The messenger has introduced a special currency for purchasing e-books, online courses, and other digital goods from bots and mini-apps. Thanks to the new 'Stars' system, Telegram's vast audience will gain access to digital content purchases. The currency complies with the requirements of the App Store and Google Play. Image source: Telegram Source: 3dnews.ru
The release of the Tesseract 5.4.0 optical character recognition system has been published, supporting UTF-8 character recognition and texts in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. Results can be saved as plain text or in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. The system was originally developed between 1985 and 1995 in a laboratory of Hewlett Packard, in […]
Developers from Red Hat have begun forming builds of CentOS Stream 10 and created a repository with packages signed with a digital signature. The presented branch is used for the development of the significant upcoming release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. CentOS Stream allows early access to the features of the future RHEL branch but includes packages that are not fully stabilized yet. Builds of CentOS Stream 10 […]
The release of the blendOS 4 distribution has been announced, utilizing container isolation to ensure coexistence of packages from various Linux distributions within a single system. In addition to packages from the Arch Linux distribution, which is used in the base environment, and universal packages in Flatpak format, there is the option to install packages from Fedora 39, Debian 13 (testing branch), CentOS Stream, and Ubuntu 22.04 (packages are installed in […]
Developers from the KDE project have introduced the release of the note-taking application KleverNotes 1.0, which is built using the Kirigami framework and can be used on both desktops and mobile devices. When writing notes, it is suggested to use Markdown formatting, the results of which are displayed immediately in the preview area. Additionally, a task list (TODO) mode is supported, along with the insertion of basic […]
Debian developer Luca Boccassi has announced the transition of Debian to using tmpfs in /tmp and the cleaning of /tmp and /var/tmp by default on a timer, starting with Debian 13 'Trixie'. In the new systems, files in /tmp will either disappear along with the previous instance of tmpfs in memory after a restart, or will be removed daily by timer if they are older than 10 [...]
The release of the MariaDB 11.4.2 database management system has been published, which is marked as the first stable release of the 11.4 branch. The MariaDB 11.4 branch is classified as a long-term support release and will be maintained for at least 5 years. At the same time, the release of MariaDB 11.5.1, which has a candidate for release status, is available, and the 11.6 branch has been created to develop new functionality. The MariaDB project is developing a fork [...]
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-5171) has been identified in the libaom library, developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), which provides a reference implementation of the AV1 video coding format, leading to integer overflow and out-of-bounds write when processing excessively large values in some parameters. A similar vulnerability (CVE-2024-5197) has been found in the libvpx library, which implements the VP8 and VP9 codecs. The issues have been addressed in updates [...]
Google has announced the acquisition of Cameyo, a firm developing a virtual app delivery service (VAD) that allows applications to run in the cloud, which can be provided by a third-party vendor or run on their own servers. The reason for the acquisition is cited as the intention to integrate Cameyo’s technology into the ChromeOS ecosystem, enabling functionality for applications designed for [...]
The release of the Kali Linux 2024.2 distribution, based on the Debian package base and designed for testing systems for vulnerabilities, conducting audits, analyzing residual information, and assessing the impact of malicious attacks, has been presented. All original developments created within the distribution are distributed under the GPL license and are available through a public Git repository. Several variants of ISO images, sized at 495 MB [...], have been prepared for download.
The release of media player VLC 3.0.21 has been published, which fixes a potential vulnerability (CVE not assigned) that could lead to writing data to an out-of-bounds memory area when processing improperly formatted data in the MMS (Microsoft Media Server) handler. The vulnerability could theoretically be exploited when attempting to load content from malicious servers using the URL "mms://". Other changes: For systems with GPU […]
The release of the nxs-backup 3.7.0 backup toolkit has been published, allowing users to create backups, rotate them, and store them in local or external storage. In addition to file backups, it supports creating backups for various databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis. The project code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Backups can be stored both locally and in remote storage (S3, FTP, SSH, […]