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Release of the composite server Weston 7.0

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A stable release of the Weston 7.0 composite server has been published, advancing technologies that support full Wayland protocol integration in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other user environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, televisions, and other consumer devices. […]

The yaxim XMPP client has turned 10 years old

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The developers of yaxim, the free XMPP client for Android, are celebrating the project's ten-year anniversary. Ten years ago, on August 23, 2009, the first commit of yaxim was made, meaning that today this XMPP client is officially half as old as the protocol it operates on. Since then, many changes have occurred both in XMPP itself and in the Android system. 2009: […]

Release of the Enlightenment 0.23 user environment

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After nearly two years of development, the Enlightenment 0.23 user environment has been released, built on the EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Library) and Elementary widget libraries. The release is available in source code, but packages for distributions are not yet prepared. The most notable innovations in Enlightenment 0.23 include: Significantly improved support for running under Wayland; Transition to the Meson build system; A new Bluetooth module has been added […]

Not by scanning alone, or how to build a vulnerability management process in 9 steps

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On July 4th, we held a large seminar on vulnerability management. Today we publish the transcript of a presentation by Andrey Novikov from Qualys. He will discuss the steps necessary to establish a vulnerability management workflow. Spoiler: we won't get to scanning until the mid-point. Step #1: Determine the maturity level of vulnerability management processes At the very beginning, it's essential to understand at what level […]

Flow protocols as a tool for monitoring the security of the internal network

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When it comes to monitoring the security of an internal corporate or departmental network, many people associate it with controlling information leaks and implementing DLP solutions. But if we try to clarify the question and ask how you detect attacks within the internal network, the answer will typically involve mentioning intrusion detection systems (IDS). And what was once the only […].

Google has discontinued the use of dessert names for Android releases

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Google announced the discontinuation of assigning sweet and dessert names to Android platform releases in alphabetical order and is transitioning to a standard numeric numbering system. The previously used scheme was borrowed from the practice of naming internal branches used by Google engineers but caused a lot of confusion among users and third-party developers. Thus, the currently developed Android Q release is now officially […].

The Unix operating system has turned 50 years old

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In August 1969, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie from Bell Labs, dissatisfied with the size and complexity of the Multics operating system, after a month of intense work, introduced the first working prototype of the Unix operating system, created in assembly language for the PDP-7 minicomputer. Around the same time, a high-level programming language called B was developed, which evolved into the language […] several years later.

Release of CUPS printing system 2.3 with change of project code license

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Nearly three years after the creation of the previous significant branch, Apple has released version 2.3 of the open printing system CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), used in macOS and most Linux distributions. The development of CUPS is fully overseen by Apple, which acquired Easy Software Products, the creator of CUPS, in 2007. Starting with this release, the code license has been changed […]

A modder used AI to enhance the textures of the Dust 2 map from Counter-Strike 1.6.

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Recently, fans have often been using neural networks to enhance classic iconic projects. This includes Doom, Final Fantasy VII, and now a piece of Counter-Strike 1.6. YouTube channel author 3kliksphilip used artificial intelligence to increase the resolution of the Dust 2 map textures — one of the most popular locations in the old competitive shooter from Valve. The modder recorded a video showcasing the changes. […]

You can now build Docker images in werf using a regular Dockerfile

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Better late than never. Or how we nearly made a serious mistake by not having support for regular Dockerfiles for building application images. This is about werf — a GitOps utility that integrates with any CI/CD system and manages the entire application lifecycle, allowing you to: build and publish images, deploy applications in Kubernetes, and remove unused images using special policies. […]

Updates of free libraries for working with Visio and AbiWord formats

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The Document Liberation project, initiated by LibreOffice developers to separate libraries for working with various file formats, has released two new libraries for Microsoft Visio and AbiWord formats. With this standalone delivery, the project’s libraries enable work with different formats not only in LibreOffice but also in any external open project. For example, […]

IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Intel have formed an alliance to advance open data protection technologies.

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The Linux Foundation has announced the establishment of the Confidential Computing Consortium, aimed at developing open technologies and standards related to secure data processing in memory and confidential computing. Companies such as Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, Google, IBM, Intel, Tencent, and Microsoft have already joined the collaborative project, intending to develop technologies for data isolation in a neutral environment […]

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