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On January 6, version 1.7.4 of the high-performance speech recognition system whisper.cpp was released, implementing the Whisper model from OpenAI, written in C and C++ and distributed under the MIT license. The project uses the proprietary machine learning tensor library GGML, written in C and optimized for various backends (CUDA, Vulkan, BLAS, SYCL, OpenCL, etc.). Changelog: […]
On January 6, version 4.3.0 of one of the fastest JSON read and write libraries, written in C++ (header-only, C++23 standard) and distributed under the MIT license, was released. It also supports CSV and BEVE formats. Changelog: Added compile-time option (and wrapper) append_arrays, which appends data to types similar to std::vector without overwriting them: std::vector v{}; constexpr glz::opts append_opts{.append_arrays […]
The release of the OrangePi Neo gaming console, jointly developed by Orange Pi and the Manjaro Linux distribution community, is scheduled for the first quarter of 2025. The device is equipped with a 7-inch display (1920 x 1200, 120Hz), an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or 8840U CPU, 16GB or 32GB of RAM, from 512GB to 2TB NVMe SSD, and two USB 4.0 ports, audio […]
After three months of development, version 0.25.0 of the cross-platform console utility for viewing bat files has been released, written in Rust and distributed under the MIT or Apache 2.0 license. The utility supports syntax highlighting for 174 ($ bat -L) programming and markup languages. Key changes: Displaying the filename in the terminal header when the Paging option is not equal to Paging::Never. bat […]
OpenRC is an initialization system for Linux systems that replaces systemd in distributions like Gentoo and Alpine Linux. The master branch of the openrc repository has added functionality necessary for launching services in a user session using this initialization system. Configuration files and initialization scripts for user services are located in the following directories: /etc/user/init.d ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/rc/init.d /etc/user/conf.d ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/rc/conf.d ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/rc/rc.conf ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/rc/runlevels All […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.20 internet application suite has been announced, combining a web browser, email client, news feed aggregator (RSS/Atom), and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer in one product. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client Chatzilla, a set of tools for web developers DOM Inspector, and the calendar-scheduler Lightning. This new release incorporates fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on the browser […]
The AlmaLinux project has released an update for the Kitten 10 distribution, based on the package base of CentOS Stream 10, which serves as the foundation for the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 release. Kitten 10 is presented as a test distribution that allows users to explore the features being developed for RHEL 10 while complementing CentOS Stream with its own modifications. Installation builds of the distribution are available for x86_64, x86_64_v2, aarch64, and ppc64le architectures […]
Firefox 134 is now available. Linux: Support for hold gestures has been added. Thus, kinetic scrolling can now be interrupted by touching the touchpad with two fingers. An issue with context menus being displayed incorrectly under Wayland with fractional scaling enabled (widget.wayland.fractional-scale.enabled) has been fixed. Users in the USA and Canada will gradually receive a new homepage interface (the search field and shortcuts have been moved to the top of the page, shortcuts […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 134 has occurred, and updates for previous long-term support branches 115.19.0 and 128.6.0 have been generated. The Firefox 135 branch has entered the beta testing stage, with its release scheduled for February 4. Key innovations in Firefox 134 include a new design for the page displayed when opening a new tab, featuring a search bar, widget […
Anna Antonenko, who develops embedded systems and in her free time works on the BOSS (BEAM-based Operating System with Security) operating system, published the results of reverse engineering the Yamaha PSR-E433 musical synthesizer. During the work conducted, an obfuscated shell interface was discovered in the synthesizer, allowing the execution of custom code at the firmware level. Access to the shell interface is achieved by sending MIDI packets with SysEx messages, […
On December 28, the release of libgit2 1.9.0, a cross-platform library implementing core Git methods, took place. The library is written in C and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license with a special linking exception that allows not disclosing the source code. This is expected to be the final release in the 1.x series, with the next version being libgit2 v2.0, where SHA256 support will transition from […]
On January 1, following three months of development, the cross-platform software for recording video from the camera and screen, vokoscreenNG, written in C++ using the Qt 6.6 framework and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license, was released. Change log: Unused arguments in CLI have been removed. The GUI log is now read from a log file. After stopping the recording, options remained available for selection […]