Category: Internet News

Postgres Pro Enterprise Manager 1.5: platform update for managing and monitoring Postgres Pro DBMS

Postgres Professional, a Russian database management system developer, has released an updated version of Postgres Pro Enterprise Manager (PPEM) 1.5 — a graphical platform for comprehensive management and monitoring of the Postgres Pro database. PPEM is designed on the principle of a "single window" and allows working with all database instances from a single console via the browser, significantly simplifying the daily tasks of a database administrator. The solution covers the full […]

MCST has revealed the source codes of Linux components, system libraries, and software for the Elbrus platform.

MCST has launched the web portal dev.mcst.ru for software developers on the Elbrus platform, where it publishes source code and patches. Currently available are: the source code of the Linux kernel for the Elbrus architecture; the source code of the glibc library for the Elbrus architecture; a set of patches for the original source code of the application packages of the Elbrus Linux distribution. Educational materials are also available for download on the portal and […]

AI is a bubble: for the AI industry to recoup investments, it needs to learn to earn orders of magnitude more.

Massive investments by tech giants in AI infrastructure have yet to be reflected in revenue growth from this sector, noted Tom’s Hardware. According to David Cahn, an analyst at Sequoia Capital, AI industry companies will need to generate around $600 billion a year to offset expenses related to their AI infrastructure, including data centers. Last year, Nvidia's revenue from hardware sales […]

Embox v0.6.3

On July 1, 2024, a new version of the open-source real-time operating system Embox was released. Among the changes: Improved support for MIPS & ARM architectures. Enhanced board_config technology (device tree). Several STM32 boards have been added. Support for the Russian microcontroller K1921ВГ015 has been improved. The SPI subsystem for STM32 has been enhanced. Improvements have been made to the flash device subsystem. A number of libraries have been added, including: libgmp, thrift, openssl, ffmpeg. The performance of several libraries has been improved.

Release of OpenSSH 9.8p1 with a vulnerability fix

A vulnerability has been found in OpenSSH that allows remote code execution with root privileges without authentication. The vulnerabilities affect only Linux servers with the glibc library, using OpenSSH from version 8.5p1 to 9.7p1 inclusive. The issue lies in a race condition in signal handlers. The attack has only been demonstrated in a lab environment on 32-bit systems and takes about 6-8 hours. 64-bit systems are also at risk.

Release of fooyin 0.5.1

fooyin is an audio player developed on Qt6 in the style of Foobar2000. Currently, it is natively available only on Linux. The player is licensed under GPL 3. fooyin offers a wide range of customization options for managing and playing music collections. It can be extended using plugins and the FooScript language. Audio playback is supported by FFmpeg along with several output options.

Release of GNU Mes 0.27, a toolkit for standalone building of distributions.

The release of the GNU Mes 0.27 toolkit has been published, providing the bootstrapping process for GCC and enabling a closed loop of recompilation from source texts. The toolkit addresses the issue of verified initial compiler builds in distributions, breaking the cycle of circular recompilation (as building a compiler requires executables from an already built compiler, and binary builds of the compiler pose potential sources of hidden backdoors).

RTranslator 2.0.0 and 2.0.1

After nearly three years, versions 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 of the offline translator for Android, RTranslator, written in C++ and Java and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, have been released. The application requires a relatively fast smartphone with at least 6GB of memory to function. Supported languages include: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Croatian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, […]

Reports have surfaced in the dark web indicating that GRUB has been compromised

An exploit for a 0-day vulnerability is already being sold on relevant forums. On June 21, information appeared on one of the forums regarding the sale of an exploit for the zero-day vulnerability in the GRUB bootloader for Linux, which allows for local privilege escalation (LPE). According to Dark Web Intelligence, the attacker claims to have found a vulnerability in GRUB that bypasses authentication mechanisms and grants root access to the system. According to […]

OpenShot 3.2.0: performance optimizations, new themes, and improved timeline

OpenShot 3.2.0, the new release of the popular free video editor, includes numerous new features, new themes, and significant performance improvements. This release introduces two new themes: Retro and Cosmic Dusk. Enhancements have been made to functionality and performance, including improved timeline interaction, a new 'Remove Gap' feature for removing unwanted gaps between clips, and improved 'Split Clip' functions […]

Google is developing MicroFuchsia, a trimmed version of the Fuchsia OS for virtual machines in Android.

Google is developing the MicroFuchsia environment, which includes a trimmed version of the Fuchsia operating system optimized for running in virtual machines on the Android platform. Changes to the Android codebase have already begun to ensure the operation of MicroFuchsia. The Android 13 framework AVF (Android Virtualization Framework), implemented on the KVM hypervisor, will be used to launch virtual machines with MicroFuchsia […]

Alpha testing for PHP 8.4 has begun

The first alpha release of the new branch of the PHP programming language, PHP 8.4, has been presented. The release is scheduled for November 21. Key innovations that are either available for testing or planned for implementation in PHP 8.4 include: Support for property hooks that allow additional logic to be executed when object properties are modified or accessed, implemented without intercepting read and write operations using […]

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