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Google is developing MicroFuchsia, a trimmed version of the Fuchsia OS for virtual machines in Android.

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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 […]

Alpha testing for PHP 8.4 has begun

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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 Common Voice 18 Voice Data Set

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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 […]

Larry Finger has passed away

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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 Pro Shardman: Database Update for Large Enterprises

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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, […]

The developer of Wireguard has significantly sped up the getrandom() call in Linux.

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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 […]

Release of FreeRDP 3.6, the free implementation of the RDP protocol

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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: […]

Release of Finnix 126, a live distribution for system administrators

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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 release of the SKUF network boot system 25.0

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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 […]

Release of Cozystack 0.8.0, an open PaaS platform based on Kubernetes.

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The release of the open-source PaaS platform Cozystack 0.8.0, built on Kubernetes, has been announced. The project aims to provide a ready-to-use platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform is installed directly on servers and covers all aspects of preparing infrastructure for managed services. Cozystack allows running and providing Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]

Oracle has released the first version of the UEK-next kernel, based on Linux kernel 6.9.

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Oracle has announced the formation of packages with the UEK-next (Next Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel), built on the basis of the Linux kernel release 6.9. By default, instead of the kernel from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Oracle Linux distribution continues to use the UEK 7 kernel, based on Linux kernel 5.15, while the UEK-next kernel is positioned as a continuously updated option for […]

Indirector — a new microarchitectural attack affecting Intel Raptor Lake and Alder Lake CPUs.

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Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have presented a new method of attack on the microarchitectural structures of Intel processors, applicable among others to CPUs based on the Raptor Lake and Alder Lake microarchitectures. The attack, codenamed Indirector, allows for modification of the speculative execution of instructions in other processes and at other privilege levels (for example, in the kernel or another virtual […]

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