Mozilla has officially unveiled the results of its redesign of the Firefox interface, carried out as part of the Nova project. The new design is notable for significantly rounded tab buttons and the address bar, as well as the grouping of the upper area into distinct blocks with the tab bar, navigation panel, sidebar, content area of web pages, and elements displayed when opening a new […]
The release of the free UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 7.9 has been announced. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 after a conflict with the NetBSD developers, which resulted in Theo being denied access to the NetBSD CVS repository. Following this, Theo de Raadt and a group of like-minded individuals created a new open […] from the NetBSD source code tree.
On May 13, a vulnerability was patched in the popular web server nginx, known for high-load systems: CVE-2026-42945, which could potentially lead to RCE. The vulnerability appeared 18 years ago (in 2008) in version 0.6.27. To exploit it, a specific combination of directives must be defined in the server's config; it's not that all have it, but it appears in certain cases, for example: rewrite ^(.*) /new?c=1; […]
FluidX3D 3.7 – a package for computational hydrodynamics that utilizes the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and OpenCL. The project is positioned as a high-performance and memory-efficient CFD package that can run on GPUs and CPUs from various manufacturers via OpenCL. The main change in version 3.7 is the optimization of the isosurface rendering kernel of the Q-criterion (graphics_q()), used for visualizing vortex structures in flows. In the previous implementation […]
The proprietary Vivaldi Browser 8.0 has been released, developed based on the Chromium engine by former developers of the Opera Presto engine. Vivaldi builds are prepared for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Changes made to the Chromium codebase are distributed under an open license. The browser interface is written in JavaScript using the React library, Node.js platform, Browserify, and various ready-made NPM modules. The implementation of the interface is available […]
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2, as well as an update for the previous branch — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8. Ready installer images are available for registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal (public ISO images of CentOS Stream 10 can be used for functionality evaluation, as well as free RHEL builds for developers). The release is formed for x86_64 architectures, […]
The release of Memtest86+ 8.10 has occurred, a free standalone program for testing RAM, distributed under the GNU GPLv2 license. The project emphasizes that Memtest86+ is not a version of the closed freemium product MemTest86 from PassMark, but is developed as a separate free branch. Memtest86+ runs separately from the installed operating system — directly through BIOS/UEFI or via a bootloader that supports Linux boot protocols. This mode allows […]
Version 29 of the functional programming language Erlang has been released, which is used for developing distributed applications that ensure high reliability and parallel processing in real time. The language is widely used in such areas as telecom, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony, and messaging apps (WhatsApp). Along with the language, the OTP (Open Telecom Platform) has been updated to version 29 — a complementary set of libraries and components. […]
gallery-dl is a program for automatically downloading images from sites: Reddit, VK, X/Twitter… Inspired by youtube-dl (now yt-dlp) and also written in Python. Like yt-dlp, it can be used to violate copyright. At the end of March, Fakku LLC — a major publisher of translated pornographic comics, games, and cartoons — demanded the removal of the ability to download from 28 pirate […]
The release of ONLYOFFICE DocumentServer 9.4 has been published, featuring a server for ONLYOFFICE online editors and organization of collaborative work. The editors can be used for working with text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The project's code is distributed under the free AGPLv3 license. Ready builds have been created for Linux, Windows, and macOS. At the same time, a release of the ONLYOFFICE DesktopEditors 9.4 product, built on a unified codebase with online editors, has been formed. […]
The FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for the technical side of Fedora Linux development, has decided to remove packages related to the Deepin desktop environment from the Rawhide repository due to maintenance issues. The team responsible for Fedora releases has been instructed not to restore these packages if a request is made by the deepinde-sig group, without undergoing re-evaluation. The autumn […]
White Noise is a messenger for Android and iOS that uses the Marmot protocol. The app features personal and group chats. Marmot facilitates message exchange using the MLS (The message layer security) protocol over public NOSTR servers (servers that store JSON files with text data) and delivers them via its own protocol, along with Blossom servers (servers that store binary […]