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Release of the Grml 2024.02 Live distribution

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After more than a year of development, the release of the Live distribution grml 2024.02 has been published, based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base. The distribution includes a selection of programs for text data processing using the texttools package and for performing tasks that arise in the practice of system administrators (data recovery after failures, incident analysis, etc.). The graphical environment is built using the Fluxbox window manager. Size […]

The FLAC audio codec has been assigned the status of Proposed Standard.

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The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) committee, which focuses on the development of internet protocols and architecture, has approved the assignment of the status of 'Proposed Standard' to the free audio codec FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) developed by the Xiph.Org community. Based on the 14th draft specification of FLAC, an RFC will be formed (typically, final editing and publication of an RFC takes 3-6 months). Notably, the list of items at the stage […]

Release of the Musl standard C library 1.2.5.

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After 10 months of development, the release of the Musl standard C library 1.2.5 has been presented, providing a libc implementation suitable for use on both desktop PCs and servers as well as mobile systems, combining full standards support (as in Glibc) with a small size, low resource consumption, and high performance (like in uClibc, dietlibc, and Android Bionic). It has support for all mandatory […]

Linux From Scratch 12.1 and Beyond Linux From Scratch 12.1 have been released.

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New releases of the Linux From Scratch 12.1 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 12.1 (BLFS) guides have been introduced, available in two versions, with SysVinit and systemd initialization systems. In Linux From Scratch, instructions are provided for building a basic Linux system from scratch using only the source texts of the required software. Beyond Linux From Scratch complements LFS instructions with information on building […]

Google has added new features to Chrome for effective searching even with weak internet

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Google has introduced new features for the Chrome browser aimed at making the information search process more efficient and user-friendly, even with limited internet connectivity. These updates affect both mobile versions on iOS and Android, as well as the desktop version of the browser, offering improved search mechanisms and result visualization. Source of images: Google Source: 3dnews.ru

Release SBCL 2.4.2, implementation of the Common Lisp language

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The release of SBCL 2.4.2 (Steel Bank Common Lisp), a free implementation of the Common Lisp programming language, has been announced. The project code is written in Common Lisp and C and is distributed under the BSD license. The new release includes: Compiling itself on x86-64 Linux systems now produces bitwise identical cross-compiled fasls where the build host is cmucl, ccl, clisp, or sbcl itself. […]

Release of the mobile platform /e/OS 1.20, developed by the creator of Mandrake Linux

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The release of the mobile platform /e/OS 1.20, focused on protecting user data privacy, has been presented. The platform was founded by Gaël Duval, the creator of the Mandrake Linux distribution. The project provides firmware for many popular smartphone models, and under the brands Murena One, Murena Fairphone 3+/4, and Murena Teracube 2e, it offers editions of OnePlus One, Fairphone 3+/4, and Teracube 2e smartphones with pre-installed […]

The release of Vivaldi 6.6 browser for desktops

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The Vivaldi 6.6 browser for desktops has been released. This is the first stable release in 2024, and it includes several notable changes. In particular, the developers added support for extensions in web panels and made navigation within web panels possible. Moreover, extension developers can now create their extensions for the browser's web panels thanks to the extensions API […]

Ejabberd 24.02

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On February 27, a new version of the popular messaging server ejabberd was released. Ejabberd supports the XMPP and MQTT protocols and is written in the Erlang programming language. The main innovation of this release is the previously announced support for federation with servers via the Matrix protocol. Thus, users of ejabberd servers will be able to transparently exchange messages with Matrix users just as they would with other users […]

Microsoft proposed an IPE access management system for the Linux kernel.

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The company has presented for discussion on the Linux kernel developers mailing list the code for an LSM module implementing the Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE) mechanism, which expands existing mandatory access control systems. Instead of being tied to labels and paths, the IPE makes decisions on permission or denial of operations based on the inherent properties of the system component involved in the operation. The module allows defining a general policy […]

Release of Vivaldi browser 6.6

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The proprietary browser Vivaldi 6.6 has been released, developed based on the Chromium engine. Vivaldi builds are prepared for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Changes made to the Chromium codebase are distributed under an open license. The browser interface is written in JavaScript using the React library, Node.js platform, Browserify, and various ready-made NPM modules. The implementation of the interface is available in the source code, but […]

Malicious AI models executing code have been detected in the Hugging Face repository

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Researchers from JFrog have discovered malicious machine learning models in the Hugging Face repository, the installation of which can allow an attacker to execute code and gain control over the user's system. The issue arises because some model distribution formats allow the embedding of executable code; for example, models using the "pickle" format can include serialized objects in Python, as well as executing code.

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