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The first alpha version of the open engine Medal of Honor — OpenMoHAA was released in 2024. The project's goal is to create a cross-platform open-source engine fully compatible with the original Medal of Honor. Game module: engine crashes have been fixed; callvote with invalid strings has been corrected; incorrect weapon assignment (bad weapon attachments) has been addressed; grenade crashes have been fixed; mines are now fully operational; […]
The developers of Arch Linux announced the adoption of the dbus-broker project as the default implementation of the D-Bus bus. It is claimed that using dbus-broker instead of the classic background process dbus-daemon will enhance reliability, increase performance, and improve integration with systemd. The option to use the old background process dbus-daemon remains — the Pacman package manager will provide a choice for installing dbus-broker-units […]
A corrective release of Firefox 121.0.1 is available, offering the following fixes: Fixed a hang that occurred when loading certain websites with multi-column layouts, such as doordash.com. Resolved the issue with the disappearance of border-radius corners set via CSS for videos playing over another video. Fixed a problem with Firefox's incorrect shutdown, leading to the inability to use FIDO2 USB keys in applications afterwards […]
A new version of the free Minder editor for creating mind maps has been released. Editor features: You can create more than one root node in a map. There is convenient keyboard control. The appearance of maps and individual nodes can be customized. A built-in sticker set for nodes is available. Markdown support is included in the text of nodes. Titles can be added to connections (as well as to nodes) […]
In the implementation of the Kyber encryption algorithm, which won the competition for post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, a vulnerability has been identified that allows for attacks through side channels to reconstruct secret keys based on timing measurements during the decryption of ciphertext provided by the attacker. The issue affects both the reference implementation of the CRYSTALS-Kyber KEM key encapsulation mechanism and many third-party encryption libraries […]
The Wi-Fi Alliance has officially begun certifying devices that support Wi-Fi 7, the next generation of wireless network standards. Having this certification means that devices can fully and according to protocol specifications interact with each other. Official support for Wi-Fi 7 will appear on smartphones, laptops, routers, and other equipment in 2024, offering a significant speed increase compared to Wi-Fi […]
Vivaldi Technologies has announced the release of the new version of the Vivaldi 6.5 browser for Android. This release expands synchronization features — notably, the entire browsing history is now synchronized, allowing users to continue surfing the web on any device with the Vivaldi browser installed. Previously, only the history of entered addresses was synchronized. The new version of the browser also implements […]
The release of Chrome OS 120, based on the Linux kernel, upstart system manager, ebuild/portage build tools, open components, and the Chrome 120 web browser, is now available. The user environment of Chrome OS is limited to the web browser, and instead of standard applications, web applications are used; however, Chrome OS includes a fully multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. The source code is distributed under […]
The release of the Solus 4.5 Linux distribution has been published, which is not based on packages from other distributions and develops its own installer, package manager, and configurator. Previously, the Budgie desktop was part of the distribution, but it has now been separated into an independent project. The next branch, Solus 5, will be developed using technologies from the SerpentOS distribution. The project’s code contributions are distributed under the GPLv2 license, and development uses […]
Rafael Sadowski has announced the availability of the KDE Plasma 5.27 user environment for installation in OpenBSD-current, the formation of pre-installation packages kde-plasma and kde-plasma-extra, and the intention to support KDE Plasma in the spring release of OpenBSD 7.5. After the end of KDE4 support in OpenBSD, the ability to use the new desktop branch KDE Plasma 5 was not transferred. […]
GSC Game World, the developer of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series, has successfully blocked the GitHub repository of the open project OpenXRay, which reproduces the game engine for the first parts of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The project was founded after the source codes of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. engine were leaked and aims to fix all original issues and introduce new features such as support for 64-bit platforms, Linux, and OpenGL. The licensing […]
On January 8, 2024, a new version of the open-source real-time operating system Embox was released. Changes include: Improved support for the AARCH64 architecture. Improved support for the RISC-V architecture. Added support for the STM32F103 Blue Pill board. Added support for the Vostok Uno-VN035 board. The Mybuild language has been enhanced with the @NoCode annotation. The device subsystem has been improved. Flash device support has been overhauled. The logging subsystem has been redesigned. STM32 support has been enhanced. […]