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After nearly three years, versions 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 of the offline translator for Android, RTranslator, written in C++ and Java and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, have been released. The application requires a relatively fast smartphone with at least 6GB of memory to function. Supported languages include: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Croatian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, […]
An exploit for a 0-day vulnerability is already being sold on relevant forums. On June 21, information appeared on one of the forums regarding the sale of an exploit for the zero-day vulnerability in the GRUB bootloader for Linux, which allows for local privilege escalation (LPE). According to Dark Web Intelligence, the attacker claims to have found a vulnerability in GRUB that bypasses authentication mechanisms and grants root access to the system. According to […]
OpenShot 3.2.0, the new release of the popular free video editor, includes numerous new features, new themes, and significant performance improvements. This release introduces two new themes: Retro and Cosmic Dusk. Enhancements have been made to functionality and performance, including improved timeline interaction, a new 'Remove Gap' feature for removing unwanted gaps between clips, and improved 'Split Clip' functions […]
Google is developing the MicroFuchsia environment, which includes a trimmed version of the Fuchsia operating system optimized for running in virtual machines on the Android platform. Changes to the Android codebase have already begun to ensure the operation of MicroFuchsia. The Android 13 framework AVF (Android Virtualization Framework), implemented on the KVM hypervisor, will be used to launch virtual machines with MicroFuchsia […]
The first alpha release of the new branch of the PHP programming language, PHP 8.4, has been presented. The release is scheduled for November 21. Key innovations that are either available for testing or planned for implementation in PHP 8.4 include: Support for property hooks that allow additional logic to be executed when object properties are modified or accessed, implemented without intercepting read and write operations using […]
Mozilla has announced the release of the 18th dataset of Common Voice, which is now available for download. This dataset is part of Mozilla's strategy to provide broader access to voice technologies. It is a free collection of multilingual voice snippets and associated text data distributed under the CC0 license (public domain). The creation of this dataset is […]
The Linux kernel developer community has sadly lost one of its long-time and productive WiFi driver developers. Larry Finger has passed away, contributing to the Linux kernel since 2005 with over 1500 patches. His wife reported Larry's death on the linux-wireless mailing list: "I want to inform you that Larry Finger, one of […]
Postgres Professional, a leading Russian DBMS developer, announces the release of minor updates for Postgres Pro Shardman version 14.12.1. Postgres Pro Shardman is a new distributed relational DBMS for high-load systems, suitable for the largest installations of tens and hundreds of TB, when a single server is insufficient. The DBMS allows data to be partitioned and distributed across different servers — shards. In this way, […]
Jason A. Donenfeld, the author of the WireGuard VPN, has introduced patches that significantly speed up the retrieval of random numbers from the system via the getrandom() function, implemented through the corresponding Linux system call. The advantage of this solution over using /dev/random or /dev/urandom is its immunity to descriptor exhaustion attacks, which may lead to uninitialized and non-random cryptographic keys. The proposed optimization is based on […]
The release of FreeRDP 3.6 has been announced, offering an open-source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) developed based on Microsoft specifications. The project provides a library for integrating RDP support into third-party applications and a client that can be used for remote connection to Windows desktops. The project's code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. In the new version: […]
After more than a year of development, the release of the Finnix 126 live distribution has been introduced. The distribution is based on a Debian package base and supports console-only operation, but includes a good selection of utilities for administrative needs. It contains over 600 packages with various utilities. The size of the ISO image is 498 MB. In the new version: The package base is synchronized with Debian repositories. The Linux kernel has been updated […]
The stable release of SKUF 25 (Suckless Kexec Using Fileshare) is now available, a toolkit for network booting Arch Linux from a SAMBA file share without using PXE. The project is built on the mkinitcpio project and allows configuration of an environment for booting the Arch Linux distribution, using sparse images with a filesystem (such as ext4) located on a SAMBA server as the root. Booting occurs in […]