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A device has been developed to detect the hidden inclusion of a microphone

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A group of researchers from the National University of Singapore and Yonsei University (Korea) has developed a method to detect the hidden microphone on a laptop. To demonstrate the operation of the method based on the Raspberry Pi 4 board, amplifier and programmable transceiver (SDR), a prototype called TickTock was assembled, which allows you to detect microphone activation by malware or spyware to listen to the user. The passive detection technique […]

Continued development of GNOME Shell for mobile devices

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Jonas Dressler of the GNOME project has published a report on the work done over the past few months to develop the GNOME Shell for use on smartphones and touchscreen tablets. The work is funded by the German Ministry of Education, which provided a grant to GNOME developers as part of an initiative to support socially significant software projects. The current state of development can be found […]

Release of the GNU Shepherd 0.9.2 init system

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The GNU Shepherd 0.9.2 (formerly dmd) service manager has been published and is being developed by the developers of the GNU Guix System distribution as an alternative to the dependency-supporting SysV-init initialization system. The Shepherd control daemon and utilities are written in the Guile language (one of the implementations of the Scheme language), which is also used to define settings and parameters for starting services. Shepherd is already used in the GuixSD GNU/Linux distribution and […]

Debian 11.5 and 10.13 update

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The fifth corrective update of the Debian 11 distribution has been published, which includes the accumulated package updates and fixes bugs in the installer. The release includes 58 stability updates and 53 security updates. Changes in Debian 11.5 include: clamav, grub2, grub-efi-*-signed, mokutil, nvidia-graphics-drivers*, nvidia-settings packages updated to fresh stable versions. Added package cargo-mozilla […]

Free audio codec FLAC 1.4 published

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Nine years after the publication of the last significant thread, the Xiph.Org community has presented a new version of the free codec FLAC 1.4.0, which provides lossless audio encoding. FLAC uses only lossless encoding methods, which guarantees the complete preservation of the original quality of the audio stream and its identity with the reference version subjected to encoding. At the same time, the compression methods used without […]

Release of the free 3D modeling system Blender 3.3

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The Blender Foundation has published the release of the free 3D modeling package Blender 3.3, suitable for solving various tasks related to 3D modeling, 3D graphics, game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpting, animation creation and video editing . The code is distributed under the GPL license. Ready builds are generated for Linux, Windows and macOS. The release received the status of an extended support release […]

Wine 7.17 release

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An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.17 has taken place. Since the release of version 7.16, 18 bug reports have been closed and 228 changes have been made. Most important changes: DirectWrite adds support for higher Unicode code ranges (planes). The Vulkan driver began implementing support for WoW64, a layer for running 32-bit programs on 64-bit Windows. Closed bug reports, […]

A meeting dedicated to the PostgreSQL DBMS will be held in Nizhny Novgorod

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On September 21, Nizhny Novgorod will host PGMeetup.NN, an open meeting of PostgreSQL DBMS users. The event is organized by Postgres Professional, a Russian supplier of PostgreSQL DBMS, with the support of the iCluster Association, the international IT cluster of the Nizhny Novgorod region. The meeting will start in the DKRT cultural space at 18:00. Entrance by registration, which is open on the site. Reports of the event: “New TOAST in town. One TOAST fits all” […]

Fedora 39 is set to move to DNF5, free from Python components

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Ben Cotton, Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat, announced his intention to migrate Fedora Linux to the DNF5 package manager by default. Fedora Linux 39 plans to replace the dnf, libdnf, and dnf-cutomatic packages with the DNF5 toolkit and the new libdnf5 library. The proposal has not yet been reviewed by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for […]

Monocraft, an open source font for programmers in the style of Minecraft, has been published

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New monospace font Monocraft has been published, optimized for use in terminal emulators and code editors. The characters in the font are stylized to look like text in Minecraft, but further improved to improve readability (for example, the look of similar characters such as "i" and "l" has been redesigned) and extended with a set of ligatures for programmers, such as arrows and comparison operators. Initial […]

Microsoft has published a test release of SQL Server 2022 for Linux

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Microsoft has announced the start of testing a release candidate for the Linux version of SQL Server 2022 (RC 0). Installation packages are prepared for RHEL and Ubuntu. Ready-made SQL Server 2022 container images based on RHEL and Ubuntu distributions are also available for download. For Windows, the test release of SQL Server 2022 was formed on August 23rd. It is noted that in addition to the general […]

ReOpenLDAP 1.2.0 LDAP server release

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The formal release of the ReOpenLDAP 1.2.0 LDAP server has been published, formed to resurrect the project after blocking its repository on GitHub. In April, GitHub removed the accounts and repositories of many Russian developers associated with companies under US sanctions, including the ReOpenLDAP repository. In connection with the revival of user interest in ReOpenLDAP, it was decided to bring the project back to life. The ReOpenLDAP project was created in […]

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