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Release of Rakudo Star 2019.03, the distribution of the Raku language (formerly Perl 6)

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The Rakudo Star 2020.01 package is released, including the Rakudo compiler, MoarVM virtual machine, documentation, modules, and tools necessary for development in the Raku language (the new name for Perl 6 after renaming). The compiler conforms to the Raku v6.d specification, except for support for advanced macros, non-blocking I/O, and a number of minor features that are planned to be made functional in future releases. In […]

Release of Wine 5.3 and Wine Staging 5.3

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An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.3, has occurred. Since the release of version 5.2, 29 bug reports have been closed, and 350 changes have been made. Key changes include: Continued work to enable the use of ucrtbase as a C runtime; Full support for normalizing Unicode strings has been added; Enhanced handling of shell directories (Shell Folders, special directories for placing certain types […]

The first release of Monado, a platform for virtual reality devices

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The first release of the Monado project has been published, aimed at creating an open implementation of the OpenXR standard, which defines a universal API for developing virtual and augmented reality applications, along with a set of layers for interacting with hardware, abstracting features of specific devices. The standard is prepared by the Khronos consortium, which also develops standards such as OpenGL, OpenCL, and Vulkan. The project's code is written in C and […]

The Brave browser integrates access to archive.org for viewing deleted pages

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The Archive.org project (Internet Archive Wayback Machine), which stores archives of website changes since 1996, announced a joint initiative with the developers of the Brave web browser. As a result, when trying to open a nonexistent or unavailable page in Brave, the browser will check for the page on archive.org and, if found, will display a prompt suggesting to open the archived copy. The innovation is implemented in […]

Release of the integrated suite of internet applications SeaMonkey 2.53

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Six months after the last release, the SeaMonkey internet application suite 2.53.1 has been published, which combines a web browser, email client, news feed aggregation system (RSS/Atom), and WYSIWYG HTML editor Composer into one product (Chatzilla, DOM Inspector, and Lightning are no longer included in the basic set). Main changes: The browser engine used in SeaMonkey has been updated to Firefox 60.3 (in the previous release […]

Update for LibreOffice 6.4.1

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The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 6.4.1, the first bug fix release from the LibreOffice 6.4 'fresh' family. Version 6.4.1 is aimed at enthusiasts, power users, and those who prefer the latest software versions. Conservative users and businesses are still recommended to use the LibreOffice 6.3.5 'still' release. Installable packages are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. […]

Let's Encrypt has surpassed the milestone of one billion certificates

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The nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt, community-driven and providing certificates free of charge to anyone, has announced it has reached the milestone of one billion generated certificates, which is ten times more than recorded three years ago. Daily, 1.2 to 1.5 million new certificates are generated. The number of active certificates is 116 million (each certificate is valid for three months) and covers approximately 195 million domains (annual […]

The Android-x86 project has released a build of Android 9 for the x86 platform.

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The developers of the Android-x86 project, which is developed by an independent community working on the port of the Android platform for the x86 architecture, have published the first stable release of the build based on Android 9 (android-9.0.0_r53). The build includes fixes and enhancements that improve the operation of Android on the x86 architecture. Universal Live builds of Android-x86 9 are prepared for x86 32-bit (706 MB) and x86_64 […]

Vulnerability in Cypress and Broadcom Wi-Fi chips allows for decrypting traffic.

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Researchers from Eset revealed at the ongoing RSA 2020 conference details about a vulnerability (CVE-2019-15126) in Cypress and Broadcom wireless chips that allows for decrypting intercepted Wi-Fi traffic secured using the WPA2 protocol. The vulnerability has been given the codename Kr00k. The issue affects FullMAC chips (Wi-Fi stack implemented on the chip side rather than the driver), used in a wide range of […]

0-day vulnerability in Chrome discovered through analysis of changes in the V8 engine

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Researchers from Exodus Intelligence demonstrated a weakness in the vulnerability patching process in the Chrome/Chromium codebase. The issue stems from the fact that Google discloses that the patches are related to security issues only after their release but includes code to fix the vulnerability in the V8 engine in the repository prior to the release. For some time, the patches undergo testing […]

Mozilla begins the implementation of library isolation technology RLBox

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Researchers from Stanford University, the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Texas at Austin have developed the RLBox toolkit, which can be used as an additional layer of isolation to block vulnerabilities in function libraries. RLBox aims to address the security issue of untrusted third-party libraries that are not controlled by developers, but vulnerabilities in which can compromise the main project. Mozilla plans […]

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