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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.

Monogram, an alternative open client for Telegram on Android

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Hello! We have created Monogram — a new open-source Telegram client for Android using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. The code is available on GitHub under the GPLv3 license, and updates can be found on our Telegram channel. Why did we do this? The official client has become an overly complicated monolith, with source code being published with significant delays. Additionally, we dislike the imposition of iOS styling at the expense of Android guidelines. […]

The founder and leader of Ubuntu MATE has announced his departure from the project

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Martin Wimpress, co-founder and leader of the Ubuntu MATE distribution, who served as the Director of Desktop Development at Canonical from 2019 to 2021, announced that his involvement in the project is coming to an end, and he is looking for developers who are willing to continue working on the Ubuntu MATE distribution and can maintain the packages related to the MATE desktop environment in the Ubuntu repository. […]

The PyPI package telnyx has been compromised

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The developers of the Telnyx VoIP platform have warned users about the compromise of the popular (756 thousand downloads per month) telnyx package in the PyPI repository, which implements an SDK for calling the Telnyx API. On Linux, the malware activated upon importing the module and searched for and sent SSH keys, credentials, environment variable contents, API access tokens, and connection parameters to cloud services like AWS, GCP, Azure. […]

Compromise of the PyPI package Telnyx

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The developers of the Telnyx VoIP platform have warned users about the compromise of the telnyx package in the PyPI repository, which has 756 thousand downloads per month and provides an SDK for calling the Telnyx API from Python programs. On March 27, attackers managed to publish two malicious releases, telnyx 4.87.1 and 4.87.2, after seizing the maintainer's credentials, gaining access to PyPI. The malicious versions spread […]

Release of the SystemRescue 13.0 distribution

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The release of SystemRescue 13.0 is available, a specialized Live distribution based on Arch Linux, designed for system recovery after a crash. The graphical environment used is Xfce. The size of the ISO image is 1.3 GB (amd64). The new release includes a script to change the scaling level for high pixel density screens. An issue with displaying overly small fonts in the console on HiDPI screens has been resolved. […]

Ubuntu 26.10 plans to add ntpd-rs and discontinue support for Btrfs, XFS, ZFS, LVM, and LUKS in /boot.

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Jon Seager, Vice President of Engineering at Canonical and Technical Lead of the Ubuntu project, announced plans to integrate the NTP server ntpd-rs, written in Rust and already used in the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority infrastructure, into the fall release of Ubuntu 26.10. The ntpd-rs project will become the third component, following Rust Coreutils and sudo-rs, integrated into Ubuntu as part of the […]

Release of the network security scanner Nmap 7.99.

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The release of the network security scanner Nmap 7.99 has been published, designed for conducting network audits and identifying active network services. The project code is provided under the NPSL (Nmap Public Source License), which is based on the GPLv2 license and supplemented with recommendations (not requirements) for using the OEM licensing program and purchasing a commercial license if the manufacturer does not wish to open the code of their product according to the requirements […]

Introducing Monogram, an alternative open client for Telegram on Android

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A group of independent enthusiasts has released the Monogram project, developing a new open Telegram messenger client for the Android mobile platform. The project is written in Kotlin using the Jetpack Compose declarative UI framework. The code is open under the GPLv3 license (the project also has its own Telegram channel). The main motivation for creating an alternative application is stated as the need to ensure transparency in development and address the accumulated issues of the original client. […]

Windows crashes three times more often than macOS — with a 7.5 times gap in hang-ups.

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The analytics company Omnissa has released a report indicating that Windows corporate environments experience crashes, freezes, and failures much more frequently than macOS, leading to significant productivity losses and growing stability issues. The report reveals some statistics on how unstable Windows can be in corporate environments. The detection of errors in Windows has long been a topic of concern for many […]

Froggy-BLC 1.0 (Book-Like CMS)

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A stable release (1.0) of the Book-Like CMS "Froggy-BLC" has taken place, which operates on files without a database. In this release: Russian Typographer Intelligent “Quotation-Maker-Tree” Ad Block visible on every page Updated “Gallery” Fully stabilized Fault Tolerance Edits “UNOBSCURED LOGIC” – unraveled logic Numerous fixes Numerous small improvements (details in the commits) NB: The author does not know how to write quality code, so […]

Fossil SCM 2.28

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After five and a half months of development, version 2.28 of the simple and highly reliable distributed cross-platform configuration management system Fossil SCM has been released, developed by SQLite's author, Dwayne Richard Hipp. Fossil SCM stands out among version control systems with its radical simplicity of deployment: the whole project is a single executable file with no external dependencies, which simultaneously serves as a VCS, embedded web server, bug tracker, wiki, forum, and chat. […]

Third beta version of Android 17.

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Google has introduced the third beta version of the open mobile platform Android 17, marking the stabilization of the platform and the end of changes to the API ahead of the upcoming release. A beta testing program has been offered to evaluate the new capabilities of the platform. Firmware builds have been prepared for the Pixel 6/6a/6 Pro, Pixel 7/7a/7 Pro, Pixel 8/8a/8 Pro, Pixel 9/9a/9 Pro/9 Pro XL/9 Pro Fold, Pixel 10/10 […]

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