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Microsoft has taken a giant step towards supporting Linux in Windows 10. In addition to incorporating a full Linux kernel in WSL version 2, the ability to run GUI applications with GPU acceleration has been added. Previously, a third-party X Server was used, but its speed received complaints from users. Currently, according to insiders, a new technology is being tested, with its release in Windows 10 […]
The RISC-V Foundation has reported the verification of the seL4 microkernel on RISC-V instruction set architecture systems. The verification consists of a mathematical proof of the reliability of seL4, which indicates full compliance with specifications defined in formal language. The proof of reliability allows using seL4 in mission-critical systems based on RISC-V RV64 processors, which require a higher level of reliability and guarantee the absence of […]
The release of the ALSA 1.2.3 sound subsystem has been announced. The new version involves updates to libraries, utilities, and plugins that operate at the user level. Drivers are developed in sync with the Linux kernel. Notable changes, apart from numerous driver fixes, include support for Linux kernel 5.7, expanded PCM, Mixer, and Topology APIs (loading handlers from user space by drivers). A relocatable version of snd_dlopen has been implemented […]
The second beta release of the Haiku R1 operating system has been published. The project was originally created in response to the closure of BeOS and was developed under the name OpenBeOS, but was renamed in 2004 due to trademark concerns with the name BeOS. Several bootable Live images (x86, x86-64) have been prepared to evaluate the performance of the new release.
The experimental Riot P2P client has been released. Riot was originally a client for the Matrix federated network. The P2P modification adds server implementation and federation without using centralized DNS by integrating libp2p, which is also used in IPFS. This is the first version of the client that retains sessions after reloading the page, but in future major updates (e.g., 0.2.0), the data will still […]
Xenoblade Chronicles has become a major franchise for Nintendo over the past decade, thanks to two main installments and one spin-off. Fortunately for fans, neither the publisher nor Monolith Soft intends to abandon the series in the coming years. In an interview with Vandal, Monolith Soft's head and creator of the Xenoblade Chronicles series, Tetsuya Takahashi, stated that the studio is focused on further developing […]
A group of researchers from the Free University of Amsterdam has identified a new vulnerability (CVE-2020-0543) in the microarchitectural structures of Intel processors, notable for allowing the recovery of the results of certain instructions executed on another CPU core. This is the first vulnerability of the speculative execution instruction mechanism that permits data leakage between separate CPU cores (previous leaks were limited to different threads of a single core). The researchers named this issue […]
Details have been disclosed about a vulnerability (CVE-2020-12695) in the UPnP protocol that allows traffic to be sent to arbitrary recipients using the standard operation 'SUBSCRIBE.' This vulnerability has been given the code name CallStranger. It can be used for data extraction from networks protected by data leak prevention (DLP) systems, for scanning ports of computers within the internal network, and to amplify DDoS attacks using millions of connected […]
The GhostBSD project creates a desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. A new version of GhostBSD 20.04 has been released, addressing a number of issues related to installation and ZFS during setup. Innovations include replacing gnome-mount and hald with FreeBSD devd and Vermaden automount, which make the automatic mounting and unmounting of external devices more stable and […]
After 6 months of development, the release of the Exim mail server 4.94 has occurred, incorporating accumulated fixes and adding new features. According to a May automated survey of about a million mail servers, Exim's share is 57.59% (up from 53.03% last year), Postfix is used on 34.70% (up from 34.51%), Sendmail — 3.75% (down from 4.05%), and Microsoft Exchange — 0.42% (down from 0.57%). Changes in the new […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2020-13777) has been identified in the GnuTLS library, which is used by default in many packages within Debian, including the package manager APT and many utilities, allowing a previously stopped TLS session to be resumed without the knowledge of the session key. Practically, this vulnerability can be exploited for MITM attacks. The vulnerability is caused by incorrect construction of the session ticket key — the TLS server did not bind the session key […]
nnn (or n³) is a full-featured terminal file manager. It's incredibly fast, lightweight, and virtually requires no setup. nnn can analyze disk usage, rename files in bulk, launch applications, and select files. There are tons of plugins and documentation in the repository for further extending its capabilities, such as previews, disk mounting, searching, and diffs for files/directories, as well as an independent (neo)vim plugin. […]