On September 13, HyperDX, a monitoring and debugging tool that allows you to collate logs, traces, and user sessions in one place, was published on Github. The source code is available and distributed under the MIT license. HyperDX helps engineers understand the causes of production failures and solve problems faster. Open source alternative to Datadog and New Relic. Can be deployed on your own [...]
After 6 months of development, GNOME 45 was released under the code name “Rīga”. The new release is already available in experimental builds of Fedora 39 and Ubuntu 23.10. The GNOME Project is an international community supported by a non-profit foundation with a focus on quality user experience, world-class internationalization, and accessibility. Major changes: • New virtual desktop indicator and removal of […]
Angie is an efficient, powerful and scalable web server that was built on top of nginx by some of its former core developers with the intention of extending functionality far beyond the original version. Distributed under the BSD license. Angie is a complete replacement for nginx, so you can use your existing nginx configuration without major changes. An important feature of Angie is that the project receives […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2-2023) has been identified in the driver that provides work with the NTFS file system in the GRUB4692 bootloader, which allows its code to be executed at the bootloader level when accessing a specially designed file system image. The vulnerability can be used to bypass the UEFI Secure Boot verified boot mechanism. The vulnerability is caused by an error in the parsing code for the NTFS attribute “$ATTRIBUTE_LIST” (grub-core/fs/ntfs.c), which can be used to write […]
ComputerBase reports that the built-in RGB backlight control function has become available to all users of the Windows 11 operating system. Image source: Tom's Hardware Source: 3dnews.ru
As industry sources have already noted, the Japanese TSMC project is moving forward in its implementation much faster than the American one, and there are a number of reasons for this. Now the company is already starting to install equipment at a joint venture under construction in Japan, and TSMC will be able to start producing chips using 28-nm technology before the end of next year. Image source: Ninnek Asian Review, Toshiki SasazuSource: […]
The majority of accidents involving automatically controlled vehicles now occur between two or more cars; pedestrians or cyclists are still much less likely to suffer in them, but recently in San Francisco a woman fell under the wheels of an unmanned Cruise taxi after she was hit by the driver of another vehicle facilities. Image source: NBC Bay AreaSource: 3dnews.ru
Version 1.3 of the fwmx software suite has been released, including the window manager itself (fwm), an application launch menu and a volume control. xxkb is used as a layout indicator. What's new since the last release (v1.2): added a root daemon for monitoring the battery status and controlling the screen backlight on laptops, and corresponding elements on the taskbar; improved behavior when drag&drop […]
In the next release of Firefox, we decided to change some settings related to restoring an interrupted session after exiting the browser. Unlike previous releases, information about not only active tabs, but also recently closed tabs will be saved between sessions, allowing you to restore accidentally closed tabs after a restart and view a list of them in Firefox View. By […]
ARM has disclosed three vulnerabilities in its GPU drivers used in Android, ChromeOS and Linux distributions. The vulnerabilities allow an unprivileged local user to execute their code with kernel rights. An October report on security issues in the Android platform mentions that before a fix is available, one of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-4211) has already been used by attackers in working exploits […]
Qualys has identified a dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2023-4911) in the ld.so linker, supplied as part of the Glibc system C library (GNU libc). The vulnerability allows a local user to elevate their privileges in the system by specifying specially formatted data in the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable before running an executable file with the suid root flag, for example, /usr/bin/su. The ability to successfully exploit the vulnerability has been demonstrated in Fedora 37 and 38, […]
After a year of development, the significant release of the Python 3.12 programming language has been published. The new branch will be supported for one and a half years, after which for another three and a half years, fixes will be generated for it to eliminate vulnerabilities. At the same time, alpha testing of the Python 3.13 branch began, which introduced a CPython build mode without a global interpreter lock (GIL, Global Interpreter Lock). Python branch […]
