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Critical vulnerability in PolKit allowing root access on most Linux distributions

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Qualys has identified a vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034) in the Polkit (formerly PolicyKit) system component used in distributions to allow unprivileged users to perform actions that require elevated access rights. The vulnerability allows an unprivileged local user to escalate their privileges to root and gain full control of the system. The problem was codenamed PwnKit and is notable for the preparation of a working exploit that works in a […]

RetroArch 1.10.0 game console emulator released

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After a year and a half of development, RetroArch 1.10.0 has been released, an add-on for emulating various game consoles, allowing you to run classic games using a simple, unified graphical interface. The use of emulators for consoles such as Atari 2600/7800/Jaguar/Lynx, Game Boy, Mega Drive, NES, Nintendo 64/DS, PCEngine, PSP, Sega 32X/CD, SuperNES, etc. is supported. Gamepads from existing game consoles can be used, including […]

Duktape JavaScript engine added to Polkit

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The Polkit toolkit, used in distributions to handle authorization and define access rules for operations that require elevated access rights (for example, mounting a USB drive), has added a backend that allows the use of the embedded Duktape JavaScript engine instead of the previously used Mozilla Gecko engine (by default as and earlier the assembly is carried out with the Mozilla engine). Polkit's JavaScript language is used to define access rules that […]

Vulkan 1.3 graphics standard published

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After two years of work, the graphics standards consortium Khronos has published the Vulkan 1.3 specification, which defines an API for accessing the graphics and computing capabilities of GPUs. The new specification incorporates corrections and extensions accumulated over two years. It is noted that the requirements of the Vulkan 1.3 specification are designed for graphics equipment of the OpenGL ES 3.1 class, which will provide support for the new […]

Google Drive mistakenly detects copyright infringements on files with a single number

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Emily Dolson, a teacher at the University of Michigan, encountered unusual behavior in the Google Drive service, which began to block access to one of the stored files with a message about a violation of the service's copyright rules and a warning that it was impossible to request for this type of blocking manual check. Interestingly, the contents of the locked file consisted of only one […]

Git 2.35 source control release

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After two months of development, the distributed source control system Git 2.35 has been released. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems that provides flexible non-linear development tools based on branching and merging branches. To ensure the integrity of the history and resistance to changes "backdating", implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit is used, […]

Criticism of the Open Source Foundation policy towards firmware

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Ariadne Conill, creator of the Audacious music player, initiator of the IRCv3 protocol, and leader of the Alpine Linux security team, criticized the Free Software Foundation's policies on proprietary firmware and microcode, as well as the rules of the Respect Your Freedom initiative aimed at certification of devices that meet the requirements for ensuring user privacy and freedom. According to Ariadne, the Foundation’s policy […]

Release of SANE 1.1 with support for new scanner models

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The release of the sane-backends 1.1.1 package has been prepared, which includes a set of drivers, the scanimage command line utility, a daemon for organizing scanning over the saned network, and libraries with the implementation of SANE-API. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The package supports 1747 (in the previous version 1652) scanner models, of which 815 (737) have the status of full support for all functions, for 780 (766) the level […]

The prototype of the domestic OS Phantom based on Genode will be ready before the end of the year

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Dmitry Zavalishin spoke about a project to port a virtual machine of the Phantom operating system to work in the Genode microkernel OS environment. The interview notes that the main version of Phantom is already ready for pilot projects, and the Genode-based version will be ready for use at the end of the year. At the same time, only a workable conceptual concept has been announced on the project’s website [...]

JingOS 1.2, tablet distribution released

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The JingOS 1.2 distribution is now available, providing an environment specially optimized for installation on tablet PCs and touchscreen laptops. The project's developments are distributed under the GPLv3 license. Release 1.2 is only available for tablets with processors based on the ARM architecture (previously releases were also made for the x86_64 architecture, but after the release of the JingPad tablet, all attention switched to the ARM architecture). […]

Sway 1.7 custom environment release using Wayland

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The release of the composite manager Sway 1.7 has been published, built using the Wayland protocol and fully compatible with the i3 mosaic window manager and the i3bar panel. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The project is aimed at use on Linux and FreeBSD. i3 compatibility is provided at the command, configuration file and IPC levels, allowing […]

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