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The ratarmount (random access tar mount) program is designed for mounting archive files into the file system and allows for mounting not only tar files (compressed with bz2, gz, xz, or zstd) but also zip and rar files via FUSE. The new release 1.0.0 is available for installation from pip and AppImage. There are several features that distinguish ratarmount from the existing archivemount. In the first […]
The developers of the Manjaro Linux distribution, built on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users, have announced the start of testing a new service called MDD (Manjaro Data Donor), designed to collect system statistics and send them to the project's external server. The author of MDD intended to include telemetry submission by default (opt-out), but this decision has not yet been finalized, and judging by the objections […]
The distribution for creating firewalls NethSecurity 8.3 has been released, based on the NethServer platform and designed for quick deployment of a firewall. In addition to packet filtering, it offers intrusion detection and prevention capabilities, antivirus scanning, ad blocking, traffic prioritization, deep packet inspection (DPI), and content filtering. Deployed within a corporate network, NethSecurity can also selectively block […]
Standard Intelligence has announced the release of hertz-dev, the first open AI model for full-duplex speech synthesis, which can be used as a foundation for building real-time voice communication systems or generating conversational speech. The model allows generating speech that is close to the voice data it was trained on, facilitating interaction in a manner similar to live human communication without […]
Kent Overstreet, the developer of the Bcachefs filesystem, reported a 40% reduction in error pop-ups when using the test toolkit compared to last month, as well as a significant decrease in the number of messages regarding critical issues. As a result of the work done, the overall code quality has improved, and the error flow has begun to decline. The Syzbot testing robot caught most trivial […]
Broadcom, which acquired VMware's business a year ago, has proposed several changes to be included in the Linux kernel that add the capability to redirect VMware hypercalls to user space within the KVM hypervisor and provide functionality for selectively enabling the 'VMWare backdoor' interface, used in paravirtualization for sending requests from the guest system to the host environment. It is noted that these changes will enable the transition of VMware products […]
A new version of dd_rescue 1.99.17 has been released, a utility for recovering data from failing drives, backing up, and deploying disk images. It should not be confused with the GNU ddrescue utility; unlike dd_rescue, it has additional useful features, such as support for sparse files, direct input/output bypassing the cache, and transparent compression and encryption. The dd_rescue utility is included with many […]
GitHub has published a report analyzing statistics for 2024. Key trends include: Python took first place in the ranking of programming languages, displacing JavaScript from its position as the most popular language on GitHub. TypeScript retained third place, having pushed Java to fourth place in last year's ranking. C has dropped to 9th place, handing over 8th place to […]
A new version of the open-source ebook cataloging software Calibre 7.20 has been released. This version introduces a new engine for converting PDF files to other ebook formats, such as EPUB or MOBI. It can now automatically detect headings and subheadings based on document analysis. The old engine is still available for selection in the PDF input section […]
Cloudflare has released version 0.4 of the Pingora framework, designed for building secure, high-performance network services in Rust. The proxy built with Pingora has been used for more than two years in the Cloudflare content delivery network instead of nginx, handling over 40 million requests per second. The code is written in Rust and published under the Apache 2.0 license. Key features […]
System76, the developer of the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has introduced the third alpha version of the COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust (not to be confused with the old COSMIC, which was based on GNOME Shell). ISO images for systems with NVIDIA GPUs (3 GB) and Intel/AMD (2.6 GB), built on the test build of the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution, are offered for testing. Ready-made packages are also available for […]
Researchers from Google Project Zero and Google DeepMind have published a report on the development of the AI system Big Sleep, built on the large language model Gemini 1.5 Pro and designed to identify vulnerabilities in source code. A major achievement of the project was the discovery, using Big Sleep, of the first exploitable and previously unknown vulnerability in an existing project. The vulnerability was identified in […]