A new web browser, Pulse Browser, built on the Firefox codebase, is available for testing and experiments with ideas to enhance usability and build a minimalist interface. Builds are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS platforms. The code is distributed under the MPL 2.0 license. The browser is notable for cleaning the code of components related to telemetry collection and replacing some typical […]
Administrators of the Packagist package repository revealed information about an attack, resulting in the takeover of accounts managing 14 PHP libraries, including popular packages such as instantiator (526 million total installs, 8 million installs per month, 323 dependent packages), sql-formatter (94 million total installs, 800 thousand per month, 109 dependent packages), doctrine-cache-bundle (73 million […]
Google has released version 113 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which forms the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by incorporating Google logos, a crash notification system, modules for playback of copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, always-on Sandbox isolation, the delivery of keys to Google API, and transmission of […]
Google plans to upgrade the browser interface in Chrome version 117, scheduled for September 12, replacing the secure data transmission indicator, shown as a lock in the address bar, with a neutral 'settings' icon that doesn't evoke any associations with security. For connections established without encryption, the 'not secure' indicator will continue to be displayed. This change underscores that security is now a default state, […]
An experimental branch of the APT (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit has been released, from which a stable version 2.8 will be prepared after stabilization. This version will be integrated into Debian Testing and will be included in the release of Debian 13, as well as added to the package base of Ubuntu. In addition to Debian and its derivatives, the APT-RPM fork is also used in […]
A new repository called kop3 has been prepared, offering additional packages for RHEL8, Oracle Linux, CentOS, RockyLinux, and AlmaLinux. The project's aim is to prepare packages for programs that are not available in the EPEL and RPMForge repositories. For instance, the new repository offers packages for programs such as tkgate, telepathy, rest, iverilog, gnome-maps, gnome-chess, GNU Chess, gnome-weather, folks-tools, gnote, gnome-todo, djview4, and a viewer build […]
After five months of development, Cisco has released the free antivirus package ClamAV 1.1.0. The project was acquired by Cisco in 2013 following the purchase of Sourcefire, which developed ClamAV and Snort. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The 1.1.0 branch is classified as a regular (non-LTS) version, with updates being published for at least 4 months after […]
The animation studio Dreamworks has released the first update of the open rendering system OpenMoonRay 1.0, which employs ray tracing based on numerical integration using the Monte Carlo (MCRT) method. MoonRay focuses on delivering high efficiency and scalability, supporting multithreaded rendering, parallelization of operations, use of vector instructions (SIMD), realistic lighting simulation, and ray processing on both GPU and CPU, as well as realistic lighting simulation on […]
Valve has released an update for the Proton 8.0-2 project, which is based on the Wine codebase and aimed at ensuring the launch of gaming applications developed for Windows on Linux and available in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows users to directly run gaming applications available only for Windows in the Linux Steam client. The package includes an implementation of DirectX […]
Mozilla has announced the acquisition of the startup Fakespot, which develops a browser extension that uses machine learning to detect fake reviews, inflated ratings, fraudulent sellers, and deceptive discounts on marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Shopify, Sephora, and Best Buy. The extension is available for Chrome and Firefox browsers, as well as for mobile platforms iOS and Android. Mozilla plans to […]
The release of the Linux distribution Photon OS 5.0 has been announced, aimed at providing a minimalist host environment for running applications in isolated containers. The project is developed by VMware and is noted as suitable for deploying industrial applications, including additional elements to enhance security and offering extended optimizations for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Elastic Compute, and Google Compute Engine. The source codes […]
The seventh correction update of the Debian 11 distribution has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes for issues in the installer. The release includes 92 updates addressing stability problems and 102 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 11.7 include updates to newer stable versions of packages such as clamav, dpdk, flatpak, galera-3, intel-microcode, mariadb-10.5, nvidia-modprobe, postfix, postgresql-13, […]