After a year of development, the free hypervisor Xen 4.17 has been released. Companies such as Amazon, Arm, Bitdefender, Citrix, EPAM Systems and Xilinx (AMD) took part in the development of the new release. The generation of updates for the Xen 4.17 branch will last until June 12, 2024, and the publication of vulnerability fixes until December 12, 2025. Key changes in Xen 4.17: Partial […]
Pierre-Loup Griffais, one of the creators of the Steam Deck gaming console and the Linux distribution SteamOS, in an interview with The Verge said that Valve, in addition to employing 20-30 employees involved in the Steam Deck product, directly pays more than 100 open source developers involved in the development of Mesa drivers, Proton Windows game launcher, Vulkan graphics API drivers, and […]
The open device community Pine64 has announced the start of production next year of a new tablet PC, PineTab2, built on the Rockchip RK3566 SoC with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor (1.8 GHz) and an ARM Mali-G52 EE GPU. The cost and time of going on sale have not yet been determined; we only know that the first copies for testing by developers will begin to be produced […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has declared the hashing algorithm deprecated, unsafe, and not recommended for use. It is planned to get rid of the use of SHA-1 until December 31, 2030 and completely switch to more secure SHA-2 and SHA-3 algorithms. Until December 31, 2030, all current NIST specifications and protocols will no longer […]
The Riffusion project develops a variant of the Stable Diffusion machine learning system adapted to generate music instead of images. Music can be synthesized by a textual description in natural language or based on a suggested template. The music synthesis components are written in Python using the PyTorch framework and are available under the MIT license. The binding with the interface is implemented in the TypeScript language and is also distributed […]
GitHub has announced a transition to mandatory two-factor authentication for all users publishing code on GitHub.com. At the first stage, in March 2023, mandatory two-factor authentication will begin to be applied for certain user groups, gradually covering more and more new categories. First of all, the change will affect developers who publish packages, OAuth applications and GitHub handlers, who form releases, participate in the development of […]
iXsystems has published TrueNAS SCALE 22.12, 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 1.6 GB. Sources for TrueNAS SCALE-specific […]
The release of the Rust 1.66 general-purpose programming language, founded by the Mozilla project, but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation, has been published. The language focuses on memory safety and provides the means to achieve high job parallelism while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is reduced to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). […]
The seventh release of starter kits, small live builds with various graphical environments, has been released on the Tenth ALT platform. Builds based on the stable repository are for advanced users. Starter kits allow users to quickly and conveniently familiarize themselves with the new graphical desktop environment and window manager (DE/WM). It is also possible to deploy another system with minimal time spent on installation and […]
After two years of development, the release of the Xfce 4.18 desktop environment has been published, aimed at providing a classic desktop that requires minimal system resources to run. Xfce consists of several interrelated components that can be used in other projects if desired. These components include the xfwm4 window manager, application launcher, display manager, user session management and […]
The release of the grml 2022.11 live distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux has been presented. The distribution positions itself as a tool for system administrators to recover data after failures. By default, the Fluxbox window manager is used. Key changes in the new version: packages are synchronized with the Debian Testing repository; live system has been moved to the /usr partition (the /bin, /sbin and /lib* directories are symbolic links to the corresponding directories […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the Linux kernel (CVE-2022-42896), which can potentially be used to organize remote code execution at the kernel level by sending a specially crafted L2CAP packet via Bluetooth. Additionally, another similar issue (CVE-2022-42895) has been identified in the L2CAP handler that can leak kernel memory content in configuration information packets. The first vulnerability appears from August […]
