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Cisco has announced a significant new release of the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.102.0. Recall that the project came under Cisco's control in 2013 following the acquisition of Sourcefire, which developed ClamAV and Snort. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key improvements: The functionality of on-access scanning has been moved from clamd to a separate process […]
The Pine64 community, known for its free laptops Pinebook and Pinebook Pro, has announced the start of production of a new free smartphone running Plasma Mobile — PinePhone. The first batch will be released at the end of 2019, but only for developers. Retail sales will begin in March 2020. Besides Plasma Mobile, images of Maemo Leste, UBPorts, PostmarketOS, and LuneOS are also offered. Moreover, the community is working […]
The Pine64 community, which recently announced the production of the free smartphone PinePhone, is introducing its new project — the PineTime smartwatches. Key features of the watch include: Heart rate monitoring. A large battery that lasts several days. A desktop docking station for charging the watch. A case made of zinc alloy and plastic. WiFi and Bluetooth support. A Nordic nRF52832 ARM Cortex-M4F chip (at a frequency of 64MHz) with support for Bluetooth 5 technologies, […]
Benjamin Berg, one of the engineers at Red Hat working on GNOME development, summarized the results of the transition of GNOME to session management solely with systemd, without using the gnome-session process. Systemd-logind has long been used for managing GNOME logins, tracking session states tied to users, managing session IDs, and handling switching between active sessions […]
The trade associations NCTA, CTIA, and USTelecom, representing the interests of internet providers, have approached the U.S. Congress to draw attention to the issues with the implementation of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and request detailed information from Google regarding its current and future plans for integrating DoH into its products, as well as securing a commitment not to enable centralized processing by default […]
Amid ongoing mass unrest, an attempt has been made in Iraq to completely block access to the internet. Currently, connectivity has been lost with approximately 75% of Iraqi providers, including all major telecommunications operators. Access remains only in certain cities in northern Iraq (for example, the Kurdish Autonomous Region), which have separate network infrastructure and an autonomous status. Initially, authorities tried to block access […]
Looking at the current diversity of educational robotics, it's heartening that children have access to a huge variety of kits and ready-made products, and that the entry barrier for programming basics has been lowered significantly (even down to kindergarten). There is a growing trend toward initially engaging with modular and block programming, followed by a transition to more advanced languages. However, this situation wasn't always the case. In 2009-2010, Russia started to massively […]
September is coming to an end, and with it, the calendar of "adventures" of the Fairy Tale — a series of tasks that develop at the intersection of the real world and other, virtually-imagined ones. Below you will find the second part of my personal impressions related to "completing" these "quests". The beginning of the "adventures" (events from September 1 to 8) and a brief introduction are described here. The concept is globally outlined here. The fairy tale continues on September 9. […]
Hacktoberfest 2019 Celebrate Hacktoberfest by participating in the open-source community. We would like to ask you to help us translate openITCOCKPIT into as many languages as possible. Absolutely anyone can join the project; all you need is a GitHub account. About the project: openITCOCKPIT is a modern web interface for managing monitoring environments based on Nagios or Naemon. Participation details […]
Starting with version 3.34, GNOME has fully transitioned to the systemd user session toolkit. This change is completely transparent to both users and developers (XDG-autostart is supported) — apparently, that’s why it went unnoticed on LOR. Previously, only DBUS-activated sessions were launched using user sessions, while everything else was handled by gnome-session. Now this unnecessary layer has finally been removed. Interestingly, […]
Corrective releases for the Ruby programming language 2.6.5, 2.5.7, and 2.4.8 have been issued, addressing four vulnerabilities. The most critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-16255) is in the standard Shell library (lib/shell.rb), which allows for code injection. If user-provided data is processed as the first argument in the Shell#[] or Shell#test methods used to check for file presence, an attacker could invoke arbitrary Ruby methods. Other […]
Similar to Firefox, Chrome plans to soon halt support for the TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols, which are being classified as obsolete and not recommended by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) for use. Support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will be disabled in Chrome 81, scheduled for March 17, 2020. According to Google, […]