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The UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after Canonical withdrew from it, has released the OTA-17 (over-the-air) firmware update. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, now renamed Lomiri. The Ubuntu Touch OTA-17 update is available for smartphones including OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 […]
The release of the Linux distribution OpenIPC 2.1 has been announced, intended for use in surveillance cameras instead of the default firmware, most of which become outdated due to a lack of updates from manufacturers. This release is positioned as experimental and, unlike the stable branch, is built not on the OpenWRT package base but using buildroot. The project's developments are distributed under the MIT license. Firmware images are prepared for IP cameras on […]
Mathy Vanhoef, the author of the KRACK attack on wireless networks, has revealed information about 12 vulnerabilities affecting various wireless devices. The identified issues are collectively named FragAttacks and encompass nearly all commonly used wireless chips and access points — of the 75 devices tested, each was susceptible to at least one of the proposed attack methods. The problems are divided […]
IBM has introduced the CodeNet initiative, aimed at providing researchers with a dataset to experiment with machine learning methods for creating translators from one programming language to another, as well as code generators and analyzers. CodeNet includes a collection of 14 million code examples that solve 4,053 typical programming problems. In total, the collection comprises about 500 million lines of code […]
A new release of the decentralized social network building platform Hubzilla 5.6 has been published. The project provides a communication server that integrates with web publishing systems, featuring a transparent identification system and access control tools in decentralized Fediverse networks. The project code is written in PHP and JavaScript and is distributed under the MIT license, with support for MySQL and its forks as data storage […]
Microsoft has released an implementation of the eBPF subsystem for Windows, allowing the execution of arbitrary handlers operating at the kernel level of the operating system. eBPF provides a built-in bytecode interpreter in the kernel, enabling the creation of user space-loadable network operation handlers, monitoring access, and tracking system performance. eBPF has been a part of the Linux kernel since version 3.18 and allows for the processing of incoming/outgoing […]
The release of CoreBoot 4.14 has been presented, as part of which a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS is being developed. A total of 215 developers participated in creating the new version, preparing 3660 changes. Key innovations include: initial support for AMD Cezanne APU and a general code reorganization to support AMD SoC. The standard code type for AMD SoC has been unified, allowing for improvements in the code […].
In the developing Proton project, a revamped user interface will be offered in Firefox 89, scheduled for release on June 1. This includes another radical change that disrupts the usual workflow with the browser. As part of the redesign, the '...' (Page Actions) menu embedded in the address bar has been removed, which previously allowed users to bookmark pages, send links to Pocket, pin tabs, and perform […].
The OpenPOWER Foundation has announced a new project called LibreBMC, aimed at creating a fully open BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) for servers used in data centers. LibreBMC will develop as a collaborative project, with companies like Google, IBM, Antmicro, Yadro, and Raptor Computing Systems already joining the initiative. The BMC is a specialized controller installed in servers that has its own […].
After more than a year of development, the release of DragonFlyBSD 6.0 has been published. This operating system features a hybrid kernel and was created in 2003 for the alternative development of the FreeBSD 4.x branch. Notable features of DragonFly BSD include a distributed versioned file system called HAMMER, support for booting 'virtual' kernel instances as user processes, and the capability of caching file system data and metadata on SSDs, considering contextual variant symbolic […].
The Ubuntu RescuePack 21.05 build is available for download, enabling a complete antivirus check to detect and remove various malware and computer viruses from the system without launching the main operating system. Using an external boot disk prevents malware from countering the neutralization and recovery of an infected system. This build can be viewed as a Linux alternative to disks such as Dr.Web LiveDisk and Kaspersky […]
The developers of the Illumos project, which continues the development of the OpenSolaris kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and basic set of system utilities, have decided to discontinue support for the 64-bit SPARC architecture. The only supported architecture for Illumos left is x86_64 (support for 32-bit x86 systems was stopped in 2018). If enthusiasts are available, it may be possible to implement more modern architectures in Illumos […]