The stable release of EiskaltDC++ v2.4.1 has been published — a cross-platform client for Direct Connect and Advanced Direct Connect networks. Builds have been prepared for various Linux distributions, Haiku, macOS, and Windows. Maintainers of many distributions have already updated packages in the official repositories. Key changes since version 2.2.9, released 7.5 years ago: General Changes OpenSSL support >= 1.1.x has been added (support […]
Today, the final version of the Vivaldi 3.6 browser built on the open Chromium core has been released. In the new release, the functionality of tab groups has been significantly changed — now, when switching to a group, an additional panel opens automatically, displaying all tabs in the group. If necessary, the user can pin the second panel for easier management of multiple tabs. Among other changes, there are […]
Existing Bronze/Starter clients will be able to continue using it at the current price until the end of their subscription and for another year after that. Then they must choose either a more expensive subscription or a free account with fewer features. If opting for a more expensive subscription, significant discounts are provided, allowing the price to gradually rise to the usual rate over three years. For example, Premium […]
Dotenv-linter is an open-source tool for checking and fixing various issues in .env files, which serve for more convenient storage of environment variables within a project. The use of environment variables is recommended by the development manifesto 'The Twelve Factor App' – a set of best practices for building applications across any platform. Following this manifesto prepares your application for scaling, conveniently […]
Firefox 85 is now available. Graphics subsystem: WebRender is enabled on devices using the 'GNOME+Wayland+Intel/AMD graphics card' setup (except for 4K displays, support for which is expected in Firefox 86). Additionally, WebRender is enabled on devices using Iris Pro Graphics P580 (mobile Xeon E3 v5), which developers had overlooked, as well as on devices with Intel HD Graphics drivers version 23.20.16.4973 (this specific driver […]
The vulnerability lies in the ability of a remote attacker to access directories outside of those exported via NFS, through a READDIRPLUS call on the .. root of the exported directory. The vulnerability has been fixed in the kernel version 5.10.10 released on January 23, as well as in all other supported kernel versions updated on that day: commit fdcaa4af5e70e2d984c9620a09e9dade067f2620 Author: J. Bruce Fields Date: Mon Jan 11 […]
The library is structured as a Rust crate under the MIT License, which can be used as follows: [dependencies] windows = '0.2.1' [build-dependencies] windows = '0.2.1' After that, in the build script build.rs, you can generate the modules needed for your application: fn main() { windows::build!( windows::data::xml::dom::* windows::win32::system_services::{CreateEventW, SetEvent, WaitForSingleObject} windows::win32::windows_programming::CloseHandle ); } Documentation on available modules is published at docs.rs. […]
More than two years ago, a bug report was opened in Gnome GitLab regarding the scrolling in GTK applications using the touchpad, which was found to be too fast or too sensitive. The discussion involved 43 participants. GTK+ maintainer, Matthias Clasen, initially claimed he did not see the issue. Comments mainly revolved around 'how it works', 'how it works in other […]
During an audit, Google discovered that some third-party products based on Chromium code use keys that allow access to certain Google APIs and services intended for internal use. Specifically, to google_default_client_id and google_default_client_secret. As a result, users can access their own Chrome Sync data (such as bookmarks) not only in […]
The Raspberry Pi team has released a board on the RP2040 chip with a 40nm architecture: Raspberry Pi Pico. RP2040 specifications: Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ @ 133MHz 264KB RAM Support for up to 16MB of Flash memory via a dedicated QSPI bus DMA controller 30 GPIO pins, 4 of which can be used as analog inputs 2 UART, 2 SPI, and 2 I2C controllers 16 PWM […]
"Dreaming of the ability to run Linux on the new Apple chip? The reality is much closer than you might think." With this subtitle, a popular site among Ubuntu enthusiasts worldwide, omg!ubuntu!, writes about this news. Developers from Corellium, specializing in virtualization on ARM chips, have managed to run and achieve stable operation of the Ubuntu 20.04 distribution on the latest Apple Mac […]
Experts from JSOF research labs reported seven new vulnerabilities in the DNS/DHCP server dnsmasq. The dnsmasq server is quite popular and is used by default in many Linux distributions, as well as in networking equipment from Cisco, Ubiquiti, and others. The Dnspooq vulnerabilities include DNS cache poisoning and remote code execution. The vulnerabilities have been fixed in dnsmasq 2.83. In 2008 […]