Author: ProHoster

New version of the operating system Viola Education 10.2

The company "Basalt SPO" has released a new version of the operating system for educational organizations - "Alt Education" 10.2, built on the basis of the Tenth ALT platform (p10). The assemblies are prepared for the x86_64, AArch64 (Baikal-M) and i586 platforms. The OS is intended for everyday use by preschool organizations, schools, universities, and secondary specialized educational institutions. The product is supplied under a License Agreement, which provides the opportunity for free use [...]

Windows 11 is installed on more than 400 million devices - by the beginning of 2024 there will be 500 million

Today, the audience of Windows 11 is more than 400 million active users per month, and by the beginning of 2024 this figure will exceed the 500 million mark. This was reported by the Windows Central resource with reference to “internal Microsoft data.” This indicates that Windows 11 is being adopted at a slower pace than its predecessor: Windows 10 reached 400 million active devices in less than […]

Vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE used to install a backdoor

In the implementation of the web interface used on physical and virtual Cisco devices equipped with the Cisco IOS XE operating system, a critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-20198) has been identified, which allows, without authentication, to gain full access to the system with the maximum level of privileges, if you have access to network port through which the web interface operates. The danger of the problem is aggravated by the fact that attackers have been using an uncorrected […]

New GNOME Foundation Executive Director Appointed

The GNOME Foundation, which oversees the development of the GNOME user environment, announced the appointment of Holly Million to the post of executive director, which had been vacant since August last year after the departure of Neil McGovern. The Executive Director is responsible for the management and development of the GNOME Foundation as an organization, as well as liaising with the Board of Directors, Advisory Board and […]

Russian authorities are considering the possibility of creating a platform for software development based on neural networks

The Federation Council proposed that the Ministry of Digital Development create, at the expense of the budget, a state platform for the development of artificial intelligence to provide developers with access to computing infrastructure and data for the development of software based on neural networks. Kommersant writes about this with reference to the decision of the Council for the Development of the Digital Economy under the Federation Council. Image source: PixabaySource: 3dnews.ru

Social network X will try to fight bots with mandatory subscriptions

The former Twitter's experiments with using paid subscriptions as a way to combat spam and misinformation continue unabated. There have already been rumors online that X's pricing policy will divide subscribers into three tiers in terms of ad exposure, but now another experiment has started in New Zealand and the Philippines that involves charging $1 […]

A video of the upright humanoid robot Figure 01 has been published - even Intel has invested in it

The American startup Figure presented the first video of the humanoid robot Figure 01 walking, designed to someday replace people when performing heavy mechanical work. The company is rapidly developing the project, teaching the robot to walk with balance in less than one year. Next up is a demonstration of manual work and training the robot to work as a loader in a warehouse. Image source: FigureSource: 3dnews.ru

Dozens of vulnerabilities in Squid have not been fixed for 2,5 years

More than two years have passed since the discovery of 35 vulnerabilities in the Squid caching proxy, and most of them are still not fixed, warns the security expert who first reported the problems. In February 2021, security specialist Joshua Rogers conducted an analysis of Squid and identified 55 vulnerabilities in the project's code. By now there have been […]

Fedora Atomic Desktop Initiative

The maintainers of the official editions of the Fedora Linux distribution, which use atomic system updates, have taken the initiative to use a single name Fedora Atomic Desktop for assemblies whose contents are not divided into separate packages and are updated atomically. To name atomic editions, it is proposed to use the name “Fedora desktop_name Atomic”, for example, if an atomic build appears with Xfce, it will be distributed as […]