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After eight months of development, the release of the open-source hypervisor Xen 4.14 has been published. Companies such as Alibaba, Amazon, AMD, Arm, Bitdefender, Citrix, EPAM Systems, Huawei, and Intel participated in the development of this release. The release updates for the Xen 4.14 branch will continue until January 24, 2022, and publication of vulnerability fixes will last until July 24, 2023. Key changes in Xen […]
A new release of Telegram Desktop 2.2 is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The Telegram client software code is written using the Qt library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. In the new version: The ability to quickly switch between multiple Telegram accounts linked to different phone numbers has been added. Support for storing and granting access to files of any type, up to […]
The "Meow" attack continues to gain momentum, during which unknown attackers are destroying data in publicly available unprotected installations of Elasticsearch and MongoDB. Isolated cases of cleaning (approximately 3% of all victims) have also been recorded for unprotected databases based on Apache Cassandra, CouchDB, Redis, Hadoop, and Apache ZooKeeper. The attack is carried out through a bot that scans standard database network ports. The study […]
The first public release of the Pi-KVM project has taken place — a set of programs and instructions that allows you to turn a Raspberry Pi board into a fully functional IP-KVM switch. The board connects to the HDMI/VGA and USB ports of the server, enabling remote management regardless of the operating system. You can power on, power off, or reboot the server, configure the BIOS, and even completely reinstall the operating system from a bootable image: Pi-KVM can emulate […]
The release of the window manager xfwm4 version 4.14.3 has been published, which is used in the Xfce desktop environment to manage window display on the screen, decorate windows, and organize their movement, closing, and resizing. The new release adds support for the X11 extension XRes (X-Resource), which is employed to request information about the PID of an application running using sandbox isolation mechanisms from the X server. The support for XRes addresses the issue […]
A heroic hello to all fans of the game 'Heroes of Might and Magic 2'! I'm happy to announce that the free engine has been updated to version 0.8! This release was dedicated to the unequal struggle for improving the graphical component, which has ultimately undergone significant enhancements on all fronts: missing animations for units, spells, and heroes have been fixed and added, and spell animations that were previously absent have been recreated […]
The first public release of the Pi-KVM project has taken place: a set of software and instructions that allow you to turn a Raspberry Pi into a fully functional IP-KVM. This device connects to the HDMI/VGA and USB ports of the server to manage it remotely, regardless of the operating system. You can power on, power off, or reboot the server, configure the BIOS, and even fully reinstall the operating system from a loaded image: Pi-KVM can emulate a virtual […]
Developers of the Chrome browser have reported an expansion of tools for lazy loading elements of web pages, allowing content that is outside the visible area not to load until the user scrolls to the point immediately preceding the element. Previously, this mode had already been implemented in Chrome 76 and Firefox 75 for images. Now, Chrome developers have taken another step and […]
After a year of development, the release of the photo collection management program digiKam 7.0.0 has occurred, which is being developed as part of the KDE project. The program provides a comprehensive set of tools for importing, managing, editing, and publishing photos, as well as images from digital cameras in raw format. The code is written in C++ using Qt and KDE libraries and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Installation […]
As of now, over 500,000 developers worldwide are using Flutter — an open-source framework from Google designed for mobile app development. This technology is often presented as a replacement for React Native. Until recently, the Flutter SDK was only available on Linux as a solution for developing applications for other platforms. The new Flutter SDK […]
Jeremy Soller (engineer at system76) announced that he is starting work on porting coreboot (LinuxBIOS) for modern AMD Ryzen systems (Matisse and Renoir series), with support from Lisa Su (AMD CEO). The project represents a free alternative to proprietary and closed BIOS and UEFI systems. Source: linux.org.ru
The release of the Mir 2.0 display server has been announced, which continues to be developed by Canonical despite the discontinuation of the Unity shell and Ubuntu editions for smartphones. Mir remains in demand for Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a compositing server for Wayland, allowing it to run in environments […]