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Incident with the substitution of obscene expressions in the Ubuntu 23.10 installer

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Shortly after the release of Ubuntu 23.10, users were faced with the inability to download assemblies of the desktop edition of the distribution, which were removed from the boot servers due to an emergency replacement of installation images. The replacement was caused by an incident, as a result of which the vandal managed to ensure that offensive anti-Semitic expressions and obscenities were included in files with translations of installer messages into Ukrainian (translation). Proceedings have been initiated into how […]

New article: Microelectromechanics - the right path to “smart dust”?

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Microelectromechanical systems can be considered as an intermediate stage on the path to futuristic nanomachines - and at the current level of technology, unlike the latter, it is quite achievable. However, is it possible in principle to continue to effectively reduce the scale of current MEMS - without compromising their functionality? Source: 3dnews.ru

Hackers infected dozens of developers' games on Steam with malware

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Valve reported that some time ago, attackers hacked the accounts of several dozen developers on the Steam platform and added malware to their games. It is noted that the attack affected less than 100 Steam users. Valve promptly warned them of the danger via email. Image source: ValveSource: 3dnews.ru

Fujitsu is preparing a 2nm 150-core MONAKA Arm server processor with support for PCIe 6.0 and CXL 3.0

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Fujitsu held a briefing for the media and analysts at the Kawasaki plant this week, where it talked about the development of the MONAKA server processor, which is scheduled to appear on the market in 2027, writes the resource MONOist. The company first announced the creation of a new generation of CPUs in the spring of this year, and the Japanese government allocated part of the funds for development. As reported by Naoki […]

Ubuntu 23.10 distribution release

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The release of the Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur” distribution has been published, which is classified as an intermediate release, updates for which are generated within 9 months (support will be provided until July 2024). Ready-made installation images are created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, UbuntuKylin (Chinese edition), Ubuntu Unity, Edubuntu and Ubuntu Cinnamon. Basic […]

Release of P2P VPN 0.11.3

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The release of P2P VPN 0.11.3 took place - an implementation of a decentralized virtual private network that works on the Peer-To-Peer principle, in which participants are connected to each other, and not through a central server. Network participants can find each other through a BitTorrent tracker or BitTorrent DHT, or through other network participants (peer exchange). The application is a free and open analogue of VPN Hamachi, written in [...]

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 open engine release - fheroes2 - 1.0.9

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The fheroes2 1.0.9 project is now available, which recreates the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine from scratch. The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. To run the game, files with game resources are required, which can be obtained from the original game Heroes of Might and Magic II. Main changes: Expanded “hot keys” window. Full window […]

Open Image Denoise 2.1 library for removing noise from images is available

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Intel has published the release of the oidn 2.1 (Open Image Denoise) project, which develops a collection of filters for denoising images prepared using ray tracing rendering systems. Open Image Denoise is being developed as part of a larger oneAPI Rendering Toolkit project aimed at developing software-based scientific rendering visualization tools (SDVis (Software Defined Visualization)), including a ray tracing […]

The YandexGPT 2 neural network successfully passed the Unified State Exam in Literature

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The large language model YandexGPT 2, developed by Yandex, coped with several versions of the Unified State Examination in literature, receiving an average score of 55 points. This is higher than the minimum threshold required for admission to a university (40 points) and close to the average score (64 points) that Russian schoolchildren receive when they choose a given subject and specially prepare for the exam. Image source: YandexSource: 3dnews.ru

55 vulnerabilities have been identified in the Squid proxy server, 35 of which have not yet been fixed

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The results of an independent security audit of the open caching proxy server Squid, conducted in 2021, have been published. During the inspection of the project's code base, 55 vulnerabilities were identified, of which 35 problems have not yet been fixed by the developers (0-day). The Squid developers were notified of the problems two and a half years ago, but never completed work to fix them. […]

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