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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

Release of Wine 8.7

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An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 8.7 — has been announced. Since the release of version 8.6, 17 bug reports have been closed and 228 changes have been made. The most important updates include continued work on adding full Wayland support. In the vkd3d component, an API has been implemented for parsing (vkd3d_shader_parse_dxbc) and serializing (vkd3d_shader_serialize_dxbc) DXBC binary data. Based on this API, calls to d3d10_effect_parse() have been implemented, […]

Microsoft will add Rust code to the Windows 11 kernel

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David Weston, Vice President of Microsoft responsible for Windows operating system security, shared information about the development of Windows protection mechanisms in his report at the BlueHat IL 2023 conference. Among other things, he mentioned progress in leveraging the Rust language to enhance the security of the Windows kernel. Moreover, it was stated that Rust-written code might be integrated into the Windows 11 kernel possibly as early as […]

Fedora 39 proposes to publish an atomically updatable Fedora Onyx build.

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Joshua Strobl, a key developer of the Budgie project, has published a proposal to include Fedora Onyx among the official Fedora builds. Fedora Onyx is an atomically updated version of Fedora Linux with the Budgie desktop environment, complementing the classic Fedora Budgie Spin and reminiscent of Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Sericea, and Fedora Kinoite editions that come with GNOME, Sway, and KDE. The Fedora Onyx edition is proposed to be provided starting […]

The Genode project has released the general-purpose OS Sculpt 23.04.

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The Sculpt 23.04 project release has been introduced, which is based on the Genode OS Framework technologies to develop a general-purpose operating system suitable for everyday tasks by average users. The project's source code is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. A LiveUSB image is available for download, sized at 28 MB. It supports operation on systems with Intel processors and graphics subsystems enabled […]

Release of Linguist 5.0, a browser extension for translating web pages.

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The release of the browser extension Linguist 5.0 has taken place, providing full-featured translation of pages, as well as selected and manually entered text. The extension also includes a dictionary with bookmarks and extensive configuration options, including adding custom translation modules in the settings page. The code is distributed under the BSD license. It supports operation in browsers based on the Chromium engine, Firefox, and Firefox for Android. Key changes in the new version: […]

The Solus 5 distribution will be based on SerpentOS technologies.

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As part of the ongoing reorganization of the Solus distribution, in addition to transitioning to a more transparent management model focused in the hands of the community and not dependent on one person, a decision has been announced to use technologies from the SerpentOS project in the development of Solus 5, which is being developed by the old Solus distribution development team, including Ikey Doherty (creator of Solus) and Joshua Strobl (key […]

Vulnerabilities in Git allow file overwrites or arbitrary code execution

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Corrective releases of the distributed version control system Git 2.40.1, 2.39.3, 2.38.5, 2.37.7, 2.36.6, 2.35.8, 2.34.8, 2.33.8, 2.32.7, 2.31.8, and 2.30.9 have been published, addressing five vulnerabilities. You can track the package updates for distributions on the pages of Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE/openSUSE, Fedora, Arch, FreeBSD. As a workaround for protecting against vulnerabilities, it is recommended to avoid executing the command […]

67% of public Apache Superset servers use a sample configuration access key

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Researchers from Horizon3 have pointed out security issues in most installations of the Apache Superset data analysis and visualization platform. Out of 3,176 studied public servers running Apache Superset, 2,124 were found to be using a generic encryption key that is set by default in the sample configuration file. This key is utilized in the Flask Python library to generate session cookies, allowing someone with knowledge of […]

Release of Qbs 2.0 build tool

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The Qbs 2.0 build tool release has been presented. Building Qbs requires Qt among its dependencies, although Qbs itself is designed for organizing the build of any projects. Qbs uses a simplified version of the QML language to define project build scripts, allowing for the definition of quite flexible build rules that can include external modules, use JavaScript functions, and create arbitrary rules […]

Firefox 112.0.2 update addressing a memory leak

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A corrective release of Firefox 112.0.2 is available, which fixes three issues: A bug causing excessive memory consumption when displaying animated images in minimized windows (or in windows covered by other windows) has been fixed. Among other things, the problem also manifests when using animated themes. The leak intensity with YouTube open is approximately 13 MB per second. The problem with […]

The Opera One web browser has been introduced, replacing the current Opera browser

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Testing has begun for the new web browser Opera One, which will replace the current Opera browser after stabilization. Opera One continues to use the Chromium engine and features a completely redesigned modular architecture, multi-threaded rendering organization, and new tab grouping capabilities. Builds of Opera One are prepared for Linux (deb, rpm, snap), Windows, and MacOS. The transition to a multi-threaded rendering engine has significantly […]

Red Hat begins job cuts

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The Director of Red Hat announced in an internal corporate newsletter about the upcoming layoffs of hundreds of employees. Currently, there are 2,200 employees in the Red Hat headquarters and another 19,000 working in branches around the world. The exact number of positions being cut has not been specified, only that layoffs will occur in several stages and will not affect […]

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