15 months after the formation of the last update, the release of the NetBSD 9.3 operating system has been published. 470 MB installation images are prepared for download, available in builds for 57 system architectures and 16 different CPU families. Version 9.3 is fully compatible with previous releases of the 9.x branch and contains important fixes, including those related to fixing vulnerabilities. It was originally intended […]
Animation studio Dreamworks has announced the discovery of the code for the MoonRay rendering system, which uses ray tracing based on Monte Carlo Numerical Integration (MCRT). The product was used to render the animated films How to Train Your Dragon 3, The Croods 2: Housewarming, Bad Boys, and Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish. At the moment, the site of an open project has already been launched, but the code itself is promised […]
For the Linux kernel, the ninth version of patches with components for developing device drivers in Rust has been proposed. The new version is a stripped-down version of the eighth edition published a few days ago. The kit is distinguished by a significant reduction in size and leaving only the most necessary minimum, sufficient to build a kernel module written in Rust. A minimal patch is supposed to make it easier to accept support […]
Daniel J. Bernstein, a renowned cryptography and security software expert who has developed projects such as qmail, djbdns, NaCl, Ed25519, Curve25519 and ChaCha20-Poly1305, initiated legal proceedings against the US government for non-compliance by the National Institute US Standards and Technology (NIST) requirements for full disclosure of information related to the standardization of cryptographic algorithms. Bernstein's claims relate to the […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2022-31793) has been identified in the muhttpd HTTP server, which is used primarily in routers and access points, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to download arbitrary files by sending a specially crafted HTTP request, as far as the access rights under which the HTTP server is running allow. (on many devices, muhttpd runs as root). For example, an attacker can gain access to files with passwords, wireless access settings, connection […]
The release of the Pale Moon 31.2 web browser has been published, which forked from the Firefox codebase to provide higher performance, retain the classic interface, minimize memory consumption and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are generated for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to the classical organization of the interface, without […]
A release of the Chrome OS 104 operating system is available, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild / portage assembly toolkit, open components and the Chrome 104 web browser. The Chrome OS user environment is limited to a web browser, and web applications are used instead of standard programs, however, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop and taskbar. The source code is distributed under […]
GitHub has identified activity in the mass creation of forks and clones of popular projects, with the introduction of malicious changes into copies, including a backdoor. A search by host name (ovz1.j19544519.pr46m.vps.myjino.ru), which is accessed from the malicious code, showed more than 35 thousand changes in GitHub, present in clones and forks of various repositories, including forks of crypto, golang, python, js, bash, […]
GitLab plans to amend its terms of service in September, according to which projects hosted on GitLab.com hosting for free will be automatically deleted if their repositories remain inactive for 12 months. Rule changes have not yet been officially announced and are in the internal planning stage. The change is aimed at reducing the cost of maintaining hosting […]
Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 104 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which is the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in its use of Google logos, a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, always turning on Sandbox isolation, supplying keys to the Google API and passing […]
Slax 15, a compact live distribution, is released, notable for the return to the use of the Slackware project developments. The last release of Slax based on Slackware was formed 9 years ago. In 2018, the distribution was moved to the Debian package base, the APT package manager, and the systemd init system. The graphical environment is based on the FluxBox window manager and the xLunch desktop/program launcher […]
Researchers from the KU Leuven have developed a method of attacking the SIKE (Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation) key encapsulation mechanism, which entered the finals of the post-quantum cryptosystems competition held by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (SIKE was included and the number of additional algorithms that passed the main selection stages, but sent for revision to eliminate comments before transferring them to the category of recommended ones). The proposed […]
