An open project NBD-VRAM has been released, allowing part of the NVIDIA GPU video memory to be utilized as swap space in Linux. The project is primarily aimed at laptops with soldered RAM, where the RAM cannot be expanded, but there is a discrete NVIDIA RTX/GTX graphics card with unused VRAM in the system. The code is written in C and shell, and is distributed under the MIT license. The idea behind NBD-VRAM is simple: if […]
A new version of QBE – a universal backend for compiler development – has been released. QBE differentiates itself from its closest analog (LLVM) with a much simpler codebase, high execution and compilation speeds (QBE can be built from source in less than a second on a Core2Duo), and a more developer-friendly API, including a simpler intermediate language (IL). At the same time, QBE […]
As a result of the compromise of the release process based on GitHub Actions in repositories owned by Red Hat, attackers were able to publish 64 malicious versions across 32 NPM packages for the Red Hat Cloud Services platform in the NPM directory. Two malicious versions were released for each affected NPM package, which included code to activate a new variant […]
The developers of the Rust programming language are preparing to publish guidelines for the use of AI assistants in the project. The proposed rules have been refined through discussions totaling over 3000 messages, approved by 4 maintainers, and are awaiting publication. With a few exceptions, the guidelines prohibit the submission of AI-generated code to the main rust-lang/rust repository, but do not apply to submodules, branches, and dependencies from the crates.io directory, as well as […]
The release of the 86Box 6.0 project has been announced, which develops an emulator for x86 architecture systems, allowing users to run old operating systems and applications, including those which were used in the early 1980s on IBM PC 5150 and IBM PS/2 computers. Accurate low-level emulation of systems is supported, starting from 8086 processors up to Intel Celeron Mendocino. The project code is written in […]
The release of version 13.0.1 of the multi-format audio converter Flacon has taken place. Flacon extracts individual tracks from a single large audio file containing an entire music album and saves them as separate audio files. It uses information from the corresponding CUE file for this purpose. Additionally, Flacon allows convenient editing or setting of tags for all tracks at once or for each tag individually. Features: […]
The release of 86Box 6.0 has been presented, an evolving emulator for x86 architecture systems that allows running old operating systems and applications, including those used in the early 1980s on IBM PC 5150 and IBM PS/2 computers. It supports accurate low-level emulation of systems, from 8086 processors to Intel Celeron Mendocino. For managing work […]
The release of Servo 0.2.0 has been published — a new version of the experimental browser engine written in Rust. This release came out on May 31, 2026, and includes changes made in April: a total of 534 commits were recorded by the developers, setting a new monthly record for the project. Servo is evolving as an independent project under the auspices of the Linux Foundation Europe, aimed at creating a lightweight embedded web engine for applications, […]
Although the ReactOS project is still in no rush to dethrone Windows as the main desktop OS, it is experiencing real changes. Recently, two major changes were accepted into the main branch. The first concerns separate BootCD and LiveCD images, which are now combined into a single image (PR #7313). The second — a new ATA storage stack, aware of Plug and Play, […]
The release of the Linux distribution Armbian 26.5 has been published, providing a compact system environment for single-board computers with processors based on ARM, RISC-V, and x86 architectures. It supports various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos processors. For building […]
The release of the NixOS 26.05 distribution has been announced, based on the Nix package manager, and providing its own developments to simplify system configuration and maintenance. In NixOS, all system configuration is performed through a single configuration file, configuration.nix. It offers the ability to quickly roll back the system to a previous configuration version and switch between different system states. Individual packages can be installed by separate users and […]
The release of the syncspirit 0.4.5 program is available, which allows for the organization of automatic continuous synchronization of user files across multiple devices. The project addresses issues similar to those of the proprietary system Resilio Sync (formerly BitTorrent Sync). Syncspirit is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv3 license. The graphical interface is built using the FLTK library; the domestic embedded database system libmdbx is used for storage; event processing […]