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The W3C consortium has presented the first drafts of the WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language (WGSL) specifications, defining an API for executing GPU operations such as rendering and computations, as well as a shading language for writing programs that run on the GPU, conceptually similar to the Vulkan, Metal, and Direct3D 12 APIs. The specifications have been prepared by a working group that includes engineers from Mozilla, […]
The release of the open billing system ABillS 0.90 is available, with components provided under the GPLv2 license. Major updates include: The web interface has been updated to use AdminLTE 3. A plugin system has been added in the Msgs module. Competitor management has been integrated into the CRM module. The Equipment module in the cable tester has expanded support for devices and now displays MAC addresses for ONU. The Paysys module has introduced the ability to […]
Mozilla has announced the commencement of mass testing in nightly builds and beta releases of Firefox for the strict site isolation mode, which has been developed as part of the Fission project. This mode expands the use of a multiprocess architecture — instead of a fixed pool of processes, a separate process is created for each site. The Fission mode activation can be managed through the variable 'fission.autostart=true' in about:config or on the about:preferences#experimental page. Remember that the applied […]
Till Kamppeter, the leader of the OpenPrinting project, announced that due to Apple's lack of interest in maintaining the CUPS printing system, last year's fork of CUPS can be viewed as the upstream project for patch submissions and inclusion in distributions. Michael R Sweet, the original author of CUPS who left a year and a half ago, is involved in the development of the fork […]
The release of the NetBSD 9.2 operating system has been announced. Installation images sized at 820 MB are available for download, supporting 57 system architectures and 16 different CPU families. Key changes include the ability to export ZFS file systems via NFS. Code from NetBSD HEAD has been transferred to the http server httpd, adding support for additional MIME types and addressing file processing issues […]
A new version of the open-source monitoring system Zabbix 5.4 has been released. This release includes support for generating reports in PDF format, a new syntax for aggregating detection of more complex issues, data visualization improvements, support for API access tokens, metric-level tags, performance enhancements, and much more. Zabbix consists of three […]
The first release of the Lima project (Linux-on-Mac, macOS subsystem for Linux), which develops a layer for running Linux applications on macOS, has been announced. It addresses tasks similar to those of the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). The project's code is written in Go and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The essence of Lima is to run virtual machines with Linux in a macOS environment with built-in […]
The developers of the fingerprintjs library, which allows for the passive generation of browser identifiers based on indirect features such as screen resolution, WebGL characteristics, and lists of installed plugins and fonts, have introduced a new identification method. This method assesses installed user applications and works through checking browser support for additional protocol handlers. The script code implementing this method has been published under the […]
The release of Zulip 4.0 has been introduced, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers suitable for organizing communication among employees and developer teams. The project was initially developed by Zulip and opened after its acquisition by Dropbox under the Apache 2.0 license. The server-side code is written in Python using the Django framework. The client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and […]
Two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in the eBPF subsystem, allowing handlers to run inside the Linux kernel in a special virtual machine with JIT. Both vulnerabilities enable the execution of custom code with kernel privileges, outside the isolated eBPF virtual machine. Information about the issues was published by the Zero Day Initiative team, which conducts the Pwn2Own competitions, during which three attacks were demonstrated this year […]
Corrective updates have been released for all supported branches of PostgreSQL: 13.3, 12.7, 11.12, 10.17, and 9.6.22. Updates for the 9.6 branch will be provided until November 2021, for the 10 branch until November 2022, for the 11 branch until November 2023, for the 12 branch until November 2024, and for the 13 branch until November 2025. The new releases fix three vulnerabilities and address […]
A new stable version of the note-taking application OutWiker 3.0 has been released. One feature of the program is that notes are stored as directories with text files, and any number of files can be attached to each note. The program allows writing notes using various notations: HTML, wiki, Markdown (if the appropriate plugin is installed). Additionally, plugins can be used to add the capability of publishing to […]