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GitHub has announced its decision to discontinue support for password authentication when connecting to Git. Direct operations with Git that require authentication will only be possible using SSH keys or tokens (personal GitHub tokens or OAuth). A similar restriction will also apply to the REST API. The new authentication rules for the API will take effect on November 13, and the tightening of access to Git […]
The release of the Thunderbird 78.1 email client, developed by the community and based on Mozilla technologies, is now available. Thunderbird 78 is based on the code base of the ESR release of Firefox 78. The release is available only for direct download; automatic updates from previous releases will be generated only in version 78.2. The new version has recognized end-to-end encryption as suitable for general use and is activated by default […]
Wargaming has announced an amnesty for previously banned players of World of Tanks in honor of the online action game's tenth anniversary. As part of the celebration, the developer wants to give users a second chance in hopes of redemption. Starting August 3, Wargaming will begin a large-scale unblocking of user accounts that were banned up until March 25, 2020, at 2:59 AM MSK. However, not all […]
The OPNsense 20.7 distribution for creating firewalls has been released, which is a branch of the pfSense project created to form a fully open distribution that possesses functionality at the level of commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as independent of any one company, developed with direct community involvement and has […]
Some users of RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 have encountered issues after installing yesterday's GRUB2 bootloader update that addresses a critical vulnerability. Problems manifest as an inability to boot after the update installation, including on systems without UEFI Secure Boot. On some systems (for example, HPE ProLiant XL230k Gen1 without UEFI Secure Boot), the issue also occurs with […]
IBM has announced the release of the source code for the FHE toolkit (IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption), implementing a fully homomorphic encryption system for processing data in encrypted form. FHE enables the creation of services for confidential computing, where data is processed in encrypted form and does not appear in any open form at any stage. The output is also generated in an encrypted state. The code is written in […]
The analytical company RedMonk has published a new version of its programming language rankings, based on a combination of GitHub popularity and discussion activity on Stack Overflow. Among the most notable changes is Rust entering the top 20 most popular languages, pushing Haskell out of the chart. Compared to the previous edition released six months ago, C++ has also moved up to fifth […]
Developers of the Redox operating system, which is written using Rust and based on the microkernel concept, have announced the implementation of application debugging capabilities using the GDB debugger. To use GDB, you need to uncomment the lines with gdbserver and gnu-binutils in the filesystem.toml file and launch the gdb-redox layer that will start its own gdbserver and connect it to gdb via IPC. An alternative option involves running a separate […]
The Apache Foundation has released its financial report for the fiscal year 2020 (from May 1, 2019, to April 30, 2020). The total assets for the reporting period amounted to $3.5 million, which is $300,000 less than in the fiscal year 2019. The amount of equity decreased by $281,000, totaling $2.16 million. Most of the funds were obtained […]
FreeBSD has implemented changes that allow for lockless lookup operations in VFS. Optimizations have been made for the TmpFS, UFS, and ZFS file systems, but do not yet extend to ACL, Capsicum, access to file descriptors, symbolic links, and ".." in paths. For the specified capabilities, the old file determination mechanism is being rolled back. A test conducted on TmpFS measured […]
An update is available for three main OS Alt versions 9.1 based on the Ninth ALT platform (p9 Vaccinium): "Alt Workstation 9," "Alt Server 9," and "Alt Education 9." The most significant change is the further expansion of the list of supported hardware platforms. The Alt OS is available for eight Russian and foreign hardware platforms: 32-/64-bit x86 and ARM processors, Elbrus processors (v3 and […]
Eight vulnerabilities have been identified in the GRUB2 bootloader. The most dangerous issue (CVE-2020-10713), codenamed BootHole, allows for the bypassing of the UEFI Secure Boot mechanism and enables the installation of unverifiable malicious software. A notable feature of this vulnerability is that simply updating GRUB2 is insufficient for resolution, as an attacker can utilize a boot medium with an old vulnerable version, certified by a digital signature. […]