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Hackers have discovered a vulnerability in Windows that allows attacks via the long-discontinued Internet Explorer browser, despite Microsoft's security measures. This involves files with the .url and .hta shortcut extensions. If a user confirms their opening, malware is immediately downloaded onto their computer. Cybersecurity experts from Check Point have uncovered a new scheme for attacking computers […]
The release of DXVK 2.4 is now available, offering an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 8, 9, 10, and 11, functioning through the call translation to the Vulkan API. To use DXVK, drivers that support API Vulkan 1.3 are required, such as Mesa RADV 22.0, NVIDIA 510.47.03, Intel ANV 22.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games […]
Experienced excavator operators are familiar with a trick that allows them to send the contents of the bucket beyond the reach of the arm. A neural network-equipped robo-excavator has proven to be a diligent learner, also mastering the precise throwing of rocks beyond the arm's reach. Next up is tossing bulk materials and improving accuracy for bucket operations at varying heights. Insights into the training process of the robo-excavator's neural network for precise manipulation of bucket contents have been reported […]
A change has been made to GNOME settings, switching the interface to use the Inter font by default, optimized for achieving high character clarity at small and medium sizes (less than 12px) when displayed on computer screens. It’s possible that this change may be reverted before the fall release of GNOME 47 if user testing deems it unsuccessful. In the default mode, the font […]
Alpha versions of Simply Linux alpha1 images for Raspberry Pi 5 and Repka Pi 3 based on p11 have been prepared. Download links: img.xz tar.xz The image is designed for use on Raspberry Pi 5, 4, 3, and Repka Pi 3: by default, it uses kernel 5.15.92-rpi-def-alt2, which also supports Repka Pi 3; on the FAT partition, kernel 6.6.23-rpi-un-alt1 for Raspberry Pi is installed […]
A group of researchers from several American universities and companies Cloudflare and Microsoft has developed a new attack technique on the RADIUS protocol, used by telecommunications operators, cloud services, and VPN providers for user authentication, authorization, and accounting. The attack, codename Blast-RADIUS, allows for spoofing the response of a RADIUS server during authentication, enabling subscriber connection without knowledge of the access password. To exploit […]
The release of version 6.2.0 of the fast command-line text search utility ugrep has taken place. This tool is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD-3 license. Change log: improved support for the deprecated environment variable GREP_COLOR; improved Docker files; improved option autocompletion for zsh; improved search with the -% (—bool) option when specifying multiple search patterns; improved search with the -Q (—query) option in combination with options […]
Firefox 128 is now available, along with the long-term support branch (ESR 128). Despite the release of the new branch, the developers have decided to extend the support of the previous ESR release (ESR 115) indefinitely, as this is the only version that maintains support for Windows 7, which constitutes 10% of Firefox's user base. Key changes: Linux: DMABuf support has been enabled on NVIDIA graphics cards (requires driver version 545.23.6 or […]
The developers of the Hurd project have announced that it is now possible to build 71% of the Debian archive packages in the Debian GNU/Hurd distribution. Last year, this figure was 58%. Other achievements of GNU/Hurd include the porting of the Mach kernel for the AArch64 architecture and the acceptance of patches allowing the use of GCC for building GNU/Hurd programs for AArch64. Currently, the port does not yet provide all the desired […]
One of the developers of the JavaScript platform Deno, who leads the JSR.io package catalog, has pointed out discrimination in the Chromium browser engine regarding the provision of additional functionality to Google services that is not available to other sites without installing a separate extension. This concerns the built-in extension hangout_services, which is activated by default and does not appear in the lists of running extensions in the browser. The extension provides functions for receiving information […]
The release of OpenSilver 3.0 has been announced, continuing the development of the Silverlight platform and allowing the creation of interactive web applications using C#, F#, XAML, and .NET technologies. Silverlight applications compiled with OpenSilver can run in any desktop and mobile browsers that support WebAssembly, but compilation is currently only possible on Windows using the Visual Studio environment. The project's code is written in […
The release of web browser Firefox 128 has occurred. Firefox 128 is classified as part of the long-term support (ESR) branches, for which updates are released throughout the year. Additionally, an update for the previous long-term support branch, 115.13.0, has been formed (two more updates, 115.14 and 115.15, are expected). The Firefox 129 branch has entered beta testing, with its release scheduled for […]