NVIDIA and Mozilla have unveiled an update to the voice data sets collected as part of the Common Voice initiative, which now includes pronunciation samples from 182,000 people, representing a 25% increase from six months ago. The data is released as public domain (CC0). The proposed sets can be used in machine learning systems for building speech recognition and synthesis models. Compared to last […]
The release of the Gerbera media server 1.9 is now available, continuing the development of the MediaTomb project after its discontinuation. Gerbera supports UPnP protocols, including the UPnP MediaServer 1.0 specification, and enables the streaming of multimedia content over a local network, allowing video playback and audio listening on any UPnP-compatible device, including TVs, gaming consoles, smartphones, and tablets. The project code is written in […]
During the discussion on the recently published 27th edition of the patch set implementing the NTFS file system by Paragon Software, Linus Torvalds stated that he sees no obstacles to accepting this patch set in the next merge window. If no unforeseen issues arise, Paragon Software's NTFS support will be included in the 5.15 kernel, the release of which […]
The developers of the Node.js server-side JavaScript platform have released patch versions 12.22.4, 14.17.4, and 16.6.0, which partially address a vulnerability (CVE-2021-22930) in the http2 module (HTTP/2.0 client), allowing the initiation of a process crash or potentially enabling remote code execution in the system when connecting to a host controlled by an attacker. The issue is caused by accessing already freed memory when closing a connection after receiving RST_STREAM frames […]
An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.14 has been released. Since the release of version 6.13, 30 bug reports have been closed and 260 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: The Mono engine with .NET technology has been updated to version 6.3.0. In WOW64, the layer for running 32-bit applications in 64-bit Windows, converters (thunks) for 32-bit system calls have been added to […]
A group of researchers from the University of Turku (Finland) has published the results of an analysis of packages in the PyPI repository for the presence of potentially dangerous constructs that could lead to vulnerabilities. In analyzing 197,000 packages, 749,000 potential security issues were identified. In 46% of the packages, at least one such problem was found. Among the most commonly identified issues are shortcomings related to […]
The developers of the GNU C Library (glibc) have made changes to the rules for accepting changes and transferring copyright, abolishing the mandatory transfer of property rights to the Open Source Foundation on the code. Similar to the changes previously adopted in the GCC project, signing a CLA agreement with the Open Source Foundation in glibc has been moved to optional operations, carried out at the developer's discretion. The rule changes allowing acceptance […]
The release of the Siduction 2021.2 project has been formed, which develops a desktop-oriented Linux distribution built on the Debian Sid (unstable) package base. It is noted that preparation for the new release began about a year ago, but in April 2020, the key developer of the project, Alf Gaida, stopped communicating, and since then nothing has been heard from him. Other developers have not been able to clarify the situation, […]
The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of the distributed database management system Apache Cassandra 4.0, classified as a noSQL system and designed for creating highly scalable and reliable storage for large amounts of data stored in the form of an associative array (hash). The release of Cassandra 4.0 is considered ready for production deployments and has already been tested in the infrastructures of companies such as Amazon, Apple, DataStax, Instaclustr, iland, and Netflix with clusters, […]
The release of the OPNsense 21.7 firewall distribution has taken place, which is a fork of the pfSense project, created with the goal of forming a fully open distribution that could possess functionalities at the level of commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as not being controlled by a single company, developed with direct participation from the community, and possessing […]
Microsoft has announced the release of the source code for the D3D9On12 layer with the implementation of the Device Driver Interface (DDI), which translates Direct3D 9 (D3D9) commands into Direct3D 12 (D3D12) commands. This layer allows old applications to run in environments that support only D3D12, and may be useful for implementing D3D9 based on vkd3d and VKD3D-Proton projects, offering Direct3D 12 implementation […]
Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox 6.1.26 virtualization system, noting 5 fixes. Key changes include: in the Linux platform additions, a regressive change from the previous release has been fixed, which caused mouse cursor displacement when using the VMSVGA virtual adapter in a multi-monitor configuration. Screen artifacts when restoring saved sessions have been eliminated in the VMSVGA driver.