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Mozilla introduces Firefox Suggest and new Firefox Focus browser interface

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Mozilla has introduced a new recommendation system, Firefox Suggest, that displays additional suggestions as you type in the address bar. What distinguishes the new feature from recommendations based on local data and access to a search engine is the ability to provide information from third-party partners, which can be both non-profit projects such as Wikipedia and paid sponsors. For example, when you start typing in [...]

Budgie Desktop Moves From GTK to EFL Libraries by Enlightenment Project

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The developers of the Budgie desktop environment decided to move away from using the GTK library in favor of the EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Library) libraries developed by the Enlightenment project. The results of the migration will be offered in the release of Budgie 11. It is noteworthy that this is not the first attempt to move away from using GTK - in 2017, the project already decided to switch to Qt, but later […]

Java SE 17 release

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After six months of development, Oracle has released Java SE 17 (Java Platform, Standard Edition 17), which uses the OpenJDK open source project as a reference implementation. With the exception of the removal of some deprecated features, Java SE 17 maintains backward compatibility with past releases of the Java platform - most previously written Java projects will work without changes when run under […]

Vulnerabilities in Matrix clients that could expose end-to-end encryption keys

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Vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-40823, CVE-2021-40824) have been identified in most client applications for the Matrix decentralized communications platform, allowing to obtain information about the keys used to send messages in end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) chats. An attacker, by compromising one of the chat users, can decrypt messages previously sent to this user from vulnerable client applications. Successful operation requires access to the recipient's […]

In Firefox 94, output for X11 will be switched to use EGL by default.

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A change has been added to the nightly builds that will form the basis of the Firefox 94 release to enable a new rendering backend by default for desktop environments that use the X11 protocol. The new backend is notable for using the EGL interface for graphics output instead of GLX. The backend supports open OpenGL drivers Mesa 21.x and proprietary NVIDIA 470.x drivers. AMD's proprietary OpenGL drivers are not yet […]

Chrome update 93.0.4577.82 fixing 0-day vulnerabilities

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Google has released Chrome update 93.0.4577.82, which fixes 11 vulnerabilities, including two problems already used by attackers in exploits (0-day). Details have not yet been disclosed, it is only known that the first vulnerability (CVE-2021-30632) is caused by a bug that leads to writing out of buffer bounds in the V8 JavaScript engine, and the second problem (CVE-2021-30633) is present in the implementation of the Indexed DB API and linked […]

A third party is trying to trademark PostgreSQL in Europe and the US

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The PostgreSQL DBMS developer community was faced with an attempt to seize the project's trademarks. Fundación PostgreSQL, a non-profit organization not affiliated with the PostgreSQL developer community, has registered the trademarks “PostgreSQL” and “PostgreSQL Community” in Spain, and has also applied for similar trademarks in the United States and the European Union. Management of intellectual property associated with the PostgreSQL project, including the Postgres and […]

Autumn update of ALT p10 starter kits

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The second release of starter kits on the Tenth Alt platform has been published. These images are suitable for getting started with a stable repository for those experienced users who prefer to independently determine the list of application packages and customize the system (even creating their own derivatives). As composite works, they are distributed under the terms of the GPLv2+ license. Options include the base system and one of the […]

New Technique for Exploiting Specter Class Vulnerabilities in Chrome

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A group of researchers from American, Australian and Israeli universities have proposed a new side-channel attack technique to exploit Specter-class vulnerabilities in browsers based on the Chromium engine. The attack, codenamed Spook.js, allows you to bypass the site isolation mechanism by running JavaScript code and read the contents of the entire address space of the current process, i.e. access data from pages launched [...]

Release of multiplayer RPG game Veloren 0.11

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The release of the computer role-playing game Veloren 0.11, written in the Rust language and using voxel graphics, has been published. The project is being developed under the influence of such games as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. Binary assemblies are generated for Linux, macOS and Windows. The code is provided under the GPLv3 license. The new version implements the accumulation of skills [...]

BitTorrent client Transmission moves from C to C++

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The libtransmission library, which is the basis of the Transmission BitTorrent client, has been translated into C++. Transmission still has bindings with the implementation of user interfaces (GTK interface, daemon, CLI), written in the C language, but assembly now requires a C++ compiler. Previously, only the Qt-based interface was written in C++ (the client for macOS was in Objective-C, the web interface was in JavaScript, […]

HashiCorp has temporarily suspended accepting changes from the community in the Terraform project

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HashiCorp has explained why it recently added a note to its Terraform open source configuration management platform repository to temporarily suspend reviewing and accepting pull requests submitted by community members. The note was seen by some participants as a crisis in Terraform's open development model. Terraform developers rushed to reassure the community and stated that the added note was misunderstood and was added only for […]

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