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A vulnerability (CVE-2019-14287) has been identified in the Sudo utility, used to execute commands on behalf of other users, which allows for commands to be run with root privileges, given that there are rules in the sudoers configuration that explicitly forbid running as root after the permissive keyword 'ALL' (… (ALL, !root) …). In configurations […]
It has been revealed that a vulnerability has been discovered in the Sudo (super user do) command for Linux. Exploiting this vulnerability allows unprivileged users or programs to execute commands with superuser rights. It is noted that the vulnerability affects systems with non-standard settings and does not concern most servers running Linux. The vulnerability arises in cases where Sudo configuration settings allow for […]
The most interesting innovations include: Assignment expression: The new operator := allows for assigning values to variables within expressions. For example: if (n := len(a)) > 10: print(f'List is too long ({n} elements, expected <= 10)') Positional-only arguments: It is now possible to specify which function parameters can be passed using named arguments syntax and which cannot. Example: def f(a, b, \/, c, d, *, […]
Arturo Borrero, a Debian developer who is part of the Coreteam of the Netfilter project and maintains Debian packages related to nftables, iptables, and netfilter, has proposed to migrate the upcoming significant release of the Debian 11 distribution to use nftables by default. If the proposal is approved, the iptables packages will be relegated to optional status, not included in the base distribution. The package filter […]
Speedrunning Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has always required a lot of time. Even in the Any% category, where there are no additional conditions, the top position was held for five months by a player known as Ielreset, with a time of 3 hours and 52 minutes. However, his record was broken by speedrunner Powdinet, who completed GTA: San Andreas in just 25 minutes and 52 seconds. The enthusiast managed to […]
This year, the Chinese company Huawei launched its own operating system, Harmony OS, which could replace Android if the manufacturer can no longer use Google's software platform in its devices. Notably, Harmony OS can be used not only in smartphones and tablets but also in other types of devices. Now, network sources report that […]
After 6 months of development, a new version of the Zabbix monitoring system 4.4 is now available, distributed under the GPLv2 license. Zabbix consists of three basic components: a server to coordinate checks, generate check requests, and accumulate statistics; agents to perform checks on external hosts; and a frontend for managing the system. To reduce the load on the central server and create […]
The release of the GNU Binutils 2.33 system utility set has been presented, which includes programs like GNU linker, GNU assembler, nm, objdump, strings, and strip. In the new version: The assembler for ARM systems has added support for the SVE2 (Scalable Vector Extension 2), TME (Transactional Memory Extension), and MVE (Vector Extension) instruction sets. Support has been added for Arm Cortex-A76AE, Cortex-A77, Cortex-M35P processors, […]
The release of the PoCL 1.4 project (Portable Computing Language OpenCL) is now available, which develops the implementation of the OpenCL standard independent of graphics accelerator manufacturers and allows the use of various backends for executing OpenCL kernels on different types of graphics and central processors. The project's code is distributed under the MIT license. It supports operation on X86_64, MIPS32, ARM v7, AMD HSA APU, and various specialized TTA processors (Transport […]
The studio Running With Scissors unexpectedly announced Postal 4: No Regerts. According to the description, Postal 4: No Regerts is a satirical and 'outrageously comedic' first-person shooter in an open world. The developer calls the game 'the true sequel to what was lovingly recognized as the “Worst Game of All Time,” Postal 2!'. The narrative takes place several years after the events of Postal 2. Only […]
Hello everyone. It has been six months since KnowledgeConf 2019, during which I have had the opportunity to speak at two more conferences and conduct lectures on knowledge management at two large IT companies. Talking with colleagues, I realized that in IT it is still possible to speak about knowledge management at a 'beginner' level, or rather, just to acknowledge that knowledge management is necessary for everyone […]
Despite abandoning the Unity shell and switching to Gnome, Canonical continues to develop the Mir display server, with the release of version 1.5 occurring recently. Among the changes, the expansion of the MirAL (Mir Abstraction Layer), used to move away from direct interaction with the Mir server and abstracting access to the ABI through the libmiral library, can be noted. MirAL has added […]