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Microsoft has released another update for its Edge browser in the Apple App Store. The new version 44.13.1 introduces two fresh features aimed at increasing the product's appeal to iOS users. First, iPhone and iPad users who prefer Microsoft's creation over Apple's Safari browser now have the option to enable tracking prevention, with the ability to choose between basic, balanced, or maximum blocking. […]
Qualys has discovered yet another critical remote vulnerability (CVE-2020-8794) in the OpenSMTPD mail server developed by the OpenBSD project. Just like the vulnerability identified at the end of January, the new issue allows remote execution of arbitrary shell commands on the server with root user privileges. The vulnerability has been patched in OpenSMTPD release 6.6.4p1. The problem is caused by an error in the code responsible for delivering mail to the remote mail […]
Aaron Griffin has stepped down as the leader of the Arch Linux project. Griffin has held the leadership position since 2007, but his activity has recently decreased significantly, and he has decided to hand over his role to another member capable of making tough decisions and guiding the project's development in the right direction. The new project leader was selected through a vote among developers […]
Blue Systems, the company providing funding for the development of KWin and Kubuntu, has released the Netrunner 2020.01 distribution featuring the KDE desktop. Unlike the versions developed by the same company, Netrunner Rolling and Maui, this release adopts a traditional approach to building and Debian-based package management, without using a rolling update model based on Arch/Kubuntu. Netrunner differs from Kubuntu in its approach […]
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 […]
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