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The release of the web browser Firefox 147 has occurred, along with updates for previous long-term support branches - 140.7.0 and 115.32.0. The Firefox 148 branch has entered the beta testing stage, with a release scheduled for February 24. Key new features in Firefox 147 (1, 2, 3): Support for the Freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory specification has been added, and the ability to use the directory '~/\.config\/mozilla' for storing profiles, extensions, […]
David Heinemeier Hansson, a race car driver and author of the web framework Ruby on Rails, has released distribution Omarchy 3.3, which reflects his vision of the ideal Linux environment. The distribution develops in accordance with the principle of 'Omakase Computing', implying that most users at the beginning of their journey do not know exactly what they want, and it would be better for them not to torment themselves with attempts to choose, […]
The release of the lightweight Linux distribution ArchBang 1001 has been presented, based on the developments of Arch Linux and providing a user interface based on the compositing manager Labwc. The distribution offers a continuous release cycle of updates, allowing users to always work with the latest versions of software from the Arch Linux repositories. The size of the ISO image is 1.4 GB. In the new version, a transition to the Labwc compositing manager, which uses the Wayland protocol, has been made […]
The first release of the Gixy-Next project has been announced, which develops a static analyzer for Nginx configuration files, allowing the identification of problematic settings that negatively affect security and performance. The project is developed by Joshua Rogers, who uncovered 55 vulnerabilities in the Squid proxy server several years ago. Gixy-Next was created as a fork of the Gixy-ng project, which continued developing the Gixy toolkit, open-sourced by Yandex in 2017 and the latest […]
Linus Torvalds has released a new project, AudioNoise, related to his passion for guitar pedals. AudioNoise allows users to generate random sound effects while playing electric guitar. The project's goal is to explore the fundamentals of digital sound processing, just as he once explored the hardware aspect by experimenting with the assembly of guitar pedals. The main code is written in C, but it also includes […]
The release of the auto-cpufreq 3.0.0 utility has been published, designed for the automatic optimization of CPU speed and power consumption in the system. The utility monitors the laptop's battery status, CPU load, CPU temperature, and system activity, dynamically activating power-saving or high-performance modes depending on the situation and selected options. It supports devices with Intel, AMD, and ARM processors. […]
A new branch of the dual-pane file manager Double Commander 1.2 is available, developing an alternative to Total Commander and providing compatibility with its plugins. The quality level of branch 1.2 is currently rated as a beta version (in branch 1.1.x, the beta indicator was replaced with 'gamma' in release 1.1.12, seven months after 1.1.0). Three user interface options are offered — based on GTK2, Qt5, and […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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) […]
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. […]