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A fully free Linux distribution Trisquel 10.0 is now available.

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The fully free Linux distribution Trisquel 10.0 has been released, based on the package base of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and aimed at use in small businesses, educational institutions, and home users. Trisquel is personally endorsed by Richard Stallman, officially recognized by the Free Software Foundation as completely free, and is listed among the recommended distributions by the foundation. Installation images are available for download, sized […]

User system identification method based on GPU information

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Researchers from Ben-Gurion University (Israel), Lille University (France), and the University of Adelaide (Australia) have developed a new technique for user device identification by determining GPU operating parameters in web browsers. The method, called "Drawn Apart", is based on using WebGL to obtain a GPU performance profile, significantly enhancing the accuracy of passive tracking methods that operate without cookies and without saving […]

Release of nginx 1.21.6

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The main branch release of nginx 1.21.6 has been formed, continuing the development of new features (only changes related to serious bugs and vulnerabilities are made in the concurrently supported stable branch 1.20). Key changes include: Fixed an issue with uneven distribution of client connections among worker processes observed when using EPOLLEXCLUSIVE on Linux systems; Fixed a bug where nginx returned responses […]

Release of the minimalist distribution Tiny Core Linux 13

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The release of the minimalist Linux distribution Tiny Core Linux 13.0 has been formed, which can operate on systems with 48 MB of RAM. The graphical environment of the distribution is based on the Tiny X server, the FLTK toolkit, and the FLWM window manager. The distribution loads entirely into RAM and operates from memory. The new release features updates to system components, including the Linux kernel 5.15.10, glibc 2.34, […]

Remote root vulnerability in Samba

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Correction releases of versions 4.15.5, 4.14.12, and 4.13.17 have been published to address 3 vulnerabilities. The most dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2021-44142) allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on a system running a vulnerable version of Samba. This issue is rated 9.9 out of 10 in severity. The vulnerability manifests only when using the VFS module vfs_fruit with default parameters (fruit:metadata=netatalk or fruit:resource=file), providing an additional level […]

Release of Minetest 5.5.0, an open clone of the game MineCraft

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The release of Minetest 5.5.0 has been introduced, an open cross-platform variant of the game MineCraft, allowing groups of players to collaboratively build various structures from standard blocks, creating a virtual world (sandbox genre). The game is written in C++ using the irrlicht 3D engine. Lua is used for extension development. The Minetest code is distributed under the LGPL license, while game resources are under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Ready-made […]

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ucount mechanism that allows for privilege escalation

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A vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux kernel in the rlimit handling code across different user identifier namespaces (user namespaces) (CVE-2022-24122), permitting privilege escalation in the system. The issue occurs starting from Linux kernel 5.14 and will be fixed in updates 5.16.5 and 5.15.19. Stable branches of Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE/openSUSE, and RHEL are not affected, but the issue is present in newer kernels […]

Update of GNU Coreutils rewritten in Rust

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The release of the uutils coreutils 0.0.12 toolkit has been introduced, developing an analog of the GNU Coreutils package, rewritten in Rust. The coreutils package includes more than a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. Concurrently, the uutils findutils 0.3.0 package has been released with the implementation of GNU […]

Mozilla Common Voice 8.0 voice data update

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Mozilla has released an update to the Common Voice datasets, which include pronunciation samples from approximately 200,000 people. The data is published as public domain (CC0). The proposed datasets 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 by 30% — from 13.9 to 18.2 […]

Release of Bottles 2022.1.28, a package for running Windows applications on Linux

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The release of Bottles 2022.1.28 has been announced, developing an application designed to simplify the installation, configuration, and execution of Windows applications on Linux using Wine or Proton. The program provides an interface for managing prefixes that define the Wine environment and parameters for launching applications, as well as tools for installing dependencies necessary for the correct operation of the launched programs. The project's code is written in Python and is distributed under […]

Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, Glibc, util-linux, i915, and vmwgfx drivers

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Information about the vulnerability (CVE-2021-4160) in the OpenSSL cryptographic library has been revealed, caused by an error in the implementation of the summator in the BN_mod_exp function, leading to incorrect results in square operations. The issue only manifests on hardware based on MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures and could compromise algorithms based on elliptic curves, including those used by default in TLS 1.3. The problem […]

Release of Wine 7.1 and Wine staging 7.1

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 7.1 has taken place. Since the release of 7.0, 42 bug reports have been closed and 408 changes have been made. As a reminder, starting from the 2.x branch, the Wine project switched to a versioning scheme where each stable release leads to an increase in the first digit of the version number (6.0.0, 7.0.0), while updates to […]

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