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The release of the Python library for scientific computing, NumPy 1.21, is available, aimed at working with multidimensional arrays and matrices, offering a large collection of functions implementing various algorithms related to matrix operations. NumPy is one of the most in-demand libraries used for scientific calculations. The project code is written in Python with optimizations in C and is distributed […]
A corrective release of Firefox 89.0.2 is available, addressing freezes occurring on Linux platforms when using software rendering mode in the WebRender compositing system (gfx.webrender.software in about:config). Software rendering is used on systems with older video cards or problematic graphics drivers that experience stability issues or cannot offload the rendering of page content to the GPU (WebRender uses […]
The international OASIS consortium, which works on developing and promoting open standards, has approved the final version of the OpenDocument 1.3 (ODF) specification as an OASIS standard. The next step will be to promote OpenDocument 1.3 as an international ISO/IEC standard. ODF is an XML-based, application- and platform-independent file format for storing documents that contain text, spreadsheets, diagrams, and graphics. […]
Brave, the company behind the privacy-focused web browser of the same name, has introduced a beta version of the search engine search.brave.com, which is closely integrated with the browser and does not track visitors. The search engine is designed to maintain privacy and is built on technology from the now-defunct search engine Cliqz, which was acquired by Brave. To ensure confidentiality while using the search engine, search queries, clicks […]
The release of the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.103.3 has been formed, featuring the following changes: The file mirrors.dat has been renamed to freshclam.dat as ClamAV has transitioned to using a content delivery network (CDN) instead of a mirror network, and the specified dat file no longer contains information about mirrors. freshclam.dat retains the UUID used in ClamAV's User-Agent. The need for this renaming arises from the fact that in scripts […]
The developers of the Android-x86 project, which is being advanced by an independent community to develop the Android platform port for the x86 architecture, have released the sixth stable build based on Android 8.1. This build includes fixes and enhancements that improve Android's performance on the x86 architecture. Universal Live builds of Android-x86 8.1-r6 are available for both x86 32-bit (640 MB) and x86_64 (847 […]
Corrective updates have been released for the stable branch of the DNS server BIND 9.16.18 and the experimental branch 9.17.15 under development, which addresses a serious bug that appeared in the releases of BIND 9.16.17 and 9.17.14 published last week (the day after these releases, developers warned about the issue and recommended not to install versions 9.16.17 and 9.17.14). Versions 9.16.17 and 9.17.14 […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2021-33624) has been found in the Linux kernel that allows the eBPF subsystem to bypass protections against Spectre-class vulnerabilities, enabling the determination of memory contents by creating conditions for speculative execution of certain operations. A certain sequence of commands in privileged code is required for a Spectre attack, leading to the speculative execution of instructions. By manipulating the BPF programs passed for execution, it is possible […]
A new release of the Python library plotly.py 5.0 is available, providing tools for data visualization and various types of statistics. The rendering uses the plotly.js library, which supports over 30 types of 2D and 3D graphs, charts, and maps (the output can be saved as an image or HTML file for interactive display in a browser). The plotly.py code is distributed under the MIT license. In this new release, support for Python […]
The release of Wine Launcher version 1.4.55, which develops a Sandbox environment for running Windows games, is now available. Key features include: isolation from the system, a separate Wine and Prefix for each game, compression into SquashFS images for space savings, a modern launcher style, automatic tracking of changes in the Prefix directory, and generation of patches from this. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Significant changes compared to […]
A new version of the Tor Browser 10.0.18, focused on ensuring anonymity, security, and privacy, is available. The browser concentrates on providing anonymity, security, and privacy, with all traffic routed only through the Tor network. Direct connection through the current system's regular network connection is impossible, preventing tracking of the user's real IP address (in the case of browser hacking, attackers may gain access to system […]
APNIC, the registry responsible for allocating IP addresses in the Asia-Pacific region, reported an incident resulting in the SQL dump of the Whois service being exposed, containing confidential data and password hashes. Notably, this is not the first leak of personal data at APNIC — in 2017, the Whois database was already publicly available due to staff oversight. In […]