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Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.4 is now available, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and managing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and serving as a replacement for products like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer. The size of the installation ISO image is 640 MB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully prepared virtual system […]
After two months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 242 has been presented. Notable new features include support for L2TP tunnels, the ability to control the behavior of systemd-logind during restarts via environment variables, support for extended boot partitions XBOOTLDR for mounting /boot, the capability to boot with the root partition in overlayfs, and a large number of new settings for various unit types. Key changes: In systemd-networkd […]
The developers of the Matrix decentralized messaging platform announced an emergency shutdown of the Matrix.org and Riot.im (the main Matrix client) servers due to a hack of the project's infrastructure. The first shutdown occurred last night, after which the servers were restored, and the applications were recompiled from the reference source code. But just a few minutes ago, the servers were compromised for the second time. The attackers posted on the main […]
On March 31, 2019, five years after the previous release, a new version of the Dylan language compiler was released — Open Dylan 2019.1. Dylan is a dynamic programming language that implements the ideas of Common Lisp and CLOS in a more familiar syntax without parentheses. The main features in this version include: stabilization of the LLVM backend for i386 and x86_64 architectures on Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS; the compiler has been added […]
One of the main problems when working with Microsoft Office files in Google Docs will soon be resolved. The search giant announced the addition of built-in support for native Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats to its platform. Previously, editing data, collaborating, commenting, and more required converting documents to Google format, although they could be viewed directly. Now this will be […]
Firefox 67 beta version includes code to block JavaScript inserts that mine cryptocurrencies or track users using hidden identification methods ("browser fingerprinting"). Blocking is carried out based on additional categories (fingerprinting and cryptomining) in the Disconnect.me list, which includes hosts implicated in using miners and code for hidden identification. The code for cryptocurrency mining results in a significant increase in load on […]
A corrective release of Firefox 66.0.3 has been prepared, which updates the search plugin for Baidu and fixes four issues: Performance problems with some games written using HTML5 technologies (for example, games from the pogo.com service, which uses javascript-obfuscator to protect code from parsing) have been resolved; Issues with event handling when pressing keys in IBM Cloud and Microsoft Cloud applications (for example, […
Mathy Vanhoef, the author of the KRACK attack on wireless networks using WPA2, and Eyal Ronen, co-author of several attacks on TLS, revealed details about six vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-9494 — CVE-2019-9499) in the WPA3 wireless network protection technology that allow for the recreation of the connection password and unauthorized access to a wireless network without knowledge of the password. The vulnerabilities are grouped under the codename Dragonblood […]
Happy Cosmonautics Day! We have submitted "A Little Book About Black Holes" to the printing house. It is around this time that astrophysicists showed the world what black holes look like. Coincidence? We think not 😉 So stay tuned for an amazing book soon, written by Steven Gabser and Frans Pretorius, translated by the remarkable Pulkovo astronomer aka Astroded Kirill Maslennikov, with scientific editing by the legendary Vladimir […
A group of researchers from Ca' Foscari University (Italy) analyzed 90,000 hosts related to the 10,000 largest websites according to Alexa rankings and concluded that 5.5% of them have serious security problems in their TLS implementations. The study examined the application of vulnerable encryption methods: 4,818 of the problematic hosts were found to be susceptible to […
Mozilla has released the first public beta version of Firefox for computers based on Qualcomm Snapdragon chips and running Windows 10. This pertains to laptops, so the software list for such devices has expanded slightly. The browser is expected to transition from beta testing to release in the next two months, meaning that users will be able to use it by early summer. It is worth noting […]
Chef Software announced its decision to discontinue the Open Core business model, where only the basic components of the system are made freely available while advanced features are provided as part of a commercial product. All components of the Chef configuration management system, including the Chef Automate management console, infrastructure management tools, Chef InSpec security management module, and Chef Habitat delivery and orchestration automation system, […]