After ten months of development, the release of the Endless OS 5.1 distribution has been presented, aimed at creating an easy-to-use system where users can quickly find applications to their liking. Applications are distributed as standalone packages in Flatpak format. The size of the available installation images ranges from 1.1 to 18 GB. The distribution does not use traditional package managers, instead offering a minimal […]
The release of Alpine Linux 3.19 is available, a minimalist distribution built on the Musl system library and BusyBox utilities. The distribution features enhanced security requirements and is built with SSP (Stack Smashing Protection). OpenRC is used for initialization, and its own package manager apk is used for package management. Alpine is used for creating official Docker container images and […]
After four months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 255 has been announced. Among the most important improvements are: support for exporting storage through NVMe-TCP, the systemd-bsod component for full-screen error messages, the systemd-vmspawn utility for launching virtual machines, the varlinkctl utility for managing Varlink services, the systemd-pcrlock utility for analyzing TPM2 PCR registers and generating access rules, and the pam_systemd_loadkey.so authentication module. Key changes […]
McDonald’s announced a partnership with Google to implement generative AI starting in 2024. This move, aimed at the company's technological update, promises to radically transform the chain's operational processes, offering customers better service and fresher food. Image source: Waid1995 / Pixabay Source: 3dnews.ru
Andrew Lukoshko, Chief Engineer Hello everyone! Today the AlmaLinux OS Foundation is excited to share some important news regarding our ELevate project (a project that helps migrate between major versions of RHEL derivatives). Previously, ELevate supported only official repositories (completely excluding third-party ones). However, the AlmaLinux team has made significant improvements! We are happy to announce that the first step has been taken, and EPEL support is now enabled in […]
A group of researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has presented a new attack technique called SLAM (Spectre Linear Address Masking), offering a new way to exploit the Spectre class of microarchitectural vulnerabilities, in which data leakage occurs when translating non-canonical addresses, and new processor extensions for masking linear addresses are used to bypass canonical checks. Researchers have released a toolkit implementing this method and proposed […]
Google has released version 120 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the basis for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by using Google logos, having a crash notification system, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, always-on Sandbox isolation, providing keys to Google API, and transmitting when […]
The release of Fedora Linux 40 plans to implement the second stage of the transition to the modernized boot process proposed by Lennart Poettering. Differences from classic booting involve using a unified kernel image (UKI) instead of an initrd image generated on the local system during the package installation. This UKI is generated within the distribution's infrastructure and is digitally signed by the distribution. The proposal is still […]
The software radio systems Radio Access Network project, or srsRAN, aims to implement the 4G/LTE and 5G stacks. Previously, the project was known as srsLTE. Key changes compared to the previous version include: fixes to srsUE related to bandwidths of 5, 10, 15, and 20 MHz, a new algorithm for frequency calculation, an updated cmake, and several bug fixes improving stability […]
A corrective release of 3.6.2 of the fish interactive command shell has occurred, addressing the CVE-2023-49284 vulnerability. The fish shell uses certain Unicode characters for internal wildcard and extension marking. This incorrect approach allowed these characters to appear in the command substitution output instead of converting them into a safe internal representation. Although this may cause unexpected behavior with direct input (for example, […]
After five months of development, the release of the open-source game engine Godot 4.2, suitable for creating 2D and 3D games, has been published. The engine supports an easy-to-learn language for game logic, a graphical environment for game design, a one-click game deployment system, extensive animation capabilities, and a physical simulation system, along with a built-in debugger and performance bottleneck detection system. The game code […]
The programming language Hare, marketed as a systems programming language that is easier than C but close to it, has added support for the OpenBSD operating system. OpenBSD is the first new platform added to Hare since the project's initial release in April 2022, which originally supported only Linux and FreeBSD. The Hare compiler was ported to OpenBSD about a year […]