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The developers of LibreOffice are considering alternatives to the use of the label "Personal Edition".

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The head of the governing board of The Document Foundation, which oversees the development of the LibreOffice open-source suite, announced that the board has analyzed the community's response to the intention of branding the office suite as 'Personal Edition'. A revised version of the marketing plan, which will take into account the suggestions and wishes of community representatives, is expected to be published next Monday. The final decision on adding the label will be made by […]

Google has established an organization to manage the trademarks of open projects.

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Google has established a new nonprofit organization, 'Open Usage Commons', aimed at protecting the identity of open projects and assisting with trademark management (project name and logo), formulating usage guidelines for trademarks, and ensuring their compliance. The organization's goal is to expand the philosophy and definition of Open Source concerning trademarks. The developers are the owners of the related intellectual property concerning the code, […]

Minetest 5.3.0 has been released

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Minetest is an open-source engine for creating voxel games using Lua. A substantial number of games, mods, and texture packs have already been developed for it. Version 5.3.0 has brought many updates, including: Reinstated support for Android Smoother camera movement More precise controls The standard keys for changing views and enabling the minimap have been changed to C and V […]

nginx 1.19.1

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Nginx 1.19.1 has been released, marking the latest iteration in the current mainline branch of the nginx web server. The mainline branch is actively developed, while only bug fixes are applied to the current stable branch (1.18). Changes include: the directives lingering_close, lingering_time, and lingering_timeout now function with HTTP/2. Additionally, any excess data sent by the backend is now always discarded. Furthermore, when receiving too short a […]

MaXX Interactive Desktop v2.1

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A new version of MaXX Interactive Desktop has been released – the true successor to the great IRIX Interactive Desktop, which can only be found in SGI systems. This is not just a theme or skin over an existing window manager. This project aims to revive the IRIX Interactive Desktop and continue its evolution as if SGI still existed…. This release is considered a 'base' release. By base release […]

What is better – Oracle or Redis or How to justify the choice of platform

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– Unbelievable, – she said loudly, addressing no one in particular. – Unbelievable! It’s plainly stated – the primary goal of society is to extract profit in the interests of shareholders. Just think about it! They fear nothing! Yuliy Dubov, 'The Lesser Evil' Upon seeing such a headline, you may have already concluded that the article is either nonsense or a provocation. But don’t rush to […]

Flawless: Testing the most powerful SSD Kingston KC2500

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The rapid development of SSD controllers and NAND memory forces manufacturers to keep pace with progress. Therefore, Kingston has announced the release of the new SSD KC2500, with reading speeds of up to 3.5 GB/s and writing speeds of up to 2.9 GB/s. The new models are available in four sizes from 250 GB to 2 TB, all in the M.2 2280 form factor, equipped with […]

Building a role model for access management. Part one, preparation.

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I currently work at a software vendor company, particularly focusing on access management solutions. My experience 'from a previous life' is related to the client side – a large financial organization. Back then, our access control group in the information security department could not boast significant competencies in IdM. We learned a lot through the process, and we had to go through many trials to establish a system within the company […]

Vulnerabilities in libc and the IPv6 stack of FreeBSD

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Several vulnerabilities have been addressed in FreeBSD that allow a local user to escalate their privileges in the system: CVE-2020-7458 — a vulnerability in the posix_spawnp mechanism provided in libc for process creation, exploited by specifying a value that is too large in the PATH environment variable. This vulnerability may lead to data being written beyond the memory area allocated for the stack and allows overwriting the contents of subsequent locations […]

Google and Canonical have implemented Flutter for creating desktop applications for Linux

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Google and Canonical have launched a joint initiative to support the development of graphical applications based on the Flutter framework for desktop Linux systems. The Flutter user interface framework is written in Dart (the runtime engine for executing applications is written in C++) and allows for the creation of universal applications that work across different platforms, being considered an alternative to React Native. Despite the availability of Flutter […]

The New Optical Character Recognition System EasyOCR

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The EasyOCR project develops a new optical character recognition system that supports over 40 languages, including English, German, French, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, and Lithuanian. Cyrillic-based languages are not currently supported, but their addition is planned. The code is written in Python using the PyTorch framework and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Ready to download are provided […]

Guide to Sysmon Threat Analysis, Part 1

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This article is the first part of a series on Sysmon threat analysis. All other parts of the series: Part 1. Introduction to Sysmon Log Analysis (we are here) Part 2. Using Data from Sysmon Events to Identify Threats Part 3. In-Depth Analysis of Sysmon Threats Using Graphs If you work in information security, you often have to deal with ongoing attacks. If […]

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