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Release of XWayland 24.1.0, a component for running X11 applications in Wayland environments

XWayland 24.1.0 is now available, a DDX (Device-Dependent X) component that runs X.Org Server to run X11 applications in Wayland-based environments. Main changes: Added support for Explicit Sync technology, which allows you to inform the composite manager based on the Wayland protocol about the readiness of displaying a frame on the screen, which can be used to reduce delays and get rid of artifacts when displaying graphics. […]

Release of Tails 6.3 distribution and Tor Browser 13.0.15

A specialized distribution of Tails 6.3 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) based on the package base has been released. Debian 12, which comes with the GNOME 43 desktop and is designed for anonymous browsing. Tails' anonymous browsing is provided by the Tor system. All connections except those through the Tor network are blocked by default by a packet filter. To store user data in encrypted mode, […]

whisper.cpp 1.6.0

On May 15, version 1.6.0 of the high-performance automatic speech recognition system whisper.cpp was released, implementing the Whisper model from OpenAI in C and C++, and distributed under the MIT license. List of changes: added --flash-attn option to speed up data processing on devices with CUDA and Metal; higher performance on ppc64 architecture; Fixed an error in processing regular expressions in the example console utility […]

SSID Confusion attack that allows you to spoof a Wi-Fi network

A team of researchers from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) has identified an architectural vulnerability (CVE-2023-52424) in the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard that allows a connection to a less secure wireless network, instead of the trustworthy network that the user intended to connect to, and then it is possible to organize interception and manipulation of traffic. The problem manifests itself in the wireless stacks of any operating system and affects authentication methods WPA3, WEP, […]

For the core Linux An EXT2 driver written in Rust has been proposed.

Wedson Almeida Filho of Microsoft proposed this for discussion on the kernel developers mailing list. Linux The second version of patches containing a set of VFS subsystem wrappers designed for developing read-only file systems in Rust has been released. Along with the wrappers, two drivers based on them, implementing file systems, have been published […]

Substitute Rocky Linux 9.4

Little by little, a few days ago the project released version 9.4. Rocky Linux — a distribution organized by Gregory Kurtzer in response to the cessation of classic releases CentOS and the transition to CentOS Stream. Gregory Kurtzer, as a developer CentOS, decided to start all over again and launched the project Rocky Linux, which had to do everything the same as before CentOS, but now […]

VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are now free for personal use

VMware is the largest developer of software for virtualization and cloud computing. In their blog, they announced that from May 13, 2024, local hypervisors Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro will become free for personal use, and for commercial use a paid subscription will be required. The Workstation Player and Fusion Player products can no longer be downloaded as separate applications, however, they are still […]

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