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For Xen, an IOMMU paravirtualization mechanism is being developed.

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The developers of the XCP-NG project, which is developing an open platform for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure, have introduced the PV-IOMMU project. This allows guest systems to access limited functionality of IOMMU implemented using Xen's paravirtualization infrastructure. In practice, PV-IOMMU can be used to implement DMA protection in Dom0 or to support the Linux kernel VFIO subsystem. Previously, the Xen hypervisor used IOMMU for […]

The Dnsmasq project has won the first BlueHats award

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The first laureate of the BlueHats award, established by the French Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) and given to those supporting critical free and open projects, has been announced. The inaugural award has been presented to Simon Kelley, the creator, lead developer, and maintainer of the Dnsmasq project. The prize jury, which included representatives from the Ministry of Education, the Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI), and DINUM, […]

GitHub aims to ban the hosting of projects for creating deepfakes

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GitHub has published changes to the rules defining the policy regarding the hosting of projects that can be used to create fake multimedia content for the purpose of pornography and misinformation. The changes are currently in draft status, available for discussion for 30 days (until May 20). A paragraph has been added to the terms of service forbidding the hosting of projects that allow the synthesis and manipulation of multimedia content […]

ugrep-indexer 1.0.0

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The release of version 1.0.0 of the console utility ugrep-indexer, written in C++, has occurred. This utility is designed to speed up recursive searches using ugrep (when the -index key is used). Change list: loading the configuration file .ugrep-indexer from the working or home directory with user-specified default parameters; outputting current indexing settings (which can be turned off with the --no-messages key); improved output of indexing statistics; updated documentation; refactoring […]

Autodafe has been released, a toolkit for replacing Autotools with a regular Makefile.

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Eric Raymond, one of the founders of the OSI (Open Source Initiative) organization and a pioneer of the open source movement, has published the Autodafe toolkit, which allows the conversion of assembly instructions and scripts used by Autotools utilities into a single standard Makefile that can be easily read and modified by developers. The project code is written in Python and is distributed under the BSD license. It includes […]

Vulnerability in flatpak allows bypassing sandbox isolation

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A vulnerability (CVE-2024-32462) has been identified in the Flatpak toolkit, which is intended for creating self-sufficient packages that are not tied to specific Linux distributions and are isolated from the rest of the system. The vulnerability allows a malicious or compromised application supplied in a flatpak package to bypass the established sandbox isolation mode and gain access to files in the main system. The problem only manifests in packages that use Freedesktop portals (xdg-desktop-portal) applied for […]

OpenSUSE Factory has implemented support for reproducible builds.

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The developers of the openSUSE project announced the support for reproducible builds in the openSUSE Factory repository, which applies a rolling release model and serves as the foundation for building the openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution. The build configuration of openSUSE Factory now allows ensuring that binaries distributed in packages are built from provided source texts and contain no hidden changes. For instance, anyone […]

In Russia, pirated versions of AutoCAD and other Autodesk software have stopped working, but a solution has already been found.

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AutoCAD and other software from the American company Autodesk is rightly considered one of the best for design and spatial modeling. The company suspended operations in Russia in 2022, and now there are reports of blocking the use of pirated versions of its software. Many engineers, architects, and designers in Russia have been left without their usual software. However, just a few hours after the release […]

StringZilla 3.8.1

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StringZilla is a SIMD and SWAR-optimized library for C++ (with bindings for C, JavaScript (Node.js module), Python, Rust, and Swift) for fast string operations: substring and character set searches (both forward and backward), sorting, Levenshtein distance, Hamming distance, and more. However, functionality varies across languages. The project is distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. According to the library's author, […]

Release of web browser Chrome 124

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Google has released version 124 of the Chrome web browser. A stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the basis for Chrome, is also available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by using Google logos, having a crash notification system, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, always-on Sandbox isolation, delivering keys to Google APIs, and the provision of […]

Linus Torvalds opposed Kconfig parsers that do not support tabs

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Linus Torvalds refused to accept a change to the kernel that would replace the tab character with a space in the FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE parameter separator in the Kconfig kernel configuration. The change was proposed by a developer from the Fedora project, noting that the use of tabs leads to failures in the configuration parser. Instead of the proposed change, Linus included his patch in the kernel, which specifically adds tab characters to the PAGE_SHIFT setting definition, […]

Lite XL 2.1.4

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On April 16, version 2.1.4 of the Lite XL text editor was released, written in C and Lua using the SDL2 and PCRE2 libraries, and distributed under the MIT license. The editor is a significantly improved fork of the lite editor. In the new version: the Python plugin now supports the .pyi extension; the C++ plugin has added syntax highlighting for Arduino; the JavaScript plugin has introduced the keyword […]

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