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Release of Vivaldi Browser 7.6

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The release of the proprietary browser Vivaldi 7.6 has occurred, developed on the Chromium engine by former developers of the Opera Presto engine. Vivaldi builds are prepared for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Changes made to the Chromium codebase are distributed under an open license. The browser interface is written in JavaScript using the React library, Node.js platform, Browserify, and various ready-made NPM modules. The implementation of the interface is available […]

The Tails 7.0 distribution is now available, transitioning to Debian 13 and GNOME 48.

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The release of the specialized distribution Tails 7.0 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on a Debian package base and designed for anonymous internet access, has been formed. Anonymous access in Tails is ensured by the Tor system. All connections except traffic through the Tor network are blocked by a packet filter by default. To store user data in persistent mode between sessions, encryption is used. […]

The release of the P2P platform GNUnet 0.25

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The release of the GNUnet 0.25 framework, designed for building secure decentralized P2P networks, has been announced. Networks created with GNUnet have no single point of failure and can guarantee the privacy of user information, including protection against possible abuses by administrators who have access to network nodes. GNUnet supports the creation of P2P networks over TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, Bluetooth, and WLAN, and can operate […]

The WebAssembly 3.0 standard has been published

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The W3C Consortium has announced the readiness of the specification that standardizes the intermediate code WebAssembly 3.0 and its associated API, enabling the creation of high-performance applications that can be transferred between browsers and hardware platforms. WebAssembly provides a browser-independent universal low-level intermediate code for executing applications compiled from various programming languages. The WebAssembly technology can be used to execute tasks in the browser that require high […]

The system manager systemd 258 is now available

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After nine months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 258 has been presented. Key changes: discontinuation of support for cgroups v1 and System V-style system management components, new utilities systemd-factory-reset and systemd-pty-forward, the concept of home areas, support for booting from a disk image obtained via HTTP. Among the changes in the new release: a new utility systemd-factory-reset has been added to initiate or cancel settings reset in […]

The release of the GNOME 49 desktop environment

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After six months of development, the release of the GNOME 49 desktop environment has been published. For a quick evaluation of GNOME 49's capabilities, specialized Live builds based on openSUSE and an installation image prepared under the GNOME OS initiative are offered. GNOME 49 is also included in the experimental builds of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43. In the new release: the Showtime video player is enabled by default, which […]

The release of StartWine-Launcher 411, a program for running Windows applications and games on Linux

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The release of the StartWine-Launcher 411 application, developed for running Windows-based programs and games on Linux systems, has been published. The primary goal of developing StartWine-Launcher was to simplify the process of creating Wine prefixes by newcomers — sets of libraries and dependencies necessary for running Windows applications in Linux. The code for StartWine-Launcher is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is based on […]

The release of Java SE 25 LTS and OpenJDK 25

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After six months of development, Oracle has released Java SE 25 (Java Platform, Standard Edition 24), with the open project OpenJDK serving as its reference implementation. Apart from removing some deprecated features, Java SE 25 maintains backward compatibility with previous releases of the Java platform—most previously written Java projects will run without changes on […]

A self-replicating worm has infected 187 packages in NPM

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The attack on package maintainers in the NPM repository has escalated. In addition to using malware to intercept payments and sensitive information, attackers have shifted to embedding a worm in compromised packages to automate the injection of malware into dependencies. The use of the worm was documented following the compromise of the NPM package @ctrl/tinycolor, which has 2.2 million weekly downloads and is used as a direct […]

Release of Firefox 143

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The release of the web browser Firefox 143 has occurred, and updates for previous long-term support branches—140.3.0 and 115.28.0—have been formulated. The Firefox 144 branch has entered beta testing, with its release scheduled for October 14. Key new features in Firefox 143 (1, 2, 3): Added the ability to pin tabs as always-visible shortcuts by dragging the tab with the mouse to the beginning of the […]

Phoenix — an attack on DDR5 chips leading to memory content corruption

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Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, in collaboration with engineers from Google, have developed a new Rowhammer attack technique—Phoenix (CVE-2025-6202)—that bypasses the TRR (Target Row Refresh) protection mechanisms used in DDR5 chips, which prevent cell corruption due to charge loss. A proof-of-concept exploit has been published that allows modification of a specific bit in RAM and achieves an increase in […]

The AOMedia Alliance has announced the next-generation video codec AV2

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The Open Media Alliance (AOMedia), which oversees the development of the AV1 video encoding format, announced the release of an open standard and reference implementation for the new AV2 video encoding format by the end of the year. This new standard is viewed not only as a continuation of the development of the AV1 video codec but also as the foundation for the future AOMedia technology stack. The development of AV2 has been underway for several years, with the first preliminary implementation being […]

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