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Dependency of instruction execution time on data in ARM and Intel CPUs

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Eric Biggers, one of the developers of the Adiantum cipher and maintainer of the Linux fscrypt kernel subsystem, has proposed a set of patches to address security issues arising from a characteristic of Intel processors that does not guarantee consistent instruction execution times for different data being processed. This issue affects Intel processors starting from the Ice Lake family. A similar problem is observed in ARM processors. […]

Intel has discontinued development of the HAXM hypervisor.

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Intel has released a new version of the HAXM (Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager) virtualization engine 7.8, after which it has archived the repository and announced the cessation of support for the project. Intel will no longer accept patches or bug fixes, participate in development, or release updates. Individuals wishing to continue development are encouraged to create a fork and develop it independently. HAXM is a cross-platform tool (Linux, […]

Layoffs at Google affected leaders promoting open projects

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Reports continue to emerge about the results of mass layoffs at Google, which have affected around 12,000 employees (6% of the total staff). In addition to the layoffs of some developers of the Fuchsia OS, which was reported earlier, notable figures promoting open source and overseeing the company’s open projects have also been let go. For example, Christopher […]

Introducing Carbonyl, a console browser based on the Chromium engine

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A new console web browser Carbonyl has been introduced, based on the Chromium engine and capable of displaying any websites, including YouTube, in the terminal. The browser supports almost all Web APIs, including WebGL, WebGPU, and tools for playing video, audio, and animation. It can operate both from a direct terminal launch and through an SSH connection. The binding around the Chromium engine is written […]

The DiscoBSD project is advancing the BSD system for microcontrollers

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The first official release of the DiscoBSD operating system has been published, based on the updated source codes of Unix system 2.11BSD (RetroBSD) and intended for use on microcontrollers. The first release includes support for PIC32MX7 microcontrollers based on MIPS architecture and STM32F4 based on ARM Cortex-M4. The project's code is distributed under the BSD license. One of the main goals of the project is to ensure high portability of the OS on devices that have […]

Angie 1.1.0 is available, a fork of Nginx from a group of former developers.

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A high-performance HTTP server and multiprotocol proxy server release, Angie 1.1.0, has been published, forked from Nginx by a group of former developers who left F5 Network. The source code of Angie is available under the BSD license. Development is maintained by the company 'Web-server', founded last autumn and secured investments of $1 million. Among the co-owners of Web-server are Valentin Bartenev (the team leader who developed the Nginx product […]

Release of the OPNsense 23.1 firewall distribution.

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A release of the OPNsense 23.1 firewall distribution has been formed, which is a fork of the pfSense project created to develop a fully open distribution that could have features comparable to commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project positions itself as independent from any one company, developed with direct community involvement and possessing […]

Release of the CENO 2.0 web browser, which uses a P2P network to bypass censorship.

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eQualite has released CENO 2.0.0 (CEnsorship.NO), a mobile web browser designed to facilitate access to information in conditions of censorship, traffic filtering, or disconnection of segments of the internet from the global network. The browser is built on the GeckoView engine (used in Firefox for Android), enhanced with the capability to exchange data through a decentralized P2P network where users participate in redirecting traffic to external gateways, […]

Canonical has announced the readiness of the Ubuntu Pro service.

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Canonical has announced the readiness for widespread use of the Ubuntu Pro service, which provides access to extended updates for LTS branches of Ubuntu. The service offers updates with vulnerability fixes for up to 10 years (the standard support period for LTS branches is 5 years) for an additional 23,000 packages, in addition to those from the Main repository. Ubuntu Pro also grants access to live patches that allow […]

LibreOffice 7.4.5 update addresses a crash affecting many users

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The Document Foundation has announced the release of an unscheduled patch for the Community edition of LibreOffice 7.4.5, which fixes a bug causing a crash when clicking on the header or footer button after scrolling. It is noted that this issue may affect many users of the office suite. The problem was caused by a regression introduced in the 7.4.4.2 update. Ready-to-use installation packages have been prepared for platforms […]

HDR support added for Vulkan in Wine

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Support for the Vulkan extension VK_EXT_hdr_metadata has been added to the Vulkan driver code for Wine, designed to handle metadata for High Dynamic Range (HDR) that includes information about primary colors, white point, and brightness range, within Vulkan virtual framebuffers (SwapChain). The proposed patch for Wine is necessary for HDR functionality in games based on the Vulkan graphics API, such as Doom Eternal, and […]

Support for loading using the HTTP protocol has been added to U-boot.

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The U-boot bootloader, primarily used in embedded devices, integrates a TCP stack and implements the capability for remote booting by delivering boot images using the HTTP protocol. Previously, only UDP-based protocols like TFTP and NFS could be used for remote network booting. It is expected that HTTP booting support will significantly simplify the development of embedded systems, as HTTP servers are more […]

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