Author: ProHoster

NPM Enabled Mandatory Two-Factor Authentication for Value Package Maintainers

GutHub has expanded the NPM repo's enforcement of mandatory two-factor authentication, which will now apply to developer accounts that maintain packages that have more than 1 million downloads per week or are used as a dependency on more than 500 packages. Previously, two-factor authentication was required only for the maintainers of the top 500 most popular NPM packages (based on the number of dependent packages). The maintainers of significant packages are now […]

Using machine learning to detect emotions and control your facial expressions

Andrey Savchenko from the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Higher School of Economics published the result of his research in the field of machine learning related to the recognition of emotions on the faces of people present in photographs and videos. The code is written in Python using PyTorch and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Several ready-made models are available, including those suitable for use on mobile devices. […]

Facebook publishes EnCodec audio codec using machine learning

Meta/Facebook (banned in Russia) has introduced a new audio codec called EnCodec, which uses machine learning techniques to increase the compression ratio without losing quality. The codec can be used both for real-time audio streaming and for encoding for subsequent storage in files. The EnCodec reference implementation is written in Python using the PyTorch framework and is distributed […]

TrueNAS CORE 13.0-U3 Distribution Kit Released

The release of TrueNAS CORE 13.0-U3, a distribution kit for the rapid deployment of network storage (NAS, Network-Attached Storage), continues the development of the FreeNAS project. TrueNAS CORE 13 is based on the FreeBSD 13 code base, featuring integrated ZFS support and web-based management built using the Django Python framework. To organize storage access, FTP, NFS, Samba, AFP, rsync and iSCSI are supported, […]

Phishing attack on Dropbox employees leaked 130 private repositories

Dropbox has disclosed information about an incident in which attackers gained access to 130 private repositories hosted on GitHub. The compromised repositories are said to have contained dropbox-modified forks from existing open source libraries, some internal prototypes, and utilities and configuration files used by the security team. The attack did not affect the repositories with the […]

Buffer overflow in OpenSSL exploited when validating X.509 certificates

A corrective release of the OpenSSL 3.0.7 cryptographic library has been published, fixing two vulnerabilities. Both issues are caused by a buffer overflow in the code for validating the email address field in X.509 certificates and could potentially lead to code execution when processing a specially crafted certificate. At the time of publication of the fix, the OpenSSL developers had not recorded the existence of a working exploit that could lead to […]

Release of Nitrux 2.5 distribution with NX Desktop

The release of the Nitrux 2.5.0 distribution kit, built on the Debian package base, KDE technologies and the OpenRC initialization system, has been published. The project offers its own NX Desktop, which is an add-on to the KDE Plasma user environment. Based on the Maui library for the distribution, a set of typical user applications is developed that can be used on both desktop systems and mobile devices. […]

Release of the free racing game SuperTuxKart 1.4

After a year of development, Supertuxkart 1.4 is released, a free racing game with more karts, tracks and features. The game code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Binary builds are available for Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS. In the new release: Balanced starting positions and reworked the placement of elements when racing on football fields in order to make the match comfortable, regardless of […]

Release of systemd 252 system manager with UKI (Unified Kernel Image) support

After five months of development, the release of the systemd 252 system manager was presented. The key change in the new version was the integration of support for a modernized boot process, which allows verifying not only the kernel and bootloader, but also components of the base system environment using digital signatures. The proposed method involves the use of a unified kernel image UKI (Unified Kernel Image) when loading, which combines a handler for loading the […]

OBS Studio 28.1 Live Streaming Release

OBS Studio 28.1, the streaming, compositing and video recording suite, is now available. The code is written in C/C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. Builds are generated for Linux, Windows and macOS. The development goal of OBS Studio was to create a portable version of the Open Broadcaster Software (OBS Classic) application that is not tied to the Windows platform, supports OpenGL and is extensible through plugins. […]

Wine 7.20 release and Wine staging 7.20

An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.20 has taken place. Since the release of version 7.19, 29 bug reports have been closed and 302 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Wine Mono engine with the implementation of the .NET platform has been updated to release 7.4. Added a mechanism for linking fonts, which allows you to link one or more fonts to another font. When linking […]