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On January 1, following three months of development, the cross-platform software for recording video from the camera and screen, vokoscreenNG, written in C++ using the Qt 6.6 framework and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license, was released. Change log: Unused arguments in CLI have been removed. The GUI log is now read from a log file. After stopping the recording, options remained available for selection […]
The release of Nobara 41, based on the Fedora Linux 41 package base and featuring additional fixes for issues related to launching computer games, streaming, and content creation tasks, has been published. Nine installation images are prepared for download: the official one with a stylized KDE, along with additional ones with clean GNOME and KDE environments, and a Steam HTPC for the Steam Deck based on […]
Console file managers typically lack a built-in interface for managing disks; this utility addresses that issue. It is a logical continuation of a previous solution. Features: viewing partitions and disks; monitoring/unmounting selected partitions; disk extraction; data from udisks2 and fstab; many operations do not require root privileges thanks to udisks2. The utility is written in Rust, with only udisks2 as an external dependency […]
A final selection of the most important and notable events of 2024 related to open projects and information security: Conflicts: Crisis in the NixOS project. Exclusion of Sonny Pierce from the board of directors of the GfNOME Foundation. Temporary suspension of the author of BcacheFS and his criticism by Linus Torvalds. Dismissal of a key Python developer. Conflict between WordPress and WP Engine that escalated to a plugin ACF replacement. Attacks […]
DB-Engines has updated its database popularity ranking, tracking the popularity of 423 systems. The methodology for calculating the database ranking is similar to the TIOBE programming language ranking and considers the popularity of queries in search engines, the number of results in search output, the volume of discussions on popular forums and social networks, the number of job listings in recruiting agencies, and mentions in user profiles. The largest increase in popularity […]
The release of the Android application Winlator 9.0 has been published, providing a wrapper for Wine and the Box86 and Box64 emulators to run Windows applications on the Android platform. Winlator creates a Linux environment based on Ubuntu with Mesa, DXVK, D8VK, Vkd3d, and CNC DDraw, where Windows applications compiled for the x86 architecture are executed on ARM devices with Android, using an emulator and Wine. The project's code is distributed under […]
After a four-year hiatus, the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) has announced its revival, aimed at writing the most convoluted and difficult-to-understand code in the C language. The IOCCC28 event will be the fortieth in the history of the contest, held since 1984. Submissions will be accepted from January 31 to April 2, 2025. Unlike previous contests, the source code […]
On November 9 and December 17, 2024, versions 0.45 and 0.46 of the Hyprland compositor, written in C++ and distributed under the BSD-3 license, were released. Changes breaking backward compatibility: no_gaps_when_only has been removed and replaced with workspace rules. See here. decoration:shadow_ has been moved, see here. The algorithm for corner rounding has been improved. The handling of hardware cursors on NVIDIA has been enhanced. Groups received the following items: […]
Nobara is a modified version of the Fedora distribution, incorporating fixes aimed at improving user-friendliness. The distribution aims to provide an enhanced gaming, streaming, and content creation experience right 'out of the box'. In this release: the base has been updated to Fedora 41; the Calamares installer has been improved: rebased on the KaOS fork; a switch for the on-screen keyboard has been added, and the keyboard itself […]
At the 38C3 conference, the FlippyRAM framework was introduced, designed to check for vulnerabilities that allow Rowhammer class attacks to modify the contents of RAM. The toolkit code is written in C++ and is licensed under the MIT license. To simplify testing, a ready-made live distribution (1 GB) has been created, allowing checks to be conducted by booting from a USB Flash drive, as well as a container image for Docker. The aim of the project is […]
The release of project Snoop 1.4.2 has been published, developing a forensic OSINT tool that searches for user accounts in public data (open-source intelligence). The program analyzes various websites, forums, and social networks for the existence of the sought username, i.e., it allows you to determine on which sites a user with the specified nickname is present. The project is developed based on research materials in the field of public scraping […]
After a year of development, the Cygwin project has released version 4.5.0 of the newlib standard C library, developed by engineers from Red Hat. The library aims to provide a compact implementation of the standard C library (libc) suitable for use in embedded systems with limited persistent storage and memory. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv2 license. In the new version: Added […]