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Robert McQueen, the head of the GNOME Foundation, has published a plan for the development of Flathub, a catalog and repository of self-contained Flatpak packages. Flathub is positioned as a platform independent of individual vendors for building applications and distributing them directly to end users. It is noted that currently around 2000 applications are represented in the Flathub catalog.
Google has introduced the second beta version of the open mobile platform Android 14. The release of Android 14 is expected in the third quarter of 2023. A beta testing program has been proposed to evaluate the new capabilities of the platform. Firmware builds have been prepared for the Pixel 7/7 Pro, Pixel 6/6a/6 Pro, Pixel 5/5a 5G, and Pixel 4a (5G) devices. Changes in Android 14 Developer Preview 2 include...
The release of Samba 4.18.0 has been introduced, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a full implementation of the domain controller and Active Directory service compatible with Windows 2008 and able to serve all supported Microsoft versions of Windows clients, including Windows 11. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides a file server, print service, and identification server (winbind). Key changes include...
Google has released version 111 of the Chrome web browser. The stable release of the free Chromium project, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is also available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in that it uses Google logos, has a crash reporting system, includes modules for playing DRM-protected video content, has an automatic update installation system, always includes Sandbox isolation, provides keys to the Google API, and supports...
The Linux kernel developers' mailing list has proposed a preliminary implementation of the drm-asahi driver for Apple AGX GPUs of the G13 and G14 series, used in Apple M1 and M2 chips. The driver is written in Rust and additionally includes a set of generic wrappers over the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) subsystem, which can be used for developing other graphic drivers in Rust. The published...
The release of the Apache HTTP Server 2.4.56 has been published, which includes 6 changes and fixes 2 vulnerabilities related to the possibility of conducting HTTP Request Smuggling attacks on frontend-backend systems, allowing the injection of content into requests from other users processed in the same stream between the frontend and backend. The attack can be used to bypass access control systems or inject malicious JavaScript code […]
Vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-1017, CVE-2023-1018) have been discovered in the reference code of the TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module) specification, leading to writing or reading data outside the allocated buffer. An attack on implementations of cryptoprocessors using vulnerable code could lead to the extraction or overwriting of information stored on the chip, such as cryptographic keys. The ability to overwrite data in the TPM firmware may be […]
A release of the APT 2.6 (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit has been formed, incorporating changes accumulated in the experimental branch 2.5. Besides Debian and its derivatives, the APT-RPM fork is also used in some distributions based on the rpm package manager, such as PCLinuxOS and ALT Linux. The new release is integrated into the Unstable branch and will be moved soon […]
The LibreELEC 11.0 project release has been presented, developing a fork of the OpenELEC distribution for creating home theater systems. The user interface is based on the Kodi media center. Images for booting have been prepared for use with USB drives or SD cards (32-bit and 64-bit x86, Raspberry Pi 2/3/4, various devices on Rockchip, Allwinner, NXP, and Amlogic chips). The build size for the x86_64 architecture is 226 MB. When […]
Thorsten Kukuk, leader of the Future Technology Team at SUSE (developing openSUSE MicroOS and SLE Micro), who previously led the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server project for 10 years, proposed eliminating the /var/run/utmp file in distributions to fully resolve the 2038 problem in Glibc. All applications using utmp, wtmp, and lastlog are suggested to be migrated […]
The release of Snoop version 1.3.3 has been published, enhancing the OSINT tool that searches for user accounts in public data (open-source intelligence). The program analyzes various websites, forums, and social networks for the presence of the desired username, i.e., it detects on which sites a user with the specified nickname is found. The project is developed based on research materials in the field of scraping [...]
The source code of the initial implementation of a virtual machine developed from scratch has been published. The project is notable for having the code written in a Russian version of C (for instance, instead of int — it is цел, long — длин, for — это для, if — если, return — вернуть, etc.). The localization of the language is achieved through macro substitution and is implemented using the inclusion of two header files ru_stdio.h and keywords.h. The source […]