After five months of development, Cisco has released the free antivirus package ClamAV 1.1.0. The project passed into the hands of Cisco in 2013 after the purchase of Sourcefire, which develops ClamAV and Snort. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The 1.1.0 branch is categorized as regular (non-LTS) with updates posted at least 4 months after […]
Animation studio Dreamworks has released the first update to OpenMoonRay 1.0, an open-source rendering engine that uses Monte Carlo numerical integration ray tracing (MCRT). MoonRay focuses on high performance and scalability, supports multi-threaded rendering, parallelization of operations, the use of vector instructions (SIMD), realistic lighting simulation, ray processing on the GPU or CPU side, realistic lighting simulation on […]
Valve has published an update to the Proton 8.0-2 project, which is based on the Wine project codebase and is aimed at running gaming applications created for Windows and presented 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 a DirectX implementation […]
Mozilla has announced it has acquired Fakespot, a startup that develops a browser add-on that uses machine learning to detect fake reviews, inflated ratings, fraudulent sellers, and fraudulent discounts on marketplace sites such as Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Shopify, Sephora, and Best Buy. The add-on is available for Chrome and Firefox browsers, as well as for iOS and Android mobile platforms. Mozilla plans […]
The release of the Photon OS 5.0 Linux distribution has been published, aimed at providing a minimalistic host environment for running applications in isolated containers. The project is being developed by VMware and is claimed to be suitable for deploying industrial applications, including additional security enhancements, and offering advanced optimizations for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Elastic Compute, and Google Compute Engine environments. Source texts […]
The seventh corrective update of the Debian 11 distribution has been published, which includes the accumulated package updates and fixes bugs in the installer. The release includes 92 stability updates and 102 security updates. Of the changes in Debian 11.7, we can note the update to the latest stable versions of clamav, dpdk, flatpak, galera-3, intel-microcode, mariadb-10.5, nvidia-modprobe, postfix, postgresql-13, […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 8.7 has taken place. Since the release of version 8.6, 17 bug reports have been closed and 228 changes have been made. Most important changes: Continued work on adding full support for Wayland. The vkd3d component implements an API for parsing (vkd3d_shader_parse_dxbc) and serializing (vkd3d_shader_serialize_dxbc) DXBC binary data. Based on this API, d3d10_effect_parse() calls are implemented, […]
A group of researchers from Chinese and American universities has identified a new vulnerability in Intel processors that leads to the leakage of information about the result of speculative operations through third-party channels, which can be used, for example, to organize a hidden communication channel between processes or detect leaks during Meltdown attacks. The essence of the vulnerability is that the change in the EFLAGS processor register, […]
David Weston, Microsoft vice president responsible for the security of the Windows operating system, in his report at the BlueHat IL 2023 conference, shared information on the development of Windows protection mechanisms. Among other things, the progress in using the Rust language to improve the security of the Windows kernel is mentioned. Moreover, it is stated that the code written in Rust will be added to the Windows 11 kernel, possibly in […]
The release of the Nitrux 2.8.0 distribution kit, built on the Debian package base, KDE technologies and the OpenRC initialization system, has been published. The project offers its own NX Desktop, which is an add-on to KDE Plasma. Based on the Maui library for the distribution, a set of typical user applications is developed that can be used on both desktop systems and mobile devices. For installation […]
Joshua Strobl, a key contributor to the Budgie project, has published a proposal to include Fedora Onyx, an atomically updatable variant of Fedora Linux with a Budgie custom environment, that complements the classic Fedora Budgie Spin build and is reminiscent of the Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Sericea, and Fedora Kinoite editions, in official builds. , shipped with GNOME, Sway and KDE. The Fedora Onyx edition is offered to ship starting […]
The ISRG (Internet Security Research Group), which is the founder of the Let's Encrypt project and promotes HTTPS and the development of technologies to increase the security of the Internet, presented the Sudo-rs project to create implementations of sudo and su utilities written in Rust that allow you to execute commands on behalf of others users. A pre-release version of Sudo-rs has already been published under the Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses, […]
