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Author: Erik Peterson

A ProHoster specialist with over seven years of experience in hosting, network infrastructure, and internet security. I participate in the development and maintenance of server solutions, VPN services, and client platforms. I specialize in stability, data protection, and service optimization for clients. I regularly monitor updates in industry standards and best practices.

Release of the LibreSSL 4.3 cryptographic library.

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The OpenBSD project developers have released the portable edition of the LibreSSL 4.3.0 package, which develops a fork of OpenSSL aimed at ensuring a higher level of security. The LibreSSL project focuses on providing quality support for SSL/TLS protocols by removing unnecessary functionality, adding additional protective measures, and conducting significant cleaning and reworking of the codebase. The release of LibreSSL 4.3.0 is considered experimental, in which […]

Little Snitch for Linux

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Objective Development has released Little Snitch for Linux — the Linux version of its well-known tool for monitoring outgoing network connections, previously mainly available to macOS users. The new version is positioned not as a stringent system protection tool, but as a privacy control tool: it shows which applications are connecting to which nodes over the network, allows blocking unwanted connections, and tracks […]

Release of GhostBSD 26.1

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The release of the desktop-oriented GhostBSD 26.01 distribution has been presented, built on FreeBSD 15 and offering builds with the Gershwin, MATE, and Xfce user environments. By default, GhostBSD uses the ZFS file system. It supports both Live mode operation and installation on a hard drive (using its own installer ginstall, written in Python). Boot images have been created for the x86_64 architecture. In […]

VPN WireGuard has been released for Windows and WireGuardNT 1.0

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Jason A. Donenfeld, the author of the WireGuard VPN, has released the first significant version of the WireGuard client software for Windows 1.0, as well as the WireGuardNT 1.0 drivers with the WireGuard VPN port for the Windows 10 and 11 kernels, supporting AMD64, x86, and ARM64 architectures. The code for the Windows kernel components is distributed under the GPLv2 license, while the client software is under the MIT license. The port […]

Release of Solus 4.9 distribution

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The release of the Linux distribution Solus 4.9 has been published, which is not based on packages from other distributions and is developing its own installer, package manager, and configurator. Previously, the Budgie desktop was developed as part of the distribution, but it has now been spun off into an independent project. The next branch, Solus 5, will be developed using the technologies from the AerynOS distribution. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license, and development uses languages […]

Podroid — launching Linux containers on Android without root access

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The Podroid application allows users to run a lightweight virtual machine of Alpine Linux on Android devices utilizing QEMU, and it provides a fully functional environment for running Podman containers with an integrated terminal. The app uses Termux as its terminal emulator, Limbo Emulator — a QEMU-based emulator for Android, and Podman to run the container with Alpine Linux. From […]

A researcher leaked Windows vulnerabilities that Microsoft ignored — hackers are already exploiting them

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Hackers have exploited the code of an unpatched Windows vulnerability that was leaked online to attack at least one organization. The code was recently released by a disgruntled security researcher known by the pseudonym Chaotic Eclipse, after Microsoft failed to respond to his report on the discovery of vulnerabilities. According to TechCrunch, specialists from Huntress have documented the use of three Windows vulnerabilities named BlueHammer, UnDefend, and […]

Kefir 0.5.1

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A new version of the Kefir compiler for the C programming language has been released. Kefir supports standards C17 / C23, including features such as: complex numbers _Complex; decimal numbers _Decimal; variable-length arrays on the stack (VLA); inline assembly; and generation of debug symbols in the DWARF5 format. Currently, the compiler generates code for a single hardware platform — System-V AMD64 ABI and implemented on […]

Available are Wine 11.7, Wine-staging 11.7, and the beta version of Proton 11.0

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.7 has been published. Since the release of 11.6, 35 bug reports have been closed and 311 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: support for seven-channel surround sound (7.1) configurations added to the DirectSound API. Work has begun on a new implementation of the msxml (Microsoft XML Core Services) library that does not use libxml2. Some issues have been fixed […]

A new driver for NTFS has been added to the Linux kernel 7.1.

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Linus Torvalds has accepted a set of patches with a new implementation of the NTFS file system, developed under the name ntfsplus, into the Linux 7.1 kernel, which is expected to be released in mid-June. The new driver is included under the name "ntfs," which was previously used for the legacy driver in the kernel that operated in read-only mode. The ntfsplus driver was developed by Namjae Jeon, a participant […]

Alt Workstation K 11.3

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A minor release of the "Alt Workstation K" operating system 11.3 has been released. The build is prepared on x86_64 based on kernel 6.12 (LTS). The new image includes: KDE Plasma 6.5 (Plasma 6.5, Gear 25.12, Frameworks 6.23). Now the LightDM KDE Greeter login screen launches with Wayland support by default instead of the outdated X11 graphics subsystem (Xorg). Automatic theme switching has been introduced […]

The Cal.com platform has stopped publishing code due to concerns about vulnerabilities being revealed through AI.

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The developers of the scheduling automation platform Cal.com have announced the cessation of publishing the full source code of the product and are providing the community with a limited fork cal.diy, transitioned from AGPLv3.0 to the MIT license. The reason for this change in development approach is cited as the increased risks associated with securing the SaaS platform in light of the advancements in AI models' capabilities to identify vulnerabilities and write […]

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