After a year of development, the GNU project has released the free electronic payment system GNU Taler 0.9, which provides anonymity for buyers while allowing seller identification to ensure transparent tax reporting. The system does not track where users spend their money but provides means to track incoming funds (the sender remains anonymous), addressing inherent issues with BitCoin […]
A corrective release of the Pixman library 0.42.2 has been published, which is used for low-level graphics rendering in many open projects, including X.Org, Cairo, Firefox, and composite managers based on the Wayland protocol. The new version fixes a dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2022-44638) that leads to a buffer overflow when processing pixel data with parameters that can cause integer overflow. Researchers have released a proof-of-concept exploit, […]
The release of project BK 3.13.2211.10133 is now available, developing an emulator for 16-bit home computers BK-0010-01, BK-0011, and BK-0011M that were produced in the 1980s, which are command compatible with PDP-11 computers, SM EVM, and DVK. The emulator is written in C++ and is distributed in source code. The general license for the code is not explicitly stated, but LGPL is mentioned in some files, and […]
Lennart Pottering continued to publish ideas on reworking components for loading Linux and reviewed the situation regarding the duplication of boot partitions. There was discontent with the use of two disk partitions with different file systems for initial boot organization, which are mounted nested — the /boot/efi partition based on VFAT file system with EFI firmware components (EFI System Partition) and the /boot partition based on ext4 file system, […]
The NT Center for IT ROSA has released a corrective update for the freely distributed and community-developed ROSA Fresh 12.3 distribution, built on the rosa2021.1 platform. Builds for free download have been prepared for the x86_64 platform in versions with KDE Plasma 5, LXQt, GNOME, Xfce, and without a GUI. Users who already have the ROSA Fresh R12 distribution installed will receive the update automatically. […]
A corrective release of Firefox 106.0.4 is now available, which has fixed several issues: crashes during video playback with digital rights management (DRM), inability to fill in the date input field when dynamically changing the field type from date to datetime-local, and crashes when playing multimedia content. A few days ago, release 106.0.3 was also formed which fixed two […]
A new release of the 9front project is now available, within which the community has been developing an independent fork of the distributed operating system Plan 9 since 2011, separate from Bell Labs. Ready installation builds have been prepared for the i386, x86_64 architectures and Raspberry Pi 1-4 boards. The project's code is distributed under the open Lucent Public License, based on the IBM Public License, but differing in the lack of a requirement […]
Mark Surman, the head of the Mozilla Foundation, announced the creation of Mozilla Ventures, a venture fund that will invest in startups promoting products and technologies aligned with Mozilla's ideals and manifesto. The fund will begin operating in the first half of 2023, with an initial investment size of at least 35 million dollars. Among the values that startup teams should share, […]
The first release of the high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server, Angie, has been published by a group of former developers from the Nginx project who left F5 Networks. The source code for Angie is available under the BSD license. To support the development of the project and continue supporting Nginx users in Russia, a company called 'Web Server' has been created, which received an investment of 1 million dollars. Among the co-owners of the new company are: Valentin […]
The non-profit fund overseeing the development of the anonymous Tor network has published its financial report for the 2021 fiscal year (from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021). During the reporting period, the project's funding amounted to 7.4 million dollars (compared to 4.8 million in the 2020 fiscal year). Approximately 1.7 million dollars was earned through the sale of […]
GitHub has expanded the mandatory two-factor authentication in the NPM repository, which will now apply to developer accounts maintaining packages with over 1 million downloads per week or used as dependencies in more than 500 packages. Previously, two-factor authentication was only mandatory for those maintaining the 500 most popular NPM packages (based on the number of dependent packages). Those maintaining significant packages will now […]
Andrey Savchenko from the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Higher School of Economics published the results of his research in the field of machine learning related to emotion recognition in the faces of people present in photographs and videos. The code is written in Python using PyTorch and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Several ready-to-use models are available, including those suitable for mobile devices. […]