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The content delivery network Cloudflare, which handles approximately 20% of the world's web traffic, has published its annual report with statistics and analysis of global internet trends for the year 2025. The most interesting findings include: In 2025, global internet traffic increased by 19%, with the most significant traffic growth starting in August. In comparison, the traffic growth in 2024 was 17.2%. The share of web browsers: […]
The release of the free layout package for document design Scribus 1.6.5 has been announced. The package provides tools for professional print material layout, includes tools for PDF generation, and supports working with separate color profiles, CMYK, spot colors, and ICC. The program is written using the Qt toolkit and is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. Ready-made binary builds are prepared for Linux (AppImage), macOS, and Windows. […]
The CA/Browser Forum, which serves as a platform for collaborative decision-making considering the interests of browser vendors and certificate authorities, has approved new requirements for organizations issuing certificates for HTTPS. These new requirements declare eleven methods of domain ownership verification, for which certificates are issued, as deprecated. Support for deprecated methods will be phased out by March 2028. The reasons for this cessation […]
The release of the Ventoy 1.1.09 toolkit has been announced, designed for creating bootable USB drives that include multiple operating systems. The program allows you to boot OS from unchanged ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD, and EFI images without requiring image unpacking or media reformatting. You just need to copy the desired set of images to a USB Flash drive with the Ventoy bootloader, and it will facilitate the booting of the operating systems contained within the images. In […]
The release of the uutils coreutils 0.5.0 (Rust Coreutils) project has been announced, which develops an alternative to the GNU Coreutils package, written in Rust. The coreutils package includes over a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The project's goal is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, capable of running on platforms such as Windows, Redox […]
Vulnerabilities have been found in the smb4k utility, used in KDE for discovering and mounting SMB shares, allowing for root access to the system. These issues have been addressed in the Smb4K 4.0.5 release. You can check the status of the new package version or the preparation of a fix in the following distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE/openSUSE, Gentoo, Arch, and FreeBSD. KAuth handlers are used in smb4k to perform privileged actions, which are initiated […]
An analysis of the accuracy of the claimed locations of exit nodes by VPN providers has been conducted. Of the 20 tested VPN providers, only 3 consistently provided correct information about the countries of exit nodes. 6 providers reported virtual (unverified during testing) or unmeasurable (countries from which no traffic was recorded) data about the country in more than 50% of cases, while 3 providers reported such data in 30% […]
A new rule has been added to the GNOME Shell extension development guidelines, banning the publication of extensions generated using AI tools. The project will no longer accept extensions that show signs of AI usage for code generation, such as nonsensical code insertions, style inconsistencies, contrived API usage, and comments hinting at AI. The reason for the new requirements is the increased occurrence of […]
The release of the Mir 2.25 display server has been announced, which continues to be developed by Canonical, despite the discontinuation of the Unity shell and Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in Canonical's projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Mir provides a set of libraries for creating composite servers […]
The NICE.OS project develops an independent Linux distribution, built "from scratch" from source code, supporting its own package database without borrowing package build scripts from other distributions. The project develops its own tools, patch set, and build policy. An ISO image (603 MB) is available for download, aimed at installation on virtual machines (KVM, Proxmox, VMware, VirtualBox, etc.). The distribution is distributed […]
The release of the Rust programming language 1.92 has been published, originally developed by Mozilla, now managed under the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation. The language focuses on safe memory usage and provides means for achieving high parallelism of task execution, while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is limited to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). The methods of working […]
The release of the D7VK project 1.0 has been published, which develops an implementation of the Direct3D 7 graphics API proposed by Microsoft in 1999. D7VK works by translating calls to the Vulkan API and allows retro games tied to the Direct3D 7 API to run on Linux using Wine. The project code is written in C++ and is distributed under the Zlib license. As a foundation for […]