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Google has warned that starting September 27, users will no longer be able to connect to their Google accounts on devices running Android releases that are over 10 years old. The reason given is user security. When attempting to access Google products, including Gmail, YouTube, and Google Maps, from an older version of Android, users will receive an error […]
Jason A. Donenfeld, the creator of the WireGuard VPN, has introduced the WireGuardNT project, which develops a high-performance port of WireGuard for the Windows kernel, compatible with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10, and supporting AMD64, x86, ARM64, and ARM architectures. The implementation code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new driver has already been included in the WireGuard client for Windows but is currently marked as experimental […]
The third release candidate for the installer of the next major release of Debian — 'Bullseye' — has been published. Currently, there are 48 critical bugs blocking the release (155 a month ago, 185 two months ago, 240 three months ago, 472 four months ago, at the time of the freeze in Debian 10 — 316, Debian 9 — 275, Debian 8 — […]
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that allow the eBPF subsystem to bypass protections against the Spectre v4 attack (SSB, Speculative Store Bypass). An attacker using an unprivileged BPF program can create conditions for speculative execution of certain operations and determine the contents of arbitrary kernel memory areas. The accompanying eBPF subsystems in the kernel have obtained access to a proof-of-concept exploit demonstrating the possibility of attacks […]
After six months of development, the release of the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.34 has been published, which fully adheres to the ISO C11 and POSIX.1-2017 standards. The new release includes fixes from 66 developers. Among the enhancements implemented in glibc 2.34, it is worth noting: the core libc now integrates the libpthread, libdl, libutil, and libanl libraries, whose functionalities can be used in applications […]
The release of the Lakka 3.3 distribution has been published, which allows computers, set-top boxes, or single-board computers to be transformed into full-fledged gaming consoles for running retro games. The project is a modification of the LibreELEC distribution, originally designed for creating home theaters. Lakka builds are available for i386, x86_64 (Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD GPUs), Raspberry Pi 1-4, Orange Pi, Cubieboard, Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, Banana Pi, Hummingboard, Cubox-i, […]
The first beta version of the MX Linux 21 distribution is available for download and testing. The release of MX Linux 21 uses the Debian Bullseye package base and MX Linux repositories. A distinguishing feature of the distribution is the use of the sysVinit initialization system, its own tools for configuring and deploying the system, and more frequent updates of popular packages compared to the Debian stable repository. Downloads are available for 32-bit […]
NVIDIA and Mozilla have unveiled an update to the voice data sets collected as part of the Common Voice initiative, which now includes pronunciation samples from 182,000 people, representing a 25% increase from six months ago. The data is released as public domain (CC0). The proposed sets can be used in machine learning systems for building speech recognition and synthesis models. Compared to last […]
The release of the Gerbera media server 1.9 is now available, continuing the development of the MediaTomb project after its discontinuation. Gerbera supports UPnP protocols, including the UPnP MediaServer 1.0 specification, and enables the streaming of multimedia content over a local network, allowing video playback and audio listening on any UPnP-compatible device, including TVs, gaming consoles, smartphones, and tablets. The project code is written in […]
During the discussion on the recently published 27th edition of the patch set implementing the NTFS file system by Paragon Software, Linus Torvalds stated that he sees no obstacles to accepting this patch set in the next merge window. If no unforeseen issues arise, Paragon Software's NTFS support will be included in the 5.15 kernel, the release of which […]
The developers of the Node.js server-side JavaScript platform have released patch versions 12.22.4, 14.17.4, and 16.6.0, which partially address a vulnerability (CVE-2021-22930) in the http2 module (HTTP/2.0 client), allowing the initiation of a process crash or potentially enabling remote code execution in the system when connecting to a host controlled by an attacker. The issue is caused by accessing already freed memory when closing a connection after receiving RST_STREAM frames […]
An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.14 has been released. Since the release of version 6.13, 30 bug reports have been closed and 260 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: The Mono engine with .NET technology has been updated to version 6.3.0. In WOW64, the layer for running 32-bit applications in 64-bit Windows, converters (thunks) for 32-bit system calls have been added to […]