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Mark Surman, the head of the Mozilla Foundation, announced the creation of Mozilla Ventures, a venture fund that will invest in startups promoting products and technologies aligned with Mozilla's ideals and manifesto. The fund will begin operating in the first half of 2023, with an initial investment size of at least 35 million dollars. Among the values that startup teams should share, […]
The first release of the high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server, Angie, has been published by a group of former developers from the Nginx project who left F5 Networks. The source code for Angie is available under the BSD license. To support the development of the project and continue supporting Nginx users in Russia, a company called 'Web Server' has been created, which received an investment of 1 million dollars. Among the co-owners of the new company are: Valentin […]
The non-profit fund overseeing the development of the anonymous Tor network has published its financial report for the 2021 fiscal year (from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021). During the reporting period, the project's funding amounted to 7.4 million dollars (compared to 4.8 million in the 2020 fiscal year). Approximately 1.7 million dollars was earned through the sale of […]
GitHub has expanded the mandatory two-factor authentication in the NPM repository, which will now apply to developer accounts maintaining packages with over 1 million downloads per week or used as dependencies in more than 500 packages. Previously, two-factor authentication was only mandatory for those maintaining the 500 most popular NPM packages (based on the number of dependent packages). Those maintaining significant packages will now […]
Andrey Savchenko from the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Higher School of Economics published the results of his research in the field of machine learning related to emotion recognition in the faces of people present in photographs and videos. The code is written in Python using PyTorch and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Several ready-to-use models are available, including those suitable for mobile devices. […]
TrueNAS CORE 13.0-U3 has been released, a distribution for quickly deploying Network-Attached Storage (NAS) that continues the development of the FreeNAS project. TrueNAS CORE 13 is based on the FreeBSD 13 codebase, features integrated support for ZFS, and offers management through a web interface built using the Django Python framework. Access to the storage is supported via FTP, NFS, Samba, AFP, rsync, and iSCSI, for […]
A patch release of the OpenSSL cryptographic library 3.0.7 has been published, addressing two vulnerabilities. Both issues are caused by buffer overflows in the code that checks the email field in X.509 certificates and could potentially lead to code execution when processing specially crafted certificates. At the time of the release, OpenSSL developers have not reported any confirmed working exploits that could lead to execution […]
The release of exfatprogs 1.2.0 has been published, developing the official set of Linux utilities for creating and verifying exFAT file systems, which replaces the outdated exfat-utils package and accompanies the new exFAT driver built into the Linux kernel (available starting with kernel release 5.7). The set includes the utilities mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat, tune.exfat, exfatlabel, dump.exfat, and exfat2img. The code is written in C and is distributed […]
After five months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 252 has been presented. The key change in the new version is the integration of support for an upgraded boot process, allowing for the verification of digital signatures not only for the kernel and bootloader but also for components of the base system environment. The proposed method involves using a unified kernel image (UKI) for booting, which combines the kernel boot handler […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.20 has been made. Since the release of version 7.19, 29 bug reports have been closed and 302 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the Wine Mono engine with the .NET platform implementation has been updated to version 7.4. A font binding mechanism has been added, allowing one or more fonts to be bound to another font. During binding […]
A vulnerability CVE-2022-40284 has been identified in the ntfs-3g utility from the NTFS-3G set, which offers a user-space implementation of the NTFS file system. This vulnerability could potentially allow code to be executed with root privileges in the system when mounting a specially crafted partition. The vulnerability has been patched in the NTFS-3G 2022.10.3 release. It was caused by an error in the metadata parsing code in NTFS partitions, leading to a buffer overflow when processed in a certain way […]
An adaptation layer for compatibility with Wayland has been prepared for the open operating system Haiku, which continues to develop the ideas of BeOS, allowing toolkits and applications that use this protocol to run, including applications based on the GTK library. The layer was developed by Ilya Chugin, who is also working on the Haiku port for the RISC-V architecture and the adaptation of Wine for Haiku. The layer provides the library libwayland-client.so, based on […]