A new release of the 9front project is available, within which, since 2011, the community has been developing a fork of the distributed operating system Plan 9, independent of Bell Labs. The project code is distributed under the Lucent Public License, which is based on the IBM Public License but does not require […]
Mark Surman, CEO of the Mozilla Foundation, announced the creation of Mozilla Ventures, a venture fund that will invest in startups that promote products and technologies that are aligned with Mozilla's ideals and aligned with the Mozilla Manifesto. The fund will start operating in the first half of 2023. The initial investment will be at least $35 million. Of the values that startup teams should share, […]
The first release of Angie, a high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server, forked from Nginx by a group of former project developers who left F5 Network, has been published. The source code for Angie is available under a BSD license. To support the development of the project and continue to support Nginx users in the Russian Federation, the Web Server company was created, which received an investment of $ 1 million. Among the co-owners of the new company: Valentin […]
The non-profit foundation that oversees the development of the anonymous Tor network has published its financial report for the 2021 financial year (July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021). During the reporting period, the amount of funds received by the project amounted to 7.4 million dollars (for comparison, in the 2020 financial year, 4.8 million were received). At the same time, about $1.7 million was generated through the sale of […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The release of the exfatprogs 1.2.0 package has been published. The set includes the utilities mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat, tune.exfat, exfatlabel, dump.exfat and exfat5.7img. The code is written in C language and distributed […]
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. […]
