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According to a service monitoring international communication channels, the global network bandwidth increased by 25% in 2025, reaching 1835 Tbps, more than double what it was in 2021. The highest growth in international communication capacity over the past four years has been observed in Africa (38%) and the Middle East (27%). The increase in internet traffic […]
Mozilla has begun testing Firefox VPN, an integrated free VPN service in Firefox that allows users to access websites indirectly through intermediary servers in different countries, hiding the user's IP address. The VPN will be the first service implemented as part of an initiative to integrate additional privacy protection tools and enhance security in Firefox. The service is in the early stages of deployment and […]
The release of the mobile platform LineageOS 23, based on the Android 16 codebase, has been announced. It is noted that the LineageOS 23 branch has reached parity in functionality and stability with the 22 branch and is considered ready for its first release. Builds have been prepared for 104 device models (28 devices fewer than LineageOS 22). LineageOS can also be run in the Android Emulator, […]
The GrapheneOS project, which develops an alternative free Android firmware aimed at enhancing security and ensuring privacy, reported that Google has made changes to its policy for publishing vulnerability fixes for the Android platform and disclosing information about vulnerabilities. The October vulnerability report for Android was published empty. From now on, Google will initially provide security fixes for Android exclusively to OEM manufacturers through closed channels […]
At the QoMEX (Quality of Multimedia Experience) conference, one of the presentations showcased the results of testing the AV2 video encoding format, developed by the Open Media Alliance (AOMedia) and set to replace the AV1 format. Using quality assessment metrics VMAF (Video Multi-Method Assessment Fusion) developed by Netflix, the use of the AV2 codec has achieved a bitrate reduction of 32.59% compared to the codec […]
The release of MicroPythonOS 0.0.11 has been published, developing an operating system for microcontrollers such as the ESP32, written using the MicroPython toolset. The operating system features a graphical interface inspired by Android and iOS, supporting touch screen controls. Applications of MicroPythonOS include Internet of Things (IoT) devices, home automation management systems, interactive panels, robots, and smart wearables […]
The WSL-For-FreeBSD project develops a version of the WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) toolkit, allowing FreeBSD to run on Windows instead of Linux with minimal changes to the FreeBSD base environment. Modifications are intended to be contributed back to the main open-source WSL2 codebase whenever possible. The project is positioned as personal and experimental. At the current stage, FreeBSD can already be booted in WSL2 in console mode. […]
Four days after the OpenSSH 10.1 release, a patch release OpenSSH 10.2 has been published, providing an open implementation for SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. The new version features only bug fixes: In the ssh utility, a problem with terminal parameter handling has been resolved, which previously prevented the use of an SSH session when ControlPersist mode was active. A problem in the ssh-keygen utility has been fixed […]
Users upgrading to the Ubuntu 25.10 release have encountered issues installing or updating Flatpak packages. The problem is caused by changes in AppArmor rules applied when running the fusermount3 utility. Due to incorrectly set access rules, attempts to install or update packages using the flatpak utility result in an error stating that it cannot unmount the directory /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-*. This issue has been assigned a critical severity level. Currently, a fix is being prepared […]
The Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" distribution has been released, classified as an interim release with updates produced over a 9-month period. Installable images are available for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin (the edition for China), Ubuntu Unity, Edubuntu, and Ubuntu Cinnamon. Key changes include: the desktop environment has been updated to GNOME 49. […]
Meta* has introduced a toolkit for data compression and decompression called OpenZL, which demonstrates higher compression levels and speed compared to Zstd and XZ formats. OpenZL is designed for efficiently compressing structured datasets, such as those used in machine learning, as well as storage containing fields with various repeating types of information. The OpenZL code is written in C/C++ and is open-source […]
After a year of development, the release of the new stable branch of the network analyzer Wireshark 4.6 has been published. The program supports over a thousand network protocols and several dozen traffic capture formats. It provides a graphical interface for creating filters, capturing traffic, analyzing saved dumps, and inspecting packets. Advanced features include reassembling packet order, extracting and saving the contents of files transmitted using […]