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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.

Another 6 malicious packages discovered in the AUR repository of Arch Linux

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The AUR (Arch User Repository), used in Arch Linux for distributing packages from third-party developers, has seen continued publication of malicious code integrated into packages with unofficial browser builds. In addition to the two malicious packages identified two weeks ago, firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin, and zen-browser-patched-bin, a new package, google-chrome-stable, has been added to AUR, which also contains a modification that installs a malicious component providing remote access […]

Release of embedded DBMS libmdbx 0.13.7

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The release of the libmdbx 0.13.7 library (MDBX) has been announced, featuring an implementation of a high-performance, compact embedded key-value database. The libmdbx code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. All current operating systems and architectures are supported, including Russia's Elbrus 2000. An advanced API for C++ is offered for libmdbx, along with enthusiast-supported bindings for Rust, Haskell, Python, NodeJS, Ruby, Go, Nim, […]

Release of 4MLinux 49.0

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The 4MLinux 49.0 release is available, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of any other projects and uses a graphical environment based on the JWM window manager. 4MLinux can be utilized both as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks, as well as for recovery systems and as a platform for running mini-servers. A live image has been prepared for download […]

Four accounts in PyPI were intercepted and malicious releases of num2words were issued

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Information about phishing victims, which administrators of the Python package repository PyPI recently warned about, has been disclosed. As a result of messages sent to confirm their email, which pointed to a fake site pypj.org (the letter 'j' instead of 'i'), accounts of four maintainers were compromised. Consequently, the attackers generated two tokens for API access […]

Mozilla China ceases to provide Firefox services in China

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Mozilla China has announced the discontinuation of services for Firefox users in China. As of July 27, registration for the Chinese versions of Firefox Accounts (accounts.firefox.com.cn) and Firefox Community has been stopped, and the ability to post messages and comments on the forum has been blocked. Starting September 29, the website firefox.com.cn, the forum (mozilla.com.cn), the homepage (home.firefoxchina.cn), and resources for downloading and updating Firefox […]

A vulnerability in SUSE Manager allows root operations to be executed without authentication.

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A vulnerability (CVE-2025-46811) has been detected in the SUSE Manager toolkit, which is designed for centrally managing IT infrastructure that utilizes various Linux distributions. This vulnerability permits command execution on any systems serviced through SUSE Manager without authentication. Commands are executed with root privileges, granting full control over the entire infrastructure. The issue has been assigned a critical severity level (9.3 out of 10). The vulnerability is caused by the presence of a handler […]

Vivo has opened the source code for the BlueOS kernel, written in Rust

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Vivo, holding approximately 10% of the global smartphone market (5th place among smartphone manufacturers), has unveiled the first official open release of the BlueOS kernel (Blue River OS). The BlueOS operating system has been in development since 2018 and is already being used in the Vivo Watch series of smartwatches. Vivo is also working on applying BlueOS in smart glasses, robots, smart terminals, and consumer […]

A port with the classic desktop environment CDE has been prepared for OpenBSD

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The classic desktop environment CDE (Common Desktop Environment) has been added to the OpenBSD ports collection. CDE was developed in the early 1990s through the collaborative efforts of companies such as Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu, and Hitachi, and has been supplied for many years as the default graphical environment for Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Digital UNIX, and UnixWare. In 2012, the code […]

An experiment is underway to use AI to translate the application from GTK2 and OpenGL to GTK4 and Vulkan

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Christian Schaller, head of the Fedora Desktop Team and the desktop systems development group at Red Hat, published the results of an assessment on the suitability of using large language models in the development process of graphical applications for Linux. As part of the experiment, he used the AI assistant Claude to translate the outdated graphical application Xtraceroute to current technologies. The Xtraceroute application visualizes the path of network packets […]

The PanVK driver has been updated to support Vulkan 1.4.

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Collabora has announced the implementation of support for the Vulkan 1.4 graphics API in the PanVK Vulkan driver for ARM GPU devices based on the V10 architecture, such as Mali-G610 and Mali-G310. The changes are included in the Mesa codebase and will be offered to users in the upcoming Mesa 25.2 release, which is currently in release candidate status. The current stable release, Mesa 25.1, features PanVK […]

The project leader of OpenPrinting has been fired from Canonical.

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Canonical has dismissed Till Kamppeter, the leader of the OpenPrinting project, which develops components for printing in Linux and has been maintaining the CUPS printing server since 2021 after Apple lost interest in the project. Till is a co-founder of OpenPrinting and has been involved with the project since its inception in 2001. A […]

Release of the system library Glibc 2.42 and the GNU Binutils 2.45 utility suite

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After six months of development, the release of the GNU C Library 2.42 (glibc) has been published, which fully complies with the standards of ISO C23 and POSIX.1-2024. The new release involved 70 developers. Among the improvements implemented in Glibc 2.42, it's worth noting: The pthread_create function has added support for lightweight guard pages for stack protection, which can be accessed […]

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