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The release of the Floorp 10.5.0 web browser has been announced, developed by a group of Japanese students, combining the Firefox engine with features and an interface styled like Chrome. The project also emphasizes user privacy and the ability to customize the interface to personal preferences. The project code is distributed under the MPL 2.0 license. Builds are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. In the new release: An experimental […]
A problem has been discovered in the Chrome browser regarding the transmission of confidential data to Google servers when the enhanced spell-checking mode is enabled, which entails verification using an external service. This problem also occurs in the Edge browser when using the Microsoft Editor extension. It turns out that the text for checking is transmitted, including from input forms that contain confidential data, including from […]
The release of the new stable branch WebKitGTK 2.38.0 has been announced, a port of the WebKit browser engine for the GTK platform. WebKitGTK allows for the use of all WebKit capabilities through a GNOME-oriented programming interface based on GObject and can be used to integrate web content processing tools into any applications, from specialized HTML/CSS parsers to the creation of fully functional web browsers. Notable projects using WebKitGTK include the built-in […]
Engineers at Canonical are working on adding support for the 64-bit Sipeed LicheeRV board, which utilizes RISC-V architecture, in the release of Ubuntu 22.10. At the end of August, support for RISC-V boards Allwinner Nezha and StarFive VisionFive, priced at $112 and $179 respectively, was also announced. The Sipeed LicheeRV board is notable for its price of just $16.90 and […]
Cloudflare has announced the migration of its content delivery network to the Pingora proxy, written in Rust. The new proxy replaces the NGINX server configuration with Lua scripts and handles over a trillion requests daily. It was noted that transitioning to a specialized proxy enabled new capabilities and enhanced security through safe memory operations, […]
The GNOME Project has released version 1.2 of the Libadwaita library, which includes a set of components for styling user interfaces in accordance with the GNOME HIG (Human Interface Guidelines). The library features ready-made widgets and objects for building applications that align with the overall GNOME style, with interfaces that can adapt responsively to screens of any size. The library code is written in C and is distributed under […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2022-37706) has been discovered in the Enlightenment user environment, allowing a non-privileged local user to execute code with root privileges. This vulnerability is currently unpatched (0-day), but there is already an exploit available online, tested on Ubuntu 22.04. The issue exists in the enlightenment_sys executable, which is distributed with the suid root flag and executes certain permitted commands through the system() call, such as mounting storage […]
The EndeavourOS 22.9 release is available, succeeding the Antergos distribution, which was discontinued in May 2019 due to a lack of free time among the remaining maintainers to support the project adequately. The installation image size is 1.9 GB (x86_64, with a separate build being developed for ARM). This new release includes updated package versions, featuring Linux kernel 5.19.7, […]
Mozilla is working on expanding the Firefox Relay service, which allows users to generate temporary email addresses for registering on websites or subscribing to services, so they do not have to disclose their real address. Currently, a review is underway for a change that implements similar functionality for phone numbers. Firefox Relay will enable users to generate temporary phone numbers to hide their actual number during registration […]
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in the Cargo package manager, used for package management and building projects in Rust. These vulnerabilities may be exploited when loading specially crafted packages from third-party repositories (it is claimed that users of the official crates.io repository are not affected). The first vulnerability (CVE-2022-36113) allows overwriting the first two bytes of any file, subject to current access permissions. […]
The developers of the Ubuntu distribution have introduced the debuginfod.ubuntu.com service, allowing users to debug programs included in the distribution without installing separate debug information packages from the debuginfo repository. With this new service, users can dynamically download debug symbols from an external server during debugging. This feature is supported starting from GDB 10 and Binutils 2.34. Debug information […]
After three years of alpha and beta testing, the Arduino community, which develops a series of open-source boards based on microcontrollers, has released the stable version of the Arduino IDE 2.0 integrated development environment. This IDE provides an interface for writing code, compiling, uploading firmware to hardware, and interacting with boards during debugging. Firmware is developed in a specially created programming language similar to C, allowing for rapid development […]