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The concept of the RX100 series, the first camera of which was released in 2012, can be described as follows: maximum functionality in minimal dimensions. Significant changes were seen in the previous model, the RX100 VI: the company altered the concept of the built-in lens, stepping towards increasing the focal range while reducing aperture. The new model features the same lens, so […]
The developers of the Nintendo Wii U emulator called CEMU have released a new version numbered 1.17.2. This build features improved performance with multicore processors and an overall performance increase. According to the release notes, CEMU 1.17.2 fixes an issue where, in the game list, updates or DLC would appear instead of the base game if the game was not found. The new version […]
The non-profit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt, community-controlled and providing certificates free of charge to anyone who wishes to obtain them, has announced the implementation of a new certificate issuance confirmation scheme for domains. Accessing the server hosting the verification directory '/.well-known/acme-challenge/' will now be done using multiple HTTP requests sent from 4 different IP addresses located in different data centers and belonging to […]
After analyzing the patch released by the OpenBSD project for the vulnerability in the VMM hypervisor identified last week, the researcher concluded that the provided patch does not resolve the issues. The researcher indicated that the problem does not arise from the contiguous allocation of physical addresses of the guest system (GPA, Guest Physical Address), as well as the physical addresses of the host system (HPA). When crossing the structures of the memory page of the guest […]
Eight years after the first commit and five months after version 0.7, the console XMPP client Profanity 0.8 has been released. The Profanity interface is built using the ncurses library and supports notifications via the libnotify library. The application can be compiled either with the libstrophe library, which implements the XMPP protocol, or its fork libmesode, maintained by the developer. The client’s capabilities can be extended […]
The Core Infrastructure Initiative fund, established by Linux Foundation, where leading corporations have joined forces to provide support for open projects involved in key areas of the computer industry, conducted a second study as part of the Census program aimed at identifying open projects that need priority security audits. The second study focuses on analyzing shared open code, […]
The release of the monitoring system Monitorix 3.12.0 has been announced, designed for visual monitoring of various services, such as CPU temperature, system load, network activity, and responsiveness of network services. The system is managed through a web interface, and data is presented in the form of graphs. It is written in Perl, uses RRDTool for graph generation and data storage, and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. […]
The release of the ALSA sound subsystem 1.2.1 has been announced. The new version includes updates to libraries, utilities, and plugins that operate at the user level. Drivers are evolving in sync with the Linux kernel. Among the changes, besides numerous driver fixes, notable improvements include support for Linux kernel 5.6, an expanded API for topology (the method of loading drivers from user space), and the integration of the fcplay utility, allowing the use of […]
The new Microsoft Edge browser, like Google Chrome, uses the Chromium engine, which means it can work with many existing Chrome extensions. However, when trying to use the Google Web Store with the Edge browser, you may encounter a message suggesting switching to Chrome. The original Edge was launched with Windows 10, but it […]
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Microsoft Defender ATP antivirus for Linux for enterprises. Thus, soon all desktop systems, including Windows and macOS, will be 'secured' from threats, and by the end of the year, mobile systems—iOS and Android—will join them. Developers stated that users have long requested a version for Linux. Now, this has become possible. Although […]
A significant release of the PipeWire 0.3.0 project has been published, developing a next-generation multimedia server that replaces PulseAudio. PipeWire extends the capabilities of PulseAudio with tools for managing video streams, low-latency audio processing, and a new security model for managing access at the level of individual devices and streams. The project is supported in GNOME and is already actively used in Fedora Linux […]
After 11 months of development, the ISC consortium has released the first stable version of the new major branch of the DNS server BIND 9.16. Support for branch 9.16 will be provided for three years until Q2 2023 as part of the extended support cycle. Updates for the previous LTS branch 9.11 will continue until December 2021. Support for branch 9.14 will end in three months. Key innovations: […]
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