A release of a specialized distribution kit, Tails 6.1 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian 12 package base, supplied with the GNOME 43 desktop and designed for anonymous access to the network, has been created. Anonymous access to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections other than traffic through the Tor network are blocked by the packet filter by default. To store user data in […]
The Igor's LAB portal published a photo of an Intel Lunar Lake processor as part of a test reference platform. The latter is equipped with a non-standard mounting system for quickly replacing the tested chips. In addition, the source shared a diagram of future chips. Image source: Igor's LABSource: 3dnews.ru
Google reported that in 2023, hackers used 97 unique zero-day vulnerabilities in software, which is almost one and a half times higher than the previous year, in which 62 such exploits were recorded. However, Google says it is making progress in preventing zero-day attacks, with 2021 such unique vulnerabilities exploited by cybercriminals in 106. Source […]
Following several leaks, publisher and developer NetEase Games has unveiled Marvel Rivals, a free-to-play multiplayer team-based third-person shooter in the vein of Overwatch. Image source: NetEase GamesSource: 3dnews.ru
Qucs-S is an electronic circuit simulator that uses the open source Ngspice as its engine. On March 25 of this year, the next release of the program was released. The main innovations of release 24.2.0: Now QucsatorRF is part of Qucs-S, including the DEB/RPM binary packages. You no longer need to compile and install Qucsator manually. QucsatorRF is a specialized simulation engine for RF circuits containing […]
The release of the high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server Angie 1.5.0 has been published, a fork from Nginx by a group of former project developers who left the F5 Network company. Angie's source code is available under a BSD license. The project has received certificates of compatibility with the Russian operating systems Red OS, Astra Linux Special Edition, Rosa Chrome Server, Alt and FSTEC versions of Alt. Development support is provided by the company “Web Server”, formed […]
Released last week for the PC version of the farming simulator Stardew Valley, a large-scale patch 1.6 includes hundreds of documented changes, but, as players find out, it also contains a few surprises, including some creepy ones. Image source: ConcernedApeSource: 3dnews.ru
The Biden administration's 2022 Inflation Relief Act (IRA) provides subsidies for some people's purchases of electric vehicles manufactured in North America. The Chinese authorities consider such rules to be discriminatory towards importers of electric vehicles, and therefore recently filed a complaint with the WTO. The Chinese side claims that the US authorities, under the guise of the need to respond to climate change, reduce […]
Samsung, as promised, will add Galaxy AI features previously exclusive to the Galaxy S24 series to other models in the Galaxy series. The One UI 28 software update will be released on March 6.1th, bringing Galaxy AI features to select legacy Samsung devices, including the Galaxy S23, S23 FE, Galaxy Z Flip 5, Z […]
Netfilter, a subsystem of the Linux kernel used to filter and modify network packets, has a vulnerability (CVE-2024-1086) that allows a local user to execute code at the kernel level and elevate their privileges on the system. The problem is caused by double-free memory in the nf_tables module, which provides the nftables packet filter. The security researcher who discovered the vulnerability developed and published a working prototype of the exploit. The exploit works […]
The release of the Qubes 4.2.1 operating system is presented, which implements the idea of using a hypervisor to strictly isolate applications and OS components (each class of applications and system services runs in separate virtual machines). For operation, we recommend a system with 16 GB of RAM (minimum 6 GB) and a 64-bit Intel or AMD CPU with support for VT-x with EPT/AMD-v with RVI and […]
After a year of development, a new version of the toolkit for organizing the work of isolated environments, Bubblewrap 0.9, has been published, used to restrict individual applications of unprivileged users. In practice, Bubblewrap is used by the Flatpak project as a layer to isolate applications launched from packages. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv2+ license. For isolation, traditional Linux container technologies […]
