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The board of the GNOME Foundation has expelled Sonny Piers from the board of directors and all GNOME committees, as well as blocked his account on GitLab and the GNOME Discourse project. Sonny was suspended back in May, but this has only now been announced. The decision to expel was made in a closed meeting, without publishing the voting protocol and without […]
Microsoft has released an official Recovery Tool to address the fallout from the global PC outage caused by a CrowdStrike software update. The issue affected over 8.5 million Windows computers worldwide, crippling critical infrastructure operations. According to Microsoft, the problematic update impacted more than 8.5 million Windows devices. However, this represents less than 1% of […]
Right now, hundreds of thousands of applicants are submitting their exam results to universities across our vast country, with many facing additional tests. This period is quite exciting and labor-intensive, as the number of available spots in universities is significantly lower than the number of applicants. Soon, the fortunate ones will need to choose a reliable study assistant for five, or even seven years. Of course, […]
The Blender Foundation has released the free 3D modeling package Blender 4.2, suitable for various tasks related to 3D modeling, 3D graphics, game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpting, animation creation, and video editing. The code is distributed under the GPL license. Ready-made builds have been created for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The release has obtained extended support release status […]
The end of this week was marked by an unprecedentedly widespread failure of computers running Microsoft Windows, which had CrowdStrike's software installed, intended to protect against cyber attacks. An update to this software led to massive outages, but Microsoft has noted that the affected 8.5 million PCs actually represent less than 1% of the entire operating park of […]
Intel has improved XeSS by releasing an updated version 1.3.1 of the Intel XeSS SDK for its image scaling technology. The update includes bug fixes and stability improvements. However, the technology still lacks its own frame generation feature. According to Tom's Hardware, only "Bug fixes and stability improvements" are listed on GitHub, so details about the new features are quite limited […]
The OpenMandriva project has released OpenMandriva ROME 24.07, a version of the OpenMandriva distribution that uses a rolling release model. This release allows access to new versions of packages developed for the OpenMandriva Lx 6 branch without waiting for the classical distribution to be formed. ISO images sized 2.1-3.4 GB with KDE, GNOME, and LXQt desktops have been prepared for download, supporting Live mode booting. The builds […]
The release of the labwc 0.7.3 project (Lab Wayland Compositor) has been published, developing a compositing server for Wayland with features reminiscent of the Openbox window manager (the project is presented as an attempt to create an alternative to Openbox for Wayland). Following this, a corrective update 0.7.4 was released, incorporating immediate fixes. Notable features of labwc include minimalism, compact implementation, extensive customization options, and high performance. The project's code is written […]
The release of the Apache HTTP Server 2.4.62 is now available, addressing two vulnerabilities and implementing six changes. The first vulnerability (CVE-2024-40898) allows for an SSRF (Server-side request forgery) attack on mod_rewrite. This issue only appears on the Windows platform and can cause the leakage of NTLM hashes to a server under the attacker's control when specially crafted requests are sent. The second vulnerability (CVE-2024-40725) enables viewing the code of scripts being processed […]
The KaOS 2024.07 release has been published, a distribution with a continuous update model aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest releases of KDE and applications that use Qt. Among the distinctive design features of the distribution, the placement of a vertical panel on the right side of the screen can be noted. The distribution is developed with a nod to Arch Linux but maintains its own independent repository containing over 1500 packages, and […]
The OpenWrt 23.05.4 distribution update has been released, aimed at use in various network devices such as routers, switches, and access points. OpenWrt supports a wide variety of platforms and architectures and features a build system that allows for easy and convenient cross-compilation by including different components in the build, making it simple to create customized firmware or disk images tailored for specific tasks […]
Cloudflare has published statistics on the nature of traffic processed by its content delivery system from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024. Over the year, the share of dubious, malicious, or junk HTTP traffic that was blocked or redirected to verification pages for bot filtering (JavaScript checks or CAPTCHAs) increased from 6% to an average of 6.8% annually. Peak values of such traffic […]