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The release of the Firefox 125 web browser has occurred, and an update to the long-term support branch 115.10.0 has been formed. Due to issues identified at a late stage, the 125.0 build was canceled, and the release 125.0.1 has been announced instead. The Firefox 126 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for May 14. Key new features in Firefox 125 include: The built-in PDF viewer has included […]
Sberbank, according to RBC, is developing its own ERP system that will serve as an alternative to the German products of SAP, which has exited the Russian market. The investment amount in the Sberbank project has not been disclosed, but market participants indicate that it could be in the billions of rubles. In 2022, SAP announced its departure from Russia. On March 20, 2024, the company closed access to its cloud services for Russian users […]
A dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2024-31497) has been identified in PuTTY, a popular SSH protocol client for the Windows platform. This vulnerability allows for the reconstruction of a user’s private key generated using the ECDSA algorithm with the NIST P-521 elliptic curve (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521). To derive the private key, it is sufficient to analyze about 60 digital signatures generated by the problematic key. The vulnerability is present starting from PuTTY version 0.68 and has also affected products […]
After a year and a half of development, the GNU project has released version 0.10 of the free electronic payment system GNU Taler, which provides anonymity to buyers while maintaining the ability to identify sellers to ensure transparency in tax reporting. The system does not allow tracking of where a user spends their money but provides means to track incoming funds (the sender remains anonymous), addressing the issues inherent to BitCoin […]
The number of non-buffered drives capable of delivering over 7 GB/s is steadily increasing. Adata Legend 900 is another such solution built on the Chinese Maxiotech controller and the Chinese YMTC flash memory.Source: 3dnews.ru
The developers behind the Servo browser engine have introduced an initiative to enhance modularity and move away from using the low-level APIs of the JavaScript engine SpiderMonkey, developed by Mozilla and utilized in Servo to support JavaScript and WebAssembly. In the future, Servo plans to transition to a higher-level API and abstraction layer for interacting with JavaScript engines, allowing them to eliminate unsafe direct calls to […]
GitLab has blocked the repository of the BPC (Bypass Paywalls Clean) project, which is developing a browser extension for accessing materials distributed through paid subscriptions (Paywall). The deletion was prompted by a complaint to GitLab regarding the extension's violation of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Currently, the developers of the extension are considering migrating the project to another Git hosting platform. […]
The first releases of the Redka project have been published, aimed at providing the RESP protocol and API compatible with the Redis DBMS, but implemented on top of the SQLite library. Utilizing SQLite additionally allows for data access using SQL language, for instance, for generating reports or data analysis. Support for ACID transactions is included. Redka can be launched as a server accepting requests over the network or used as […]
U.S. energy companies are predicting an increase in electricity demand driven by the explosive growth of data center and generative AI markets. According to Datacenter Dynamics, many energy providers in the country are currently revising their capital expenditures in light of the rising demand from data centers. Analysts from Reuters reported that nine out of ten energy suppliers in the U.S. link the growth of their customer base and electricity demand to […]
The release of the Muen separation kernel, developed by the Swiss company Codelabs, has been announced. Muen supports only Intel x86_64 platforms and ensures that the operating system kernels and applications running within it cannot access resources beyond their allocated quota. This includes, among other things, memory, CPU time, and I/O device access. As for […]
The release of the dynamic routing software frrouting 10.0 has occurred. Here are the main updates: The ability to announce IP addresses added via redistribute local; the minimum version of libyang has been raised to 2.1.128; support for VRF for rpki; support for eBGP-OAD; much more. Source: linux.org.ru
Version 8.6 of the free digital audio workstation (DAW) Ardour has been released. This release does not include any major changes, primarily because the developers are still busy working on upcoming major releases. The new version, among other things, fixes a bug from version 8.4 that caused crashes when opening the file selection dialog on Linux under certain circumstances. A brief list of changes: […]