According to statistics provided by Google, the number of requests to Google services over the IPv6 protocol has for the first time exceeded 50%. According to the APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre), the global coverage of IPv6 users is estimated at 43.13%, while the number of users preferring IPv6 in dual-stack systems is 41.66%. According to Google, the highest IPv6 coverage is observed […]
After nearly four years of hiatus (see "jemalloc everything"), the release of jemalloc allocator 5.3.1 has occurred – an implementation of malloc(3) that focuses on preventing fragmentation and supporting scalable parallelism. The new release includes over 390 commits with bug fixes, new features, performance optimizations, and improved portability. The project is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. New […]
The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), which develops internet protocols and architecture, has put forward the first draft of the IPv8 protocol specification for discussion. The document was proposed by a third-party company, One Limited, created outside the IETF standardization process and has the status of "Internet-Draft" (anyone can publish such a draft subject to formalities). The IPv8 protocol is notable for using locally cacheable OAuth2 JWT tokens for authenticating elements […]
Google has rolled out Chrome update 147.0.7727.101, fixing 31 vulnerabilities, 5 of which are marked as critical. Critical issues allow bypassing all levels of browser protection and executing code in the system outside the sandbox environment. Details are not yet disclosed; it is only known that the vulnerabilities were caused by a buffer overflow in the ANGLE layer (translating OpenGL ES calls to other graphical […]
At the beginning of the year, Google introduced the "Personal Intelligence" feature, which allows the Gemini chatbot to incorporate all the information that a user has shared with Google services into the context of the conversation. Now, the audience for this feature will significantly expand. "Personal Intelligence" analyzes content and the user's history with services like Gmail, Photos, YouTube, and Search, extracting the most relevant […]
On April 9th, after a year of development, version 3.5.0 of the interactive cross-platform console utility htop was released, designed for viewing and managing running processes. The utility is written in C and distributed under the GNU GPL 2.0 license. Key changes include the addition of the COLORSCHEME_NORD theme; an option for displaying CPU SMT; a description for the NetworkIO indicator; and the addition of the SecondsUptime indicator; […]
An update for the Linux distribution "ALT Workstation K 11.3" is available, offering a KDE desktop environment aimed at home and office use. The build is prepared for the x86_64 architecture and is based on the ALT 11 platform. An installation ISO image (8.9 GB) and a separate Live build (5.5 GB) have been created for download. The downloaded version can only be freely used by individuals, in [the context of this update].
Microsoft has implemented a change to the initial setup process of Windows 11, allowing users to skip the update installation stage when setting up a new computer. Previously, during the initial setup of a new PC with Windows 11, users had to spend a considerable amount of time installing updates, which could take up to 30 minutes depending on their number. Due to the forced installation of updates, the entire process [could be challenging].
The ambitious underwater survival simulator Subnautica 2 from the American studio Unknown Worlds Entertainment recently lost its publisher just before diving into early access. Until recently, the publisher of Subnautica 2 across all target platforms was the South Korean company Krafton, which has owned Unknown Worlds Entertainment since 2021. As noted by marketer Michael Futter, [this change is significant].
At the dawn of the computer industry, it was hard to imagine the scale of stored data volumes that would eventually develop, which is why some inherited limitations have persisted for a long time. Microsoft has lifted the traditional restriction on the size of hard drives formatted under FAT32 in the new build of Windows 11: the limit has increased from 32 GB to 2 TB. As TechCrunch points out, this capability has emerged in [the new updates].
Quietly and without fanfare, DavMail 6.6 has been released. DavMail is a free gateway that allows regular email clients and calendar applications to connect to Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 via familiar protocols such as POP, IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV, and LDAP. For those who still try to live without Outlook while working with Microsoft infrastructure, this is quite an important update. The developers [are focused on enhancing user experience].
The Raspberry Pi project has introduced a new version of the Raspberry Pi OS distribution 2026-04-13 (Raspbian). The distribution is based on the Debian 13 package base and contains approximately 35,000 packages in the repository. The desktop environment is based on the labwc compositing server, utilizing the wlroots library from the Sway project. Three builds are prepared for download: a slim version (537MB) for server systems, with a basic desktop […]