Author: ProHoster

Removed classic driver code from Mesa that does not use Gallium3D

All classic OpenGL drivers have been removed from the Mesa codebase and support for the infrastructure for their operation has been discontinued. Maintenance of the old driver code will continue in a separate “Amber” branch, but these drivers will no longer be included in the main part of Mesa. The classic xlib library has also been removed, and it is recommended to use the gallium-xlib variant instead. The change affects all remaining […]

Wine 6.23 release

An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI, Wine 6.23, was released. Since the release of version 6.22, 48 bug reports have been closed and 410 changes have been made. The most important changes: The CoreAudio driver and mount point manager have been converted to PE (Portable Executable) format. WoW64, a layer for running 32-bit programs on 64-bit Windows, added support for exception handling. Implemented […]

Former Ubiquiti employee arrested on hacking charges

The January story of illegal access to the network of network equipment manufacturer Ubiquiti received an unexpected continuation. On December 1, the FBI and New York prosecutors announced the arrest of former Ubiquiti employee Nickolas Sharp. He is charged with illegal access to computer systems, extortion, wire fraud and making false statements to the FBI. If you believe […]

In Russia, there are problems connecting to Tor

In recent days, users of various Russian providers have noted the inability to connect to the anonymous Tor network when accessing the network through various providers and mobile operators. Blocking is mainly observed in Moscow when connecting through providers such as MTS, Rostelecom, Akado, Tele2, Yota, Beeline and Megafon. Individual messages about blocking also come from users from St. Petersburg, Ufa […]

The distribution of CentOS Stream 9 is officially presented

The CentOS Project has officially announced the availability of the CentOS Stream 9 distribution, which is being used as the basis for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 distribution as part of a new, more open development process. CentOS Stream is a continuously updated distribution and allows earlier access to packages being developed for a future RHEL release. The assemblies are prepared for x86_64, Aarch64 […]

The first release of the game engine Open 3D Engine, opened by Amazon

The non-profit organization Open 3D Foundation (O3DF) has published the first significant release of the open 3D game engine Open 3D Engine (O3DE), suitable for developing modern AAA games and high-fidelity simulations capable of real-time and cinematic quality. The code is written in C++ and published under the Apache 2.0 license. There is support for Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS platforms […]

HyperStyle - adaptation of StyleGAN machine learning system for image editing

A team of researchers from Tel Aviv University presented HyperStyle, an inverted version of NVIDIA's StyleGAN2 machine learning system that is redesigned to recreate the missing parts when editing real images. The code is written in Python using the PyTorch framework and is distributed under the MIT license. If StyleGAN allows you to synthesize realistic-looking new human faces by specifying parameters such as age, gender, […]

Qt Creator 6.0 Development Environment Release

The release of the integrated development environment Qt Creator 6.0 has been published, designed for creating cross-platform applications using the Qt library. It supports both the development of classic programs in C++ and the use of the QML language, in which JavaScript is used to define scripts, and the structure and parameters of interface elements are specified by CSS-like blocks. In the new version: Launching external processes such as assembly […]

Rust programming language 1.57 release

The release of the system programming language Rust 1.57, founded by the Mozilla project, but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation, has been published. The language focuses on memory safety, provides automatic memory management, and provides the means to achieve high job parallelism while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is reduced to basic initialization and […]

openSUSE Leap 15.4 alpha testing has begun

Testing of the alpha version of the openSUSE Leap 15.4 distribution has begun, formed on the basis of a basic set of packages, common with the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 4 distribution and also including some user applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. A universal DVD build of 3.9 GB (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64les, 390x) is available for download. Until mid-February, it is planned to regularly publish alpha builds with rolling package updates. 16 […]

Vulnerability in Mozilla NSS allowing code execution when processing certificates

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-43527) has been identified in the NSS (Network Security Services) set of cryptographic libraries developed by Mozilla, which can lead to the execution of attacker code when processing DSA or RSA-PSS digital signatures specified using the DER encoding method ( Distinguished Encoding Rules). The issue, codenamed BigSig, is resolved in NSS 3.73 and NSS ESR 3.68.1. Package updates […]

Android TV platform 12 available

Two months after the publication of the Android 12 mobile platform, Google has formed an edition for smart TVs and set-top boxes Android TV 12. The platform is so far offered only for testing by application developers - ready-made assemblies have been prepared for the Google ADT-3 set-top box (including an OTA update released) and emulator Android Emulator for TV. Publishing firmware updates for consumer devices such as […]