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The ability to manage the modems of millions of ISP Cox subscribers without authentication

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Client Cox Communications, the third largest cable television provider in the USA and one of the largest broadband operators with 6.5 million subscribers, published the results of experiments with its internal Web API used for external requests, which is applied, among other things, for customer support access to subscriber modems and the user base. It turned out that knowing only the subscriber's MAC address […]

The first stable release of the DuckDB database management system

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After six years of development, DuckDB 1.0 has been released, positioned as an SQLite alternative for analytical queries. DuckDB combines properties of SQLite such as compactness, the ability to connect as an embedded library, storage of the database in a single file, and a user-friendly CLI interface, with features and optimizations for executing analytical queries that cover a significant portion of stored data, such as performing aggregation of all content […]

Zabbix 7.0 LTS has been released

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The free and open-source monitoring system Zabbix 7.0 LTS has been released. Version 7.0 is classified as a long-term support (LTS) version. Users on non-LTS versions are recommended to transition to the LTS versions of the product. Zabbix is a versatile system for monitoring the performance and availability of servers, services, engineering and networking equipment, applications, databases, […]

Canonical has released the monolithic distribution Ubuntu Core 24

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Canonical has introduced Ubuntu Core 24, a compact variant of the Ubuntu distribution designed for use on Internet of Things (IoT) devices, containers, consumer, and industrial equipment. Ubuntu Core is provided as an indivisible monolithic image of the base system, without being split into separate deb packages. The images of Ubuntu Core 24 are synchronized with the package base of Ubuntu 24.04, […]

Release of Zabbix 7.0 monitoring system with changed license to AGPL

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The release of the open monitoring system Zabbix 7.0 has occurred, classified as a version with extended official support period (LTS). Zabbix is a comprehensive system for monitoring the performance and availability of servers, engineering and networking equipment, applications, databases, virtualization systems, containers, IT services, web services, and cloud infrastructure. The system implements a complete cycle from data collection, processing, transformation, to analysis of this data […]

Release of FreeBSD 14.1 with improved sound stack and cloud-init support

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After six months of development, the release of FreeBSD 14.1 has been finalized. Installation images have been prepared for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Additionally, builds for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments like Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Vagrant have been made. Key changes include improvements to the sound stack and the implementation of audio disconnection features […]

The leader of SerenityOS has resigned and founded a fork of the Ladybird browser.

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Andreas Kling, the creator of the SerenityOS operating system, announced his resignation as the 'benevolent dictator for life' (BDFL) of the project and his shift to developing a fork of the Ladybird web browser, which was previously developed as part of SerenityOS. According to Andreas, for the past two years, he has stepped back from OS development and focused solely on advancing his own browser engine based on […]

Release of NixOS 24.05 distribution using the Nix package manager

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The NixOS 24.05 distribution has been released, based on the Nix package manager, offering a range of proprietary developments that simplify the setup and maintenance of the system. For instance, in NixOS, all system configuration is done through a single configuration file (configuration.nix), allowing for quick rollback to a previous configuration version, supporting switches between different system states, and enabling individual users to install custom packages, […]

User token leak on the Hugging Face Spaces platform.

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Hugging Face has disclosed details about a compromise of the Hugging Face Spaces platform's infrastructure, which provides tools for creating demonstration applications for machine learning models and supports a catalog of such applications. Hugging Face employees uncovered traces of unauthorized access to the platform, which could have led to a leak of users' confidential data, including keys and tokens. The affected tokens have been revoked, and users have been notified accordingly […]

Release of the MATE desktop environment 1.28 with experimental Wayland support

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After nearly three years of development, the release of the MATE desktop environment 1.28 has been officially announced, continuing the evolution of the GNOME 2.32 codebase while preserving the classic desktop paradigm. The release announcement is dated February, but the announcement on the project's website appeared just a few hours ago, after the new branch had only been mentioned as tags in the project's Git repository without explicit […]

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