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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

Release of web browser Chrome 126 with integrated OCR engine

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Google has released version 126 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in its use of Google logos, the presence of a notification system in case of crashes, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, permanent inclusion of Sandbox isolation, provision of keys for Google API, and transaction when […]

Google is transitioning ChromeOS to components of the Android platform.

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Google has announced that it is working on adapting the Chrome OS operating system to a version of the Linux kernel and the frameworks used in the Android platform. It is noted that the work on migrating the Chrome OS system environment to the components of the Android platform is at an early stage and will take a long time before the new system variant is suitable for end users. Of already […]

Valve has released Proton 9.0-2, a package for running Windows games on Linux

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Valve has released a new version of the Proton 9.0-2 project, based on the Wine project's codebase and aimed at enabling the launch of games developed for Windows in Linux, which are presented in the Steam catalog. The project developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows direct launching of Windows-only games in the Linux Steam client. The package includes the implementation of […]

Release of boot firmware Libreboot 20240612 and Canoeboot 20240612

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A release of the open-source boot firmware Libreboot 20240612 is available. The project builds upon the existing Coreboot assembly, providing a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware responsible for initiating the CPU, memory, peripheral devices, and other hardware components, minimizing binary inserts. Libreboot aims to create a system environment that can do without proprietary software as much as possible, not only at the operating system level […]

800 new packages have been added to the Linux patent protection program

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The Open Invention Network (OIN), aimed at protecting the Linux ecosystem from patent claims, has announced an expansion of the list of packages covered by the patent non-assertion agreement and the provision for the free use of certain patented technologies. The list of components in distributions that fall under the definition of a Linux system (“Linux System”), covered by the agreement among OIN participants, has been expanded to include […]

Release of the openSUSE Leap 15.6 distribution

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After a year of development, the release of the openSUSE Leap 15.6 distribution has taken place. The release is based on a unified set of binary packages with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 6, along with some user applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. The use of the same binary packages in SUSE and openSUSE simplifies transitions between distributions, saves resources on package building, updating distribution, and […]

The Linux kernel will feature the ability to use eBPF for creating task schedulers

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Linus Torvalds expressed his readiness to accept patches implementing the "sched_ext" (SCX) mechanism, which allows the use of eBPF for creating CPU schedulers that cover almost all aspects of task execution planning and CPU resource distribution, into the Linux kernel 6.11, which is expected to be released at the end of September. Such schedulers can be dynamically loaded and executed within the Linux kernel in an eBPF virtual machine, in […]

Firefox 127 Release

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The release of web browser Firefox 127 has occurred, and an update has been made to the long-term support branch — 115.12.0. The Firefox 128 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for July 9. Key innovations in Firefox 126 include the addition of a button to close all duplicate tabs in the current […] to the "V" menu, which lists all open tabs and to the tab's context menu.

Security analysis of 100 free VPN applications for the Android platform

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Top10VPN, a publication that reviews and tests VPN services, conducted an assessment of the 100 most popular free VPN apps for the Android platform, which collectively have over 2.5 billion installations (the testing focused on 100 free VPN apps that have recorded the highest number of downloads in the Google Play catalog). Key findings include that 88 of the tested apps have various issues leading to information leaks. […]

LG has released the webOS Open Source Edition 2.26 platform.

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The release of the open webOS Open Source Edition 2.26 platform has been presented, which can be applied to various portable devices, boards, and automotive infotainment systems. The Raspberry Pi 4 boards are considered the reference hardware platform. The platform is being developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, with the development being supervised by the community, adhering to a collaborative development management model. Key changes in the new release include: Added […]

Mozilla has released the AI website generation service Solo 1.0

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Mozilla has released the first significant version of the Solo project, which develops a platform for creating websites, utilizing machine learning mechanisms for the automatic generation of standard interface elements. Solo is positioned as a tool that enables users to quickly create a stylish and modern personal or corporate website without requiring web development skills. The website creation process boils down to defining its theme, selecting font styles, and […]

Release of Winlator 7.0, an environment for running Windows applications on Android

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The release of the Winlator 7.0 Android application has been published, providing a wrapper over Wine and the Box86/Box64 emulators to run Windows applications on the Android platform. Winlator deploys a Linux environment based on Ubuntu with Mesa, DXVK, D8VK, Vkd3d, and CNC DDraw, in which Windows applications compiled for the x86 architecture are executed on ARM devices with Android using an emulator and Wine. The project's code is distributed under the MIT license. […]

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