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Release of the GNU Taler payment system 0.11, developed by the GNU project

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The GNU Project has introduced the release of the free electronic payment system GNU Taler 0.11, which provides anonymity for buyers while preserving the ability to identify sellers to ensure transparency in tax reporting. The system does not allow tracking information about where the user spends money, but provides means for tracking incoming funds (the sender remains anonymous), addressing issues related to tax audits faced by BitCoin. The code […]

A vulnerability in PHP allows for code execution when operating in CGI mode.

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A vulnerability has been identified in PHP (CVE-2024-4577) that allows code execution on the server or viewing the source code of PHP scripts when PHP is used in CGI mode on Windows platforms (configurations with mod_php, php-fpm, and FastCGI are not vulnerable). The issue has been resolved in PHP releases 8.3.8, 8.2.20, and 8.1.29. This vulnerability is a specific case of an issue fixed in 2012, CVE-2012-1823, […]

OpenSSH has added built-in protection against password guessing attacks.

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The OpenSSH codebase has added built-in protection against automated brute-force attacks, where bots attempt to guess the user's password by trying various common combinations. To block such attacks, the sshd_config configuration file now includes the PerSourcePenalties parameter, which allows you to set a blocking threshold that triggers after a large number of failed connection attempts from a single IP address. This new protection mechanism will be included in […]

The nxs-data-anonymizer 1.6.0 tool for database anonymization is available.

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Nxs-data-anonymizer 1.6.0 has been released — a tool for anonymizing dumps of PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB/Percona databases. This tool is written in Go and released under the Apache License 2.0. The utility supports data anonymization based on templates and functions from the Sprig library. Nxs-data-anonymizer can be used via unnamed pipes in the command line to redirect the dump from the source database directly to the target […]

Telegram has launched a new payment system for digital content called 'Stars.'

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The messenger has introduced a special currency for purchasing e-books, online courses, and other digital goods from bots and mini-apps. Thanks to the new 'Stars' system, Telegram's vast audience will gain access to digital content purchases. The currency complies with the requirements of the App Store and Google Play. Image source: Telegram Source: 3dnews.ru

The release of the Tesseract 5.4.0 text recognition system

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The release of the Tesseract 5.4.0 optical character recognition system has been published, supporting UTF-8 character recognition and texts in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. Results can be saved as plain text or in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. The system was originally developed between 1985 and 1995 in a laboratory of Hewlett Packard, in […]

The creation of CentOS Stream 10 builds has begun

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Developers from Red Hat have begun forming builds of CentOS Stream 10 and created a repository with packages signed with a digital signature. The presented branch is used for the development of the significant upcoming release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. CentOS Stream allows early access to the features of the future RHEL branch but includes packages that are not fully stabilized yet. Builds of CentOS Stream 10 […]

The release of the blendOS 4 distribution, supporting packages from Arch, Fedora, Debian, CentOS, and Ubuntu

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The release of the blendOS 4 distribution has been announced, utilizing container isolation to ensure coexistence of packages from various Linux distributions within a single system. In addition to packages from the Arch Linux distribution, which is used in the base environment, and universal packages in Flatpak format, there is the option to install packages from Fedora 39, Debian 13 (testing branch), CentOS Stream, and Ubuntu 22.04 (packages are installed in […]

First release of the note-taking program KleverNotes

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Developers from the KDE project have introduced the release of the note-taking application KleverNotes 1.0, which is built using the Kirigami framework and can be used on both desktops and mobile devices. When writing notes, it is suggested to use Markdown formatting, the results of which are displayed immediately in the preview area. Additionally, a task list (TODO) mode is supported, along with the insertion of basic […]

Debian is moving to use tmpfs in /tmp and to clean /tmp and /var/tmp on a timer.

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Debian developer Luca Boccassi has announced the transition of Debian to using tmpfs in /tmp and the cleaning of /tmp and /var/tmp by default on a timer, starting with Debian 13 'Trixie'. In the new systems, files in /tmp will either disappear along with the previous instance of tmpfs in memory after a restart, or will be removed daily by timer if they are older than 10 [...]

Stable release of MariaDB 11.4

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The release of the MariaDB 11.4.2 database management system has been published, which is marked as the first stable release of the 11.4 branch. The MariaDB 11.4 branch is classified as a long-term support release and will be maintained for at least 5 years. At the same time, the release of MariaDB 11.5.1, which has a candidate for release status, is available, and the 11.6 branch has been created to develop new functionality. The MariaDB project is developing a fork [...]

Vulnerability in reference implementations of AV1 and VP8/VP9 codecs

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A critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-5171) has been identified in the libaom library, developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), which provides a reference implementation of the AV1 video coding format, leading to integer overflow and out-of-bounds write when processing excessively large values in some parameters. A similar vulnerability (CVE-2024-5197) has been found in the libvpx library, which implements the VP8 and VP9 codecs. The issues have been addressed in updates [...]

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