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Julia Programming Language 1.8 Release

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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 […]

LibreOffice 7.4 office suite release

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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 […]

Key PostmarketOS Developer Leaves Pine64 Project Due to Community Issues

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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 releases blocking report for the first half of 2022

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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), […]

Vulnerability in devices based on Realtek SoC that allows code execution via sending a UDP packet

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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. […]

Chrome update 104.0.5112.101 fixes critical vulnerability

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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) […]

Release of Nuitka 1.0, a compiler for the Python language

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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 released Proton 7.0-4, a package for running Windows games on Linux

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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 […]

Attempt to hijack Signal accounts by compromising Twilio SMS service

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The developers of the open messenger Signal have disclosed information about a targeted attack aimed at gaining control over the accounts of some users. The attack was carried out by hacking the Twilio service used by Signal to organize the sending of SMS messages with confirmation codes. Analysis of the data showed that the Twilio hack could have affected about 1900 phone numbers of Signal users, for which the attackers were able to re-register […]

New open source image synthesis system Stable Diffusion introduced

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Developments related to the Stable Diffusion machine learning system, which synthesizes images based on a text description in natural language, have been discovered. The project is being developed jointly by researchers from Stability AI and Runway, the Eleuther AI and LAION communities, and the CompVis lab (Vision and Machine Learning Research Laboratory at the University of Munich). According to the capabilities and level […]

Release of the mobile platform Android 13

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Google has published the release of the Android 13 open mobile platform. The sources associated with the new release are located in the project's Git repository (android-13.0.0_r1 branch). Firmware updates are prepared for Pixel series devices. Later it is planned to prepare firmware updates for smartphones manufactured by Samsung, Asus, HMD (Nokia), iQOO, Motorola, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, Sharp, Sony, Tecno, vivo and Xiaomi. Additionally, universal assemblies have been formed […]

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