Mozilla has updated the Common Voice voice data sets, which include pronunciation samples from over 200,000 individuals. The data is published as public domain (CC0). The provided sets can be used in machine learning systems for building speech recognition and synthesis models. Compared to the previous update, the volume of speech material in the collection increased from 23.8 to 25.8 thousand hours of speech. In […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 5.9 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been formed, based on the Debian package base and designed for anonymous online access. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. Encryption is used for storing user data in persistence mode between runs. […]
After a year of development and 28 experimental versions, the stable release of the open implementation of Win32 API — Wine 8.0, which includes over 8600 changes, has been presented. A key achievement in the new version is the completion of the work on translating Wine modules to the new format. Wine confirms full functionality for 5266 Windows programs (up from 5156 a year ago and 5049 two years ago), and still […]
After a year of development, GStreamer 1.22 has been released, a cross-platform suite of components for creating a wide range of multimedia applications, from media players and audio/video file converters to VoIP applications and streaming systems. GStreamer code is distributed under the LGPLv2.1 license. Updates for plugins gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-ugly, as well as the gst-libav wrapper and the gst-rtsp-server streaming server, are developed separately. At the API level and […]
The release of the web browser Tangram 2.0, built on GNOME technologies and focusing on organizing access to frequently used web applications, has been announced. The browser's code is written in JavaScript and distributed under the GPLv3 license. The WebKitGTK component, also used in the Epiphany (GNOME Web) browser, is the browser engine. Ready packages are formed in flatpak format. The browser interface includes a sidebar, which […]
Simon Peter, the creator of the self-contained AppImage packages, has released version 0.8 of the helloSystem distribution, based on FreeBSD 13 and positioned as a system for regular users, particularly those transitioning from macOS who are dissatisfied with Apple’s policies. The system is devoid of the complexities typical of modern Linux distributions, fully user-controlled, and allows former macOS users to feel at ease. To learn more […]
Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of the C++ language, has expressed objections to the conclusions in an NSA report that recommended organizations move away from programming languages like C and C++, which place memory management on the developer, in favor of languages such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift, which provide automatic memory management or safety checks […]
Google has announced mass layoffs affecting about 12,000 employees, which is approximately 6% of its total workforce. Among other information, reports have emerged that around 400 workers involved in the Fuchsia project will be laid off, representing about 16% of the total staff working on this OS. Additionally, it is reported […]
A patch release for the libXpm library, version 3.5.15, developed by the X.Org project and used for handling XPM format files, has been published. The new version fixes three vulnerabilities, two of which (CVE-2022-46285, CVE-2022-44617) can lead to denial of service when processing specially crafted XPM files. The third vulnerability (CVE-2022-4883) allows arbitrary commands to be executed when running applications that use libXpm. When privileged processes related to libXpm are executed […]
The release of the ArchLabs Linux distribution 2023.01.20 has been published, based on the Arch Linux package base and shipped with a lightweight desktop environment using the Openbox window manager (with optional availability of i3, Bspwm, Awesome, JWM, dk, dwm, Fluxbox, Xfce, Deepin, GNOME, Cinnamon, Sway). The ABIF installer is offered for setting up a stationary installation. The base package includes applications such as Thunar, Termite, Geany, Firefox, Audacious, […]
GitHub has announced its decision to discontinue support for the Subversion version control system. The ability to work with GitHub repositories through the centralized version control system interface Subversion (svn.github.com) will be disabled on January 8, 2024. Leading up to the official shutdown at the end of 2023, a series of test outages will be conducted, initially for several hours and then for a full day. The stated reason […]
OpenBSD has implemented a vulnerability exploitation protection technique based on randomly rearranging the executable file sshd at each system boot. Previously, such a rearrangement technique was applied to the kernel and the libraries libc.so, libcrypto.so, and ld.so, and now it will be used for certain executables as well. The method is also planned to be implemented for ntpd and other server applications in the near future. […]