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According to Pornhub statistics, the share of Linux increased by 22.4% over the year, reaching 6.3%.

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Pornhub, ranked 21st among the most popular websites in the world, has published its report for 2025. According to the disclosed statistics, the share of Linux among desktop operating system users increased over the year from 5.1% to 6.2%, resulting in an annual growth of Linux users by 22.4%. In comparison, the share of Linux users on Wikipedia is 5.5% (up from 4.2% a year ago), in the catalog […]

Support for Rust has been moved from experimental to core features of the Linux kernel.

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During the ongoing Maintainers Summit conference, there was a discussion about the results of an experiment to add Rust language support for developing components in the Linux kernel. The attendees acknowledged the experiment as successful and decided to move Rust support into the category of core kernel components, lifting its experimental status. Three years ago, the ability to develop drivers and modules in the language [...

Release of Firefox 146

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The release of web browser Firefox 146 has occurred, and updates for previous long-term support branches—140.6.0 and 115.31.0—have been formed. The Firefox 147 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for January 14. Key features in Firefox 146 (1, 2, 3): A "Split View" mode has been added for side-by-side viewing of two tabs in one window. The mode [...

IBM acquires Confluent, developer of Apache Kafka

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IBM has reached an agreement to acquire Confluent, a company developing streaming data solutions based on the open-source Apache Kafka platform. Confluent was founded in 2014 by the creators of the Apache Kafka platform and achieved a market capitalization of $10 billion after its IPO in 2021. The deal amount with IBM will be $11 billion ($31 per [...

Live Update Orchestrator has been added to the Linux kernel for live-mode updates

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Code for the LUO (Live Update Orchestrator) subsystem, developed by Google for updating the kernel in live mode without a physical reboot, has been accepted into the Linux kernel codebase, which will form the release 6.19 in early February. The subsystem is based on the KHO (Kexec HandOver) mechanism, previously added to kernel 6.16, which allows for launching a new kernel from an old one without state loss [...

Release of Bcachefs filesystem 1.33.0

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Kent Overstreet has released version 1.33.0 of the Bcachefs file system. The release covers two packages: bcachefs-kernel-dkms with a kernel module built using the DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) system, and bcachefs-tools with a user-space utility implementing commands for creating (mkfs), mounting, restoring, and checking the filesystem. The packages are built for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, NixOS, and [...]

Four malicious packages were identified in the Rust repository crates.io

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The developers of the Rust programming language have warned about the discovery of malicious code in the crates.io repository packages finch-rust, sha-rust, evm-units, and uniswap-utils. The evm-units package included code for downloading malicious components aimed at stealing cryptocurrency. This malicious package was uploaded in April 2025 and has been downloaded 7,257 times. The uniswap-utils package was also uploaded in April and has been downloaded 7,441 times and […]

Postfix 3.10.7 update resolving build issues in new Linux distributions

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Corrective releases for the supported branches of the Postfix mail server 3.x have been published — 3.10.7, 3.9.8, 3.8.14, and 3.7.19. The new versions address a build issue from source that occurs in new versions of Linux distributions that have switched to the GCC 15 compiler set, which by default has transitioned to using the C23 standard. The problem is that the C23 standard defines a new reserved keyword […]

Release of web browser Chrome 143

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Google has released version 143 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, the stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the basis for Chrome, is also available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by incorporating Google logos, having a crash reporting system, modules for playing DRM-protected video content, an automatic update installation system, always-on Sandbox isolation, provision of keys for Google API, and transmission of RLZ parameters […]

Candidates for Wine 11 and Wine-staging 11 releases

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Testing has begun for the first release candidate of Wine 11.0, an open-source implementation of WinAPI. The codebase has been frozen ahead of the expected release in late January. Compared to the Wine 10.20 release, 17 bug reports have been closed and 175 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the Wine Mono engine has been upgraded to version 10.4.0. Wine Mono is a distribution […]

Cloudflare outage caused by an issue in Lua code.

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Two weeks after the last global outage, the content delivery network Cloudflare, which handles about 20% of all global web traffic, was partially unavailable for 25 minutes yesterday. During the incident, about one-third of requests through Cloudflare were met with a blank page and error code 500. This time, the cause was a long-unnoticed issue in the code […]

GNOME has added support for session restore management.

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A set of changes has been accepted into the codebase that will form the release of GNOME 50, implementing a configuration for managing the restoration of applications launched in the previous session. A switch has been added to the configurator to disable the mode that saves the list of running applications upon session termination and restores their windows in the subsequent session. The old […] has been removed from the gnome-session manager in May.

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