Category: Internet News

Release of the EdgeX 2.0 platform for the Internet of Things.

The release of EdgeX 2.0 has been announced, an open modular platform designed for interoperability between IoT devices, applications, and services. The platform is hardware- and operating system-agnostic and is developed by an independent working group under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. The platform's components are written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. EdgeX enables the creation of gateways that integrate existing IoT devices and […]

Release of multimedia server PipeWire 0.3.33

The release of PipeWire 0.3.33 has been published, which is developing a next-generation multimedia server intended to replace PulseAudio. PipeWire extends the capabilities of PulseAudio by providing tools for handling video streams, enabling audio processing with minimal latency, and introducing a new security model for access control at the level of individual devices and streams. The project is supported in GNOME and is already applied by default in Fedora Linux. […]

Kis Cook from Google has called for modernization of the bug fixing process in the Linux kernel.

Kees Cook, former chief system administrator at kernel.org and leader of the Ubuntu Security Team, now working at Google on securing Android and ChromeOS, expressed concern about the current process of fixing bugs in stable kernel branches. Approximately one hundred fixes are included in stable branches each week, and after the closure of the change acceptance window, the next release approaches one thousand […]

Assessment of vulnerable open components in commercial software.

Osterman Research has published results from a study on the usage of open components with unpatched vulnerabilities in custom proprietary software (COTS). The study examined five categories of applications — web browsers, email clients, file transfer programs, messaging apps, and platforms for online meetings. The results were alarming — the use of open code with […]

A new installer has appeared in the nightly builds of Ubuntu Desktop.

Testing of a new installer began in the nightly builds of Ubuntu Desktop 21.10. This installer is implemented as an extension of the low-level installer curtin, which is already used in the Subiquity installer, the default for Ubuntu Server. The new installer for Ubuntu Desktop is written in Dart and uses the Flutter framework to build the user interface. The design of the new installer is crafted with modern style in mind […]

The InitWare system manager, a fork of systemd, has been ported to OpenBSD.

The InitWare project, developing an experimental fork of the system manager systemd, has implemented support for the OpenBSD operating system at the level of user service management (user manager — the "iwctl —user" mode allows users to manage their own services). PID1 and system services are currently not supported. Previously, similar support was provided for DragonFly BSD, and the ability to manage system services and user login for NetBSD […]

The release of CrossOver 21.0 for Linux, Chrome OS, and macOS

CodeWeavers has released version 21.0 of Crossover, a package based on Wine code designed to run programs and games written for the Windows platform. CodeWeavers is among the key contributors to the Wine project, sponsoring its development and integrating innovations made for its commercial products back into the project. The source code for the open components of CrossOver 21.0 can be downloaded on this page. […]

Release of Chrome OS 92

The release of Chrome OS 92 has been published, based on the Linux kernel, using the upstart system manager, ebuild/portage build tools, open components, and the Chrome 92 web browser. The user environment of Chrome OS is limited to a web browser, and standard applications are replaced with web applications. Nevertheless, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. The build of Chrome OS 92 […]

Google will ban connections to its services from very old versions of Android.

Google has warned that starting September 27, users will no longer be able to connect to their Google accounts on devices running Android releases that are over 10 years old. The reason given is user security. When attempting to access Google products, including Gmail, YouTube, and Google Maps, from an older version of Android, users will receive an error […]

A WireGuard VPN implementation for the Windows kernel has been introduced.

Jason A. Donenfeld, the creator of the WireGuard VPN, has introduced the WireGuardNT project, which develops a high-performance port of WireGuard for the Windows kernel, compatible with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10, and supporting AMD64, x86, ARM64, and ARM architectures. The implementation code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new driver has already been included in the WireGuard client for Windows but is currently marked as experimental […]

The third release candidate of the Debian 11 installer 'Bullseye'

The third release candidate for the installer of the next major release of Debian — 'Bullseye' — has been published. Currently, there are 48 critical bugs blocking the release (155 a month ago, 185 two months ago, 240 three months ago, 472 four months ago, at the time of the freeze in Debian 10 — 316, Debian 9 — 275, Debian 8 — […]

Vulnerabilities in eBPF allow bypassing protection against Spectre attack 4.

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that allow the eBPF subsystem to bypass protections against the Spectre v4 attack (SSB, Speculative Store Bypass). An attacker using an unprivileged BPF program can create conditions for speculative execution of certain operations and determine the contents of arbitrary kernel memory areas. The accompanying eBPF subsystems in the kernel have obtained access to a proof-of-concept exploit demonstrating the possibility of attacks […]

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