Category Blog
NASA carefully selects technologies for its missions to ensure their performance in the extreme conditions of space. The agency recently published "Results of the Initial Handheld Camera Tests." The tests were conducted in 2022. The report evaluates the performance of unmodified, off-the-shelf Canon EOS R5, Nikon D6, and Nikon Z7II cameras in conditions as close to space as possible. The Canon R5 and […]
NVIDIA's Sasha Levin, who maintains the LTS branches of the Linux kernel and serves on the Linux Foundation's advisory board, has prepared a set of patches implementing a killswitch mechanism for the Linux kernel. The proposed feature allows for instantaneous disabling of certain kernel functionality. The killswitch is expected to be useful for temporarily blocking vulnerabilities until an update is installed.
Firefox 150.0.2, a patch release, is now available. It addresses 27 vulnerabilities (10 of which are classified as CVE-2026-8093 and 16 as CVE-2026-8092). All of these vulnerabilities are caused by memory management issues, such as buffer overflows and accessing memory after it's been freed. These issues could potentially lead to malicious code execution when opening specially crafted pages. All of these vulnerabilities have been assigned a […]
Following a DDoS attack on Canonical's infrastructure, attackers managed to gain control of the Ubuntu channel on X.com (Twitter). The Ubuntu channel posted an announcement about the Numbat AI agent, which was touted as a decentralized AI built on blockchain and Solana cryptocurrency technologies. The AI agent was advertised as being testable on the website ai-ubuntu.com, which was registered a few hours before […]
Demand for the Steam Controller was so high that Valve sold out of the first batch in less than an hour. Resellers, of course, took advantage of the situation, jacking up the price of the new product to seven times its recommended retail price of $99. Valve promised more supplies, claiming that demand for the controller was unexpectedly high. Now, the company has announced that there will be […]
The Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 firmware update, based on the Ubuntu 24.04 package base, has been released. The firmware is being developed by the UBports project, which took over development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical stepped away from it. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, renamed Lomiri. The Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 update will be released in the coming days […]
OpenWrt 25.12.3, a minor release of the distribution developed for network devices such as routers, switches, and access points, has been released. OpenWrt supports over 2200 devices and offers a build system that simplifies cross-compilation and the creation of custom builds. These builds allow you to create ready-made firmware with the desired set of pre-installed packages, optimized for specific tasks. Ready-to-use builds have been published for 41 target platforms. Among […]
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel. These vulnerabilities are similar in nature to the Copy Fail vulnerability disclosed a few days ago, but they affect different subsystems—xfrm-ESP and RxRPC. The series of vulnerabilities has been codenamed Dirty Frag (also referred to as Copy Fail 2). These vulnerabilities allow an unprivileged user to gain root privileges by overwriting process data in the page cache. An exploit is available that works […]
Telegram received a major update, almost entirely dedicated to AI and automation. The messenger now features a guest mode for bots, the ability for bots to communicate with each other, chat automation tools, and a search engine with over 100 million emoji and stickers. Telegram also updated its polls and moderation tools. The main new feature is the so-called guest mode for bots. Now AI bots […]
After three months of development, the release of the free implementation of the OpenGL and Vulkan APIs, Mesa 26.1.0, has been released. The first release of the Mesa 26.1.0 branch has an experimental status - after the final stabilization of the code, the stable version 26.1.1 will be released. In Mesa 26.1, support for the Vulkan 1.4 graphics API is available in the ANV drivers for Intel GPUs, RADV for AMD GPUs, NVK for […]
Unlike its competitor OpenAI, Anthropic is making more deliberate investments in expanding its computing power, which is impacting its ability to meet the booming demand for AI solutions. Anthropic's CEO admitted that demand for the company's services skyrocketed 80-fold in the first quarter, and therefore it is experiencing a shortage of computing power. At a developer conference in […]
Valve has released the designs, models, and design data for the Steam Controller case and the Steam Controller Puck dock. The data is available in STP and STL formats and is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0) license, which permits copying, distribution, use in projects, and derivative works, as long as attribution is given, the license is preserved, and […]