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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.

Microsoft has launched CHERIoT, a hardware solution to enhance the security of C language code.

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Microsoft has released contributions related to the CHERIoT project (Capability Hardware Extension to RISC-V for Internet of Things), aimed at blocking security issues in existing code written in C and C++. CHERIoT offers a solution that allows the protection of existing C/C++ codebases without the necessity of redesigning them. The protection is implemented through the use of a modified compiler that utilizes a special extended set […]

Update for Firefox 110.0.1 and Firefox for Android 110.1.0

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A correct release of Firefox 110.0.1 is now available, which addresses several issues: A bug was fixed that caused all cookies to be deleted when the buttons to clear cookies for the last 5 minutes, 2 hours, or 24 hours were pressed. A crash issue on the Linux platform that occurred while using WebGL and launching the browser in a VMWare virtual machine has been resolved. A bug that led to overlapping in macOS has been corrected […]

Embedded mruby 3.2 interpreter available

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The release of mruby 3.2 has been presented, an embedded interpreter for the dynamic, object-oriented programming language Ruby. Mruby ensures basic syntax compatibility at the Ruby 3.x level, except for support for pattern matching ("case .. in"). The interpreter features low memory consumption and is aimed at embedding Ruby language support into other applications. The interpreter embedded in the application can execute both source code in the language […]

Ubuntu developers are advancing a minimalist installation image.

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Canonical employees have revealed information about the ubuntu-mini-iso project, which is developing a new minimalist version of Ubuntu, approximately 140 MB in size. The main idea of the new installation image is to make it universal, allowing the installation of any official version of Ubuntu. The project is being developed by Dan Bungert, who oversees the Subiquity installer. At this stage, a working version has already been prepared and tested […]

The promotion of Wayland support has begun to be integrated into the main Wine codebase.

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The first set of patches developed by the Wine-wayland project has been proposed for inclusion in the main Wine repository, providing the ability to use Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol without using XWayland and X11 components. Since the volume of changes is quite large, to simplify the review and integration process for Wine-wayland developments, they plan to gradually transfer this work, breaking it down into several phases. In the first phase […]

NPM has identified 15,000 packages for phishing and spam.

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An attack on users of the NPM registry has been recorded, resulting in over 15,000 packages being uploaded to the NPM repository on February 20, in which README files contained links to phishing sites or referral links that pay commissions for clicks. Analysis revealed 190 unique phishing or advertising links covering 31 domains within the packages. The names of the packages […]

GitHub has restricted competing services from conducting comparative testing.

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An additional paragraph has been added to the terms of use for the GitHub service, notifying users that if they offer a product or service that competes with GitHub, they either allow comparative testing or are prohibited from using GitHub. This change aims to counter products or services using GitHub that compete with GitHub, particularly those that explicitly prohibit competitive testing (anti-benchmarking) in their terms […]

The first release of the open-source multiplayer game engine Ambient

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After a year of development, the first release of the new open game engine Ambient is presented. The engine provides a runtime for creating multiplayer games and 3D applications, compiled to WebAssembly and utilizing the WebGPU API for rendering. The code is written in Rust and is distributed under the MIT license. A key task in developing Ambient is to provide tools that simplify the development of multiplayer games and make them […]

GNOME Mutter will discontinue support for older versions of OpenGL

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The codebase of the composite server Mutter, which will be used in the release of GNOME 44, has been modified to remove support for older versions of OpenGL. Drivers supporting at least OpenGL 3.1 will be required for Mutter to function. However, support for OpenGL ES 2.0 will be retained in Mutter, allowing continued functionality on older graphics cards and on GPUs used in […]

Official Ubuntu releases will cease support for Flatpak in the base installation

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Philipp Kewisch from Canonical announced the decision not to enable the installation of packages in the Flatpak format by default in the official editions of Ubuntu. This decision has been coordinated with the developers of the existing official editions of Ubuntu, which include Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, and Ubuntu Unity. Those wishing to use the Flatpak format will need […]

Release of SQLite DBMS 3.41

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SQLite 3.41 has been released, a lightweight database management system presented as a shared library. The SQLite code is released as public domain, meaning it can be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. The developers of SQLite receive financial support from a specially created consortium, which includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Key changes: Optimizations have been made to the scheduler […]

The promotion plan for the Intel GPU Xe driver into the Linux kernel has been published.

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Daniel Vetter, an engineer at Intel and one of the maintainers of the DRM subsystem, published in the Linux kernel developers' mailing list the promotion plan for patches implementing the Xe driver, intended for use with GPUs based on Intel's Xe architecture, which is employed in Arc family graphics cards and integrated graphics starting from Tiger Lake processors. The Xe driver is positioned […]

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