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Alan Pope, former Engineering and Community Engagement Manager at Canonical, has highlighted a new wave of attacks targeting users of the Snap Store app catalog. Instead of registering new accounts, attackers have started to purchase expired domains associated with the email addresses of registered snap package developers. After acquiring the domain, attackers redirect email traffic to their server and receive […]
Google has released the web browser Chrome 144. At the same time, a stable version of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. Chrome differs from Chromium in its use of Google logos, having a crash reporting system, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, constant Sandbox isolation, providing keys for Google API, and transmitting RLZ parameters […]
Nearly 10 years after the release of version 3.0 and 20 years after the project's inception, the release of the JavaScript library jQuery 4.0 has occurred, which is used by 70.9% of the 10 million most visited websites according to W3Techs. The jQuery code is distributed under the MIT license. The jQuery 4.0 release includes changes that break backward compatibility, but developers assure that most […]
The ChaosBSD project develops a periodically synchronized fork of FreeBSD aimed at testing drivers before their inclusion in the main FreeBSD release. The project provides a platform for developing and porting new drivers, as well as for testing, fine-tuning, and stabilizing partially functional, unstable, and unfinished drivers, the progress of which does not allow their inclusion in the main FreeBSD release. After stabilization, such drivers will […]
The release of the console utility nvtop 3.3.0 has been published, designed for interactive monitoring of GPU and hardware accelerator performance. The utility allows users to visually track workload, memory consumption, and GPU frequency changes, as well as view the processes that are most actively stressing the GPU. Supported GPUs and accelerators include those from AMD, Apple (M1, M2), Google (TPU), Huawei (Ascend), Intel (i915/Xe), NVIDIA, Qualcomm (Adreno), Broadcom (VideoCore), Rockchip, […]
Another weekly development report on KDE has been published, presenting the first batch of changes for the KDE Plasma 6.7 branch, which is expected to be released in June. Development of the new branch began after transitioning the KDE Plasma 6.6 branch to beta testing and freezing the associated codebase from any functional changes (only bug fixes are allowed). The release of KDE Plasma 6.6 […]
Researchers from Google Project Zero have detailed the technique for creating a working exploit that allows remote code execution with Linux kernel privileges via an SMS or RCS message containing a specially crafted audio attachment. The attack is carried out without any user action, including not requiring the user to view or listen to the received message. The exploit involves two vulnerabilities: in the library […]
A patch release of Firefox 147.0.1 is now available, featuring three fixes: Temporarily disabled the 'Compression Dictionary Transport' mechanism introduced in release 147 due to compatibility issues with some websites using this technology. For example, there have been issues accessing the ChatGPT site. To restore support for content compression via server-provided dictionaries, you can use the setting 'network.http.dictionaries.enable' on the about:config page. Fixed an issue […]
The non-commercial certificate authority Let’s Encrypt, managed by the community and providing certificates free of charge to everyone, has begun issuing free certificates for IP addresses and also provided the option to obtain TLS certificates with a lifespan limited to 160 hours (6 days). On May 13, they intend to add support for optional issuance of certificates valid for 45 days. According to the previously announced plan, by February 10, 2027, the maximum […]
The release of project D7VK 1.2 has been published, enhancing the implementation of graphical APIs Direct3D 5, 6, and 7 proposed by Microsoft in 1997, 1998, and 1999. D7VK operates by translating calls to the Vulkan API and allows retro games based on Direct3D 5, 6, and 7 to run on Linux using Wine. The project code is written in C++ […]
The first alpha release of the GNOME 50 desktop environment has been presented. The release is scheduled for March 18, 2026. For testing the alpha version of GNOME 50, an ISO image (3 GB) based on the GNOME OS distribution has been created. A key change in the alpha version of GNOME 50 is the removal of the code for supporting the X11 protocol from the GNOME Shell user interface and the Mutter compositing server. In the GDM display manager […]
Changes have been added to the OpenBSD-current codebase, which will serve as the basis for the OpenBSD 7.9 release in the spring, to support operation as a guest system in virtualization environments based on Apple Hypervisor. OpenBSD builds for the arm64 architecture can be used in virtual machines on macOS on hardware with Apple Silicon ARM chips. The changes are related to ensuring functionality in the virtio driver viogpu […]