An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI, Wine 6.22, has been released. Since the release of version 6.21, 29 bug reports have been closed and 418 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Wine Mono engine with the implementation of the .NET platform has been updated to release 7.0.0. For the ARM platform, support for unwinding exceptions has been implemented. Improved support for joysticks that support the HID (Human Interface […]
In the PyPI (Python Package Index) directory, 11 packages containing malicious code were identified. Before problems were identified, the packages had been downloaded about 38 thousand times in total. The detected malicious packages are notable for their use of sophisticated methods to hide communication channels with the attackers’ servers. importantpackage (6305 downloads), important-package (12897) - established a connection to an external server under the guise of connecting to pypi.python.org to provide […]
The UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical pulled away from it, has published an OTA-20 (over-the-air) firmware update. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, which has been renamed to Lomiri. Ubuntu Touch OTA-20 update is for BQ E4.5/E5/M10/U Plus, Cosmo Communicator, F(x)tec Pro1, Fairphone 2/3, Google […]
In the nightly builds of Firefox, on the basis of which the Firefox 96 release will be formed, the ability to force dark and light themes for sites has been added. The color design is changed by the browser and does not require support from the site, which allows you to use a dark theme on sites that are only available in light colors, and a light theme on dark sites. For change […]
Intel has published the first major release of the ControlFlag 1.0 tool, which allows you to identify errors and anomalies in source code using a machine learning system trained on a large amount of existing code. Unlike traditional static analyzers, ControlFlag does not apply ready-made rules, in which it is difficult to provide for all possible options, but is based on statistics on the use of various language constructs in a large […]
Researchers from the National University of Singapore and Yonsei University (Korea) have developed a method for detecting hidden cameras indoors using a regular smartphone equipped with a ToF (Time of flight) sensor. It is noted that currently a hidden camera can be purchased for a little more than a dollar and such cameras are 1-2 millimeters in size, which makes them much more difficult to find indoors. IN […]
Google has announced that in the next release of Chrome 97, the interface for managing data stored on the browser side will be redesigned. In the “Settings > Privacy and Security > Site Settings > View permissions and data stored across files” section, the new “chrome://settings/content/all” interface will be used by default. The most noticeable difference in the new interface is its focus on setting permissions and clearing […]
After 5 months of development, a corrective release of the high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server nginx 1.20.2 has been prepared in parallel with the supported stable branch 1.20.X, in which only changes related to the elimination of serious errors and vulnerabilities are made. The main changes added during the development of the corrective release: Compatibility with the OpenSSL 3.0 library has been ensured. Fixed an error in writing empty SSL variables to the log; Fixed bug closing […]
A group of researchers from the Technical University of Graz (Austria), previously known for developing the MDS, NetSpectre, Throwhammer and ZombieLoad attacks, has published a new side-channel attack method (CVE-2021-3714) against the Memory-Deduplication mechanism, which allows to determine the presence of in memory of certain data, organize a byte-by-byte leak of memory contents, or determine the memory layout to bypass address-based randomization (ASLR) protection. From […]
After four months of development, the release of a free implementation of the OpenGL and Vulkan APIs - Mesa 21.3.0 - was published. The first release of the Mesa 21.3.0 branch has an experimental status - after the final stabilization of the code, a stable version 21.3.1 will be released. Mesa 21.3 includes full support for OpenGL 4.6 for the 965, iris (Intel), radeonsi (AMD), zink and llvmpipe drivers. OpenGL 4.5 support […]
Patrick Volkerding announced the start of testing the second release candidate for the Slackware 15.0 distribution. Patrick proposes to consider the proposed release as being at a deeper stage of freezing and free from errors when attempting to rebuild from source codes. An installation image of 3.3 GB (x86_64) in size has been prepared for download, as well as a shortened assembly for launching in Live mode. By […]
After 5 months of development, the release of the Cinnamon 5.2 user environment has been formed, within which the community of developers of the Linux Mint distribution is developing a fork of the GNOME Shell, the Nautilus file manager and the Mutter window manager, aimed at providing an environment in the classic GNOME 2 style with support for successful interaction elements from the GNOME Shell . Cinnamon is based on the GNOME components, but those […]
