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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

Release of the nftables 0.9.9 packet filter

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The nftables 0.9.9 packet filter has been released, unifying the filtering interfaces for IPv4, IPv6, ARP, and network bridges (aimed at replacing iptables, ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables). At the same time, the accompanying library libnftnl 1.2.0 has been released, providing a low-level API for interaction with the nf_tables subsystem. The necessary changes for the operation of nftables 0.9.9 are included in the Linux kernel 5.13-rc1. In the package […]

Release of OSGeo-Live 14.0 distribution with a collection of geoinformation systems

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The release of the OSGeo-Live 14.0 distribution has been announced. This project is developed by the nonprofit organization OSGeo to provide a quick introduction to various open geospatial systems without the need for installation. The distribution is based on the Lubuntu package base. The size of the boot image is 4.4 GB (amd64, as well as an image for virtualization systems such as VirtualBox, VMware, KVM, etc.). It includes about 50 open applications […]

The new RowHammer attack technique on DRAM memory

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Google has introduced 'Half-Double,' a new RowHammer-class attack technique that allows modification of individual bits in dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). This attack is reproducible on some modern DRAM chips, where manufacturers have achieved reduced cell geometry. Recall that RowHammer-class attacks enable the corruption of individual bits of memory by cyclically reading data from adjacent memory cells. Since DRAM memory […]

Releases nginx 1.21.0 and nginx 1.20.1 with vulnerability fixes.

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The first release of the new main branch nginx 1.21.0 has been announced, which will continue to develop new features. At the same time, a corrective release of the parallel stable branch 1.20.1 has been prepared, which only includes changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. Next year, a stable branch 1.22 will be formed based on the main branch 1.21.x. In the new versions, vulnerabilities have been fixed […]

Google has started installing the Fuchsia OS on Nest Hub devices

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Petr Hosek, who heads the team at Google responsible for build systems, compilers, and tools for developers, has introduced the first device that will be equipped with the Fuchsia operating system. The Fuchsia-based firmware will begin to be delivered in smart photo frames for the Nest Hub as part of an experimental update for participants in the Google Preview Program. If the trial deployment does not […]

The fully free Linux distribution PureOS 10 has been released.

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Purism, which is developing the Librem 5 smartphone and a series of laptops, servers, and mini-PCs powered by Linux and CoreBoot, has announced the release of PureOS 10, built on the Debian package base and including only free applications, including those shipped with the GNU Linux-Libre kernel, cleansed of non-free elements. PureOS has been recognized by the Free Software Foundation as fully free […]

Alpha release of LibreOffice 7.2

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Alpha testing has begun for the LibreOffice 7.2 office suite. Ready builds for Linux, Windows, and macOS have been prepared, allowing installation alongside stable releases of LibreOffice. The release is expected on August 18 or 19. The most notable changes include: initial support for GTK4; removal of the OpenGL rendering code in favor of using Skia/Vulkan; and a pop-up interface for searching settings and commands […]

Mozilla has prepared a machine translation system add-on for Firefox

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Mozilla has released version 0.4 of the Firefox add-on Firefox Translations (previously developed under the name Bergamot Translate), which implements a self-sufficient machine translation system that operates within the browser without relying on external services. The bergamot-translator engine, developed under the Bergamot initiative by Mozilla along with researchers from several universities in the UK, Estonia, and […]

Second release of Libreboot, a fully free distribution of Coreboot

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After five years of development, the Libreboot 20210522 distribution release has been presented. This is the second release within the GNU project and is currently classified as 'testing,' as it requires further stabilization and testing. Libreboot fosters a fully free fork of the CoreBoot project, providing a clean, binary-free alternative to proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware, which are responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripherals […]

Release of the fully customizable web browser Nyxt 2.0.0

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The release of the Nyxt web browser 2.0.0 has been published, aimed at advanced users who are offered virtually unlimited options for configuring and altering the behavior of any aspect of the browsing experience. Conceptually, Nyxt resembles Emacs and Vim, and instead of a ready-made set of configurations, it allows users to change the very logic of operation using the Lisp language. Users can redefine or reconfigure any classes, methods, variables […]

The Floppinux distribution is available, fitting within the size of a floppy disk.

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The first release of the Floppinux distribution has been introduced, in which an attempt was made to create a minimalist distribution that fits on a 3.5-inch floppy disk, using the latest versions of system components such as the Linux kernel 5.13.0-rc2 and the busybox 1.33.1 utility set. The prepared boot image is 1.44MiB, with the kernel occupying 632KiB and user space components taking up 552KiB. For user applications, there is […]

Release of antiX 19.4, a distribution for outdated hardware

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The lightweight Live distribution AntiX 19.4 has been released, based on the Debian package base and aimed at installation on outdated hardware. The release is based on Debian 10 (Buster) but comes without the system manager systemd and with eudev instead of udev. For initialization, runit or sysvinit can be used as an option. The default user environment is formed using a window manager […]

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