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Vulnerabilities in Broadcom WiFi chip drivers allow remote attacks on the system

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Four vulnerabilities have been identified in the drivers for Broadcom wireless chips. In the simplest case, these vulnerabilities could be exploited to remotely trigger a denial of service, but scenarios are not excluded in which exploits could be developed, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to execute their code with Linux kernel privileges by sending specially crafted packets. The issues were revealed during reverse engineering […]

A number of Chinese applications in Google Play spy on users

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Many popular Android applications from the major Chinese developer DU Group, including a selfie app with 50 million downloads, are used for fraud, misuse of user permissions, intrusive advertising, and more. In particular, they send data to China. This was reported by BuzzFeed.News. The company has an audience of over a billion worldwide and claims to […]

Release of Proton 4.2-3, package for running Windows games on Linux

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Valve has released a build of the Proton project 4.2-3, which is based on the work of the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of Linux gaming applications created for Windows and listed in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. As new features are finalized in the original Wine and related projects, such as DXVK and vkd3d, the changes developed in Proton are transferred over. […]

Mozilla has introduced the WebThings platform

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Mozilla has unveiled the WebThings platform after two years of experimentation and development, which incorporates previously developed projects WebThings Framework and WebThings Gateway, providing components for accessing various categories of consumer devices and utilizing the universal Web Things API for interacting with them. The project's developments are released under the MPL 2.0 license. The WebThings Framework offers a set of interchangeable components for […]

The sea launch may be relocated to the Far East

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It is possible that the Sea Launch platform will be relocated from California to the Far East. At least, sources in the rocket and space industry say this, according to the online publication RIA Novosti. The Sea Launch project was developed in the early 1990s. The idea was to create a floating rocket and space complex capable of providing the most favorable […]

NixOS 19.03

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A new release of the NixOS distribution has been announced. Features of NixOS include a 'functionally pure' package manager Nix, as well as its own unified configuration system. Some changes: The default Python 3 interpreter is now CPython 3.7; the Pantheon desktop environment developed by the elementary OS team has been added; the Kubernetes module has undergone a comprehensive refactoring; 35 new modules have been added; support for Node.js version 6 has been discontinued; Wayland compositor […]

Zhabogram 0.8 — Transport from Telegram to Jabber

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Zhabogram is a transport (bridge, gateway) from the Jabber (XMPP) network to the Telegram network, written in Ruby. It is the successor to tg4xmpp. Dependencies: Ruby >= 1.9 ruby-sqlite3 >= 1.3 xmpp4r == 0.5.6 tdlib-ruby == 2.0 and compiled tdlib == 1.3 Features: Authorization in Telegram, including two-factor authentication (password) Synchronization of chat lists with the roster Synchronization of contact statuses with the roster […]

Soviet technical aesthetics and technologies

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Hello, today I admired some artifacts from the Soviet era and wanted to share with the community. This post won't contain technical analysis or historical references, just pictures for the curious and my notes. Therefore, I'm publishing it in the 'attic'. (Caution: about 40 Mb of images!) Electrical Connector According to legend, it comes from the brother of 'Buran' — 'Bura'. Note that the wire is embedded in a brown compound, visible […]

Flatpak 1.3.2 development release

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A developer from RedHat announced the release of Flatpak 1.3.2 aimed at developers. Flatpak is a utility for deploying, managing packages, and virtualization for Linux. Version 1.3.2 includes significant changes and is based on the unstable branch 1.3. Notably, starting with Flatpak 1.3.2, the user file system FUSE relies on users writing directly to […]

The final release of the Qbs build toolchain has been published

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The Qt Company has released the Qbs 1.13 build toolkit (Qt Build Suite). This is the final release of Qbs by the Qt Company. It is worth mentioning that a decision was previously made to discontinue the development of Qbs. Qbs was developed as a replacement for qmake, but ultimately it was decided to use CMake as the primary build system for Qt in the long run. In the near future […]

Release of Ubuntu 19.04 distribution

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The release of the Ubuntu 19.04 'Disco Dingo' distribution is now available. Ready test images have been created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and UbuntuKylin (the edition for China). Key innovations include: The desktop has been updated to GNOME 3.32 with a redesigned interface style, desktop, and icon elements, the cessation of global menu support, and experimental support for fractional scaling. […]

The One Mix 2S Yoga mini laptop features an Intel Core i7 Amber Lake processor.

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The participants of the One Netbook project have released the convertible mini laptop One Mix 2S Yoga Platinum Edition, which is now available for order in online stores. The device is a hybrid of a netbook and a tablet. The screen measures 7 inches diagonally and has a resolution of 1920 × 1200 pixels. It supports touch and special stylus input. The lid with the display can be rotated 360 degrees. […]

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