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Joke about the age of women led to a change in Ruby's code of conduct

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The Ruby Project Code of Conduct, which defines the principles of friendly and respectful communication in the developer community, has been updated to clean up abusive language: The clause specifying tolerance for opposing opinions has been removed. The phrase prescribing a hospitable attitude towards newcomers, young participants, their teachers and accomplices of people who cannot restrain their emotions (“fire breathing wizards”) has been expanded to all users. […]

Google has allocated a million dollars to work to improve the security of open source software

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Google has unveiled the Secure Open Source (SOS) initiative, which will provide rewards for work related to enhancing the security of critical open source software. A million dollars have been allocated for the first payments, but if the initiative is considered successful, investment in the project will be continued. The following bonuses are provided: $10000 or more - for submitting complex, significant […]

Plan to improve Wayland support in Firefox

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Martin Stransky, a Firefox package maintainer for Fedora and RHEL who is porting Firefox to Wayland, published a report reviewing the latest developments in Firefox running in Wayland protocol-based environments. In the coming releases of Firefox, it is planned to solve the problems observed in builds for Wayland with the clipboard and handling pop-ups. The indicated possibilities [...]

Crashes in OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD and Electron due to outdated IdenTrust root certificate

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The deprecation of the IdenTrust root certificate (DST Root CA X3), used to cross-sign the Let's Encrypt CA root certificate, has caused problems with Let's Encrypt certificate verification in projects using older versions of OpenSSL and GnuTLS. Problems also affected the LibreSSL library, the developers of which did not take into account past experience associated with failures that arose after the root certificate became […]

GitHub has re-locked the RE3 project repository

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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 […]

Open Source Foundation introduced JShelter browser add-on to restrict JavaScript API

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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 [...]

Chrome update 94.0.4606.71 fixing 0-day vulnerabilities

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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 released Proton 6.3-7, a package for running Windows games on Linux

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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 […]

PostgreSQL 14 release

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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 […]

Qt 6.2 framework release

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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 opened the Mariana Trench static analyzer code

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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), [...]

An issue has been identified in the Linux 5.14.7 kernel that causes a crash on systems with the BFQ scheduler

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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 […]

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