GitHub has re-blocked the RE3 project repository and 861 forks of its contents following a new complaint from Take-Two Interactive, which owns intellectual property related to the games GTA III and GTA Vice City. Let us recall that the re3 project carried out work on reverse engineering the source codes of the games GTA III and GTA Vice City, released about 20 […]
The Free Software Foundation introduced the JShelter project, which develops a browser add-on to protect against threats that arise when using JavaScript on websites, including hidden identification, tracking movements and the accumulation of user data. The project code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The add-on is prepared for Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Brave, Microsoft Edge and other browsers based on the Chromium engine. The project is developing as [...]
Google has created an update to Chrome 94.0.4606.71, which fixes 4 vulnerabilities, including two problems already used by attackers in exploits (0-day). Details have not yet been disclosed, we only know that the first vulnerability (CVE-2021-37975) is caused by accessing a memory area after it is freed (use-after-free) in the V8 JavaScript engine, and the second problem (CVE-2021-37976) leads to to information leakage. In the announcement of the new […]
Valve has published the release of the Proton 6.3-7 project, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and is aimed at enabling gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog to run on Linux. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes a DirectX implementation […]
After a year of development, a new stable branch of the PostgreSQL 14 DBMS has been published. Updates for the new branch will be released over five years until November 2026. Main innovations: Added support for accessing JSON data using expressions reminiscent of working with arrays: SELECT ('{ "postgres": { "release": 14 }}'::jsonb)['postgres']['release']; SELECT * FROM test WHERE details['attributes']['size'] = '"medium"'; Similar […]
The Qt Company has published a release of the Qt 6.2 framework, in which work continues to stabilize and increase the functionality of the Qt 6 branch. Qt 6.2 provides support for the platforms Windows 10, macOS 10.14+, Linux (Ubuntu 20.04+, CentOS 8.1+, openSUSE 15.1+), iOS 13+, Android (API 23+), webOS, INTEGRITY and QNX. The source code of Qt components is provided under the LGPLv3 and […]
Facebook introduced a new open static analyzer, Mariana Trench, aimed at identifying vulnerabilities in applications for the Android platform and Java programs. It is possible to analyze projects without source codes, for which only bytecode for the Dalvik virtual machine is available. Another advantage is the very high execution speed (analysis of several million lines of code takes about 10 seconds), [...]
Users of various Linux distributions that use the BFQ I/O scheduler have encountered an issue after updating the Linux kernel to the 5.14.7 release that causes the kernel to crash within a few hours of booting. The problem also continues to occur in kernel 5.14.8. The reason was a regressive change in the BFQ (Budget Fair Queueing) input/output scheduler carried over from the 5.15 test branch, which […]
The Firezone project is developing a VPN server to organize access to hosts in an internal isolated network from user devices located on external networks. The project is aimed at achieving a high level of protection and simplifying the VPN deployment process. The project code is written in Elixir and Ruby, and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The project is being developed by a security automation engineer from […]
The first test releases of the TypeScript Native Compiler project are available, allowing you to compile a TypeScript application into machine code. The compiler is built using LLVM, which also allows for additional features such as compiling code into a browser-independent universal low-level intermediate code WASM (WebAssembly), capable of running on different operating systems. The compiler code is written in C++ […]
The Exim 4.95 mail server has been released, adding accumulated fixes and adding new features. According to a September automated survey of more than a million mail servers, Exim's share is 58% (a year ago 57.59%), Postfix is used on 34.92% (34.70%) of mail servers, Sendmail - 3.52% (3.75%), MailEnable - 2% (2.07). %), MDaemon - 0.57% (0.73%), Microsoft Exchange - 0.32% […]
The release of Supertuxkart 1.3 has been published, a free racing game with a large number of karts, tracks and features. The game code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Binary builds are available for Linux, Android, Windows and macOS. In the new release: Added a port for Nintendo Switch game consoles with the Homebrew package installed. Added the ability to use vibration feedback for controllers that support this functionality. […]
