Collabora announced the implementation of OpenGL ES 3.1 support in the Panfrost driver for GPU Midgard (Mali T760 and newer) and GPU Bifrost (Mali G31, G52, G76). The changes will be part of the Mesa 21.2 release, which is expected next month. Further plans include work to increase performance on Bifrost chips and support for GPUs on […]
The Linux Foundation has announced a partnership with TransTech Social Enterprises, an LGBTQ talent incubator dedicated to the economic empowerment of the T group, transgender people. The partnership will provide scholarships to promising students to give them more opportunities to get started with software based on Open Source technologies. In its current form, the partnership provides 50 […]
Despite attempts to change his behavior in conflict situations, Linus Torvalds did not restrain himself and reacted rather harshly to the obscurantism of the anti-vaccinator, who tried to refer to conspiracy theory and arguments that did not correspond to scientific notion when discussing vaccination against COVID-19 in the context of the upcoming conference of developers of the Linux kernel ( conference, it was initially decided, as last year, to hold […]
KDE Gear 21.04.2 is released, a rollup update for applications developed by the KDE project (previously distributed as KDE Apps and KDE Applications). Information about the availability of Live builds with new releases of applications can be found on this page. In total, within the framework of the June update, releases of 120 programs, libraries and plug-ins were published. The changes are mainly corrective in nature and are related to the correction of accumulated […]
Google recognized the idea of disabling the display of path elements and query parameters in the address bar as unsuccessful and removed the code with the implementation of this feature from the Chrome codebase. Recall that a year ago, an experimental mode was added to Chrome, in which only the site domain remained visible, and the full URL can be seen only after clicking on […]
A corrective release of the VLC 3.0.15 media player is available, which fixes the accumulated errors, as well as improved rendering of subtitle text using freetype fonts and defined the WAVE storage format for the Opus and Alac codecs. Fixed issues with opening DVD catalogs containing non-ASCII characters. When outputting video, the overlapping of subtitles with sliders for changing the position and changing the volume has been eliminated. Problems solved […]
Google has begun testing the second beta version of the Android 12 open mobile platform. Android 12 is expected to be released in the third quarter of 2021. Firmware builds prepared for Pixel 3 / 3 XL, Pixel 3a / 3a XL, Pixel 4 / 4 XL, Pixel 4a / 4a 5G and Pixel 5 devices, as well as for some ASUS, OnePlus, […]
After a year of development, the Redcore Linux 2101 distribution has been released, which attempts to combine the functionality of Gentoo with convenience for ordinary users. The distribution provides a simple installer that allows you to quickly deploy a working system without requiring rebuilding components from source. Users are provided with a repository with ready-made binary packages, maintained using a continuous update cycle (rolling model). Package management uses its own […]
Google has released Chrome update 91.0.4472.101, which fixes 14 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2021-30551, which is already used by attackers in exploits (0-day). Details have not yet been disclosed, it is only known that the vulnerability is caused by incorrect handling of types (Type Confusion) in the V8 JavaScript engine. The new version also fixes another dangerous vulnerability CVE-2021-30544, caused by memory access after […]
Empirically, a critical error was found in the D-Link DGS-3000-10TC switch (Hardware Version: A2), which allows initiating a denial of service by sending a specially designed network packet. After processing such packets, the switch falls into a state with 100% CPU load, which can only be eliminated by a reboot. D-Link support responded to a report about the problem with “Good afternoon, after another check, the developers […]
A release candidate for the Rocky Linux 8.4 distribution is available for testing, aimed at creating a new free build of RHEL that can take the place of the classic CentOS, after Red Hat decided to stop supporting the CentOS 8 branch at the end of 2021, and not in 2029, as was originally intended. Rocky Linux builds prepared for x86_64 and […]
A group of researchers from several universities in Germany has developed a new HTTPS MITM attack that can extract session ID cookies and other sensitive data, as well as execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of another site. The attack is called ALPACA and can be applied to TLS servers that implement various application layer protocols (HTTPS, SFTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP3), but […]
