Western Digital has urgently recommended that users disconnect their WD My Book Live and My Book Live Duo storage devices from the internet due to numerous reports of complete data deletion from the drives. Currently, it is known that an unknown piece of malware is remotely triggering a factory reset of the devices, erasing all saved content […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2021-3600) has been identified in the eBPF subsystem, which allows the execution of handlers within the Linux kernel in a special JIT virtual machine, permitting a local unprivileged user to execute their code at the Linux kernel level. The issue is caused by improper truncation of 32-bit registers during 'div' and 'mod' operations, which may lead to reading and writing data outside the allocated memory area. […]
Google has announced changes to its plans regarding the phasing out of third-party cookies in Chrome that are set when visiting sites different from the current page's domain. Such cookies are used to track user movements between websites in advertising network codes, social media widgets, and web analytics systems. Initially, support for third-party cookies in Chrome was scheduled to be discontinued by 2022, but now […]
Introducing Linux4yourself or 'Linux for Yourself' — the first release of a self-sufficient Russian-language branch of Linux From Scratch — a guide for creating a Linux system using only the source texts of the necessary software. All project source texts are hosted on GitHub under the MIT license. Users can choose to use a multilib system, EFI support, and a small set of additional software to ensure a comfortable […]
Several packages, including code for hidden cryptocurrency mining, were found in the PyPI (Python Package Index) directory. Issues were present in the packages maratlib, maratlib1, matplatlib-plus, mllearnlib, mplatlib, and learninglib, with names similar to popular libraries (matplotlib), designed so that users might make mistakes when typing and not notice the differences (typosquatting). The packages were uploaded in April under the account […]
After a year of development, SUSE has released the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 distribution. Based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform, products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Manager, and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing have been formed. The distribution can be downloaded and used for free, but access to updates and patches is limited to a 60-day […]
The release of the Python library for scientific computing, NumPy 1.21, is available, aimed at working with multidimensional arrays and matrices, offering a large collection of functions implementing various algorithms related to matrix operations. NumPy is one of the most in-demand libraries used for scientific calculations. The project code is written in Python with optimizations in C and is distributed […]
A corrective release of Firefox 89.0.2 is available, addressing freezes occurring on Linux platforms when using software rendering mode in the WebRender compositing system (gfx.webrender.software in about:config). Software rendering is used on systems with older video cards or problematic graphics drivers that experience stability issues or cannot offload the rendering of page content to the GPU (WebRender uses […]
The international OASIS consortium, which works on developing and promoting open standards, has approved the final version of the OpenDocument 1.3 (ODF) specification as an OASIS standard. The next step will be to promote OpenDocument 1.3 as an international ISO/IEC standard. ODF is an XML-based, application- and platform-independent file format for storing documents that contain text, spreadsheets, diagrams, and graphics. […]
Brave, the company behind the privacy-focused web browser of the same name, has introduced a beta version of the search engine search.brave.com, which is closely integrated with the browser and does not track visitors. The search engine is designed to maintain privacy and is built on technology from the now-defunct search engine Cliqz, which was acquired by Brave. To ensure confidentiality while using the search engine, search queries, clicks […]
The release of the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.103.3 has been formed, featuring the following changes: The file mirrors.dat has been renamed to freshclam.dat as ClamAV has transitioned to using a content delivery network (CDN) instead of a mirror network, and the specified dat file no longer contains information about mirrors. freshclam.dat retains the UUID used in ClamAV's User-Agent. The need for this renaming arises from the fact that in scripts […]
The developers of the Android-x86 project, which is being advanced by an independent community to develop the Android platform port for the x86 architecture, have released the sixth stable build based on Android 8.1. This build includes fixes and enhancements that improve Android's performance on the x86 architecture. Universal Live builds of Android-x86 8.1-r6 are available for both x86 32-bit (640 MB) and x86_64 (847 […]