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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.

The system manager systemd 258 is now available

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After nine months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 258 has been presented. Key changes: discontinuation of support for cgroups v1 and System V-style system management components, new utilities systemd-factory-reset and systemd-pty-forward, the concept of home areas, support for booting from a disk image obtained via HTTP. Among the changes in the new release: a new utility systemd-factory-reset has been added to initiate or cancel settings reset in […]

The release of the GNOME 49 desktop environment

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After six months of development, the release of the GNOME 49 desktop environment has been published. For a quick evaluation of GNOME 49's capabilities, specialized Live builds based on openSUSE and an installation image prepared under the GNOME OS initiative are offered. GNOME 49 is also included in the experimental builds of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43. In the new release: the Showtime video player is enabled by default, which […]

The release of StartWine-Launcher 411, a program for running Windows applications and games on Linux

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The release of the StartWine-Launcher 411 application, developed for running Windows-based programs and games on Linux systems, has been published. The primary goal of developing StartWine-Launcher was to simplify the process of creating Wine prefixes by newcomers — sets of libraries and dependencies necessary for running Windows applications in Linux. The code for StartWine-Launcher is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is based on […]

The release of Java SE 25 LTS and OpenJDK 25

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After six months of development, Oracle has released Java SE 25 (Java Platform, Standard Edition 24), with the open project OpenJDK serving as its reference implementation. Apart from removing some deprecated features, Java SE 25 maintains backward compatibility with previous releases of the Java platform—most previously written Java projects will run without changes on […]

A self-replicating worm has infected 187 packages in NPM

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The attack on package maintainers in the NPM repository has escalated. In addition to using malware to intercept payments and sensitive information, attackers have shifted to embedding a worm in compromised packages to automate the injection of malware into dependencies. The use of the worm was documented following the compromise of the NPM package @ctrl/tinycolor, which has 2.2 million weekly downloads and is used as a direct […]

Release of Firefox 143

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The release of the web browser Firefox 143 has occurred, and updates for previous long-term support branches—140.3.0 and 115.28.0—have been formulated. The Firefox 144 branch has entered beta testing, with its release scheduled for October 14. Key new features in Firefox 143 (1, 2, 3): Added the ability to pin tabs as always-visible shortcuts by dragging the tab with the mouse to the beginning of the […]

Phoenix — an attack on DDR5 chips leading to memory content corruption

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Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, in collaboration with engineers from Google, have developed a new Rowhammer attack technique—Phoenix (CVE-2025-6202)—that bypasses the TRR (Target Row Refresh) protection mechanisms used in DDR5 chips, which prevent cell corruption due to charge loss. A proof-of-concept exploit has been published that allows modification of a specific bit in RAM and achieves an increase in […]

The AOMedia Alliance has announced the next-generation video codec AV2

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The Open Media Alliance (AOMedia), which oversees the development of the AV1 video encoding format, announced the release of an open standard and reference implementation for the new AV2 video encoding format by the end of the year. This new standard is viewed not only as a continuation of the development of the AV1 video codec but also as the foundation for the future AOMedia technology stack. The development of AV2 has been underway for several years, with the first preliminary implementation being […]

The libxml2 library is left without a maintainer

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Nick Wellnhofer announced his departure from the position of maintainer of the libxml2 library. Nick has been involved in the development of libxml2 since 2016 and was added to the group of maintainers in 2022, remaining practically the only active developer since then. After Nick's departure, the project is left without maintenance. The libxml2 library is used in operating systems and products of Apple companies […]

Leak of documentation and code related to the Great Firewall of China

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Approximately 600 GB of data related to the operation of the Great Firewall of China (GFW) has been released. The GFW is used for filtering internet traffic in the PRC. The archive contains around 500 GB of rpm packages from a closed repository repo.geedge.net, various documentation on its operation and structure, as well as compressed (zstd) archives containing the contents of a git repository with code (63 GB, including […]

Release of Cloud Hypervisor 48.0 with a ban on accepting AI-generated code

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The release of Cloud Hypervisor 48.0 has been announced, built on components from the Rust-VMM project, developed with the participation of Intel, Alibaba, Amazon, Google, and Red Hat. Rust-VMM is written in Rust and allows for the creation of hypervisors tailored to specific tasks. Cloud Hypervisor is one such hypervisor, providing a high-level virtual machine monitor (VMM) that operates atop KVM or MSHV and […]

The release of PortableGL 0.99, an implementation of OpenGL 3 in C

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After a year and a half of development, the release of PortableGL 0.99 has been prepared, advancing the software implementation of the OpenGL 3.x graphics API, written entirely in C. Theoretically, PortableGL can be used in any applications that accept a texture or framebuffer as input. The code is formatted as a single header file and is distributed under the MIT license. The project has defined goals such as portability, […]

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