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▪️ Parrot is based on the Debian package base and includes a collection of tools for system security testing, forensic analysis and reverse engineering. The focus is on tools for verifying cloud systems and Internet of Things devices. Cryptographic tools and programs to provide secure network access are also included, including offerings for TOR, I2P, anonsurf, gpg, tccf, zulucrypt, veracrypt, truecrypt and luks. https://www.parrotsec.org/ ▪️ Gnoppix Linux is aimed at Live-mode security researchers who want to maintain privacy and leave no traces on the system after their experiments. The distribution is based on Debian and the Kali Linux project. The project has been developing since 2003 and was previously based on the Knoppix Live distribution. Bootable builds are prepared for x86_64 and i386 architectures (3.9 GB). https://www.gnoppix.org/

The OneScript 1.9.0 (https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=60489) project (https://oscript.io/), which develops a 1C-independent cross-platform virtual machine for executing 1C:Enterprise scripts, has been released. The system is self-sufficient and allows you to execute 1C scripts without installing the 1C:Enterprise platform and its specific libraries. The OneScript virtual machine can be used both for direct execution of 1C scripts and for embedding support for their execution in applications written in other languages. In the new version: ▪️ Added the "KnownTypes()" method to the "Reflector" object, which returns all registered types as a "Table ofValues". ▪️ The "BufferBinaryData.Split()" method has been implemented. When calling the method via "Reflector", the method signature and the number of parameters are controlled. ▪️ Documentation was improved, assembly instructions were added to the README file. ▪️ Display of private (not exported) variables of objects is implemented in the debugger. Indexing of variables has been adjusted and the problem with displaying incorrect values in some situations has been fixed.

trippy - the tool combines traceroute and ping functionality and is designed to help analyze network problems. 📌 Read more: https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy

- Tooltips have been updated (color indicators and support for longer entries); - The Canvas type panel now has zoom (magnification); - It is now possible to display changes in percentages; - Audit of anonymous connections and the ability to limit them quantitatively; - Export table views to PDF files; 📌 Read more: https://grafana.com/blog/2024/01/23/grafana-10.3-release-canvas-panel-updates-multi-stack-data-sources-and-more/

- The feature will be introduced in March with the release of iOS 17.4. For now only in Europe; - All stores will have to pass Apple's review, and then they will be available for download. Apps within stores are no longer moderated by Apple; - Third-party stores will not pay a commission to Apple; - Game streaming apps are finally allowed in the AppStore: GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud, and so on. Theoretically, it will be possible to change the region and quietly download banking apps from third-party stores. Let's wait for spring. https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050200/apple-third-party-app-stores-allowed-iphone-ios-europe-digital-markets-act

AMD has confirmed the existence of processors codenamed Strix Halo, their ID (GFX1150/1151) and series names have already appeared in the ROMc database. These processors will be some of AMD's most unusual consumer CPUs in recent years, with plans for up to 16 processor cores and an integrated graphics processor with 40 CUs, based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture. These processors will effectively form a new class of consumer APU with an ultra-performance GPU and a performance CPU, which is AMD's answer to the Apple M, although the latter will be more power efficient.

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G has 8 cores, 16MB of level 3 cache memory, 4.2-5.1GHz clock speed, 65W TDP. Price: $330. AMD Ryzen 5 8600G is a 6-core, 12-threaded processor, 16MB of level 3 cache memory, 4.3-5.0 GHz, price: $230. Test results showed that Ryzen 7 8700G provides 64% performance gain in multi-threaded test and 37% performance gain in single-threaded test (relative to Ryzen 5 5700G). The Ryzen 5 8600G outperformed the Ryzen 5 5600G by 50% in the multi-threaded test and 29% in the single-threaded test. This CPU upgrade is exciting, but it's worth noting that the performance difference might not have been as significant if AMD released successors every year.

Despite this, connection to a PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 bus does not affect performance. The new drive offers maximum sequential read and write speeds of 5000MB/s and 4200MB/s respectively, with random read and write performance of 700k IOPS and 800k IOPS respectively. The drive is available in 1TB and 2TB capacities, with 600 TBW and 1200 TBW respectively, priced at $125 and $210 in the US.

Tesla plans to start production of a new electric car for the mass market in 2025. It is a compact crossover codenamed Redwood, which will allow the company to compete with cheaper electric cars on the market. Tesla CEO Ilon Musk has been aggressively pushing the concept of affordable electric cars and unmanned robotaxis. The launch of the $25,000 car was promised back in 2020, but plans have been delayed. Production of the Redwood model is scheduled to begin in June 2025, with a weekly production rate of 10,000 cars.

