Oracle has published a corrective release of the virtualization system VirtualBox 7.0.8, which notes 21 fixes. At the same time, an update to the previous branch of VirtualBox 6.1.44 was formed with 4 changes, including improved detection of systemd usage, support for the Linux 6.3 kernel, and a fix for vboxvide build issues with kernels from RHEL 8.7, 9.1 and 9.2. Major changes in VirtualBox 7.0.8: Provided […]
Fedora Linux 38 distribution released. Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora IoT Edition and Live builds are prepared for download, delivered in the form of spins with desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, Phosh, LXQt, Budgie and Sway. Assemblies are generated for x86_64, Power64 and ARM64 (AArch64) architectures. Publishing Fedora Silverblue builds […]
A RedPajama collaborative project is presented to create open machine learning models and accompanying training inputs that can be used to build intelligent assistants that compete with commercial products such as ChatGPT. It is expected that the availability of open source data and large language models will remove the constraints of independent machine learning research teams and make it easier to […]
Valve has published the release of the Proton 8.0 project, which is based on the Wine project codebase and aims to run gaming applications built for Windows and featured in the Steam catalog on Linux. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes the implementation […]
A fix release of Firefox 112.0.1 is available that fixes a bug that caused Cookie time to be pushed far into the future after a Firefox update, which in turn could cause Cookies to be erroneously cleared. Source: opennet.ru
The release of the Deepin 20.9 distribution kit, based on the Debian 10 package base, but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and about 40 user applications, including DMusic music player, DMovie video player, DTalk messaging system, installer and installation center of Deepin programs, has been published software center. The project was founded by a group of developers from China, but has been transformed into an international project. […]
After 14 months of development, a new stable branch of the Postfix mail server, 3.8.0, was released. At the same time, the end of support for the Postfix 3.4 branch, released in early 2019, was announced. Postfix is one of the rare projects that combine high security, reliability and performance at the same time, which was achieved thanks to a well-thought-out architecture and a rather rigid code […]
The LAION (Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) community, which develops tools, models and data collections for creating free machine learning systems (for example, the LAION collection is used to train models of the Stable Diffusion image synthesis system), presented the first release of the Open-Assistant project, which develops an artificial intelligence chatbot capable of understanding and answering questions in natural language, interacting with third-party […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the Linux 6.2 kernel (CVE-2023-1998) that disables protection against Specter v2 attacks that allow access to the memory of other processes running on different SMT or Hyper Threading threads, but on the same physical processor core. The vulnerability, among other things, can be used to organize data leakage between virtual machines in cloud systems. The problem only affects […]
The Rust Foundation has published a feedback form for reviewing a new trademark policy related to the Rust language and the Cargo package manager. At the end of the survey, which will last until April 16, the Rust Foundation will publish the final version of the new policy of the organization. The Rust Foundation oversees the Rust language ecosystem, supports key maintainers involved in development and decision making, and […]
iXsystems has published TrueNAS SCALE 22.12.2, which uses the Linux kernel and the Debian package base (the company's previous products, including TrueOS, PC-BSD, TrueNAS, and FreeNAS, were based on FreeBSD). Like TrueNAS CORE (FreeNAS), TrueNAS SCALE is free to download and use. The size of the iso image is 1.7 GB. Sources for TrueNAS SCALE-specific […]
Google has unveiled the first beta version of the Android 14 open mobile platform. Android 14 is expected to be released in the third quarter of 2023. To evaluate the new features of the platform, a preliminary testing program has been proposed. Firmware builds are prepared for Pixel 7/7 Pro, Pixel 6/6a/6 Pro, Pixel 5/5a 5G, and Pixel 4a (5G) devices. Changes in Android 14 Beta 1 compared to […]
