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The release of the graphic editor for children's creativity — Tux Paint 0.9.26 has been published. The program is designed for teaching drawing to children aged 3 to 12. Binary builds have been created for RHEL/Fedora, Android, Haiku, macOS, and Windows. In this new release: The fill tool now features an option for filling an area with a linear or circular gradient with a smooth transition from one color [...]
The release of the web browser qutebrowser 2.3 has been announced, providing a minimal graphical interface that does not distract from content viewing, and a navigation system styled after the Vim text editor, built entirely 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 [...]
The AlmaLinux 8.4 distribution, initially released for x86_64 systems, now supports the ARM/AArch64 architecture. Three types of ISO images are available for download: bootable (650 MB), minimal (1.6 GB), and full (7 GB). This distribution is fully binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 and can be used as a transparent replacement for CentOS 8. The changes are limited to rebranding and the removal of specific [...]
The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) has released corrective updates for the Suricata 6.0.3 and 5.0.7 network intrusion detection and prevention system, which fix the vulnerability CVE-2021-35063, deemed critically severe. The issue allows bypassing any Suricata analyzers and checks. The vulnerability is caused by disabling flow analysis for packets with a non-zero ACK value but no ACK bit set, which allowed [...]
Researchers from Google Project Zero discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2021-29657) in the KVM hypervisor included in the Linux kernel, which allows bypassing guest system isolation and executing code on the host environment. The issue affects code used on systems with AMD processors (kvm-amd.ko module) and does not manifest for Intel processors. A working exploit prototype has been developed by researchers, allowing execution from the guest […]
The release of SeaMonkey 2.53.8, a suite of internet applications that combines a web browser, email client, RSS/Atom feed aggregator, and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer, has been announced. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client Chatzilla, the DOM Inspector for web developers, and the Lightning calendar/planner. This release incorporates fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]
GitHub introduced the GitHub Copilot project, which develops an intelligent assistant capable of generating typical constructs while coding. The system was developed in collaboration with OpenAI and uses the OpenAI Codex machine learning platform, trained on a large dataset of source texts available in public GitHub repositories. Unlike traditional code completion systems, GitHub Copilot can generate quite complex blocks […]
System76, a company specializing in manufacturing laptops, PCs, and servers pre-installed with Linux, has released version 21.04 of the Pop!_OS distribution. Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu 21.04 and comes with its own desktop environment, COSMIC. The project's developments are licensed under GPLv3. ISO images are available for the x86_64 architecture with variants for NVIDIA (2.8 GB) and Intel/AMD (2.4 GB) graphics chips. […]
A new version of the Ultimaker Cura 4.10 package is available, providing a graphical interface for preparing models for 3D printing (slicing). Based on the model, the program determines the 3D printer's working scenario when applying each layer sequentially. In the simplest case, it is enough to import the model in one of the supported formats (STL, OBJ, X3D, 3MF, BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG), select the speed, material, and quality settings, and […]
GitHub has lifted the blockage on the RE3 project repository, which was disabled in February following a complaint from Take-Two Interactive, the owner of game-related intellectual property for GTA III and GTA Vice City. The blockage was lifted after the RE3 developers submitted a counter-complaint challenging the initial decision. The appeal stated that the project is developed based on reverse engineering, […]
In Firefox 91, files opened after downloading in external applications will be automatically saved in the default 'Downloads' directory instead of a temporary directory. It is worth noting that Firefox offers two download modes — save and open in the application. In the latter case, the downloaded file was saved in a temporary directory, which was deleted after the session ended. Such behavior […]
Following the switch to HTTPS by default in the address bar, Chrome has added a setting that forces the use of HTTPS for all requests to websites, including transitions through direct links. When the new mode is activated, trying to open a page via 'http://' will automatically attempt to first open the resource via 'https://'; if this attempt fails, a warning will be displayed […]