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The most important events of 2024 related to open projects

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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 […]

The popularity ranking of DBMS has been published.

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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 […]

Release of Winlator 9.0, an environment for running Windows applications on Android

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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 […]

The competition for writing convoluted code in the C language has resumed

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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 […]

Hyprland 0.45 and 0.46

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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 Linux 41

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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 […]

FlippyRAM — a distribution for testing Rowhammer attacks.

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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 […]

Release of Snoop 1.4.2, an OSINT tool for gathering information about users from open sources

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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 […]

The standard C library newlib 4.5.0 has been released.

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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 […]

The release of ZLUDA 4, a universal implementation of CUDA technology

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Andrzej Janik has presented an update on the ZLUDA project, which develops an open implementation of CUDA technology. The goal of the project is to enable the execution of unmodified CUDA applications on systems with GPUs other than NVIDIA's, achieving performance close to that of applications running natively. The project's code is distributed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. ZLUDA 4 is presented as the first release shaped by […]

Alpha testing of the Debian 13 installer has begun

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The first alpha release of the installer for the upcoming significant Debian release—'Trixie'—has been presented. The Debian 13 release is expected in the summer of 2025. Key changes: Support for the RISC-V architecture (riscv64) has been added. Support for the mipsel architecture has been discontinued—the port for this architecture has been removed from the repositories. Mipsel was one of the oldest supported Debian ports, older than only the i386 processor port. The installer build for […]

Pre-release of the Pidgin 3.0 messenger

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The first experimental release of the Pidgin 3.0 (2.90) instant messaging client has been published, allowing simultaneous operation in multiple networks with different protocols and switching between chats using tabs. Plugins can be used to extend functionality and add support for new protocols. Builds will be prepared in Flatpak format (currently, only the source archive is available). The second test release of Pidgin […]

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