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Release of Wine 5.15 and DXVK 1.7.1

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An experimental release of the open-source implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.15 has been announced. Since the release of version 5.14, 27 bug reports have been closed and 273 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the addition of the initial implementation of the XACT Engine sound libraries (Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool, xactengine3_*.dll), including the interfaces IXACT3Engine, IXACT3SoundBank, IXACT3Cue, IXACT3WaveBank, and IXACT3Wave; the formation of a mathematical library in MSVCRT has begun, implemented […]

Wind and solar energy are replacing coal, but not as quickly as one would like.

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According to data from the Ember analytical center, the share of solar and wind energy in global energy has doubled since 2015. Currently, it accounts for about 10% of the total energy produced, approaching the level of nuclear power plants. Alternative energy sources are gradually displacing coal, whose production decreased by a record 8.3% in the first half of 2020 compared to […]

The Pocket P.C. device has been translated into the category of open hardware.

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Source Parts has announced the release of the Pocket Popcorn Computer (Pocket P.C.) development efforts. After the device is put on sale under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, files with PCB design, schematics, 3D-printing models, and assembly instructions will be published. The released information will allow third-party manufacturers to use the Pocket P.C. as a prototype for development […]

Release of Mcron 1.2, cron implementation from the GNU project.

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After two years of development, the release of GNU Mcron 1.2 has been published, which evolves the cron system implemented in the Guile language. The new release features significant code cleanup—entirely rewritten in C, and the project now includes only source code in Guile. Mcron is 100% compatible with Vixie cron and can act as […]

Microsoft has launched the site opensource.microsoft.com

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Jeff Wilcox from the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office introduced the new site opensource.microsoft.com, which aggregates information about Microsoft’s open projects and the company's participation in the open-source ecosystem. The site also displays Microsoft employees' real-time activity in projects on GitHub, including the projects in which […]

LTS releases of Ubuntu 18.04.5 and 16.04.7

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An update for the Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS distribution has been released. This is the final update which includes changes related to hardware support improvements, updates to the Linux kernel and graphics stack, as well as bug fixes in the installer and bootloader. Future updates for the 18.04 branch will limit themselves to addressing vulnerabilities and issues affecting stability. Similar updates for Kubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.5 LTS, […]

New article: Results of the first five years of Windows 10: both comforting and not so much.

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The release of Windows 10 in the summer of 2015 was undoubtedly a significant milestone for the software giant, which had experienced difficulties with Windows 8, a version that never gained widespread adoption due to its controversial interface featuring two desktops — the classic and the Metro tiled interface. ⇡#Learning from Mistakes In developing a new platform, the Microsoft team made efforts […]

The malware complex 'Woodcutter' infects Linux OS.

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The National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States have published a report stating that the 85th Main Center for Special Services of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (85 GЦСС ГРУ) is using a malware complex called "Drovorub." The "Drovorub" suite includes a rootkit as a Linux kernel module, a tool for file transmission, and network port redirection, along with a command server. The client part may […]

ReVoLTE Attack Allows Interception of Encrypted Calls in LTE

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A group of researchers from Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) has presented the ReVoLTE attack technique (PDF), which enables the interception of encrypted voice calls in 4G/LTE cellular networks that use VoLTE (Voice over LTE) technology for voice traffic transmission. To protect phone calls from interception in VoLTE, stream cipher-based encryption is applied to the channel between the client and the operator. The specification […]

Release of the Engineering Distribution CAELinux 2020

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A new release of the CAELinux 2020 distribution is now available, built on the package base of Xubuntu 18.04 and featuring an extensive selection of specialized applications aimed at automating engineering tasks, mathematical modeling, and scientific research. The size of the bootable ISO image, which can operate in Live mode, is 5.8 GB (x86_64). Some of the included applications are: A package for modeling and analyzing thermodynamic processes, Salome-Meca; […]

In one week, 422,000 copies of LibreOffice 7.0 were downloaded.

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The Document Foundation has published download statistics for the week following the release of LibreOffice 7.0. It is reported that LibreOffice 7.0.0 was downloaded 422,000 times. The press release about the new release was viewed 113,000 times, and the video showcasing new features was watched 48,000 times. Notably, the almost stagnant project Apache OpenOffice has been left behind since the release at the end of September 2019 […]

The release of the web content management system WordPress 5.5 with plugin auto-update support

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The release of the web content management system WordPress 5.5 has taken place. The release has been codenamed "Eckstine" in honor of singer Billy Eckstine. This release is notable for introducing auto-update features for plugins and themes. On one hand, this feature will help address the issue of using outdated plugins that become targets for attacks after vulnerabilities are discovered. On the other hand, there is a risk of automated […]

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