The results of analyzing (https://blog.aquasec.com/deceptive-deprecation-the-truth-about-npm-deprecated-packages) statistics about 50 thousand most downloaded packages in the NPM repository showed that 7500 (15%) of the most downloaded packages were related to deprecated packages and discontinued projects. The Dependency-Deprecated-Checker utility (https://github.com/Aqua-Nautilus/Dependency-Deprecated-Checker), published under the MIT license, is proposed to simplify the identification of deprecated packages among the dependencies used in one's project. In absolute terms, the distribution of deprecated packages and packages without repository references in NPM is extrapolated to be about 2.1 billion downloads per week.

Valve has published an update to Proton 8.0-5, a project based on the Wine project codebase and aimed at ensuring that game applications created for Windows and available in the Steam catalog run on Linux. Among the changes in the new version of Proton: - Provided support for extended dynamic range (HDR) on hardware supporting this technology. - Added support for games: ~ Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes ~ Welcome to Princeland ~ Red Tie Runner ~ Simon the Sorcerer: 25th Anniversary Edition ~ Assassin's Creed Mirage - DXVK layer has been updated to version 2.3-21-g1b31aa5d And other changes.

Data is stored in a database, can be encrypted before transmission, and it is possible to deploy your own server for synchronization. 📌 https://atuin.sh/ 📌 https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin video_2024-01-24_11-24-06.mp4

Published the RubyWM project (https://github.com/vidarh/rubywm), developing a window manager based on the X11 protocol written in Ruby, including a driver for working with the X11 protocol. RubyWM supports virtual desktops and can use both mosaic (tailing) window layout and arbitrary positioning of windows on the desktop. The window manager is marked as experimental, but is already used in the daily work of the author of the project. To control the window manager, X11 ClientMessage events are used, which can be generated by the xdotool utility. To handle keyboard combinations, sxhkd (https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd) is used. Preview screenshots:

A discussion (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2024-January/002823.html) was initiated on the process of incorporating Rust code into the base system. In the course of the committers' discussion, the cost and benefit of implementation were determined. The cost of including Rust support will be doubling the build time, and the benefit will be simplifying the development of some utilities. The list of utilities that there is an intention to rewrite in Rust if Rust support were to appear in the base system: ctl-exporter (https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=f7896015fcde) (export ctlstat statistics to Prometheus). Tests fusefs (https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/tests/sys/fs/fusefs). devd (https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/sbin/devd) . zfsd (https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/cddl/usr.sbin/zfsd). nscd (https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/usr.sbin/nscd). Components of the 802.11ac and Lightning stacks running in user space. freebsd-kpi-r14-0 (https://crates.io/crates/freebsd-kpi-r14-0). A list of Rust language ports that could be ported to the base system, if Rust support were to appear on the base system: gstat-rs (https://crates.io/crates/gstat). geom-exporter. nfs-exporter (https://crates.io/crates/freebsd-nfs-exporter). virtiofsd-rs (https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd). jail-exporter (https://crates.io/crates/jail_exporter). Various jail-environment management systems. pjdfstest (https://github.com/musikid/pjdfstest). pf-rs (https://crates.io/crates/pf-rs). benchpmc (https://crates.io/crates/benchpmc). FreeBSD Rust-related applications, which are suggested to be left in ports: fsx-rs (https://crates.io/crates/fsx). ztop (https://crates.io/crates/ztop). iocage-provision (https://crates.io/crates/iocage-provision). rsblk (https://crates.io/crates/rsblk). xfuse (https://github.com/KhaledEmaraDev/xfuse).

Jens Exbo, creator of io_uring and the CFQ, Deadline and Noop I/O schedulers, has continued his experiments with I/O optimization in the Linux kernel. This time he focused on the BFQ and mq-deadline I/O schedulers, which proved to be a bottleneck at least in the case of high-speed NVMe drives. As the study showed, one of the key reasons for suboptimal performance of I/O scheduler subsystems was problems with competing locks ("lock contention", an attempt to get a lock held by another thread). Thanks to measures aimed at reducing lock contention, such as serialization of dispatch and query insertion, the speed of the schedulers increased in some situations by times (in IOPS). When testing the BFQ scheduler with the fio utility, performance increased from 567K to 1551K IOPS, and lock competition decreased from 96% to 30%. In the case of mq-deadline, performance after applying the proposed patches when using NVMe storage increased from 1070K to 2560K input/output operations per second (IOPS), and lock competition decreased from 94% to 23%.

After two years of development, Ocrad 0.29 (Optical Character Recognition), a text recognition system developed under the auspices of the GNU Project, has been released. Ocrad can be used both in the form of a library for integrating OCR functions into other applications and as a standalone utility that produces text in UTF-8 or 8-bit encodings based on the input image. In the new version: ▪️ Recognition of "L" lettering with slanted right part has been improved. ▪️ When using the '-o' ('--output') option, it is now possible to create missing intermediate directories specified in a given file path. ▪️ MAKEINFO variable added to the configure build file and Makefile.in. ▪️ Diagnostic messages related to file operations have been converted to the form 'PROGRAM: FILE: MESSAGE'. ▪️ In messages about using incorrect command line arguments, the argument and option name are displayed. https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03251.html

The new Exynos 2400 single-chip system impresses with its unique 10-core processor configuration. Its features include a Cortex-X4 super core, a powerful Xclipse 940 GPU based on RDNA 3 architecture, support for LPDDR5X and UFS 4.0 memory, and impressive 5G and camera capabilities.

