - it beats like a human one

The popularity of creating living simulators of human organs on chips is expanding and growing. This makes it possible to safely test drugs on human tissue and study the course of diseases outside the human body. Electronics make it possible to monitor processes more closely and collect data around the clock, which was previously impossible. Image source: AI generation Kandinsky 3.0/3DNewsSource: 3dnews.ru

Phison has released industrial SSDs of the S12DI and S17T series for video surveillance systems and industrial equipment

Phison has announced SSDs of the S12DI and S17T families, made in SFF format with a body thickness of 7 mm. The products are specially designed for video surveillance systems. In both cases, the SATA-3 interface is used, while the type of flash chips used is not specified. The S17T series includes devices with a capacity of 960 GB, as well as 1,92 and 3,84 TB. The stated sequential read speed is up to 550 […]

Samsung Galaxy S24 is perfectly repairable - it was rated 9 out of 10 points

Samsung recently launched its new flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S24. Now the authors of the YouTube channel PBKreviews have disassembled the basic version of the device to evaluate its repairability. It turned out that in this regard the smartphone is not much different from the flagship version of the Galaxy S24 Ultra, which showed good repairability. A teardown of the Galaxy S24 revealed the presence of a large vapor chamber inside, which was approximately double the size […]

Radix cross Linux 1.9.367

The next version of the Radix cross Linux distribution 1.9.367 is available for devices based on the ARM/AArch64, RISC-V and x86/x86_64 architecture. This release is supplemented by the packages MPlayer, VLC, MiniDLNA, Transmission (Qt & HTTP-server), Rdesktop, FreeRDP, GIMP3-2.99.16. Screenshot from MATE Desktop Environment Images prepared for devices such as: Repka pi3; Orange pi5 Leez-p710 TF307 v4 board based on Baikal M1000; […]

Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Focal

Developers UBPorts presented the release of OTA-4 Focal. This is the fourth release of Ubuntu Touch, based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS package base (older releases used Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as the base). What's new in Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Focal: Added support for Oneplus One and Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphones. Added setting “System Settings > Security & Privacy > Locking and unlocking […]

Vulnerability in glibc that allows you to gain root access to the system

Qualys has identified a dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2023-6246) in the standard C library Glibc, which allows you to execute your code with elevated privileges through manipulations with the launch of SUID applications. Researchers were able to develop a working exploit that allows one to gain root rights by manipulating command line arguments when running the su utility. The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in the __vsyslog_internal() function, used when calling the syslog() and […]

Failure in the RU domain zone due to an error when replacing DNSSEC keys

On January 30 at 18:20 (MSK), users experienced a massive failure of host detection in the RU domain zone, caused by an error when changing the keys used to verify the validity of the RU zone via DNSSEC. As a result of the incident, all domains in the “.ru” zone were no longer detected on DNS servers that use DNSSEC to verify data authenticity. The problem only affected users using ISP DNS resolvers or […]