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The release of the Hyprland 0.42 compositor, utilizing the Wayland protocol, has been published. The compositor is focused on tiling window layouts, but also supports traditional free-form window placement, tabbed window grouping, pseudo-tile mode, and fullscreen window expansion. It supports elements for creating visually appealing interfaces, such as gradients in window frames, blurring, animations, and shadows. For […]
Daniel Stenberg, the author of the data transfer utility Curl, announced the acceptance of the wcurl utility into the project. The wcurl utility is now recognized as an official Curl project, but its development will continue by the existing maintainers in a separate repository, independent of Curl. The utility is being developed by one of the maintainer of Debian, who oversees the package with Curl. In […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2024-7589) has been identified in the OpenSSH server included with FreeBSD, allowing remote code execution with root privileges without authentication. This vulnerability is a variant of a problem identified in early July in OpenSSH (CVE-2024-6387) and is also caused by a race condition occurring from executing functions not designed for asynchronous calls in signal handlers. The FreeBSD developers have resolved the original […]
As part of the Verso project, a new web browser is being developed based on the Servo engine. The Verso code, like Servo, is written in Rust and is distributed under MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. The browser is still in the early stages of development and, in addition to the web content processing features provided by the Servo engine, implements a simple user interface. Testable builds are being published […]
Next week, Cisco will announce a new round of layoffs during its quarterly report, in which approximately the same number of employees will be laid off as in the first wave of layoffs in February of this year — about 4,000 people, Reuters reports citing informed sources. According to Cisco’s financial report, as of July 2023, the company […]
After more than a year of development, the first working port of the Firefox browser for the open-source Haiku operating system, which continues the ideas of BeOS, has been prepared. Ready-to-install builds are not yet published, and those wishing to use Firefox on Haiku are encouraged to build from the source code. Until now, Haiku offered the WebPositive, Epiphany, and Falkon browsers, which created difficulties due to excessive suspicion […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.15 has been published. Since the release of 9.14, 18 bug reports have been closed and 240 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: support for prototypes and object constructors has been added to the MSHTML engine. The support for ODBC drivers compiled for Windows to the DBMS has been expanded. Bug reports related to the operation of applications have been closed: WinProladder 3.x, FTDI […]
The developers of the experimental browser Ladybird have announced their intention to use the Swift programming language as the main one for their project. The inclusion of Swift code is planned to begin in the fall, after the release of Swift 6 (using the Swift 5 branch is hindered by the dependency on an outdated version of Clang, which is incompatible with the current C++ codebase of Ladybird). Thanks to the ability to combine C++ code […]
Researchers from IOActive have identified a vulnerability (CVE-2023-31315) in AMD processors that allows for the configuration of SMM (System Management Mode, Ring -2) to be altered with privileged local access to the system, even if the SMM Lock mechanism is enabled, potentially enabling code execution at the SMM level. The SMM level has a higher priority than the hypervisor mode and […]
Researchers from IOActive have discovered a critical vulnerability in AMD processors that allows hackers to install virtually undeletable malware. The issue affects millions of computers and servers worldwide, reports Wired. The vulnerability, dubbed Sinkclose, has been identified in the System Management Mode (SMM) of AMD processors. This mode has high privileges and is intended for executing critical system functions. […]
The startup Perplexity AI, which has developed an AI-based search engine, has increased its monthly revenue sevenfold over the past two quarters, with the number of monthly system queries rising to 250 million compared to 500 million requests for the entire year of 2023. The Perplexity search engine has become one of the fastest-growing generative AI applications since the launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI […]
Tim Peters, the author of the hybrid sorting algorithm Timsort, a member of the Python Core Team, and a long-time contributor from the early versions of CPython, has been suspended by the Steering Council for three months due to a complaint regarding a breach of the code of conduct. Examples of violations leading to the temporary suspension include participation in discussions about changes to rules that allow the steering council […]