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Microsoft has corrected its earlier claim of a "775 percent increase in cloud services in regions where social distancing was implemented or self-isolation was recommended." Specifically, it revised a blog announcement and published a correction for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The updated message reads: "We are seeing an increase in calls and meetings from users in Teams […
Information has been published about a vulnerability (CVE-2020-8835) in the Linux kernel, which was used in the Pwn2Own 2020 competition during the demonstration of a breach in Ubuntu. The vulnerability allowed a non-privileged user to gain root access. A working exploit exists but has not yet been published. The vulnerability is present in the eBPF subsystem, which allows handlers for tracing, performance analysis of subsystems, and traffic management to be executed within the kernel in a special virtual […
Following nearly two years since the formation of the last significant branch, the release of OpenMediaVault 5 has taken place, aimed at the rapid deployment of Network-Attached Storage (NAS). The OpenMediaVault project was founded in 2009 after a split among developers of the FreeNAS distribution, resulting in a fork that, alongside the classic FreeNAS based on FreeBSD, aimed to […
Information has been disclosed about two vulnerabilities in the automatic update delivery system for the integrated development environment Apache NetBeans, allowing for the substitution of updates and nbm packages delivered by the server. These issues were addressed discreetly in the release of Apache NetBeans 11.3. The first vulnerability (CVE-2019-17560) is due to the lack of SSL certificate and hostname verification when downloading data via HTTPS, enabling the unnoticed substitution of downloads […]
The release of the proprietary RAR archiver version 5.90 has been announced. Changes in the console version include: Increased RAR compression speed when using processors with 16 or more cores. When creating RAR5 archives, the 'Fastest' compression method usually provides denser packing for well-compressible data. (The command line equivalent is the -m1 switch) The maximum number of threads used has been increased from 32 to 64. […]
Huawei has released the Linux distribution openEuler 20.03, which is the first release to be supported under a long-term support cycle (LTS). Package updates for openEuler 20.03 will be issued until March 31, 2024. Repositories and installation ISO images (x86_64 and aarch64) are available for free download along with the source texts of the packages. The source texts specific to the distribution's components are hosted in […]
On March 27, the release of Wine 5.5 took place. Wine is an application compatibility layer for Windows that translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls in real-time, rather than emulating Windows logic like a virtual machine. In addition to over 32 fixes in the bug tracker, the new release features: Built-in libraries now use the UCRTBase C runtime, improved support for debug information in PE files. Added […]
Key changes: Intel MPX (memory protection extension) support has been removed from the kernel. RISC-V has gained KASAN support. The kernel's translation from the 32-bit time_t type and associated types is complete: the kernel is now ready for the year 2038 problem. Operations for the io_uring subsystem have been added. The system call pidfd_getfd() has been added, allowing a process to retrieve a file descriptor from another process. A bootconfig mechanism has been introduced, enabling the kernel […]
The landmark release of VPN WireGuard 1.0.0 has been announced, marking the inclusion of WireGuard components in the mainline of the Linux kernel 5.6 and the stabilization of its development. The code included in the Linux kernel has undergone an additional security audit conducted by an independent firm specializing in such checks. The audit found no issues. Since WireGuard is now being developed in the mainline of the Linux kernel, distributions […]
The release of the Kubernetes 1.18 container orchestration platform has been published, allowing for unified management of a cluster of isolated containers and providing mechanisms for deploying, maintaining, and scaling applications running in containers. The project was initially created by Google but was later transferred to an independent platform overseen by the Linux Foundation. The platform is positioned as a community-driven universal solution, not tied to specific […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has introduced the release of Linux kernel 5.6. Among the most noticeable changes are the integration of the WireGuard VPN interface, support for USB4, time namespaces, the ability to create TCP overload handlers using BPF, initial support for MultiPath TCP, resolution of the year 2038 problem in the kernel, the "bootconfig" mechanism, and the ZoneFS filesystem. The new version includes 13,702 corrections from 1,810 developers, […]
Google has announced the release of the second test version of Android 11: Developer Preview 2. The full release of Android 11 is expected in the third quarter of 2020. Android 11 (codenamed Android R during development) is the eleventh version of the Android operating system. It has not yet been released. The first preview version of 'Android 11' for developers was released on 19 […]
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