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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

The collaborative development platform SourceHut was down for 7 days due to a DDoS attack

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The developers of the collaborative development platform SourceHut published an incident report detailing how the service was disrupted for 7 days due to a prolonged DDoS attack, for which the project's infrastructure was unprepared. Basic services were restored by the third day, but some services remained unavailable from January 10 to January 17. At the onset of the attack, the developers were unable to respond […]

Release of Wayland-Protocols 1.33.

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After six months of development, the release of the wayland-protocols package 1.33 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that enhance the capabilities of the base Wayland protocol and provide the necessary tools for building composite servers and user environments. All protocols go through three phases: development, testing, and stabilization. Upon completion of the development phase (the 'unstable' category), the protocol is moved to the 'staging' branch and officially included in […]

Hans Reiser commented on the deprecation of ReiserFS.

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On the Linux kernel developers' mailing list, letters received by one of the developers during correspondence with Hans Reiser, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008 for murdering his wife during an argument and attempting to cover up the crime (in 2027, Hans will be eligible to apply for parole), have been published. In the released letters, Hans expresses regret about […]

Release of Hangover 9.0, a package for running Windows applications on ARM64 systems.

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A new branch of the Hangover project has been released, allowing 32-bit Windows applications built for x86 (i386) and ARM32 architectures to run in environments based on the ARM64 (Aarch64) architecture. A variant of Hangover for the RISC-V architecture is currently in development. The release is based on the Wine 9.0 codebase, as reflected in the version number. The project's developments are distributed under the LGPL-2.1 license. The project provides a significant improvement in […]

Release of the Tesseract 5.3.4 text recognition system

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The release of the Tesseract 5.3.4 optical character recognition system has been announced, supporting UTF-8 character recognition and texts in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. The output can be saved as plain text as well as in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. The system was originally created between 1985 and 1995 in a laboratory at Hewlett Packard, in […]

Google will change search results for EU residents in accordance with DMA requirements

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Google is preparing for the implementation of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in March 2024. Under the DMA, Google is classified as a "gatekeeper," which includes companies with more than 45 million active users per month and a market capitalization of over €75 billion ($81.2 billion). The most noticeable changes will occur in the search engine — where Google may display […]

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will receive additional performance optimizations for GNOME

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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the upcoming LTS release of the operating system from Canonical, promises to bring a range of performance optimizations for the GNOME desktop environment. The new improvements aim to enhance efficiency and usability, especially for users with multiple monitors and those utilizing Wayland sessions. In addition to the triple buffering patches for GNOME, which are not yet included in the main branch of Mutter, Ubuntu […]

Update X.Org Server 21.1.11 addresses 6 vulnerabilities

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Correction releases X.Org Server 21.1.11 and the DDX component (Device-Dependent X) xwayland 23.2.4 have been published, enabling the X.Org Server to run X11 applications in Wayland-based environments. The new versions address 6 vulnerabilities, some of which may be exploited to escalate privileges in systems where the X server runs with root rights, as well as for remote code execution […]

PixieFAIL — vulnerabilities in the UEFI firmware network stack used for PXE booting

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Nine vulnerabilities, collectively named PixieFAIL, have been identified in UEFI firmwares based on the open platform TianoCore EDK2, which are commonly used in server systems. These vulnerabilities exist in the network stack of the firmware used for network booting (PXE). The most critical ones allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute remote code at the firmware level in systems that permit PXE booting using IPv6 networks. […]

Support for ThinkPad X201 has been removed from Libreboot

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Builds have also been removed from rsync, and the build logic has been taken out of lbmk. It has been found that the fan control fails on this motherboard when using a trimmed Intel ME image. This issue seems to affect only these older Arrandale machines; the problem was detected on the X201 but likely also impacts the Thinkpad T410 and other notebooks. This issue does not affect […]

MySQL Database Management System 8.3.0 is available.

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Oracle has created a new branch of the MySQL database, version 8.3, and has released a corrective update for MySQL 8.0.36. MySQL Community Server 8.3.0 builds are prepared for all major Linux distributions, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows. MySQL 8.3.0 is the third release formed under the new release model, which includes two types of MySQL branches — 'Innovation' and 'LTS'. The Innovation branches, which […]

Release of VirtualBox 7.0.14

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Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox virtualization system version 7.0.14, which includes 14 fixes. At the same time, an update for the previous branch VirtualBox 6.1.50 has been formed with 7 changes, including support for packages with kernels from RHEL distributions 9.4 and 8.9, as well as the implementation of the ability to import and export virtual machine images with NVMe storage controllers and a medium inserted in […]

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