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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.

The AOMedia Alliance is developing the OAC (Open Audio Codec) based on Opus.

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The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), overseeing the development of the AV1/AV2 video encoding format, the IAMF spatial audio format, and the AVIF image format, has begun work on the Open Audio Codec (OAC), which is presented as an extension of the Opus codec developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation. As a reference implementation of the OAC encoder and decoder under the BSD license, the library liboac has been proposed, built on the basis of the code […]

Accompanying Godot has been overloaded due to an abundance of questionable changes made via AI.

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Rémi Verschelde, one of the key maintainers of the open-source game engine Godot and co-founder of W4 Games, stated that the increasing influx of low-quality pull requests generated by large language models is draining and demoralizing Godot developers who are reviewing changes. According to Rémi, the Godot project prides itself on its openness to new contributors and allows any user to influence […]

Gentoo creates mirrors on Codeberg

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Gentoo has created a mirror of its ebuild repository on Codeberg as an alternative to GitHub. There are plans to move all other repositories as well. Pull requests are accepted, and forking is not required. The main repository remains on Gentoo's own servers, and repositories on GitHub are not being deleted. Codeberg uses the open-source engine Forgejo, is supported by a non-profit organization, and is located in Berlin, Germany. The desire to migrate from GitHub is explained […]

The MinIO project has transitioned its Git repository to an archive mode. In response, the community has created a fork.

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Developers of MinIO, a high-performance object storage compatible with Amazon S3 with over a billion downloads on Docker Hub, have transitioned the project's Git repository to an archived mode, allowing read-only access. The last change in the repository was the addition of a note about discontinuing maintenance and a recommendation to switch to the proprietary MinIO AIStor product. Archiving has become the final step in a series of events that have been perceived by the community […]

Evaluation of the reliability of passwords generated by large language models

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The results of the analysis of password reliability generated by large language models and AI assistants have been presented. Researchers asked the models Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to generate a secure 16-character password, and in all cases, they received results that, at first glance, met all the requirements for secure passwords and were recognized by password quality-checking utilities as reliable. The passwords included symbols in different cases and special characters […]

New versions of Wine 11.3, Wine-staging 11.3, Wine Mono 11.0, and Vkd3d 1.19

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.3 has been published. Since the release of 11.2, 30 bug reports have been closed, and 223 changes have been made. The most important changes include: The Wine Mono engine has been updated to version 11.0.0. Wine Mono is a distribution of the Mono Framework intended for use in Wine instead of the proprietary .NET Framework component. The built-in Vkd3d package […]

Release of Composite Server Weston 15.0

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After nine months of development, a stable release of Composite Server Weston 15.0 has been published, advancing technologies that support full Wayland protocol support in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other user environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, and televisions […]

Release of Packet Filter Iptables 1.8.12

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After a year and a half of development, the classic toolkit for managing the packet filter iptables 1.8.12 has been released, with recent focus on components for maintaining backward compatibility — iptables-nft and ebtables-nft, providing utilities with the same command-line syntax as iptables and ebtables, but translating the received rules into nftables bytecode. The original iptables suite of programs, including ip6tables, […]

Twenty-Eighth Version of Open Game 0 A.D.

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After a year of development, the twenty-eighth release of the free game 0 A.D. has been presented, featuring a real-time strategy style similar to the Age of Empires series. This is the first release marked without the 'Alpha' label and is designated as '0 A.D. Release 28'. The alpha label was previously used because not all initially planned features were implemented. However, the existing functionality has been refined and […]

The Developer io_uring Discovered an Issue in QEMU That Slowed Down fdmon by 50-80 Times

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Jens Axboe, the creator of io_uring and the I/O schedulers CFQ, Deadline, and Noop, has proposed a patch for inclusion in the QEMU emulator's codebase that reduces latency when using fdmon (file descriptor monitoring) in 'aio=io_uring' mode while the system is in an idle state by 50-80 times. The issue arose due to the conversion of the ppoll() operation into a sleep state with a timeout of 499 […]

Pipewire 1.6.0

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The release of the multimedia server pipewire 1.6.0 has been published. This new version is API and ABI compatible with the previous 1.4.x branch. Key changes include the addition of an LDAC decoder (used in Bluetooth); SpanDSP is now used to hide Bluetooth packet loss; PODs are now safely parsed and assembled in shared memory; node commands and events can now include additional user data; support for changing the maximum […]

End of support for Firefox 115 ESR branch, capable of running on Windows 7 and 8

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Mozilla has updated the support information page for Firefox on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 platforms, now indicating that the final release of the ESR branch Firefox 115 will be published on February 24, after which updates will no longer be issued. At the same time, a notice about the end of the support cycle for Firefox 115 has been added to the ESR update release schedule page. Initially, the deadline […]

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