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Cloudflare has been fined €14.2 million in Italy for refusing to block pirate sites on the 1.1.1.1 DNS service.

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The Italian communications regulator (AGCOM) has fined Cloudflare €14.2 million for failing to comply with requirements regarding the blocking of pirate content in the public DNS service 1.1.1.1. This penalty against Cloudflare is the largest imposed for non-compliance with anti-piracy legislation in Italy, as the fine is calculated based on the company's total revenue. In February 2025, AGCOM issued a notice to the company […]

New versions of Debian 13.3 and 12.13.

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The third corrective update for the Debian 13 distribution has been released, including accumulated package updates and fixes to the installer. The release includes 108 updates addressing stability issues and 37 updates addressing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 13.3 include updates to the latest stable versions of packages like ansible, apache2, containerd, dpdk, flatpak, gnome-shell, mbedtls, mutter, postgresql-17 […]

The alpha testing of the Orion browser for Linux has begun.

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The developers of the Kagi search engine have introduced the alpha release of the Orion web browser for the Linux platform. Orion builds for Linux are packaged in the flatpak format. Previously, the browser was only available for macOS and iOS platforms. The Orion browser is built on the WebKit engine and is notable for its default blocking of ads and tracking code, lack of data collection and telemetry, and integration with Kagi's search services […]

QEMU is in the process of removing support for 32-bit host systems.

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Richard Henderson, one of the maintainers of the QEMU project and the second most active contributor, has published a set of patches that remove support for 32-bit host systems from QEMU. Support for 32-bit host environments was deprecated in April last year in QEMU 10.0, and in the December release 10.2, support for mips32 platforms was removed from the TCG (Tiny Code Generator) […]

The UNIXv4 code, the first OS with a kernel written in C, has been restored. Vulnerability in UNIXv4.

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At the end of last year, during cleanup at the University of Utah’s computing center, an archival magnetic tape containing the source code of the UNIXv4 operating system was discovered. This system was developed in 1973 for the PDP-11/45 and was considered lost. UNIXv4 continued the development of the operating system UNIXv3, released a year earlier, which was the first to use the C language and unnamed pipes. […]

Analysis of bug fixes in the Linux kernel — on average, bugs are noticed after 2 years.

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The results of a study on the time it takes to detect and fix bugs in the Linux kernel have been published. The data was obtained by analyzing the resolution of 125,000 bugs marked in the Git repository with the tag "Fixes:", referring to the commit where the error occurred. The average time to detect bugs in the kernel was 2.1 years. Considering only the bugs fixed in 2025, this figure was 2.8 years. […]

Loss32 — a Windows-like system similar to ReactOS, but based on the Linux kernel.

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The Loss32 project is developing a Win32/Linux distribution that combines the Linux kernel with a Windows-style graphical environment built on Wine and custom components from ReactOS. The distribution aims to recreate a Windows desktop environment and provide tools for seamlessly running Windows applications while also supporting traditional Linux programs. The first prototype of Loss32 is expected to be released this month. […]

Google is shifting to publishing the Android code twice a year.

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A warning about changes to the code publication scheme has appeared on the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) repository website, where the source code of the Android platform is hosted. This new scheme implies that new Android code will only be opened after each release. The AOSP content will now be updated only twice a year—in the second and fourth quarters. Previously, Google published code quarterly. Instead of continuous […]

Plans to improve Linux drivers for AMD GCN 1.x families.

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Timur Kristóf, one of Valve's subcontractors, has presented plans to enhance support for AMD graphics cards of the GCN 1.0 "Southern Island" and 1.1 "Sea Islands" families in Linux. Last year, the AMDGPU driver was brought to parity with the Radeon driver for GCN 1.x graphics card families and activated by default in the Linux kernel codebase […]

Release of the filtering proxy Privoxy 4.1.0

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After a year of development, the release of the Privoxy 4.1.0 proxy server has been published, designed to create personal web content filters. With Privoxy, users can cut out ad inserts, discard tracking cookies, remove pop-ups, block loading of external JavaScript code, and make necessary arbitrary changes to web pages. Privoxy supports installation on both local systems of individual users and on servers to create centralized […]

The members of the Debian Data Protection Team have resigned their authority.

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Andreas Tille, the project leader of Debian, published a report mentioning issues within the Data Protection Team — three representatives working in this team simultaneously resigned. The reason for their departure is attributed to a lack of opportunity and enthusiasm to continue working. The team is now without members, and the project is urgently seeking volunteers to replace them. The Data […]

The MiDesktop project develops a fork of KDE 1 for modern systems

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The first experimental release of the MiDesktop project has been presented, which develops a fork of the KDE desktop environment 1.1.2, adapted for use in modern systems. The codebase of KDE 1 has been ported to the Qt 2 framework to address issues and licensing constraints specific to the Qt 1 branch. In the Osiris project, an updated fork of Qt 2.3.2 is being developed by the same developers. The MiDesktop code is distributed under […]

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