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Last night (around midnight European time) a fire broke out in OVH's data center in Strasbourg, destroying most of the equipment (out of four OVH data centers in Strasbourg, the SBG2 data center was completely destroyed, 4 out of 12 rooms in the SBG1 data center were burned, and SBG3 and SBG4 data centers were powered down). Fire and rescue services cut off power to all buildings and only by morning the fire […]
Red Hat and Google, in collaboration with Purdue University, have founded the Sigstore project, aimed at creating tools and services for software verification using digital signatures and maintaining a public log for authenticity verification (transparency log). The project will develop under the auspices of the non-profit organization Linux Foundation. The proposed project will improve the security of distribution channels for software and protect against […]
Corrective releases of the distributed version control system Git 2.30.2, 2.17.6, 2.18.5, 2.19.6, 2.20.5, 2.21.4, 2.22.5, 2.23.4, 2.24.4, 2.25.5, 2.26.3, 2.27.1, 2.28.1, and 2.29.3 have been published, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2021-21300) that allows for remote code execution when cloning an intruder's repository using the 'git clone' command. All Git releases from version 2.15 are vulnerable. The issue manifests when […]
Sylvestre Ledru, known for his work on building Debian GNU/Linux using the Clang compiler, reported the successful conduct of an experiment using an alternative set of coreutils rewritten in Rust. The coreutils include utilities such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. For the first phase of integration […]
A group of researchers from several American, Israeli, and Australian universities has developed three working web browser attacks to extract information about the contents of the processor cache. One method works in browsers without JavaScript, while the other two bypass existing defenses against side-channel attacks, including those employed in the Tor browser and DeterFox. The code to demonstrate the attacks, […]
MIPS Technologies is halting the development of the MIPS architecture and shifting towards creating systems based on the RISC-V architecture. The eighth generation of the MIPS architecture is set to be built on the advancements of the open RISC-V project. In 2017, MIPS Technologies came under the control of the startup Wave Computing, which produces accelerators for machine learning systems using MIPS processors. Last year, Wave Computing began […]
GitHub has announced the reset of all authenticated sessions to GitHub.com and the need to log back into the service due to a discovered security issue. It is noted that the issue occurs very rarely and affects only a small number of sessions, but potentially poses a significant danger, as it allows one authenticated user to access another user's session. The vulnerability is caused by a race condition during the processing of […]
Canonical has launched a campaign to promote Ubuntu as a replacement for CentOS on servers used in companies providing financial services. This initiative is driven by Red Hat's decision to cease updates for classic CentOS 8 as of December 31, 2021, in favor of the CentOS Stream testing project. Despite Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS occupying […]
A new release of the platform for building decentralized social networks, Hubzilla 5.2, has been launched. The project provides a communication server that integrates with web publishing systems, equipped with a transparent identification system and access control in decentralized Fediverse networks. The project code is written in PHP and JavaScript and is distributed under the MIT license. Hubzilla has a unified authentication system to operate as a social network, […]
The Dolt project develops a DBMS that combines SQL support with versioning data in a Git-like fashion. Dolt allows cloning tables, creating forks, and performing table merges, as well as push and pull operations similar to those in a git repository. The DBMS supports SQL queries and is compatible with MySQL at the client interface level. The project code is written in […]
The first release of the labwc project, which develops a composite server for Wayland with features reminiscent of the Openbox window manager (the project is presented as an attempt to create an alternative to Openbox for Wayland), has been released. Features of labwc include minimalism, compact implementation, extensive customization options, and high performance. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The wlroots library is used as a base, […]
The release of SystemRescue 8.0.0 is available, a specialized Live distribution based on Arch Linux, designed for system recovery after a crash. The graphical environment used is Xfce. The size of the ISO image is 708 MB (amd64, i686). Functional changes in the new version include an upgrade of the Xfce desktop to version 4.16, the provision of Linux kernel 5.10, and the inclusion of the paperkey package, intended for […]