After eight months of development, the release of the Exim mail server 4.98 has been published, incorporating accumulated fixes and added new features. The project's code is written in C and distributed under the GPLv2+ license. According to the automated survey conducted in June of approximately 400,000 mail servers, Exim holds a share of 59.06% (up from 55.93% a year ago), while Postfix is used on 34.68% (down from 37.40%) of mail servers […]
The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 3.1.3 has been published, designed for quick disk cloning (only used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to those of the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the distribution's ISO image is 457MB (i686, amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, udpcast. Booting from CD/DVD is possible […]
The Ænix team has introduced a new project, etcd-await-election, which enables the 'leader election' operation across multiple nodes using the distributed storage etcd, ensuring that only one instance of the process runs in cluster environments. The project continues the development of the k8s-await-election idea, guaranteeing the exclusive launch of a user process only after the election of the leading service instance, but unlike it, does not […]
Hackers have discovered a vulnerability in Windows that allows attacks via the long-discontinued Internet Explorer browser, despite Microsoft's security measures. This involves files with the .url and .hta shortcut extensions. If a user confirms their opening, malware is immediately downloaded onto their computer. Cybersecurity experts from Check Point have uncovered a new scheme for attacking computers […]
The release of DXVK 2.4 is now available, offering an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 8, 9, 10, and 11, functioning through the call translation to the Vulkan API. To use DXVK, drivers that support API Vulkan 1.3 are required, such as Mesa RADV 22.0, NVIDIA 510.47.03, Intel ANV 22.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games […]
Experienced excavator operators are familiar with a trick that allows them to send the contents of the bucket beyond the reach of the arm. A neural network-equipped robo-excavator has proven to be a diligent learner, also mastering the precise throwing of rocks beyond the arm's reach. Next up is tossing bulk materials and improving accuracy for bucket operations at varying heights. Insights into the training process of the robo-excavator's neural network for precise manipulation of bucket contents have been reported […]
A change has been made to GNOME settings, switching the interface to use the Inter font by default, optimized for achieving high character clarity at small and medium sizes (less than 12px) when displayed on computer screens. It’s possible that this change may be reverted before the fall release of GNOME 47 if user testing deems it unsuccessful. In the default mode, the font […]
Alpha versions of Simply Linux alpha1 images for Raspberry Pi 5 and Repka Pi 3 based on p11 have been prepared. Download links: img.xz tar.xz The image is designed for use on Raspberry Pi 5, 4, 3, and Repka Pi 3: by default, it uses kernel 5.15.92-rpi-def-alt2, which also supports Repka Pi 3; on the FAT partition, kernel 6.6.23-rpi-un-alt1 for Raspberry Pi is installed […]
A group of researchers from several American universities and companies Cloudflare and Microsoft has developed a new attack technique on the RADIUS protocol, used by telecommunications operators, cloud services, and VPN providers for user authentication, authorization, and accounting. The attack, codename Blast-RADIUS, allows for spoofing the response of a RADIUS server during authentication, enabling subscriber connection without knowledge of the access password. To exploit […]
The release of version 6.2.0 of the fast command-line text search utility ugrep has taken place. This tool is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD-3 license. Change log: improved support for the deprecated environment variable GREP_COLOR; improved Docker files; improved option autocompletion for zsh; improved search with the -% (—bool) option when specifying multiple search patterns; improved search with the -Q (—query) option in combination with options […]
Firefox 128 is now available, along with the long-term support branch (ESR 128). Despite the release of the new branch, the developers have decided to extend the support of the previous ESR release (ESR 115) indefinitely, as this is the only version that maintains support for Windows 7, which constitutes 10% of Firefox's user base. Key changes: Linux: DMABuf support has been enabled on NVIDIA graphics cards (requires driver version 545.23.6 or […]
The developers of the Hurd project have announced that it is now possible to build 71% of the Debian archive packages in the Debian GNU/Hurd distribution. Last year, this figure was 58%. Other achievements of GNU/Hurd include the porting of the Mach kernel for the AArch64 architecture and the acceptance of patches allowing the use of GCC for building GNU/Hurd programs for AArch64. Currently, the port does not yet provide all the desired […]