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GhostWrite vulnerability providing full access to physical memory on RISC-V XuanTie CPU

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Researchers at the Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) published the results of a study on the security of processors based on the RISC-V architecture and revealed details about a vulnerability code-named GhostWrite. This vulnerability affects RISC-V processors XuanTie C910, produced by the Chinese company T-Head (a subsidiary of Alibaba) and developed as open projects. The vulnerability allows an attacker with limited unprivileged access to the system to achieve reading and […]

Release of Puppeteer 23, a library for automating browser control

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The release of the JavaScript library Puppeteer 23 has been announced, designed for automating browser management. The library is suitable for both automating standard browser operations and conducting browser testing and simulating user interactions. The project code is written in TypeScript using Node.js and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. For example, Puppeteer allows you to create a script that launches the browser, setting the desired size […]

Vortex 2.2 is available, an open GPGPU based on RISC-V architecture

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The release of the Vortex 2.2 project has been published, developing an open GPGPU based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture, aimed at performing parallel computations using the OpenCL API and the SIMT (Single Instruction, Multiple Threads) execution model. The project can also be used for research in 3D graphics and for developing new GPU architectures. Schematics and descriptions of hardware blocks in Verilog […]

Firefox 129

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Firefox 129 is now available. Linux: Various issues with camera functionality through PipeWire have been fixed. Experimental support for sidebar tabs (sidebar.revamp + sidebar.verticalTabs) has been added. The reader mode has received a new, more user-friendly settings interface. Character spacing and word spacing settings have been introduced. Color settings have been moved to a dedicated menu section and significantly expanded. A hover preview will gradually be enabled for all users […]

Chrome 127.0.6533.99 update with a fix for a critical vulnerability

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Google has released Chrome version 127.0.6533.99, which fixes six vulnerabilities, including a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-7532) that allows bypassing all levels of browser protection to execute code on the system outside of the sandbox environment. Details have not yet been disclosed, but it is known that the critical vulnerability is due to a buffer overflow in the ANGLE layer, responsible for translating OpenGL ES calls to OpenGL […]

Firefox release 129

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The release of the web browser Firefox 129 has occurred, and updates for the previous long-term support versions—115.14.0 and 128.1.0—have been formed. The Firefox 130 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for September 3. Key innovations in Firefox 129 include: The HTTPS-First mode is activated by default, which makes the browser attempt to connect securely first when accessing a page over HTTP without encryption […]

OpenTESArena 0.15.0

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Nearly three years after the previous version, OpenTESArena 0.15.0 has been released. OpenTESArena is an open-source implementation of the engine from The Elder Scrolls: Arena (the first game in the Elder Scrolls series). OpenTESArena is natively available on Windows 10/11, Linux, Raspberry Pi, ChromeOS, and macOS. New features include a new software 3D renderer that matches the 256-color palette of the original game. Improved detection of TES:Arena data files […]

Google is experimenting with integrating a large language model into Chrome.

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Google has announced an experiment to integrate a large machine learning language model into Chrome. An API called Prompt has been proposed for accessing the model from web applications and browser extensions, allowing natural language queries similar to chatbots. It is expected that the large language model built into the browser will simplify the execution of AI tasks in web applications and reduce concerns about […]

Release of Aura 4.0.0, the package manager for Arch Linux

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The release of Aura 4.0.0 has been introduced, enhancing the package manager for the Arch Linux distribution and expanding the capabilities of the default package manager Pacman. The project was created in 2012 and initially aimed to provide tools for building packages for the AUR (Arch User Repository), used for distributing packages from third-party developers that are not included in the main repositories of the Arch Linux distribution. The code […]

Release of the nDPI 4.10 Deep Packet Inspection System

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The ntop project, developing tools for traffic capture and analysis, has published the nDPI 4.10 deep packet inspection toolkit, continuing the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was established after an unsuccessful attempt to transfer changes to the OpenDPI repository, which has been left unmaintained. The nDPI code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The system allows the identification of used application layer protocols in traffic […]

Release of GNU Binutils 2.43

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The release of the GNU Binutils 2.43 collection of system utilities has been published, which includes programs such as the GNU linker, GNU assembler, nm, objdump, strings, and strip. In this new version: The GNU assembler adds support for the '.base64' directive to represent binary data as strings in base64 encoding. The ability to use the '\+' syntax in macros and within the directives .irp, .irpc has been implemented […]

The developers of Manjaro Linux have presented an atomically updatable version of the distribution

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The developers of the Manjaro Linux distribution, based on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users, have announced the start of testing a new experimental build called 'Manjaro Immutable'. This version is notable for delivering the base system as a single monolithic image, mounted in read-only mode and updated entirely in an atomic fashion. The size of the boot image is 1.7 GB. Only booting is supported in […]

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