Twitter's experiments with paid subscriptions as a way to combat spam and misinformation continue. There have already been rumors online that X's pricing policy will categorize subscribers into three levels in terms of ad display volume, but now a different experiment has launched in New Zealand and the Philippines, which involves charging $1 […]
More than two years have passed since 35 vulnerabilities were discovered in the caching proxy Squid, and most of them remain unpatched, warns the security expert who first reported these issues. In February 2021, security specialist Joshua Rogers analyzed Squid and identified 55 vulnerabilities in the codebase. To date, […]
The official releases of the Fedora Linux distribution, which utilize atomic system updates, have proposed the use of a single name, Fedora Atomic Desktop, for builds that do not separate into individual packages and update atomically. For naming atomic editions, it is suggested to use the name 'Fedora desktop_name Atomic', for example, if an atomic build with Xfce appears, it will be distributed as […]
Oracle has released a patch version of the VirtualBox virtualization system, 7.0.12, which includes 24 fixes. At the same time, an update for the previous branch, VirtualBox 6.1.48, has been formed with 9 changes, including support for Linux kernels 6.5 and 6.6-rc, support for kernel packages from OpenSUSE 15.5, improved support for Linux kernel 6.4, and fixes for kernel packages from RHEL 8.9 and […]
Sonatype, specializing in defending against attacks that manipulate software components and dependency substitution (supply chain), has published the results of a study (PDF, 62 pages) on issues with dependencies and maintenance of open projects in Java, JavaScript, Python, and .NET presented in Maven Central, NPM, PyPl, and Nuget repositories. Over the year, an increase in the number of projects in the monitored open ecosystems has been observed […]
The release of the free UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 7.4 has been announced. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 after a conflict with the NetBSD developers, which resulted in Theo being denied access to the NetBSD CVS repository. Following this, Theo de Raadt and a group of like-minded individuals created a new open-source project based on the source tree of NetBSD […]
Today, October 16, 2023, a new release of OpenBSD has been launched — version 7.4. This marks the 55th release, and as usual, the new version is full of improvements, such as the introduction of microcode update functionality for AMD processors, including a fix for the 'Zenbleed' bug; updates to DRM and graphics drivers; numerous enhancements to the SMP subsystem (with fewer locks in the kernel!); […]
The release of OpenSilver 2.0 has been announced, continuing the development of the Silverlight platform and allowing the creation of interactive web applications using C#, XAML, and .NET technologies. Applications compiled with OpenSilver can run in any desktop and mobile browsers that support WebAssembly, but compilation is currently only possible on Windows using Visual Studio. The project's code is written in […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2023-5178) has been identified in the nvmet-tcp (NVMe-oF/TCP) Linux subsystem, which allows accessing NVMe drives over the network (NVM Express over Fabrics) using the TCP protocol. This vulnerability potentially enables remote code execution at the kernel level or, with local access, privilege escalation in the system. A patch is currently available for the fix. The issue manifests from the very first version of the NVMe-oF/TCP driver (in the report […]
The release of the lightweight MX Linux 23.1 distribution has been published, created as a result of collaboration among communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects. The release is based on a Debian package base with improvements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. The distribution uses the sysVinit initialization system and its own tools for system configuration and deployment. 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available for download […]
The Window Maker Live 0.96 distribution has been released, offering a user environment based on the Window Maker 0.96 window manager with a NEXTSTEP-style interface. The system environment is based on the Linux kernel 6.4.4 and packages from Debian 12.2. Builds are prepared for amd64 and i386 architectures (2.7 GB). It includes GNUstep components available in Debian repositories, which are placed in a separate […]
The release of the Slackel 7.7 distribution has been announced, built on the developments of the Slackware and Salix projects, and fully compatible with the repositories they offer. A key feature of Slackel is the use of a constantly updated Slackware-Current branch. The graphical environment is based on the Openbox window manager. The size of the boot image, which can operate in live mode, is 2.7 GB (i386 and x86_64). The new release is synchronized with the current branch of Slackware and […]