Author: ProHoster

The Fedora project introduced the Fedora Slimbook laptop

The Fedora project presented the Fedora Slimbook ultrabook, prepared in collaboration with the Spanish equipment supplier Slimbook. The device is optimized for the Fedora Linux distribution and is specially tested to achieve a high level of environmental stability and software compatibility with hardware. The initial cost of the device is stated at 1799 euros, with 3% of the proceeds from the sale of devices planned to be donated to the […]

Buffer overflow in curl and libcurl, manifested when accessing through a SOCKS5 proxy

A vulnerability (CVE-2023-38545) has been identified in the utility for receiving and sending data over the curl network and the libcurl library, which is being developed in parallel, which can lead to a buffer overflow and potentially execution of attacker code on the client side when accessed using the curl utility or an application using libcurl, to an HTTPS server controlled by the attacker. The problem only appears when enabled in curl […]

Nokia has set a new speed record for transoceanic data transmission - 800 Gbit/s on a single wavelength

Nokia Bell Labs researchers have set a new world record for data transfer speeds across a transoceanic optical link. Engineers were able to achieve 800 Gbit/s over a distance of 7865 km using a single wavelength. The named distance, as noted, is twice the distance that modern equipment provides when working with the specified throughput. The value is approximately equal to the geographical distance between […]

Applications for papers at the LibrePlanet 2024 conference are now open

The Open Source Foundation is accepting applications from those wishing to speak at the LibrePlanet 2024 conference, held for activists, hackers, legal professionals, artists, educators, students, politicians and simply technology lovers who respect user freedom and want to discuss current issues. The conference welcomes newcomers, both as speakers and as visitors. The conference will take place in March 2024 […]

Vulnerabilities in X.Org libraries, two of which have been present since 1988

Information has been released about five vulnerabilities in the libX11 and libXpm libraries developed by the X.Org project. The issues were resolved in libXpm 3.5.17 and libX11 1.8.7 releases. Three vulnerabilities have been identified in the libx11 library, which offers functions with a client implementation of the X11 protocol: CVE-2023-43785 - a buffer overflow in the libX11 code, which manifests itself when processing a response from an X server with a number of characters that does not match […]

iptables packet filter release 1.8.10

The classic packet filter management toolkit iptables 1.8.10 has been released, the development of which has recently focused on components for maintaining backward compatibility - iptables-nft and ebtables-nft, providing utilities with the same command line syntax as in iptables and ebtables, but translating the resulting rules into nftables bytecode. The original set of iptables programs, including ip6tables, arptables and ebtables, in […]

By 2025, AMD could win up to 30% of the AI ​​accelerator market from NVIDIA

Well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo took it upon himself to say that next year AMD computing accelerators used in the field of artificial intelligence systems (mainly Instinct MI300A) will occupy no more than 10% of the market, and the remaining 90% will belong to NVIDIA. Already in 2025, the balance of power will change, as AMD accelerators will strengthen their position to […]

TECNO PHANTOM is an example of how flagship smartphones bend

TECNO is breaking into the folding smartphone market in full force – following the spring smartphone that turns into a tablet, TECNO PHANTOM V Fold, the TECNO PHANTOM V Flip 5G clamshell was born. Thus, the company emphasizes that now flagships must bend Source: 3dnews.ru

Firefox Update 118.0.2

A maintenance release of Firefox 118.0.2 is available, which includes the following fixes: Issues with downloading games from betsoft.com have been resolved. Problems with printing some SVG images have been fixed. Fixed a regression change in branch 118 that caused processing of "WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate" responses from other sites to stop working. Fixed a bug due to which WebRTC decoding did not work in some contexts […]