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The GNOME Foundation has published its financial report for the 2023 fiscal year, covering the period from October 2022 to September 2023. The report also mentions key events during this period (releases of GNOME 44 and 45, appointment of a new director) and conferences held (GUADEC 2023 in Riga, GNOME Asia 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, Linux App Summit in Brno). […]
Starting with version Windows 11 24H2, the BitLocker encryption feature will be enabled by default during a fresh installation or reinstallation of the operating system, even in the Windows 11 Home edition. This was reported by the German site Deskmodder. This fact may create some challenges for users, although they can be circumvented. Image source: MicrosoftSource: 3dnews.ru
Four years after the last update of the 8.x branch, the release of the NetBSD 8.3 operating system has been published, which completes the support cycle for the netbsd-8 branch. Thus, the NetBSD 8.x branch received updates for 6 years. The release is categorized as a corrective update and includes fixes for accumulated issues related to stability and security identified since the release of NetBSD 8.2 […]
The release of version 10.0.0 of the console file search utility fd, written in Rust and distributed under MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses, has occurred. Changes include the addition of the alias dir to directory when using the -t—type flag; support for the date format @%s in time filters has been added, similar to GNU date (seconds since the Unix epoch for —older/—newer); the .git directory is now not automatically ignored when using […]
The public is presented with the TunnelVision attack method, which allows, when having access to a local network or control over a wireless network, to redirect the victim's traffic to their host bypassing the VPN (instead of sending it through the VPN, the traffic will be sent unencrypted directly to the attacker's system). Any VPN clients that do not use isolated namespaces in the network subsystem are vulnerable to the issue […]
After more than a year of development, the release of the PortableGL 0.98 project has been prepared, which develops the software implementation of the OpenGL 3.x graphics API, entirely written in the C language (C99). Theoretically, PortableGL can be used in any applications that take a texture or framebuffer as input. The code is structured as a single header file and distributed under the MIT license. The project has defined such goals as […]
The release of the Lacmus 1.0 program, titled 'Furious Vaporization', has taken place. The project is a cross-platform solution for automating the search and rescue of missing persons using computer vision and AI algorithms. The project is written in C# and distributed under the GPLv3 license, and its development has been carried out for over five years in close contact with the search and rescue community. The Lacmus software suite allows for […]
The release of AlmaLinux 9.4 is now available, synchronized with the new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 and containing all the changes included in this release. Installation images are prepared for x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of a bootable image (988 MB), minimal image (1.9 GB), and full image (10 GB). Live builds with GNOME, KDE, MATE, and Xfce will be created later, […]
On May 1, version 9.4 of the RHEL distribution was released. According to the company, the focus is on making cloud computing easier to work with and manage, including the involvement of AI, and on automating various processes. This approach is intended to respond to the expectations of the majority of their clients, 88% of whom have recently noted a sharp increase in computing complexity […]
This week, the first hearing took place in the High Court of the UK regarding IBM UK's lawsuit against the Swiss company LzLabs, which is accused of using its British subsidiary Winsopia to purchase IBM software for mainframes with the aim of reverse engineering and developing the Software Defined Mainframe (SDM) platform. According to IBM, the SDM platform, which is essentially an emulator, allows […]
Recently, the creators of the Genode microkernel OS framework delighted us with the release of the general-purpose OS Sculpt 24.04. This release includes: a new driver management interface; (experimental) suspend/resume support; a new audio interface; support for 4K displays; and the ability for remote debugging. Briefly about the project: support for multiple microkernels; free (GPL) source code; configuration of everything in XML; incredibly detailed and constantly […]
Eelco Dolstra, the author of the Nix package manager, announced his decision to step down as the head of the governing board of the non-profit NixOS Foundation, which supports the infrastructure, manages financial flows, and addresses legal issues for the NixOS project. This decision comes after the publication of a collective open letter criticizing Eelco's actions and expressing concerns about the future of Nix and NixOS. The letter was originally published […]