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In the next 15 years, Amazon plans to spend $148 billion on data centers to cope with the anticipated explosive growth in demand for AI applications and other digital services, Bloomberg reports. Last year, the growth rate of AWS revenue fell to a record low as clients sought to cut costs and postponed modernization projects. Their spending is now increasing again […]
The stable version of the GNU Coreutils 9.5 basic system utilities suite has been released, which includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, ls, etc. Key innovations: The cp, mv, install, cat, and split utilities have been optimized for read and write operations. The size of the minimum readable or writable block has increased […]
The release of Lanemu P2P VPN 0.11.6 has occurred — a decentralized virtual private network operating on a Peer-To-Peer basis, where participants are connected directly to each other rather than through a central server. Network participants can find each other through BitTorrent trackers or BitTorrent DHT, or through other network participants (peer exchange). The application is a free and open-source alternative to VPN Hamachi, developed […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2024-28085) has been discovered in the wall utility, provided in the util-linux package, which is designed to send messages to terminals, allowing for an attack on other users' terminals through manipulation of escape sequences. The issue arises because the wall utility blocks the use of escape sequences in the input stream but fails to perform this operation for command-line arguments, allowing an attacker to execute escape sequences […]
After 6 months of development, the release of Samba 4.20.0 has been presented, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a full implementation of domain controller and Active Directory service compatible with the Windows 2008 implementation and capable of servicing all supported Microsoft versions of Windows clients, including Windows 11. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides a file server, print service, and server […]
Today, KDE releases a bug-fix update for KDE Plasma version 6.0.3. This release includes fixes from KDE contributors over the past two weeks. A total of more than 149 fixes have been made, including: The animation for hovering over/removing the floating panel has been smoothed out when using scaling factors above 100%, as well as overall. Records for […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 6.1 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian 12 package base, has been formed. It comes with the GNOME 43 desktop and is designed for anonymous internet access. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. By default, all connections except for traffic through the Tor network are blocked by the packet filter. User data is stored in the mode […]
Last week, a major patch 1.6 for the PC version of the farming simulator Stardew Valley was released, which includes hundreds of documented changes. However, as players discover, it also contains several surprises—including some creepy ones. Image source: ConcernedApe Source: 3dnews.ru
A vulnerability (CVE-2024-1086) has been identified in Netfilter, a Linux kernel subsystem used for filtering and modifying network packets, allowing a local user to execute code at the kernel level and elevate their privileges in the system. The problem is caused by a double free in the nf_tables module, which facilitates the operation of the nftables packet filter. The researcher who discovered the vulnerability has developed and published a working prototype of the exploit. The exploit works […]
The release of the operating system Qubes 4.2.1 has been announced, implementing the idea of using a hypervisor for strict isolation of applications and OS components (each class of applications and system services operate in separate virtual machines). It is recommended to use a system with 16 GB of RAM (minimum 6 GB) and a 64-bit Intel or AMD CPU with support for VT-x with EPT/AMD-v with RVI and […]
After a year of development, a new version of the Bubblewrap toolkit 0.9 has been released, used for organizing work in isolated environments, limiting access for individual applications of unprivileged users. In practice, Bubblewrap is used by the Flatpak project as a layer for isolating applications launched from packages. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv2+ license. Traditional container isolation technologies for Linux are used […]
Testing of the beta version of the Fedora Linux 40 distribution has begun. The beta release marks the transition to the final testing phase, where only critical bugs can be fixed. The release is scheduled for April 23. It covers Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora IoT, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora Onyx, and Live images provided as spins with user environments K proposed KDE Plasma […]
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