On March 6, 2025, the Tails project announced the release of a new version of its privacy-focused Linux distribution — Tails 6.13. This release improves the detection of issues with Wi-Fi hardware. Now, if Tails does not detect wireless hardware, users will see a clear warning: 'Wi-Fi hardware not detected.' This addition will help users identify and resolve compatibility issues more quickly […]
The Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2025 has been awarded to the animated film 'Flow' (Straume), directed by Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis. The cartoon tells the adventures of a cat during a flood and is notable for being created by an independent team with a limited budget in the open-source 3D modeling system Blender. Work on the film lasted five and a half years. In his previous works […]
The release of Waydroid 1.5 has taken place — a layer for running Android applications in Wayland environments. This operates by launching Android in a container. It uses namespaces for processes, user identifiers, network subsystems, and mount points. Android in the container has direct access to all necessary hardware. Major changes: refactoring of settings for better handling of pre-installed images; HALIUM vndk31 and vndk32 are now differentiated; […]
The PipeWire development team, a modern multimedia framework for audio and video processing, has announced the release of a new version 1.4.0. This release includes support for the RISC-V architecture, enhanced MIDI 2.0 functionality, a new API for JACK management, and numerous other innovations. Key changes: Added support for RISC-V architecture. Added experimental support for MIDI 2.0, a new standard for music interfaces, which […]
The new stable branch WebKitGTK 2.48.0 has been introduced, which is a port of the WebKit browser engine for the GTK platform. WebKitGTK allows users to leverage all the capabilities of WebKit through a GNOME-oriented programming interface based on GObject and can be used to integrate web content processing features into any application, ranging from the use in specialized HTML/CSS parsers to the creation of full-fledged web browsers. Notable projects using WebKitGTK include the native […]
The release of the DXVK 2.6 layer is available, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 8, 9, 10, and 11, working through the translation of calls to the Vulkan API. To use DXVK, drivers supporting Vulkan API 1.3 are required, such as Mesa RADV 24.0, NVIDIA 535.183.01, Intel ANV 24.0, AMDVLK 2024.Q1.3, AMDGPU-PRO, and NVK 24.1. DXVK can be used for […]
The Chinese company LimX Dynamics, which released the modular bipedal robot Tron 1 last year, showcased its capabilities. The robot jumps over low barriers, climbs stairs, and easily overcomes obstacles. It proved to be difficult to throw it off balance. The modular design of Tron 1's limbs allows for the robot's 'feet' to be changed, including installing […]
On March 3, version 7.3 of the fast cross-platform text search utility ugrep was released. For more efficient searching through large amounts of files on slow storage devices, or when searching through many archives (zip, zstd, tar, bzip2, bzip3, 7z, lzma, lz4, brotli, etc.), you can first perform indexing with the ugrep-indexer utility (included with the ugrep distribution since version 6.0). The utility […]
Firefox 136 is available with support for vertical tab placement, AI chatbots, automatic conversion of HTTP requests to HTTPS, and VA-API support on AMD graphics cards. Linux: Hardware acceleration for video decoding (VA-API) is enabled on systems with AMD GPUs (requires Mesa version 24.2 or newer). Official ARM64 (AArch64) builds are available as tarballs, as well as from the APT repository. […]
Members of the technical committee of the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), part of the Linux Foundation, have approved the acceptance of the Cozystack project, which develops a platform for building private clouds and PaaS. Cozystack has achieved sandbox project status within CNCF. The Cozystack developers have begun the process of integration with the CNCF infrastructure. The Cozystack platform is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license and allows users to build a cloud for deployment on existing hardware […]
Correction updates for the collaborative development platform GitLab — versions 17.9.2, 17.8.5, and 17.7.7 — have been released, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2025-25291, CVE-2025-25292) that allows SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) authentication bypass. The vulnerability exists in the Ruby library ruby-saml, which implements SAML authorization functions. Besides GitLab, the vulnerability also affects other projects using this library. The issue has been fixed in ruby-saml updates 1.18.0 […]
A new version of the control panel for Focusrite audio interfaces from the Scarlett, Clarett/Clarett+, and Vocaster series has been released. ALSA Scarlett Control Panel offers a convenient interface for managing signal routing and volume in the interface channels, as well as for additional settings like firmware updates and enabling mass storage device mode for some models. Focusrite provides the developer with the necessary technical information and […]