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SUSE S.A. has announced the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 — a lightweight and secure operating system designed for use in containers and virtualization environments. This release of SLE Micro adds security features focused on edge computing, such as secure device registration and live patching, and also allows for the modernization of existing solutions with support for IBM Z […]
A new version of the free audio editor Audacity has been released. Changes include: Each clip now has a title that can be dragged instead of using the clip move tool on the timeline. Non-destructive trimming of clips by dragging the right or left edge has been added. The looping playback has been revamped, with editable loop boundaries now visible on the timeline. A context menu has been added for right-click actions. The hard binding to local […]
eMKatic is a cross-platform emulator for modern EKVMs of the 'Elektronika' series, supporting skins MK-152, MK-152M, MK-1152, and MK-161. It is written in Object Pascal and builds with Lazarus and Free Pascal Compiler. ( read more… ) mk-152, programmable calculator, emulator
Phoronix conducted a series of performance tests on environments based on Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.10, and Ubuntu 20.04 in the pre-release Windows 11 22454.1000 WSL2 environment. A total of 130 tests were carried out, with the Ubuntu 20.04 environment in Windows 11 WSL2 achieving 94% of the performance of Ubuntu 20.04 running directly on bare metal in the same configuration.
A critical vulnerability CVE-2021-21703 has been identified in PHP-FPM, the FastCGI process manager included with the main PHP distribution since version 5.3. This vulnerability allows an unprivileged hosting user to execute code with root privileges. The issue manifests on servers using PHP-FPM for running PHP scripts, typically paired with Nginx. Researchers who discovered the issue were able to prepare a working exploit prototype.
The Raspberry Pi project announced the release of a new generation of the Raspberry Pi Zero W board, combining compact size with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi support. The new model, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, is implemented in the same miniature form factor (65 x 30 x 5 mm), which means it is about twice as small as the standard Raspberry Pi. Sales have begun […]
The release of the free emulator RustZX 0.15 has taken place, fully written in the Rust programming language and distributed under the MIT license. The developers highlight the following features of the project: Full emulation of ZX Spectrum 48k and ZX Spectrum 128k; Sound emulation; Support for compressed gz-resources; Ability to work with resources in tap (tape storage), sna (snapshots), and scr (screenshots) formats; High-accuracy emulation of the AY chip; Emulation […]
A year after the last release, an update for the fully free Linux distribution Trisquel 9.0.1 has been published. It is based on the package base of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and is aimed at small businesses, educational institutions, and home users. Trisquel is personally endorsed by Richard Stallman and is officially recognized by the Free Software Foundation as fully free and listed among the Foundation's recommended distributions. For […]
Three and a half years after the last significant release, the X.Org Server 21.1 has been released. Starting with this version, a new release numbering scheme has been introduced, allowing users to immediately see how long ago a particular version was published. Similar to the Mesa project, the first number in the version indicates the year, while the second number indicates the ordinal number of the significant release for […]
Engineers at Intel proposed a new protocol called HTTPA (HTTPS Attestable), which enhances HTTPS with additional security guarantees for the computations made. HTTPA ensures the integrity of the user's request processing on the server and verifies that the web service is trustworthy and that the code running in a TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) on the server has not been altered due to hacking or administrator intervention. HTTPS protects […]
The utility crabz has been released, implementing multi-threaded compression and decompression of data, similar to the utility pigz. Both utilities are multi-threaded versions of the gzip program, optimized for multi-core systems. Crabz is distinguished by its implementation in the Rust programming language, as opposed to pigz, which is written in C (and partially in C++), and shows significant […]
Israeli security researcher Ido Hoorvitch from Tel Aviv published results of an experiment studying the reliability of passwords used to secure access to wireless networks. During the research, using captured frames with PMKID identifiers, passwords for 3,663 out of 5,000 (73%) studied wireless networks in Tel Aviv were successfully guessed. It was concluded that most wireless network owners […]