Intel plans to release new Arrow Lake processors this year, including desktop models. One of these processors has already appeared online, although its name is not yet known. It will feature 8 large cores, 16 small cores and probably another small core. It will also include 8 AI cores and a GT1 iGPU with a small number of compute units, running at 3.5GHz with a TDP of 125W. These new Arrow Lake-S processors are mostly similar to the Raptor Lake and RL Refresh lineup, but feature new architectures for the cores, a new iGPU, and Intel's new 20A process technology. Also, the amount of Level 3 cache memory per core will increase by one and a half times to 3MB. However, Intel said that the Arrow Lake architectures will just be improved versions of the architectures from Raptor Lake, and the performance gains will only be around 5%.

We are making dbus-broker our default implementation of D-Bus, for improved performance, reliability and integration with systemd. For the foreseeable future we will still support the use of dbus-daemon, the previous implementation. Pacman will ask you whether to install dbus-broker-units or dbus-daemon-units. We recommend picking the default. For a more detailed rationale, please see our RFC 25 (https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/blob/master/rfcs/0025-dbus-broker-default.rst). https://archlinux.org/news/making-dbus-broker-our-default-d-bus-daemon/

A report has been published (https://pointieststick.com/2024/01/19/this-week-in-kde-auto-save-in-dolphin-and-better-fractional-scaling/) on preparations for the KDE 6 release scheduled for February 28. Among the changes included in the master branch (to appear in KDE Plasma 6.1 and KDE Gears 24.05): ▪️ Dolphin file manager now automatically saves open windows and tabs, which are now restored in case of a crash or system restart. Support for splitting split view content into a separate window has been implemented. ▪️ Added support for displaying drop-down menus used in some types of PDF documents in the Okular viewer. ▪️ Added display of wireless channel number in addition to frequency to the network settings applet. ▪️ The screenshot creation system has provided additional wildcards for use in screenshot and screencast file names, such as <UnixTime> to substitute epoch time and <h>/<hh> to substitute hours in 12-hour format.

The device is available in a base variant with 256GB of flash storage for $3,500, as well as versions with 512GB and 1TB of flash storage for $3,700 and $3,900, respectively. Visually impaired buyers can order Zeiss corrective lenses, while not having to wear glasses under the headset, for an additional $150. An Apple Care+ warranty option is also available for $500. In the maximum package, the cost goes up to $4,800. The headset runs VisionOS and offers control via eye movements, hand gestures, or through Siri. Some native apps (YouTube and Netflix) won't be available at launch, but Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, and Paramount+ services will be available.

A surprise on the smartphone market: Galaxy S24 Plus based on Exynos 2400 outperformed Galaxy S24 Ultra with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. In 3DMark GPU load tests, the new Exynos showed not only a higher result by 8%, but also a smaller performance drop under prolonged load (64.6% vs. 48.3%). It is especially worth noting that the Exynos 2400 is manufactured using Samsung's own 4nm process, while its competitor is made by TSMC, whose process technology was considered to be the best. This comes as a surprise given the larger cooling system of the S24 Ultra and the previous GPU issues with the Exynos 2200. It looks like Samsung has made a big step forward in optimizing its chipsets.

According to leaks, Intel's expected Arrow Lake desktop processors are still in the pipeline for this year, but a mobile version of these chips probably won't arrive until early 2025. That could mean that throughout 2024, consumers will be buying upgraded versions of the Raptor Lake-HX processors, which are only a slightly improved version of the current generation that came out in early 2023. Nothing new, though.

ASUS has released a USB4 PCIe Gen4 Expansion Card that adds two USB4 Type-C and two DisplayPort ports to the computer. The card utilizes the ASMedia ASM4242 controller and connects to the motherboard via a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface, supporting 40Gbps bi-directional bandwidth. The card features two USB Type-C ports with fast charging support and the ability to deliver up to 60W of power. It also has two DisplayPort video inputs for connecting monitors. In addition, the card is equipped with a 6-pin PCIe connector for additional power supply and fast charging function. The manufacturer did not inform about the price of the novelty, but it is assumed that due to the limited choice of alternatives on the market, the price may be high.

On January 17, Jiri Kyjovsky presented the workings of an AI-enabled tool called Log Detective to help developers analyze bugs during RPM package builds to explain in plain language why a failure occurred. - specified the authors of the project. The project authors are working on collecting additional RPM build logs to train their AI model and are asking programmers to send them their logs.