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After two and a half years of development, Krita 5.3.0 and 6.0.0, a raster graphics editor designed for artists and illustrators, have been released. The editor supports multi-layer image processing, provides tools for working with various color models, and offers tools for digital painting, sketching, and texture creation. Self-contained images in AppImage format are available for installation. Linux, APK packages […]
The Pine64 open-source community has announced the PineTime Pro smartwatch, which comes with the project's own open-source InfiniTime firmware. Unlike the older PineTime, the new model is built on a custom chip and features an AMOLED screen, GPS, a side-mounted Digital Crown, and new sensors, including a blood oxygen sensor. To extend […]
NVIDIA has released the NVIDIA proprietary driver version 595.58.03 (the first stable release of the new 595 branch). The driver is available for Linux (ARM64, x86_64), FreeBSD (x86_64), and Solaris (x86_64). NVIDIA 595.x became the thirteenth stable branch after NVIDIA open-sourced its kernel-level components. The kernel module sources nvidia.ko, nvidia-drm.ko (Direct Rendering Manager), nvidia-modeset.ko, and nvidia-uvm.ko (Unified Video Memory) […]
Firefox 149 is available. Linux: Whenever possible, the file chooser dialog provided by the XDG portal org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser is used (it is better integrated with the desktop environment and has more features) rather than the standard GTK3 interface. It is now possible to arrange the contents of two tabs side by side. The corresponding command will appear in the tab context menu when one or both tabs are selected (browser.tabs.splitView.enabled). Shield icons […]
The first public release of the VitruvianOS project took place. Since 2019, it has been developing an operating system based on Debian/Linux, which brings the simplicity, responsiveness, and flexibility of BeOS to modern hardware and provides API compatibility with applications built for Haiku and BeOS. The project's code is written in C++ and licensed under the GPLv2. VitruvianOS uses user-space components from Haiku. Instead of […]
The main nginx 1.29.7 branch has been released, continuing development of new features. The parallel stable branch, nginx 1.28.3, has also been released, containing only changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. These updates fix six vulnerabilities, three of which lead to buffer overflows. Four of these vulnerabilities have been assigned a high severity level (8.8 or 8.5 […]
Oracle has released Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 (UEK 8.2), a kernel variant Linux, developed for use in the distribution Oracle Linux as an alternative to the standard kernel package from Red Hat Enterprise LinuxThe kernel is available for the x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. The kernel source code, including a breakdown of individual patches, is published in Oracle's public Git repository. The Unbreakable branch […]
Norwegian startup Lace Lithography, backed by Microsoft, has raised $40 million in its first funding round to develop a lithography scanner that uses a beam of helium atoms to process silicon wafers. The company claims its technology will enable the creation of chip features 10 times smaller than existing lithography systems, with a beam width of just 0,1 nm—ASML's EUV scanners use […]
Arm announced the AGI CPU, its first production product and the first in-house designed processor for data centers. The company says the AGI CPU marks a shift from licensing intellectual property and compute subsystems to providing ready-to-use chips for AI infrastructure. The AGI processor is targeted at what Arm calls agent-based AI infrastructure, where […]
The developers of the LiteLLM Python library, which has 95 million downloads per month and 3.5 million in the last 24 hours, reported a project compromise. Attackers were able to intercept the maintainer's credentials and publish two malicious releases to PyPI—1.82.7 and 1.82.8—containing code for stealing keys and passwords from users' systems. The malicious versions have now been removed from PyPI, and […]
A study has been published claiming that Telega, an alternative Telegram client, contains modifications that enable a man-in-the-middle attack and disable key elements of Telegram's cryptographic protection. The Telega client uses the original code. Android- Telegram client, distributed under the GPLv2 license, but does not disclose the changes it makes, contrary to license requirements. The conclusion regarding the possibility of intercepting user traffic is based on several technical findings discovered after decompiling […]
Firefox 149 has been released, and updates have been released for previous long-term support branches—140.9.0 and 115.34.0. Firefox 150, scheduled for release on April 21, will enter beta testing in the coming hours. Key new features in Firefox 149 (1, 2, 3): Split View support has been enabled, allowing users to view […]