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Fedora 38 is scheduled to form official builds with the Budgie desktop

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Joshua Strobl, a key developer of the Budgie project, has published a proposal to begin the formation of official Spin builds of Fedora Linux with the Budgie user environment. The Budgie SIG has been founded to maintain packages with Budgie and formulate new builds. The Spin edition of Fedora with Budgie is planned to be delivered starting with the release of Fedora Linux 38. The proposal has not yet been reviewed by the FESCo committee (Fedora Engineering Steering […]

Linux 6.1 kernel release

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After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 6.1 kernel. Among the most noticeable changes: support for the development of drivers and modules in the Rust language, modernization of the mechanism for determining the used memory pages, a special memory manager for BPF programs, the KMSAN memory problem diagnostic system, the KCFI (Kernelk Control-Flow Integrity) protection mechanism, the introduction of the Maple structure tree. The new version adopted 15115 […]

Exploits for 2 new vulnerabilities demonstrated at Pwn63Own competition in Toronto

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The results of the four days of the Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 competition have been summed up, during which 63 previously unknown vulnerabilities (0-day) in mobile devices, printers, smart speakers, storage systems and routers were demonstrated. The attacks used the latest firmware and operating systems with all available updates and in the default configuration. The total amount of remuneration paid was 934,750 US dollars. IN […]

Release of free video editor OpenShot 3.0

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After more than a year of development, the release of the free non-linear video editing system OpenShot 3.0.0 has been published. The project code is licensed under GPLv3: the interface is written in Python and PyQt5, the video processing core (libopenshot) is written in C++ and uses the capabilities of the FFmpeg package, the interactive timeline is written using HTML5, JavaScript and AngularJS. Ready assemblies are prepared for Linux (AppImage), Windows and macOS. […]

Android TV platform 13 available

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Four months after the publication of the Android 13 mobile platform, Google has formed an edition for smart TVs and set-top boxes Android TV 13. The platform is currently offered only for testing by application developers - ready-made builds are prepared for the Google ADT-3 set-top box and the Android Emulator for TV emulator. Publication of firmware updates for consumer devices such as the Google Chromecast is expected […]

Checking the ping utility in OpenBSD revealed a bug present since 1998

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The results of a fuzz test of the OpenBSD ping utility, following a recent discovery of a remote exploitable vulnerability in the FreeBSD ping utility, have been published. The ping utility used in OpenBSD is not affected by the problem identified in FreeBSD (the vulnerability is present in the new implementation of the pr_pack() function, rewritten by the FreeBSD developers in 2019), but another error surfaced during the test, which went unnoticed […]

Google is preparing to transfer Nest Audio smart speakers to Fuchsia OS

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Google is working on transferring Nest Audio smart speakers to a new firmware based on the Fuchsia OS. Fuchsia-based firmware is also planned to be used in new models of Nest smart speakers, which are expected to go on sale in 2023. Nest Audio will be the third device to ship with Fuchsia, having previously migrated photo frames to the platform […]

Qt 6.5 will introduce an API for directly accessing Wayland objects

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In Qt 6.5, Wayland will add the QNativeInterface::QWaylandApplication API to directly access native Wayland objects that are used in Qt internals, as well as to access information about the user's recent actions, which can be required to pass Wayland protocol extensions . The new API is implemented in the QNativeInterface namespace, which also […]

Wine 8.0 release candidate and vkd3d 1.6 release

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Testing of the first release candidate Wine 8.0, an open implementation of WinAPI, has begun. The codebase has been put on hold ahead of the release, which is expected in mid-January. Since the release of Wine 7.22, 52 bug reports have been closed and 538 changes have been made. Most important changes: vkd3d package with Direct3D 12 implementation working via call translation to graphics API […]

Source implementation of PostScript language open source

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The Computer History Museum received permission from Adobe to publish the source code for one of the first implementations of PostScript printing technology, released in 1984. PostScript technology is remarkable in that the printed page is described in a special programming language and the PostScript document is a program that is interpreted when printed. The published code is written in C and […]

Kali Linux 2022.4 Security Research Distribution Released

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The release of the distribution kit Kali Linux 2022.4, created on the basis of Debian and designed for testing systems for vulnerabilities, auditing, analyzing residual information and identifying the consequences of intruder attacks, has been presented. All original developments created within the distribution are distributed under the GPL license and are available through a public Git repository. Several variants of iso images are prepared for download, 448 MB in size, 2.7 […]

Release of KDE Gear 22.12, a set of applications from the KDE project

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The December 22.12 rollup update of applications developed by the KDE project has been released. As a reminder, the consolidated set of KDE applications has been published since April 2021 under the name KDE Gear, instead of KDE Apps and KDE Applications. In total, releases of 234 programs, libraries and plug-ins were published as part of the update. Information about the availability of Live builds with new releases of applications can be found on this page. Most […]

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