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The release of ncspot 0.9 has taken place, a lightweight console client for the music service Spotify, written in the Rust programming language and supported by more than fifty developers. The interface supports themes and is designed using the ncurses library. By default, PulseAudio is used as the sound server (to use an alternative sound backend, compilation flags must be specified). The source code is distributed under the BSD license. […]
The release of OpenLDAP package 2.6.0 has been announced, offering a cross-platform implementation of the LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) for organizing directory services and accessing them. The project develops a modular server component that supports various storage and access backends, proxy balancer, client utilities, and libraries. The code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD-like OpenLDAP Public License. […]
Mozilla has announced the removal from the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) directory of two add-ons — Bypass and Bypass XM, which had 455 thousand active installations and were positioned as add-ons to provide access to subscription-based content (paywall bypass). The add-ons used an API Proxy to modify traffic, allowing control over web requests made by the browser. In addition to the stated functions, the mentioned add-ons […]
After eight years of development, the release of the Muen 1.0 project has emerged, which develops a separation kernel, the absence of errors in its source code has been confirmed using mathematical methods of formal verification of reliability. The kernel is available for the x86_64 architecture and can be used in critical systems that require a high level of reliability and guarantees against failures. The project's source code is written in […]
The developers of AlmaLinux, a distribution created by CloudLinux in response to the premature discontinuation of support for CentOS 8, have introduced the ELevate toolkit to simplify the migration of existing CentOS 7.x installations to distributions built on the RHEL 8 package base while preserving applications, data, and settings. Currently, the project supports migration to AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS Stream, and Oracle Linux. The migration process […]
The release of the qutebrowser 2.4 web browser has been published, featuring a minimal graphical interface that does not distract from content viewing and a navigation system styled after the Vim text editor, fully built on keyboard shortcuts. The code is written in Python using PyQt5 and QtWebEngine. The source code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The use of Python does not affect performance, as rendering and content parsing […]
Microsoft has listened to the community and returned the Hot Reload feature implementation code to the .NET SDK repository, which was removed from the codebase a few days ago despite already being open and part of the .NET 6 preview releases. Company representatives have apologized to the community and acknowledged that they made a mistake in removing code that was already added […]
Intel has released developments related to the research project ControlFlag, aimed at creating a machine learning system to improve code quality. The toolkit prepared by the project allows the detection of various errors and anomalies in source texts written in high-level languages, such as C/C++, based on a model trained on a large volume of existing code. The system is suitable for identifying various types of issues in the code […]
The story of the removal of three malicious packages from the NPM repository, which copied code from the UAParser.js library, has taken an unexpected turn — unknown attackers seized control of the author's account for the UAParser.js project and released updates containing code for stealing passwords and mining cryptocurrency. The problem is that the UAParser.js library, which offers functions for parsing the User-Agent HTTP header, has around 8 million […]
The experimental branch of the open implementation of the WinAPI — Wine 6.20 — has been released. Since the release of version 6.19, 29 bug reports have been closed and 399 changes have been made. The most important changes include the conversion of MSXml, XAudio, DInput, and some other modules to the PE (Portable Executable) format. Some system libraries have been included to support builds based on the PE format. In […]
Researchers from the National University of Defense Technology of the People's Liberation Army of China, the National University of Singapore, and ETH Zurich have developed a new attack method on Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) isolated enclaves. The attack, named SmashEx, is triggered by reentrancy issues when handling exceptional situations during the operation of runtime components for Intel SGX. The proposed attack method provides an opportunity to […]
Daniel Kolesa from Igalia, involved in the development of Void Linux, WebKit, and Enlightenment projects, is advancing a new Chimera Linux distribution. The project uses the Linux kernel, but instead of GNU tools, it forms the user environment based on the core system of FreeBSD, and uses LLVM for building. The distribution is initially being developed as cross-platform and supports x86_64, ppc64le, aarch64 architectures, […]