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Mozilla has updated the Common Voice voice data sets, which include pronunciation samples from over 200,000 people. The data is released as public domain (CC0). The proposed sets can be used in machine learning systems to build speech recognition and synthesis models. Compared to the previous update, the volume of speech material in the collection has increased from 28.7 to 30.3 thousand hours of speech, from […]
In the release of Fedora 40, it is proposed to merge the contents of the /usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories, replacing the /usr/sbin directory with a symbolic link pointing to /usr/bin. The transformation of /bin and /sbin into symbolic links to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin was carried out in 2012 in Fedora 17. After consolidating all executable files in one location, references to the /usr/sbin directory will be removed from the environment variable […]
After a year and a half of development, the release of the Enlightenment 0.26 user environment, which is based on the EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Library) and Elementary widgets, has occurred. The release is available in source code form, and packages for distributions have not yet been formed. The desktop in Enlightenment is composed of such components as a file manager, a set of widgets, an application launcher panel, and a set of graphical configurators. Enlightenment is very flexible […]
On December 22, 2023, a new version of the open-source office suite Apache OpenOffice was quietly released, available for Linux, macOS, and Windows in 41 languages. Some new features of this version include: Basic: fixed an error in the help for the len function; Writer: the first line indent of 2 characters is automatically set for Chinese; Calc: fixed a saving error […]
The LSP Plugins project celebrates its eighth anniversary and releases a new version — 1.2.14! The plugins are designed for sound processing in mixing and mastering audio recordings, in live performances, as well as for broadcasting and podcasting. The package is compatible with LADSPA, LV2, LinuxVST, CLAP formats, and also offers standalone versions with JACK support. In this version: A series of new plugins have been released […]
On December 23, the latest issue — the last one this year — of the popular free planetarium Stellarium was released, visualizing the realistic night sky as if you were viewing it with the naked eye, or through binoculars or a telescope. A total of 91 changes were made between the current and previous versions (for the year, a total of 433 changes were made in the planetarium), […]
The developers of the LLVM project have approved the transition to a new version numbering scheme. Similar to the GCC and GDB projects, the zero release ('N.0') in each new branch will be used during development, while the first stable version will carry the number 'N.1'. This change will separate builds based on the under-development branch (mainline) from those of the final branch […]
labwc is a composite manager for Wayland with features reminiscent of Openbox. It is compatible with Openbox themes. It is based on the wlroots library. What's new: Transition to the new branch of the wlroots library 0.17 has been completed. Added support for the Wayland protocol cursor-shape-v1, used for configuring the appearance of the cursor by transmitting a series of cursor images. Added support for the Wayland protocol fractional-scale, which allows the composite manager to […]
The release of the labwc project 0.7 (Lab Wayland Compositor) is available, developing a composite server for Wayland with features similar to the Openbox window manager (the project is presented as an attempt to create an alternative to Openbox for Wayland). The features of labwc include minimalism, compact implementation, extensive customization options, and high performance. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Based on […]
The Lazarus development team is pleased to announce the release of Lazarus 3.0 — an integrated development environment for Free Pascal. This release is still built with the FPC 3.2.2 compiler. In this release: Qt6 support has been added, based on version 6.2.0 LTS; the minimum Qt version for Lazarus 3.0 is 6.2.7; the Gtk3 binding has been completely redesigned; numerous memory leaks for Cocoa have been fixed and support has been implemented […]
Researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) have introduced a new type of Mayhem attack that utilizes a bit-flipping technique in dynamic RAM, known as Rowhammer, to alter the values of variables in the stack, which serve as flags for determining the success of authentication and passing security checks. Practical examples of this attack's application have been demonstrated to bypass authentication in SUDO, OpenSSH, and MySQL, […]
A release of the specialized distribution Tails 5.21 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been formed, based on the Debian package base and designed for anonymous internet access. Tails ensures anonymous access through the Tor network. All connections, except for traffic routed through Tor, are by default blocked by a packet filter. User data storage in persistent mode across sessions is protected by encryption. […]