Category: Internet News

China has expanded its first commercial underwater data center UDC Hainan

According to Tom’s Hardware, the construction of China’s first commercial underwater data center, UDC Hainan, is ongoing. The data center is located off the coast of Sanya City (Hainan Island). The companies involved in the project installed the first module in April, and last Friday, the Highlander team (HiCloud Data Center Technology) submerged another block into the sea. This is not the only underwater data center in China, as there are others [...]

The Delta Chat messenger 1.42 has been released, using email as its transport

The release of the Delta Chat 1.42 messenger is now available, operating without specialized servers and using email as its transport (chat-over-email, a specialized email client that functions as a messenger). The application code is distributed under the GPLv3 license, while the core library is available under the MPL 2.0 license (Mozilla Public License). The release is available on Google Play and F-Droid, as well as in builds for Linux (AppImage, pacman, [...]

Some users of 'Google Drive' have lost files over several months — the company has launched an investigation

Users of the cloud storage service 'Google Drive' have encountered issues with accessing their files. There are reports of both complete file disappearance from the cloud service and loss of access to files, along with other problems related to the cloud storage. Currently, Google is investigating the incident and trying to resolve the issue, and recommends that affected users refrain from making any changes [...]

Paru 2.0.0

After a long silence, Paru has been updated — a wrapper for pacman with AUR integration. The update includes many significant changes, primarily important for advanced users. PKGBUILD Repositories The main feature of this release is the ability to integrate PKGBUILD repositories that are not based on AUR. You can now add them in paru.conf: [repo_name] Url = https://path/to/git/repo Then synchronize using paru -Sy —pkgbuilds. You can also […]

Vulnerabilities in Perl, ownCloud, GStreamer, and Zephyr RTOS

Several recently discovered vulnerabilities: In the corrective release of Perl 5.38.1, a vulnerability (CVE-2023-47038) has been fixed that could lead to writing one byte out of bounds of the allocated buffer when processing compiled regular expressions with an incorrectly redefined internal Unicode property with a name starting with “utf8::perl”. The issue appears starting from Perl 5.30. Additionally, Perl 5.38.1 has addressed a platform-specific […]

Release of Container Management System Incus 0.3

The third release of the Incus project has been announced, in which the Linux Containers community is developing a fork of the LXD container management system, created by the original development team behind LXD. The Incus code is written in Go and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It should be noted that the Linux Containers community oversaw the development of LXD before Canonical decided to independently develop LXD as an enterprise […]

Libreoffice Viewer is back on Google Play

The Document Foundation has announced the synchronization of the Android application LibreOffice Viewer with the current codebase of LibreOffice and the placement of this app in the Google Play catalog. LibreOffice Viewer is a lighter version of LibreOffice for Android smartphones and tablets for viewing documents in open document formats (.odt, .ods, .odp) and Microsoft Office (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx). LibreOffice Viewer also features experimental […]

PipeWire 1.0.0 has been released

Finally, the long-awaited first major version of PipeWire has been released, a multimedia server and framework designed for real-time audio output and processing. It maintains API and ABI compatibility with ALSA, PulseAudio, and JACK. While the changes are not numerous, they are significant (after all, this is the first release version). Key changes: Fixed a memory leak in memfd/dmabuf when unloading buffers during […]

Microsoft announced the open-sourcing of Azure RTOS and the handover of the project to the Eclipse community.

Microsoft has announced the release of the source code for the real-time operating system Azure RTOS under the permissive MIT license, which was acquired following the purchase of Express Logic in 2019 and was previously provided under the name ThreadX for over 20 years. It is claimed that this operating system has been installed on more than 12 billion devices worldwide, among which […]

Release of multimedia server PipeWire 1.0.0

The 1.0.0 release of the multimedia server PipeWire has been published, marking its first stable release and the maturity of the project. In terms of API and ABI, version 1.0 is backward compatible with the 0.3 branch. PipeWire is positioned as a server to replace the PulseAudio sound server and differs from it by adding tools for handling video streams, allowing for audio processing with minimal latency and […]

Release of OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 Distribution

After a year and a half of development, the release of the OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 distribution has been announced. The project is being developed by the community following the transfer of project management from Mandriva S.A. to the non-profit organization 'OpenMandriva Association'. Live images are available for download for the x86_64 architecture with KDE (full 3.0 GB, minimal 2.5 GB, and optimized for AMD Ryzen, ThreadRipper, and EPYC processors), GNOME, and […]

Release of Radix cross Linux Distribution 1.9.226

The latest version of the Radix cross Linux distribution 1.9.226 is now available, built using the Radix.pro custom build system that simplifies the creation of distributions for embedded systems. The distribution builds are available for devices based on RISC-V, ARM/ARM64, MIPS, and x86/x86_64 architectures. The boot images, prepared according to the instructions in the Platform Download section, contain a local package repository, so installation does not require an internet connection […]

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