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The release of Chrome OS 118, based on the Linux kernel, with the upstart system manager, ebuild/portage build tools, open components, and Chrome 118 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 full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. The source code is distributed under […]
Cisco has reported the discovery of a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2023-20198, in the Cisco IOS XE web server. The vulnerability affects both physical and virtual devices running Cisco IOS XE that also have the HTTP(S) server feature enabled. It has received the highest severity rating of 10 out of 10 on the CVSS scale. A patch to close the vulnerability is not yet available. The vulnerability […]
Google has announced the unveiling of the Falcon data transport technology (hardware transport, hardware-accelerated transport layer) and its transition to the Open Compute project, aimed at collaboratively developing open hardware specifications for equipping data centers. Falcon is presented as the next-generation Ethernet capable of increasing bandwidth and enhancing data transfer efficiency within existing standard networks based on […]
Basalt SPO has released a new version of the operating system for educational institutions — Alt Education 10.2, built on the basis of the tenth ALT platform (p10). Builds are prepared for x86_64, AArch64 (Baikal-M), and i586 platforms. The operating system is designed for everyday use by preschool organizations, schools, universities, and secondary vocational educational institutions. The product is provided under a License Agreement that allows for free use […]
Today, the audience of Windows 11 surpasses 400 million active users per month, and by the beginning of 2024, this number will exceed 500 million. This was reported by Windows Central citing "internal Microsoft data." This indicates that Windows 11 is being adopted more slowly than its predecessor: Windows 10 reached 400 million active devices in less than […]
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-20198) has been identified in the web interface implemented on Cisco's physical and virtual devices running the Cisco IOS XE operating system, allowing unauthorized users to gain full access to the system with the highest privileges if they have access to the network port through which the web interface operates. The severity of the issue is exacerbated by the fact that attackers have been exploiting the unpatched […]
The GNOME Foundation, which oversees the development of the GNOME desktop environment, has announced the appointment of Holly Million as the executive director, a position that has been vacant since August of last year following Neil McGovern's departure. The executive director is responsible for managing and developing the GNOME Foundation as an organization, as well as interacting with the board of directors, advisory board, and […]
Twitter's experiments with paid subscriptions as a way to combat spam and misinformation continue. There have already been rumors online that X's pricing policy will categorize subscribers into three levels in terms of ad display volume, but now a different experiment has launched in New Zealand and the Philippines, which involves charging $1 […]
More than two years have passed since 35 vulnerabilities were discovered in the caching proxy Squid, and most of them remain unpatched, warns the security expert who first reported these issues. In February 2021, security specialist Joshua Rogers analyzed Squid and identified 55 vulnerabilities in the codebase. To date, […]
The official releases of the Fedora Linux distribution, which utilize atomic system updates, have proposed the use of a single name, Fedora Atomic Desktop, for builds that do not separate into individual packages and update atomically. For naming atomic editions, it is suggested to use the name 'Fedora desktop_name Atomic', for example, if an atomic build with Xfce appears, it will be distributed as […]
Oracle has released a patch version of the VirtualBox virtualization system, 7.0.12, which includes 24 fixes. At the same time, an update for the previous branch, VirtualBox 6.1.48, has been formed with 9 changes, including support for Linux kernels 6.5 and 6.6-rc, support for kernel packages from OpenSUSE 15.5, improved support for Linux kernel 6.4, and fixes for kernel packages from RHEL 8.9 and […]
Sonatype, specializing in defending against attacks that manipulate software components and dependency substitution (supply chain), has published the results of a study (PDF, 62 pages) on issues with dependencies and maintenance of open projects in Java, JavaScript, Python, and .NET presented in Maven Central, NPM, PyPl, and Nuget repositories. Over the year, an increase in the number of projects in the monitored open ecosystems has been observed […]