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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 […]
The company Astra Linux has released another update for Astra Linux Common Edition 2.12.40. The updates include: An updated installation disk image supporting kernel 5.4 with enhanced support for 10th generation processors from Intel and AMD, and GPU drivers. User interface improvements: two new color schemes have been added: light and dark (fly-data); the design of the 'Shutdown' dialog has been redesigned (fly-shutdown-dialog); enhancements […]
The Wine development team proudly announces the availability of the new stable release Wine 6.0. This release represents a year of active development and contains over 8300 changes. Significant changes include: PE format kernel modules, a Vulkan backend for WineD3D, support for DirectShow and Media Foundation, and a redesign of the text console. This release is dedicated to the memory of Ken Thomases, who passed away […]
The release of Alpine Linux 3.13.0 has taken place — a Linux distribution focused on security, lightweight design, and resource efficiency (also used in many Docker images). The distribution utilizes the musl C library, the BusyBox set of standard UNIX utilities, the OpenRC initialization system, and the apk package manager. Key changes include: the beginning of the formation of official cloud images. Initial support for cloud-init. Replacement of ifupdown from […]
The release of bladeRF-wiphy has occurred — an open implementation of a WiFi modem in VHDL by Nuand. Wiphy operates on bladeRF 2.0 micro xA9 and supports both client and access point modes. It also supports network monitoring mode. The source code is published on GitHub under the GPL-2.0 license. Source: linux.org.ru
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