Author: Yuri Gagarin

The number of domains involved in blocking requests to Google has reached 4 million.

A new milestone has been reached in the requests that Google receives to block pages from search results that violate others' intellectual property. Blocking is carried out in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and with public disclosure of information about requests for public oversight. According to the published statistics, the number of unique second-level domains mentioned in the requests for […]

New version of the GNU Awk interpreter 5.2

A new release of the AWK programming language from the GNU project has been introduced — Gawk 5.2.0. AWK was developed in the 1970s and has not undergone significant changes since the mid-1980s when the core structure of the language was defined, allowing it to maintain its original stability and simplicity for decades. Despite its age, AWK remains […]

Ubuntu Unity will receive official release status for Ubuntu.

Members of the technical committee overseeing Ubuntu's development have approved the plan to adopt the Ubuntu Unity distribution as one of the official editions of Ubuntu. Initially, daily test builds of Ubuntu Unity will be created and offered alongside the other official editions of the distribution (Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and UbuntuKylin). If no serious issues are identified, Ubuntu Unity […]

The source code for the Notesnook note-taking platform, competing with Evernote, has been opened.

In line with a previously made promise, Streetwriters has transitioned its note-taking platform, Notesnook, to an open project. Notesnook is presented as a fully open alternative to Evernote, focused on privacy and supporting end-to-end encryption to prevent data analysis on the server. The code is written in JavaScript/Typescript and is released under the GPLv3 license. Currently, it has been published […]

Release of the GitBucket 4.38 collaborative development system

The release of GitBucket 4.38 has been announced, which develops a system for collaborative work with Git repositories featuring an interface similar to GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. The system is known for its easy installation, the ability to extend functionality through plugins, and compatibility with the GitHub API. The code is written in Scala and is available under the Apache 2.0 license. MySQL and PostgreSQL can be used as the database management systems. Key features […]

Peter Eckersley, one of the founders of Let's Encrypt, has passed away

Peter Eckersley, one of the founders of the community-controlled, non-profit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt, has passed away. Peter served on the board of the non-profit organization ISRG (Internet Security Research Group), which is behind the Let’s Encrypt project, and he worked for a long time at the civil liberties organization EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). The idea promoted by Peter was to ensure […]

The initiative to reward the discovery of vulnerabilities in Google's open projects

Google has introduced a new initiative called OSS VRP (Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program) to provide monetary rewards for identifying security issues in open projects such as Bazel, Angular, Go, Protocol Buffers, and Fuchsia, as well as in projects developed in Google's repositories on GitHub (Google, GoogleAPIs, GoogleCloudPlatform, etc.) and their dependencies. This initiative complements […]

The first stable release of Arti, the official implementation of Tor in Rust, has been made.

The developers of the anonymous Tor network have formed the first stable release (1.0.0) of the Arti project, which is developing a Tor client written in Rust. Release 1.0 is noted as suitable for use by regular users, providing the same level of privacy, usability, and stability as the main implementation in C. The API offered for utilizing Arti's functionality in other applications has also been stabilized. The code is distributed […]

Chrome 105.0.5195.102 update released, addressing a 0-day vulnerability.

Google has released Chrome 105.0.5195.102 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, fixing a serious vulnerability (CVE-2022-3075) that is already being exploited by attackers (0-day). The problem has also been resolved in the release 104.0.5112.114 of the separately maintained Extended Stable branch. Details are not yet disclosed; it is only reported that the 0-day vulnerability is caused by improper data verification in the Mojo IPC library. Judging by the added code […]

Release of webOS Open Source Edition 2.18

An update has been released for the open-source platform webOS Open Source Edition 2.18, which can be used on various portable devices, boards, and automotive infotainment systems. The Raspberry Pi 4 boards are considered as the reference hardware platform. The platform is being developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, with development overseen by the community following a collaborative model.

Release of the Nmap 7.93 network security scanner, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the project.

The release of the Nmap 7.93 network security scanner is now available, designed for network auditing and identifying active network services. This release was announced on the 25th anniversary of the project. Over the years, the project has evolved from a conceptual port scanner published in 1997 in Phrack magazine into a fully functional application for network protection analysis and identifying used server applications.

Release of VirtualBox 6.1.38

Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox 6.1.38 virtualization system, which includes 8 fixes. Key changes: Initial support for Linux 6.0 kernel has been implemented in the guest system extensions based on Linux, and the support for kernel packages from the RHEL 9.1 distribution branch has been enhanced. The installer for host and guest system extensions on Linux has improved verification of the presence of ...

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