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A year and a half after the last release, an alternative build of the Linux Mint distribution — Linux Mint Debian Edition 6, based on the Debian package base (the classic Linux Mint is based on the Ubuntu package base) — has been released. The distribution is available as installation iso images with the Cinnamon 5.8 desktop environment. LMDE is aimed at technically savvy users and provides newer versions […]
A group of researchers from several universities in the USA has developed a new side-channel attack technique that allows the recreation of visual information processed by the GPU. Using the proposed method, known as GPU.zip, an attacker can determine the information displayed on the screen. Among other things, the attack can be conducted via a web browser; for example, it has been demonstrated how a malicious webpage opened in Chrome can obtain information about […]
The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has revealed details about unpatched (0-day) vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-42115, CVE-2023-42116, CVE-2023-42117) in the Exim mail server, allowing for remote code execution on a server with the privileges of the process accepting connections on network port 25. No authentication is required for the attack. The first vulnerability (CVE-2023-42115) is caused by an error in the SMTP service and is related to the lack of proper data checks, […]
CodeWeavers has released version 23.5 of the Crossover package, based on Wine code, designed for running applications and games written for the Windows platform. CodeWeavers is one of the key contributors to the Wine project, sponsoring its development and reinvesting innovations made for its commercial products back into the project. The source code of the open components of Crossover 23.0 can be downloaded from this page. […]
The release of RetroArch 1.16 has been published, enhancing the framework for emulating various gaming consoles, allowing classic games to be run through a simple unified graphical interface. Emulators for consoles such as Atari 2600/7800/Jaguar/Lynx, Game Boy, Mega Drive, NES, Nintendo 64/DS, PCEngine, PSP, Sega 32X/CD, SuperNES, etc. are supported. Gamepads from existing gaming consoles, including Playstation 3, can be used, […]
After four years of development, a new stable release of the project management system Trac 1.6 has been presented (the 1.5 branch was experimental), providing a web interface for working with Subversion and Git repositories, a built-in Wiki, a bug tracking system, and a feature planning section for new versions. The code is written in Python and is distributed under the BSD license. SQLite and other databases can be used for data storage, […]
The release of the GNUnet framework 0.20 has been announced, intended for building secure decentralized P2P networks. Networks created with GNUnet do not have a single point of failure and can guarantee users' privacy, including protecting against potential abuses by intelligence services and administrators with access to network nodes. GNUnet supports the creation of P2P networks over TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, Bluetooth, and WLAN, […]
The Khronos Group, which is focused on developing graphics standards, has published the ANARI 1.0 (Analytic Rendering Interface) standard, which defines an API for cross-platform rendering engines aimed at unifying software interfaces for data visualization. Rendering engine implementations that support the ANARI standard have already been prepared by companies such as AMD (RadeonProRenderANARI), Intel (anari-ospray), and NVIDIA (VisRTX). An open SDK for application development has also been released, along with a plugin that supports […]
The Let’s Encrypt non-profit certificate authority, controlled by the community and providing certificates free of charge to anyone who wishes, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The service generates around three million new certificates daily. The number of active certificates stands at 277 million (each certificate is valid for three months). These certificates cover approximately 111 million registered domains and 350 million fully qualified domain names (FQDN). According to Firefox Telemetry statistics, worldwide […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.17 internet application suite has taken place, which combines a web browser, an email client, an RSS/Atom feed aggregator, and a WYSIWYG HTML page editor called Composer within a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the Chatzilla IRC client, the DOM Inspector web development toolset, and the Lightning calendar/planner. This new release includes fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based […]
The SQLite developers are advancing the experimental VFS module CBS (Cloud Backed SQLite), which allows the database content to be stored not in a local file but in external cloud storage. A specially optimized format for external storage is used, enabling data to be loaded dynamically from the cloud as needed, without the need to copy the entire database to the local system in advance. From cloud storage […]
Several recently discovered critical vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-24834 — a vulnerability in the Redis DBMS that allows a buffer overflow in the cjson and cmsgpack libraries when running a specially crafted Lua script. This vulnerability could potentially lead to remote code execution on the server. The issue manifests starting from Redis 2.6 and has been fixed in versions 7.0.12, 6.2.13, and 6.0.20. As a workaround […]
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