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 […]
Correction updates have been issued for all supported branches of PostgreSQL 16.4, 15.8, 14.13, 13.16, and 12.20, addressing 56 bugs identified over the past three months. Among other things, the new versions fix a vulnerability (CVE-2024-7348), classified as dangerous (severity level 8.8 out of 10). This vulnerability is caused by a race condition in the pg_dump utility, allowing an attacker with the ability to create and delete persistent objects […]
Looking Glass has begun shipping three new models of holographic displays. Larger 16-inch and 32-inch Looking Glass displays are available now, with the first priced at $4000, while the price of the second is available upon request. By the end of the month, it will be possible to purchase the compact Looking Glass Go holographic display, the size of a modern smartphone, for $299. Looking Glass has released a holographic […]
After nearly two years of development, System76, the creator of the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has unveiled the first alpha release of the COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust (not to be confused with the old COSMIC, which was based on GNOME Shell). Two ISO images have been created with COSMIC — for systems with NVIDIA GPUs (3 GB) and Intel/AMD (2.6 GB), built on the Pop!_OS distribution […]
Version 0.42 of the tiling Wayland compositor Hyprland has been released, focusing on customizability and high performance. The compositor is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD-3 license. Key changes and improvements include the removal of the dependency on wlroots: Hyprland no longer uses the wlroots library, which is commonly used for developing Wayland compositors; now Hyprland develops its components independently, allowing for the offer of unique and […]
Researchers at the Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) published the results of a study on the security of processors based on the RISC-V architecture and revealed details about a vulnerability code-named GhostWrite. This vulnerability affects RISC-V processors XuanTie C910, produced by the Chinese company T-Head (a subsidiary of Alibaba) and developed as open projects. The vulnerability allows an attacker with limited unprivileged access to the system to achieve reading and […]
The release of the JavaScript library Puppeteer 23 has been announced, designed for automating browser management. The library is suitable for both automating standard browser operations and conducting browser testing and simulating user interactions. The project code is written in TypeScript using Node.js and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. For example, Puppeteer allows you to create a script that launches the browser, setting the desired size […]
The release of the Vortex 2.2 project has been published, developing an open GPGPU based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture, aimed at performing parallel computations using the OpenCL API and the SIMT (Single Instruction, Multiple Threads) execution model. The project can also be used for research in 3D graphics and for developing new GPU architectures. Schematics and descriptions of hardware blocks in Verilog […]
Firefox 129 is now available. Linux: Various issues with camera functionality through PipeWire have been fixed. Experimental support for sidebar tabs (sidebar.revamp + sidebar.verticalTabs) has been added. The reader mode has received a new, more user-friendly settings interface. Character spacing and word spacing settings have been introduced. Color settings have been moved to a dedicated menu section and significantly expanded. A hover preview will gradually be enabled for all users […]
Google has released Chrome version 127.0.6533.99, which fixes six vulnerabilities, including a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-7532) that allows bypassing all levels of browser protection to execute code on the system outside of the sandbox environment. Details have not yet been disclosed, but it is known that the critical vulnerability is due to a buffer overflow in the ANGLE layer, responsible for translating OpenGL ES calls to OpenGL […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 129 has occurred, and updates for the previous long-term support versions—115.14.0 and 128.1.0—have been formed. The Firefox 130 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for September 3. Key innovations in Firefox 129 include: The HTTPS-First mode is activated by default, which makes the browser attempt to connect securely first when accessing a page over HTTP without encryption […]