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Firefox 85 is now available. Graphics subsystem: WebRender is enabled on devices using the 'GNOME+Wayland+Intel/AMD graphics card' setup (except for 4K displays, support for which is expected in Firefox 86). Additionally, WebRender is enabled on devices using Iris Pro Graphics P580 (mobile Xeon E3 v5), which developers had overlooked, as well as on devices with Intel HD Graphics drivers version 23.20.16.4973 (this specific driver […]
The vulnerability lies in the ability of a remote attacker to access directories outside of those exported via NFS, through a READDIRPLUS call on the .. root of the exported directory. The vulnerability has been fixed in the kernel version 5.10.10 released on January 23, as well as in all other supported kernel versions updated on that day: commit fdcaa4af5e70e2d984c9620a09e9dade067f2620 Author: J. Bruce Fields Date: Mon Jan 11 […]
The library is structured as a Rust crate under the MIT License, which can be used as follows: [dependencies] windows = '0.2.1' [build-dependencies] windows = '0.2.1' After that, in the build script build.rs, you can generate the modules needed for your application: fn main() { windows::build!( windows::data::xml::dom::* windows::win32::system_services::{CreateEventW, SetEvent, WaitForSingleObject} windows::win32::windows_programming::CloseHandle ); } Documentation on available modules is published at docs.rs. […]
More than two years ago, a bug report was opened in Gnome GitLab regarding the scrolling in GTK applications using the touchpad, which was found to be too fast or too sensitive. The discussion involved 43 participants. GTK+ maintainer, Matthias Clasen, initially claimed he did not see the issue. Comments mainly revolved around 'how it works', 'how it works in other […]
During an audit, Google discovered that some third-party products based on Chromium code use keys that allow access to certain Google APIs and services intended for internal use. Specifically, to google_default_client_id and google_default_client_secret. As a result, users can access their own Chrome Sync data (such as bookmarks) not only in […]
The Raspberry Pi team has released a board on the RP2040 chip with a 40nm architecture: Raspberry Pi Pico. RP2040 specifications: Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ @ 133MHz 264KB RAM Support for up to 16MB of Flash memory via a dedicated QSPI bus DMA controller 30 GPIO pins, 4 of which can be used as analog inputs 2 UART, 2 SPI, and 2 I2C controllers 16 PWM […]
"Dreaming of the ability to run Linux on the new Apple chip? The reality is much closer than you might think." With this subtitle, a popular site among Ubuntu enthusiasts worldwide, omg!ubuntu!, writes about this news. Developers from Corellium, specializing in virtualization on ARM chips, have managed to run and achieve stable operation of the Ubuntu 20.04 distribution on the latest Apple Mac […]
Experts from JSOF research labs reported seven new vulnerabilities in the DNS/DHCP server dnsmasq. The dnsmasq server is quite popular and is used by default in many Linux distributions, as well as in networking equipment from Cisco, Ubiquiti, and others. The Dnspooq vulnerabilities include DNS cache poisoning and remote code execution. The vulnerabilities have been fixed in dnsmasq 2.83. In 2008 […]
RedHat has changed the terms for free use of the full-featured RHEL system. Previously, this was only available to developers and on a single computer, but now a free developer account allows for the free and completely legal use of RHEL in production on no more than 16 machines, with self-support. Additionally, RHEL can be used for free and legally for […]
On January 14, a new version of the simple console text editor GNU nano 5.5 "Rebecca" was released. In this release: The set minibar option was added, which shows a line with key editing information instead of a header line: file name (plus an asterisk when the buffer is modified), cursor position (line, column), character under the cursor (U+xxxx), flags, plus current position in the buffer (in percentage […]
The first version of the new stable branch 1.10.x of the Flatpak package manager has been released. The main feature of this series compared to 1.8.x is support for a new repository format that makes package updates faster and downloads less data. Flatpak is a utility for deploying, managing packages, and virtualization for Linux. It provides a sandbox where users can run applications without impact […]
On January 12, the company Open Source Security, known for developing grsecurity, announced sponsorship of the frontend development for the GCC compiler to support the Rust programming language — gccrs. Initially, gccrs was developed in parallel with the original Rustc compiler, but due to the lack of language specifications and frequent breaking changes at the early stage, development was temporarily halted and resumed only after the release of Rust […]