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The OpenBSD Project has published OpenIKED 7.1, a portable implementation of the IKEv2 protocol for IPsec

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The release of OpenIKED 7.1, an implementation of the IKEv2 protocol developed by the OpenBSD project, has been published. The IKEv2 components were originally an integral part of the OpenBSD IPsec stack, but are now separated into a separate portable package and can be used on other operating systems. For example, OpenIKED has been tested on FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS, and various Linux distributions, including Arch, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu. The code is written in […]

Thunderbird financials for 2021. Preparing the release of Thunderbird 102

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The developers of the Thunderbird email client have published a financial report for 2021. During the year, the project received donations in the amount of $2.8 million (in 2019, $1.5 million was collected, in 2020 - $2.3 million), which allows it to successfully develop independently. Project expenses amounted to $1.984 million (in 2020 - $1.5 million) and almost all (78.1%) were […]

Release of the minimalist distribution kit Alpine Linux 3.16

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The release of Alpine Linux 3.16 is available, a minimalistic distribution built on the basis of the Musl system library and the BusyBox utility set. The distribution is distinguished by increased security requirements and is built with SSP (Stack Smashing Protection) protection. OpenRC is used as an initialization system, and its own apk package manager is used for package management. Alpine is used to build official Docker container images. Boot […]

DeepMind Opens Code for MuJoCo Physics Simulator

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DeepMind has opened the source code of the engine for simulating physical processes MuJoCo (Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact) and transferred the project to an open development model, which implies the possibility of community members participating in the development. The project is seen as a platform for research and collaboration on new technologies related to the simulation of robots and complex mechanisms. The code is published under the Apache 2.0 license. […]

9 Classic Palm Games Sources Released

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Aaron Ardiri has published the source code for clones of 9 classic games he wrote in the late 1990s and early 2000s for the Palm platform. The following games are available: Lemmings, Mario Bros, Octopus, Parachute, Fire, Loderunner, Hexxagon, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. The cloudpilot emulator can be used to run games in the browser. The code is written in C language with [...]

Linux 5.18 kernel release

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After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented the release of the Linux kernel 5.18. Among the most notable changes: a major cleanup of obsolete functionality was carried out, the Reiserfs FS was declared obsolete, user process tracing events were implemented, support for the mechanism for blocking Intel IBT exploits was added, a buffer overflow detection mode was enabled when using the memcpy() function, a mechanism for tracking fprobe function calls was added, Improved scheduler performance […]

Testing the KDE Plasma 5.25 Desktop

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A beta version of the Plasma 5.25 custom shell is available for testing. You can test the new release through a Live build from the openSUSE project and builds from the KDE Neon Testing edition project. Packages for various distributions can be found on this page. The release is expected on June 14. Key improvements: The page for setting the general theme has been redesigned in the configurator. It is possible to selectively apply theme elements […]

Lotus 1-2-3 ported to Linux

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Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher at Google, out of curiosity, ported the Lotus 1-2-3 table processor, released in 1988, three years before Linux itself, to work on Linux. The port is based on the processing of executable files for UNIX, found in a Warez archive on one of the BBSs. The work is of interest because the porting is done […]

Malicious pymafka library detected in PyPI Python package directory

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The pymafka library containing malicious code was detected in the PyPI (Python Package Index) directory. The library was distributed with a name similar to the popular pykafka package with the expectation that inattentive users would confuse the dummy package with the main project (typesquatting). The malicious package was posted on May 17 and was downloaded 325 times before it was blocked. Inside the package was a "setup.py" script that defined […]

systemd system manager release 251

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After five months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 251 was presented. Main changes: System requirements have been increased. The minimum supported Linux kernel version has been increased from 3.13 to 4.15. The CLOCK_BOOTTIME timer is required for operation. To build, you need a compiler that supports the C11 standard and GNU extensions (the C89 standard continues to be used for header files). Added experimental systemd-sysupdate utility to automatically […]

Ubuntu 22.10 will move to audio processing with PipeWire instead of PulseAudio

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The development repository for the Ubuntu 22.10 release has switched to using the default PipeWire media server for audio processing. Packages related to PulseAudio have been removed from the desktop and desktop-minimal sets, and to ensure compatibility, instead of libraries for interacting with PulseAudio, a pipewire-pulse layer running on top of PipeWire has been added, which allows you to save the work of all existing PulseAudio clients. […]

Pwn2Own 2022 showcases 5 Ubuntu hacks

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The results of three days of the Pwn2Own 2022 competition, held annually as part of the CanSecWest conference, have been summed up. Working techniques for exploiting previously unknown vulnerabilities have been demonstrated for Ubuntu Desktop, Virtualbox, Safari, Windows 11, Microsoft Teams and Firefox. A total of 25 successful attacks were demonstrated, and three attempts ended in failure. The attacks used the latest stable releases of applications, browsers and operating systems [...]

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