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The release of the web browser Firefox 107 has taken place. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch — 102.5.0 — has been formulated. The Firefox 108 branch will soon enter beta testing, with the release scheduled for December 13. Key innovations in Firefox 107: The profiling interface (Performance tab in developer tools) has added energy consumption analysis capabilities on Linux systems and […]
The release of Fedora Linux 37 has been announced. The Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora IoT Edition, and Live versions with desktop environments such as KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, and LXQt are available for download. Builds are created for x86_64, Power64, and ARM64 (AArch64) architectures. The publication of Fedora Silverblue is delayed. The most significant […]
The release of DuckDB 0.6.0, which combines properties of SQLite such as compactness, embeddability as a library, storage of the database in a single file, and a user-friendly CLI interface, along with tools and optimizations for executing analytical queries covering substantial amounts of stored data, is now available. This includes functions like aggregating all table content or merging multiple large tables. The project's code is distributed under the MIT license. […]
The release of temBoard 8.0, which develops a web interface for remote management, monitoring, configuration, and optimization of PostgreSQL databases, has been announced. The product includes a lightweight agent installed on each PostgreSQL server and a server component that centrally manages agents and collects statistics for monitoring. The code is written in Python and distributed under the PostgreSQL License. Key features of temBoard include: […]
The developers of the Mesa project have announced the certification of the rusticl driver by the Khronos organization, which successfully passed all tests from the CTS (Kronos Conformance Test Suite) and is recognized as fully compliant with the OpenCL 3.0 specification, defining the API and extensions for cross-platform parallel computing. Obtaining the certificate allows for the official claim of compliance with standards and the use of related […]
The release of Deno 1.28, a platform for the isolated execution of applications written in JavaScript and TypeScript that can be used to create server-side handlers, has been announced. The platform is developed by Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js. Like Node.js, Deno uses the V8 JavaScript engine, which is also employed in Chromium-based browsers. However, Deno is not a fork of […]
Barry Kauler, the founder of Puppy Linux, has released an experimental distribution EasyOS 4.5, which combines Puppy Linux technologies with container isolation for running system components. The management of the distribution is carried out through a set of graphical configurators developed by the project. The size of the boot image is 825 MB. In this release: The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.15.78. The kernel compilation includes settings for […]
The developers of the Thunderbird email client have introduced a new design for the calendar-scheduler, which will be offered in the next major release of the project. Almost all elements of the calendar have been redesigned, including dialogs, pop-ups, and tooltips. The layout is optimized to enhance the visibility of busy schedules that contain a large number of events. Interface customization options have been expanded to suit personal preferences. In the summary view of events for the month […]
Kudelski Security, a company specializing in security audits, has released the Shufflecake toolkit, which allows the creation of hidden file systems spread across the available free space in existing partitions, indistinguishable from random residual data. The partitions are created in such a way that, without knowing the access key, proving their existence is problematic even when conducting forensic analysis. The utility code (shufflecake-userland) and the module […]
Google has released version 1.3 of the Lyra audio codec, aimed at achieving high-quality voice transmission under limited bandwidth conditions. Voice quality at bitrates of 3.2 kbps, 6 kbps, and 9.2 kbps using the Lyra codec is approximately comparable to bitrates of 10 kbps, 13 kbps, and 14 kbps with the Opus codec. To address the stated task, in addition to conventional methods […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2022-45063) has been identified in the xterm terminal emulator, allowing for the execution of shell commands when processing certain escape sequences in the terminal. In a simple attack, it is sufficient to display the contents of a specially formatted file on the screen, for example, using the cat utility, or to paste a line from the clipboard. printf "\e]50;i\$(touch /tmp/hack-like-its-1999)\a\e]50;?\a" > cve-2022-45063 cat cve-2022-45063 The issue was caused by an error in handling the escape sequence with […]
The Wa-tunnel toolkit has been released, enabling TCP traffic to be tunneled through another host using a tunnel that works over the WhatsApp messenger. Such manipulations may be useful for gaining access to external networks from environments where only the messenger is available, or for saving data when connecting to networks or providers offering unlimited options for messenger traffic (for example, unlimited access to WhatsApp […]