Next week, Cisco will announce a new round of layoffs during its quarterly report, in which approximately the same number of employees will be laid off as in the first wave of layoffs in February of this year — about 4,000 people, Reuters reports citing informed sources. According to Cisco’s financial report, as of July 2023, the company […]
After more than a year of development, the first working port of the Firefox browser for the open-source Haiku operating system, which continues the ideas of BeOS, has been prepared. Ready-to-install builds are not yet published, and those wishing to use Firefox on Haiku are encouraged to build from the source code. Until now, Haiku offered the WebPositive, Epiphany, and Falkon browsers, which created difficulties due to excessive suspicion […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.15 has been published. Since the release of 9.14, 18 bug reports have been closed and 240 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: support for prototypes and object constructors has been added to the MSHTML engine. The support for ODBC drivers compiled for Windows to the DBMS has been expanded. Bug reports related to the operation of applications have been closed: WinProladder 3.x, FTDI […]
The developers of the experimental browser Ladybird have announced their intention to use the Swift programming language as the main one for their project. The inclusion of Swift code is planned to begin in the fall, after the release of Swift 6 (using the Swift 5 branch is hindered by the dependency on an outdated version of Clang, which is incompatible with the current C++ codebase of Ladybird). Thanks to the ability to combine C++ code […]
Researchers from IOActive have identified a vulnerability (CVE-2023-31315) in AMD processors that allows for the configuration of SMM (System Management Mode, Ring -2) to be altered with privileged local access to the system, even if the SMM Lock mechanism is enabled, potentially enabling code execution at the SMM level. The SMM level has a higher priority than the hypervisor mode and […]
Researchers from IOActive have discovered a critical vulnerability in AMD processors that allows hackers to install virtually undeletable malware. The issue affects millions of computers and servers worldwide, reports Wired. The vulnerability, dubbed Sinkclose, has been identified in the System Management Mode (SMM) of AMD processors. This mode has high privileges and is intended for executing critical system functions. […]
The startup Perplexity AI, which has developed an AI-based search engine, has increased its monthly revenue sevenfold over the past two quarters, with the number of monthly system queries rising to 250 million compared to 500 million requests for the entire year of 2023. The Perplexity search engine has become one of the fastest-growing generative AI applications since the launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI […]
Tim Peters, the author of the hybrid sorting algorithm Timsort, a member of the Python Core Team, and a long-time contributor from the early versions of CPython, has been suspended by the Steering Council for three months due to a complaint regarding a breach of the code of conduct. Examples of violations leading to the temporary suspension include participation in discussions about changes to rules that allow the steering council […]
The Raspberry Pi project has introduced the new Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board, continuing the development of the compact Pico and Pico W boards equipped with their custom-designed microcontroller. The board is manufactured at a Sony factory and is available for $5. Like the previous Pico boards, the new model is primarily aimed at collaboration with Raspberry Pi computers, embedded systems development, and systems […]
OpenAI has announced an update to its ChatGPT service. Now, users on the free plan can create up to two images per day using the DALL-E 3 model. This change is part of the company's strategy to expand the functionality of its products. The DALL-E 3 version, launched in September 2022, was originally only available to subscribers of the paid ChatGPT Plus plan. Now, the service […]
System76 has announced the start of open testing for the Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS distribution, which includes a new desktop environment, COSMIC, developed in Rust. The main feature of the new release, aside from its lineage from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) and its long-term support capabilities, is the completely new COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust. One of the key […]
The accompanying kernel packages from Canonical (Canonical Kernel Team) have announced a change in the process for selecting the Linux kernel version for upcoming Ubuntu releases. It has been decided to ship the distribution with the latest kernel available at the time of the release. Consequently, the stabilization and preparation of kernel packages for new versions of Ubuntu can now be done not only based on builds already […]