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Release of the mobile platform KDE Plasma Mobile 21.07

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The release of the KDE Plasma Mobile 21.07 mobile platform has been published, based on the mobile edition of the Plasma 5 desktop, the KDE Frameworks 5 libraries, the Ofono phone stack and the Telepathy communication framework. To create the application interface, Qt, a set of Mauikit components and the Kirigami framework from the KDE Frameworks are used, which allows you to create universal interfaces suitable for smartphones, tablets and PCs. To withdraw […]

The CentOS project created a group for the development of solutions for automotive systems

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The Governing Council of the CentOS project approved the formation of the SIG-group (Special Interest Group) Automotive, which is considered as a neutral platform for the development of projects related to the adaptation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for automotive information systems and for organizing interaction with specialized projects such as AGL (Automotive Grade Linux). Among the goals of the new SIG is the creation of new open source software for automotive […]

Chrome Release 92

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Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 92 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which serves as the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by the use of Google logos, the presence of a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, and transmitting RLZ parameters when searching. The next release of Chrome 93 is scheduled for August 31st. Major changes […]

Linux kernel root vulnerability and systemd denial of service

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Security researchers from Qualys have revealed details of two vulnerabilities affecting the Linux kernel and the systemd system manager. A vulnerability in the kernel (CVE-2021-33909) allows a local user to achieve code execution with root rights through manipulation of highly nested directories. The danger of the vulnerability is aggravated by the fact that the researchers were able to prepare working exploits that work on Ubuntu 20.04/20.10/21.04, Debian 11 and Fedora 34 in […]

Updates for Java SE, MySQL, VirtualBox and other Oracle products with vulnerabilities fixed

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Oracle has published a scheduled release of updates to its products (Critical Patch Update), aimed at eliminating critical problems and vulnerabilities. The July update fixes a total of 342 vulnerabilities. Some problems: 4 security problems in Java SE. All vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely without authentication and affect environments that allow the execution of untrustworthy code. The most dangerous [...]

Wine 6.13 release and Wine staging 6.13

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An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI, Wine 6.13, was released. Since the release of version 6.12, 31 bug reports have been closed and 284 changes have been made. The most important changes: Correct theme support for scroll bars has been implemented. Work continued on translating WinSock and IPHLPAPI into libraries based on the PE (Portable Executable) format. Preparations have been made for the implementation [...]

VirtualBox 6.1.24 release

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Oracle has published a corrective release of the VirtualBox 6.1.24 virtualization system, which contains 18 fixes. Main changes: For guest systems and hosts with Linux, support for kernel 5.13 has been added, as well as kernels from the SUSE SLES/SLED 15 SP3 distribution. Guest Additions add support for the Linux kernels shipped with Ubuntu. In the component installer for host systems on […]

The Stockfish project filed a lawsuit against ChessBase and revoked the GPL license

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The Stockfish project, distributed under the GPLv3 license, sued ChessBase, revoking its GPL license to use its code. Stockfish is the strongest chess engine used on the chess services lichess.org and chess.com. The lawsuit was filed due to the inclusion of Stockfish code in a proprietary product without opening the source code of the derivative work. ChessBase is known […]

JuliaCon 2021 online conference will be held at the end of July

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From July 28 to July 30, the annual conference JuliaCon 2021 will be held, dedicated to the use of the Julia language, designed to perform high-performance scientific computing. This year the conference will be held online, registration is free. From now until July 27, a series of thematic seminars will be held for the participants of the conference, where the solution of specific problems will be considered in detail. Seminars involve different levels of familiarity […]

A GPIO driver written in Rust has been proposed for the Linux kernel

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In response to Linus Torvalds' comment that the sample driver included with the Linux kernel Rust language patch set is useless and does not solve real problems, a version of the PL061 GPIO driver rewritten in Rust has been proposed. A feature of the driver is that its implementation almost line by line repeats the existing GPIO driver in the C language. For developers, […]

Muse Group seeks to shut down the musescore-downloader GitHub repository

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The Muse Group, founded by the Ultimate Guitar project and owning the open-source projects MusesCore and Audacity, has resumed efforts to shut down the musescore-downloader repository, which develops an application for free downloading musical notes from the musescore.com service without having to log in to the site and without connecting to a paid Musescore subscription Pro. The claims also concern the musescore-dataset repository with a collection of sheet music copied from musescore.com. […]

Implemented Linux kernel boot on ESP32 board

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Enthusiasts were able to boot a Linux 5.0 kernel based environment on an ESP32 board with a dual-core Tensilica Xtensa processor (esp32 devkit v1 board, no full MMU), equipped with 2MB Flash and 8MB PSRAM connected via an SPI interface. A ready-made Linux firmware image for ESP32 has been prepared for download. The download takes about 6 minutes. The firmware is based on the image […]

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