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Audacity's New Privacy Policy Allows Collection of Data for Government Benefits

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Users of the audio editor Audacity noticed the publication of a privacy notice that regulates issues related to sending telemetry and processing the accumulated information about users. Two points cause dissatisfaction: In the list of data that can be obtained during the collection of telemetry, in addition to such parameters as the hash of the IP address, operating system version and CPU model, there is a mention of information […]

Neovim 0.5 is available, a modernized version of the Vim editor

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After nearly two years of development, Neovim 0.5 is released, a fork of the Vim editor focused on increasing extensibility and flexibility. The project has been reworking the Vim codebase for more than seven years, as a result of which changes are made that simplify code maintenance, provide a means of dividing labor between several maintainers, separating the interface from the base part (the interface can […]

Wine 6.12 release

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An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.12 — has been released. Since the release of version 6.11, 42 bug reports have been closed and 354 changes have been made. The most important changes: The composition includes two new themes "Blue" and "Classic Blue". An initial implementation of the NSI (Network Store Interface) service is proposed, which stores and transmits information about network […]

OpenZFS 2.1 release with dRAID support

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The release of the OpenZFS 2.1 project, which develops the implementation of the ZFS file system for Linux and FreeBSD, has been published. The project became known as "ZFS on Linux" and was previously limited to developing a module for the Linux kernel, but after the FreeBSD support port was adopted as the main implementation of OpenZFS and was spared from mentioning Linux in the name. OpenZFS has been tested with Linux kernels c 3.10 […]

Jim Whitehurst, former head of Red Hat, steps down as president of IBM

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Nearly three years after Red Hat's integration with IBM, Jim Whitehurst has decided to step down as president of IBM. At the same time, Jim expressed his readiness to continue to participate in the development of IBM's business, but already as an adviser to IBM management. It is noteworthy that after the announcement of the departure of Jim Whitehurst, IBM shares fell in price by 4.6%. […]

Vulnerabilities in NETGEAR Devices Allowing Unauthenticated Access

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Three vulnerabilities have been identified in the firmware for NETGEAR DGN-2200v1 series devices that combine the functions of an ADSL modem, router, and wireless access point, allowing you to perform any operations in the web interface without passing authentication. The first vulnerability is caused by the fact that the http server code has a hardcoded ability to directly access images, CSS, and other auxiliary files, which does not require authentication. The code has a request check […]

Backdoor detected in MonPass CA client software

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Avast has published the results of a study into the compromise of the server of the Mongolian certification authority MonPass, which led to the insertion of a backdoor into the application offered for installation to clients. The analysis showed that the infrastructure was compromised through a hack of one of the public MonPass web servers based on the Windows platform. On the specified server, traces of eight different hacks were identified, as a result of which eight webshells were installed […]

Google Opens Missing Sources for Lyra Audio Codec

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Google has published an update to the Lyra 0.0.2 audio codec, which is optimized to achieve maximum voice quality when using very slow communication channels. The codec was opened in early April, but was supplied in conjunction with a proprietary mathematical library. In version 0.0.2, this drawback has been eliminated and an open replacement has been created for the specified library - sparse_matmul, which, like the codec itself, is distributed […]

Google Play is moving away from APKs in favor of the App Bundle format

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Google has decided to switch the Google Play catalog to use the Android App Bundle application distribution format instead of APK packages. Starting in August 2021, the App Bundle format will be required for all new apps added to Google Play, as well as for instant app ZIP delivery. Updates to those already present in the catalog [...]

Shipping less recent Linux kernels creates hardware support issues for 13% of new users

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The Linux-Hardware.org project, based on collected telemetry data over the course of a year, determined that rare releases of the most popular Linux distributions and, as a result, the use of not the latest kernels create hardware compatibility problems for 13% of new users. For example, most new Ubuntu users over the last year were offered the Linux 5.4 kernel as part of the 20.04 release, which is currently lagging […]

Release of Venus 1.0, implementation of the FileCoin storage platform

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The first significant release of the Venus project is available, developing a reference implementation of software for creating nodes for the decentralized storage system FileCoin, based on the IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) protocol. Version 1.0 is notable for the completion of a full code audit performed by Least Authority, a company specializing in checking the security of decentralized systems and cryptocurrencies and known for developing the Tahoe-LAFS distributed file system. The Venus code is written […]

Tux Paint 0.9.26 release for children's drawing software

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The release of a graphic editor for children's creativity has been published - Tux Paint 0.9.26. The program is designed to teach drawing to children aged 3 to 12 years. Binary assemblies are generated for RHEL/Fedora, Android, Haiku, macOS and Windows. In the new release: The fill tool now has the option to fill an area with a linear or circular gradient with a smooth transition from one color […]

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