Nightly builds of Firefox have begun testing OCR, which allows you to extract text from images hosted on a web page and place the recognized text on the clipboard or speak to visually impaired people using a speech synthesizer. Recognition is performed by selecting the item "Copy Text from Image" in the context menu shown when clicking edits with the mouse […]
The MITER organization has assigned vulnerability ID CVE-2022-38392 to the music video of Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" due to some older laptops breaking down while playing it. An attack carried out using the specified composition can lead to a system crash due to hard disk failures associated with the resonance that occurs when playing certain frequencies. It is noted that the frequency of some […]
The August 22.08 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 233 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 […]
The release of the programming language Julia 1.8 is available, which combines such qualities as high performance, support for dynamic typing and built-in tools for parallel programming. The syntax of Julia is close to MATLAB, with some elements borrowed from Ruby and Lisp. The string manipulation method is reminiscent of Perl. The project code is distributed under the MIT license. Key features of the language: High performance: one of the key goals of the […]
The Document Foundation has released the LibreOffice 7.4 office suite. Ready-made installation packages are prepared for various distributions of Linux, Windows and macOS. 147 developers took part in the preparation of the release, of which 95 are volunteers. 72% of the changes were made by employees of the three companies supervising the project - Collabora, Red Hat and Allotropia, and 28% of the changes were added by independent enthusiasts. Release of LibreOffice […]
Hyundai owner Ioniq SEL has published a series of articles on how he managed to update the firmware used in the infotainment system (IVI) based on the D-Audio2V operating system used in Hyundai and Kia vehicles. It turned out that all the data necessary for decryption and verification is publicly available on the network and it took only a few […]
Martijn Braam, one of the key developers of the postmarketOS distribution, has announced his departure from the Pine64 open source community due to the project focusing on one particular distribution instead of supporting an ecosystem of various distributions working together on the software stack. Initially, Pine64 used the strategy of delegating the development of software stuffing for its devices to the community of developers of Linux distributions and […]
GitHub has published a report reflecting the notifications of intellectual property infringement and the publication of illegal content received during the first half of 2022. Previously, such reports were published annually, but now GitHub has switched to disclosing information once every six months. In accordance with the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), […]
Researchers from Faraday Security presented at the DEFCON conference the details of exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-27255) in the SDK for Realtek RTL819x chips, which allows you to execute your code on the device by sending a specially crafted UDP packet. The vulnerability is remarkable in that it allows attacking devices in which access to the web interface for external networks is disabled - for an attack, it is enough to simply send one UDP packet. […]
Google has released Chrome update 104.0.5112.101, which fixes 10 vulnerabilities, including a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-2852) that allows bypassing all browser security layers and executing code on the system outside of the sandbox environment. Details have not yet been disclosed, it is only known that the critical vulnerability is related to accessing already freed memory (use-after-free) in the implementation of the FedCM (Federated Credential Management) […]
A release of the Nuitka 1.0 project is available, developing a compiler for translating Python scripts into a C++ representation, which can then be compiled into an executable file using libpython for maximum compatibility with CPython (using native CPython tools for manipulating objects). Provided full compatibility with current releases of Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 - 3.10. Compared with […]
Valve has published the release of the Proton 7.0-4 project, which is based on the Wine project codebase and aims to run gaming applications built for Windows and featured in the Steam catalog on Linux. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes the implementation […]
