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Ránéz a kínai trösztellenes hatóság az App Store szerződési feltételeire.

A cég tavalyi árbevétele meghaladta a 2019-es szintet, idén pedig összejöhet az eddigi rekord.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Finding concurrency bugs with sched_ext; Rust abstractions; 6.14 Merge window; Sealed system mappings; OpenSUSE board; Julia; Site tour.
• Briefs: Binutils 2.44; Firefox 135.0; Freedesktop GitLab; GNU C Library 2.41; GTK; Servo; Thunderbird updates; Sanctions; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

The Servo Rust-based rendering engine project has published an article summarizing its progress in 2024, and plans for the future:

Servo main dependencies (SpiderMonkey, Stylo and WebRender) have been upgraded, the new layout engine has kept evolving adding support for floats, tables, flexbox, fonts, etc. By the end of 2024 Servo passes 1,515,229 WPT subtests (79%). Many other new features have been under active development: WebGPU, Shadow DOM, ReadableStream, WebXR, ... Servo now supports two new platforms: Android and OpenHarmony. And we have got the first experiments of applications using Servo as a web engine (like Tauri, Blitz, QtWebView, Cuervo, Verso and Moto).

Over the past year or so, LWN has added a number of useful new features for our subscribers to enhance the experience of reading and commenting on our content. Those features are of little use, however, to readers who do not know about them. It has been more than a decade since we last provided a tour of the site—it seems that another is in order. Walk this way for a look at the LWN kernel source database (KSDB), enhanced commenting features, EPUB downloads, and more.

Jake Hillion gave a presentation at FOSDEM about using sched_ext, the BPF scheduling framework that was introduced in kernel version 6.12, to help find elusive concurrency problems. In collaboration with Johannes Bechberger, he has built a scheduler that can reveal theoretically possible but unobserved concurrency bugs in test code in a few minutes. Since their scheduler only relies on mainline kernel features, it can theoretically be applied to any application that runs on Linux — although there are a number of caveats since the project is still in its early days.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (fastd, ovn, and yq), Mageia (libreoffice), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (google-osconfig-agent, grafana, helm, and rime-schema-all), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-lowlatency, openjdk-17, openjdk-21, openjdk-23, openjdk-8, and openjdk-lts).

A hirdetések jól mennek, a felhő megtorpant.

"Közzétették, melyik állampapírból mennyit vettek az emberek a nagy januári kamatfizetés után" trey 2025. 02. 05., sze – 14:17

A Huawei és a Moore Threads is integrálja a DeepSeek modelljeit saját szolgáltatásaiba.

Ahogy megjósoltam: az Apple Vision Pro is csak egy fad lett trey 2025. 02. 05., sze – 13:11

A hatóság elemzése szerint a tavalyi második félévben az egyetlen számottevő változás a Yepp megjelenése volt.

Egyszer meg akarták venni a HUP-ot trey 2025. 02. 05., sze – 12:14

KEndre az alapítástól haláláig kísérte a Prohardver lapcsalád működését.

Több feltétele is van az Apple frissen bejelentett Invites nevű alkalmazás használatának.

A legnagyobb európai streamingszolgáltató egy teljes éven keresztül nyereséget termelt.

Jeff Xu has been working on a patch set that makes certain mappings in a process's address space impossible to change, sealing them against tampering. This has some potential security benefits — mainly, making sure that someone cannot relocate the vsyscall and vDSO mappings — but some kernel developers haven't been impressed with the patches. While the core functionality (sealing the mappings) is sound, some of the supporting code for enabling and disabling the new feature caused concern by going against the normal design for such things. Reviewers also questioned how this feature would interact with checkpointing and with sandboxing.

Version 135.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Changes include more languages for the translations feature, increasing roll-out of the credit-card autofill and AI chatbot features, and (perhaps most welcome):

Firefox now includes safeguards to prevent sites from abusing the history API by generating excessive history entries, which can make navigating with the back and forward buttons difficult by cluttering the history. This intervention ensures that such entries, unless interacted with by the user, are skipped when using the back and forward buttons.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-17), Fedora (chromium, fastd, ovn, and yq), Mageia (libxml2 and redis), Oracle (gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good), Red Hat (buildah, bzip2, galera, mariadb, grafana, keepalived, libsoup, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.5, mingw-glib2, podman, python-jinja2, and rsync), SUSE (bind, ignition, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, krb5, libxml2, openssl-1_1, orc, python-asteval, rsync, and xrdp), and Ubuntu (harfbuzz, libndp, libvpx, and opencv).

A keresőcég szerint azért sikerül egyre többet, mert hatékonyabb a rendszer.