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The ROSA Mobile mobile OS and the R-FON smartphone are officially presented

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JSC "STC IT ROSA" officially presented the mobile operating system ROSA Mobile (ROSA Mobile) and the Russian smartphone R-FON. The user interface of ROSA Mobile is built on the basis of the open platform KDE Plasma Mobile, developed by the KDE project. The system is included in the register of the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation (No. 16453) and, despite the use of developments from the international community, is positioned as a Russian development. The platform uses mobile […]

Zulip 8 messaging platform available

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Presented is the release of Zulip 8, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers suitable for organizing communication between employees and development teams. The project was originally developed by Zulip and opened after its takeover by Dropbox under an Apache 2.0 license. The server side code is written in Python using the Django framework. The client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and […]

Release of OS Qubes 4.2.0 using virtualization for application isolation

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After almost two years of development, the release of the Qubes 4.2.0 operating system was presented, implementing the idea of ​​​​using a hypervisor to strictly isolate applications and OS components (each class of applications and system services runs in separate virtual machines). For operation, a system with 16 GB of RAM (minimum 6 GB) and a 64-bit Intel or AMD CPU with support for VT-x technologies is recommended […]

Apple will try to circumvent the ban on sales of smart watches Watch

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This week, Apple will be forced to stop selling Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 smartwatches, as well as refurbished Watch Series 8 copies in the United States, as required by a decision by the US International Trade Commission following a patent dispute with Masimo. Sources say Apple will try to circumvent the ban by later proposing changes to […]

Foxconn will test its first satellites in orbit throughout 2024

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Last month, the Taiwanese company Foxconn, with the help of a SpaceX mission, launched its first two experimental communications satellites into orbit, created and prepared for launch with the help of the National Central University of Taiwan and Exolaunch specialists. The satellites successfully made contact; the company intends to continue testing them until the end of next year, in order to then begin expanding its core business. Source […]

The Mesa radv driver now supports Vulkan extensions for h.265 video encoding

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David Airlie, maintainer of the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) subsystem in the Linux kernel, announced the implementation in radv, supplied in the Mesa Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs, the ability to use Vulkan extensions for hardware acceleration of video encoding. For the h.265 video format, the implementation has already successfully passed all CTS (Compatibility Test Suite) tests, but for the h.264 format there is only one test that has failed. […]

Release of OpenSSH 9.6 with elimination of vulnerabilities

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The release of OpenSSH 9.6 has been published, an open implementation of a client and server for working using the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. The new version fixes three security issues: A vulnerability in the SSH protocol (CVE-2023-48795, “Terrapin” attack), which allows a MITM attack to roll back the connection to use less secure authentication algorithms and disable protection against side-channel attacks that recreate input via […]

Terrapin - a vulnerability in the SSH protocol that allows you to reduce connection security

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A group of researchers from the Ruhr University in Bochum (Germany) presented a new MITM attack technique on SSH - Terrapin, which exploits a vulnerability (CVE-2023-48795) in the protocol. An attacker capable of organizing a MITM attack has the ability, during the connection negotiation process, to block the sending of a message by configuring protocol extensions to reduce the connection security level. A prototype of the attack toolkit has been published on GitHub. In the context of OpenSSH, a vulnerability […]

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