Category: Internet News

Chrome 127.0.6533.99 update with a fix for a critical vulnerability

Google has released Chrome version 127.0.6533.99, which fixes six vulnerabilities, including a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-7532) that allows bypassing all levels of browser protection to execute code on the system outside of the sandbox environment. Details have not yet been disclosed, but it is known that the critical vulnerability is due to a buffer overflow in the ANGLE layer, responsible for translating OpenGL ES calls to OpenGL […]

Firefox release 129

The release of the web browser Firefox 129 has occurred, and updates for the previous long-term support versions—115.14.0 and 128.1.0—have been formed. The Firefox 130 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for September 3. Key innovations in Firefox 129 include: The HTTPS-First mode is activated by default, which makes the browser attempt to connect securely first when accessing a page over HTTP without encryption […]

OpenTESArena 0.15.0

Nearly three years after the previous version, OpenTESArena 0.15.0 has been released. OpenTESArena is an open-source implementation of the engine from The Elder Scrolls: Arena (the first game in the Elder Scrolls series). OpenTESArena is natively available on Windows 10/11, Linux, Raspberry Pi, ChromeOS, and macOS. New features include a new software 3D renderer that matches the 256-color palette of the original game. Improved detection of TES:Arena data files […]

Google is experimenting with integrating a large language model into Chrome.

Google has announced an experiment to integrate a large machine learning language model into Chrome. An API called Prompt has been proposed for accessing the model from web applications and browser extensions, allowing natural language queries similar to chatbots. It is expected that the large language model built into the browser will simplify the execution of AI tasks in web applications and reduce concerns about […]

Release of Aura 4.0.0, the package manager for Arch Linux

The release of Aura 4.0.0 has been introduced, enhancing the package manager for the Arch Linux distribution and expanding the capabilities of the default package manager Pacman. The project was created in 2012 and initially aimed to provide tools for building packages for the AUR (Arch User Repository), used for distributing packages from third-party developers that are not included in the main repositories of the Arch Linux distribution. The code […]

Release of the nDPI 4.10 Deep Packet Inspection System

The ntop project, developing tools for traffic capture and analysis, has published the nDPI 4.10 deep packet inspection toolkit, continuing the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was established after an unsuccessful attempt to transfer changes to the OpenDPI repository, which has been left unmaintained. The nDPI code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The system allows the identification of used application layer protocols in traffic […]

Release of GNU Binutils 2.43

The release of the GNU Binutils 2.43 collection of system utilities has been published, which includes programs such as the GNU linker, GNU assembler, nm, objdump, strings, and strip. In this new version: The GNU assembler adds support for the '.base64' directive to represent binary data as strings in base64 encoding. The ability to use the '\+' syntax in macros and within the directives .irp, .irpc has been implemented […]

The developers of Manjaro Linux have presented an atomically updatable version of the distribution

The developers of the Manjaro Linux distribution, based on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users, have announced the start of testing a new experimental build called 'Manjaro Immutable'. This version is notable for delivering the base system as a single monolithic image, mounted in read-only mode and updated entirely in an atomic fashion. The size of the boot image is 1.7 GB. Only booting is supported in […]

Google Chrome has begun warning about the upcoming discontinuation of uBlock Origin

The Google Chrome browser, with the latest update, has begun warning users of uBlock Origin about the need to switch to other ad blockers due to the upcoming discontinuation of Manifest v2 extensions. The original uBlock Origin extension is in Manifest v2 format, but there is no fully functional version for Manifest v3 — the new format only supports uBlock Origin Lite […]

Chrome has issued a warning about the imminent end of support for uBlock Origin

Raymond Hill, the creator of the uBlock Origin content blocking system, discussed the current situation in the project related to the imminent termination of the second version of the Chrome manifest, which defines the capabilities and resources available for extensions written using the WebExtensions API. Users of uBlock Origin and other extensions that do not support the third version of the manifest have started seeing […] on the extensions page ('chrome://extensions/') in Chrome 127.

Astra Linux 1.8

The new version of the Astra Linux OS is based on the Debian 12 (Bookworm) package base — a modern, stable open distribution with long-term support. The structure of the Astra Linux repositories has been updated. They are now divided into two repositories — Main and Extended. Main includes components that have undergone a full certification cycle, while Extended contains development tools and packages for […]

The Forgejo 8.0 collaborative development platform, which has split off from Gitea, is now available.

The release of the collaborative development platform Forgejo 8.0 has been published, which has been fully separated since February into an independent project from the Gitea system (previously, Forgejo was developed as a synchronized fork). The project allows users to deploy a system for collaboration with Git repositories on their own servers, similar to functionalities offered by GitHub, Bitbucket, and Gitlab. The fork was created in 2022 after attempts at commercialization […]

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