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Intel excels in producing the Core i5 series of processors. The Core i5-14600K once again confirms this truth: its superiority over the Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 7 5800X3D is undeniable, even in the absence of noticeable changes. Source: 3dnews.ru
The developers of Debian have published a plan to switch all packages to using the 64-bit time_t type in the distribution's ports for 32-bit architectures. These changes will be included in Debian 13 "Trixie", which will fully address the year 2038 problem. Currently, the 64-bit time_t type has already been implemented in Debian's ports for 32-bit architectures x32, riscv32, arc, and loong32, but in […]
CBL, a data recovery company, stated that unreliable memory chips are often found in the latest microSD cards and USB drives. Experts are increasingly encountering devices with trimmed memory chips that have had the manufacturer information removed, as well as USB drives that use modified microSD cards soldered onto the board. Against this backdrop, CBL has come to […]
The Gentoo project developers announced the deployment of a separate repository with binary packages compiled with support for the third version of the x86-64 microarchitecture (x86-64-v3), used in Intel processors since around 2015 (starting with Intel Haswell) and characterized by the presence of extensions such as AVX, AVX2, BMI2, FMA, LZCNT, MOVBE, and SXSAVE. The repository offers a separate set of packages being built in parallel […]
Barry Kauler, the founder of the Puppy Linux project, has released the EasyOS 5.7 distribution, which combines Puppy Linux technologies with container isolation for running system components. Management of the distribution is through a developing set of graphical configurators. The size of the boot image is 857 MB. Features of the distribution include: Each application, as well as the desktop itself, can be launched in separate containers for isolation […]
American company Cloudflare has reported a hacker intrusion into its IT infrastructure. Security specialists from CrowdStrike were engaged in investigating the incident: it is alleged that government hackers from an unspecified country may have been involved in the cyber attack. As a result of the investigation, the company decided to upgrade its data center in Brazil. It is said that the attackers used an access token and account […]
A vulnerability CVE-2024-21626 has been found in the toolset for launching isolated containers runc, used in Docker and Kubernetes, allowing access to the host environment's file system from an isolated container. During the attack, an attacker can overwrite certain executable files in the host environment and thus achieve code execution outside the container. In the runtime crun and youki, which use runc, as well as in […]
During a scan of leaked sensitive data in GitHub repositories conducted by RedHunt Labs, a publication was identified in a public repository of an API token that allows unlimited access to the internal repositories of Mercedes-Benz hosted on an internal server based on the GitHub Enterprise Server platform. It is believed that the token was accidentally published by one of the Mercedes-Benz employees among the code posted in the public repository […]
Cloudflare, a content delivery network serving approximately 20% of internet traffic, has published a report on the breach of one of its servers in its infrastructure, which hosted an internal wiki site based on the Atlassian Confluence platform, the Atlassian Jira bug tracking system, and the Bitbucket code management system. The investigation revealed that the attacker was able to access the server using tokens obtained as a result of the October […]
The GNU project has released version 1.0.0 of the libmicrohttpd library, which is marked as the first stable release in the 16 years of the project's existence. The library is written in C and provides a simple API for incorporating HTTP server functionality into applications. Supported platforms include GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Android, macOS, Win32, and z/OS. The code is distributed under the LGPL 2.1+ license. When built […]
After seven months of development, the release of library SDL 2.30.0 (Simple DirectMedia Layer) has been published, aimed at simplifying the writing of games and multimedia applications. The SDL library provides features such as hardware-accelerated output of 2D and 3D graphics, input processing, sound playback, output of 3D through OpenGL/OpenGL ES/Vulkan, and many other accompanying operations. The library is written in C and is distributed under the Zlib license. […]
The release of litehtml, a lightweight HTML/CSS rendering engine, has taken place. The main goal of the litehtml library is to provide developers with a simple way to display HTML pages in their applications. For example, it can be used in dictionary applications as an alternative to WebEngine. Qt Assistant uses this library to show help documentation. The library does not handle text or image rendering, so it has no ties to any toolkit. In addition to numerous improvements, the release […]