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The Russian Federation approved the requirement for the presence of passport data when registering in messengers

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The Government of the Russian Federation published a resolution “On approval of the Rules for identifying users of the Internet information and telecommunication network by the organizer of an instant messaging service” (PDF), which introduces new requirements for identifying Russian users in instant messengers. The decree prescribes, starting from March 1, 2022, to identify subscribers by asking the user for a phone number, verifying this number by sending an SMS or a verification call, and […]

Microsoft removed Hot Reload functionality from open source .NET to ship only in Visual Studio 2022

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Microsoft has moved to the practice of removing previously open source code from the .NET platform. In particular, from the open code base in which the new branch of the .NET 6 platform was being developed, the implementation of the Hot Reload function was removed, which was initially proposed not only in the Visual Studio 2019 16.11 (Preview 1) development environment, but also in the open dotnet watch utility " IN […]

Wine 6.20 release and Wine staging 6.20

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An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI, Wine 6.20, was released. Since the release of version 6.19, 29 bug reports have been closed and 399 changes have been made. The most important changes: MSXml, XAudio, DInput and some other modules have been converted to PE (Portable Executable) format. Some system libraries are included to support assemblies based on the PE format. IN […]

Error in GPSD this Sunday translates to a time change of 19 years ago

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A critical issue has been identified in the GPSD package, which is used to extract precise time and position data from GPS devices, due to which the time will shift back 24 weeks on October 1024, i.e. the time will be changed to March 2002. The issue appears in releases 3.20 through 3.22 inclusive and is resolved in GPSD 3.23. To all system users, in [...]

Protected Russian distribution kit Astra Linux Special Edition 1.7 is available

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RusBITech-Astra LLC presented the Astra Linux Special Edition 1.7 distribution, which is a special-purpose assembly that protects confidential information and state secrets to the level of “special importance.” The distribution is based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base. The user environment is built on the proprietary Fly desktop (interactive demo) with components using the Qt library. The distribution is distributed under a license agreement […]

Attack on Intel SGX to extract sensitive data or execute code in an enclave

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Researchers from the Defense Science and Technology University of the People's Liberation Army of China, the National University of Singapore and ETH Zurich have developed a new attack method against isolated Intel SGX (Software Guard eXtensions) enclaves. The attack was called SmashEx and was caused by reentrancy problems in handling exceptions during the operation of runtime components for Intel SGX. The proposed attack method makes it possible, when […]

A Chimera Linux distribution that combines a Linux kernel with a FreeBSD environment

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Daniel Kolesa of Igalia, who is involved in the development of the Void Linux, WebKit and Enlightenment projects, is developing the new Chimera Linux distribution. The project uses the Linux kernel, but instead of the GNU toolkit, it forms the user environment based on the stuffing of the FreeBSD base system, and uses LLVM for assembly. The distribution is initially developed as a cross-platform one and supports x86_64, ppc64le, aarch64, […]

MX Linux distribution release 21

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The lightweight MX Linux 21 distribution has been released, created as a result of the joint work of the communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects. The release is based on the Debian package base with improvements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. The distribution uses the sysVinit initialization system and its own tools for configuring and deploying the system. 32-bit and 64-bit […]

SiFive Introduces RISC-V Core Outperforming ARM Cortex-A78

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SiFive, founded by the creators of the RISC-V instruction set architecture and at one time prepared the first prototype of a processor based on RISC-V, introduced a new RISC-V CPU core in the SiFive Performance line, which is 50% faster than the previous top P550 core and outperforms ARM Cortex-A78, the most powerful processor based on the ARM architecture. SoCs based on the new core are targeted […]

Bareflank 3.0 hypervisor release

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The release of the Bareflank 3.0 hypervisor, which provides tools for the rapid development of specialized hypervisors, has taken place. Bareflank is written in C++ and supports C++ STL. The modular architecture of Bareflank makes it easy to expand existing hypervisor capabilities and create your own hypervisor options, both running on top of hardware (like Xen) and running in an existing software environment (like VirtualBox). It is possible to execute the operating system of the host environment […]

Rust programming language release 2021 (1.56)

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The release of the system programming language Rust 1.56, founded by the Mozilla project, but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation, has been published. In addition to the regular version number, the release is also labeled as Rust 2021 and marks the stabilization of the changes proposed over the past three years. Rust 2021 will also serve as the foundation for more functionality over the next three years, similar to […]

Alibaba discovers developments related to XuanTie RISC-V processors

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Alibaba, one of the largest Chinese IT companies, announced the discovery of developments related to the XuanTie E902, E906, C906 and C910 processor cores, built on the basis of the 64-bit RISC-V instruction set architecture. XuanTie's open kernels will be developed under the new names OpenE902, OpenE906, OpenC906, and OpenC910. Diagrams, descriptions of hardware blocks in the Verilog language, a simulator and related project documentation are published on […]

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