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Lars Knoll, the creator of the KHTML engine developed for KDE, which became the foundation for the Safari and Chrome browser engines, has announced his departure as the Chief Technology Officer of Qt Company and the lead maintainer of Qt after 25 years in the ecosystem of this project. According to Lars, after his departure, the project will remain in reliable hands and will continue to develop […]
The release of PikaScript 1.8 has been published, developing a compact engine for writing applications for microcontrollers in Python. PikaScript is not tied to external dependencies and can run on microcontrollers with 4 KB of RAM and 32 KB of Flash, such as the STM32G030C8 and STM32F103C8. For comparison, MicroPython requires 16 KB of RAM and 256 KB of Flash, while Snek […]
A new version of the Ultimaker Cura 5.0 package is available, offering a graphical interface for preparing models for 3D printing (slicing). The project code is written in Python and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The GUI is built using the Uranium framework, which utilizes Qt. Based on the model, the program determines the workflow of the 3D printer while applying each layer sequentially. In the simplest case, you only need to import the model into […]
The release of Kali Linux 2022.2, designed for system vulnerability testing, auditing, residual information analysis, and identifying the consequences of attacks from malicious actors, has been introduced. All original developments created within the distribution are distributed under the GPL license and are available through a public Git repository. Several versions of the ISO images have been prepared for download, sized 471 MB, 2.8 GB, 3.5 GB, and 9.4 […]
The zeronet-conservancy project is a continuation/fork of the decentralized censorship-resistant network ZeroNet, which uses Bitcoin's addressing and verification mechanisms to create websites in conjunction with BitTorrent's distributed delivery technologies. The content of the websites is stored in a P2P network on visitors' machines and verified by the owner's digital signature. The created fork aims to maintain the network, enhance security, and transition to user moderation (the current system does not […]
The software freedom advocacy organization Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has reported a new phase in its lawsuit against Vizio, accused of failing to meet GPL licensing requirements while distributing firmware for smart TVs based on the SmartCast platform. SFC representatives succeeded in moving the case from the U.S. Federal Court back to the California State District Court, which has significant implications regarding the classification of GPL […]
After a year of development, FreeBSD 13.1 has been released. Installation images are available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Additional builds have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments such as Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Vagrant. In the new version: An iwlwifi driver for Intel wireless cards with support for […]
The release of the Rocky Linux 8.6 distribution has occurred, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of classic CentOS, after Red Hat abruptly ended support for the CentOS 8 branch at the end of 2021, instead of 2029, as previously anticipated. This is the third stable release of the project, recognized as ready for production deployments. Rocky Linux builds have been prepared […]
A corrective release of Firefox 101.0.1 is available, notable for enhancing sandbox isolation on the Windows platform. The new version includes by default the blocking of access to the Win32k API (Win32 GUI components operating at the kernel level) from isolated content processing processes. This change was made ahead of the Pwn2Own 2022 competition, which will take place from May 18-20. Participants of Pwn2Own will demonstrate working exploitation techniques for previously unknown vulnerabilities and in […]
Michael R Sweet, the author of the CUPS printing system, has released PAPPL 1.2, a framework for developing printing applications based on the IPP Everywhere protocol, which is recommended for use instead of traditional printer drivers. The framework code is written in C and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license with an exception allowing linking with code under GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. […]
A method to bypass code execution isolation systems in Python has been published, based on a long-known bug that appeared in Python 2.7, identified in 2012 and still unpatched in Python 3. This bug allows specially crafted Python code to access already freed memory (Use-After-Free) in CPython. Originally, it was assumed that […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2022-30333) has been discovered in the unrar utility, allowing specially crafted archive extraction to overwrite files outside the current directory, subject to user permissions. The issue has been resolved in RAR 6.12 and unrar 6.1.7 releases. The vulnerability affects versions for Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS, but does not impact builds for Android and Windows. The problem arises from inadequate checks against the ‘/..’ sequence […]
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