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Release of Libreboot 25.04 and Canoeboot 25.04 boot firmware

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The release of the free boot firmware Libreboot 25.04 has been published, which has the status of an experimental release focused on feature development (stable releases mainly contain fixes and are published about once a year, the last stable release was in December). The project develops a ready-built version of the Coreboot project, providing a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripherals, and […]

Vulnerability in the finit init system allowing system access without a password

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A vulnerability has been identified in the finit initialization system (CVE-2025-29906), allowing anyone to log in as any user without password verification. Exploiting this vulnerability involves manipulating the login prompt and requires console access. The vulnerability has been present since version 3.0 (October 2017) and was fixed in the finit 4.11 release. Subsequently, version 4.12 has been released which addresses […]

Release of the DragonFly BSD 6.4.1 operating system

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After two and a half years since the release of version 6.4, the DragonFly BSD 6.4.1 operating system has been released. Developed in 2003 as an alternative fork of FreeBSD 4.x, DragonFly BSD features the distributed versioned file system HAMMER, support for booting 'virtual' kernel systems as user processes, and the capability for caching data and metadata on SSDs […]

Beta release of the openSUSE Leap 16 distribution

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Beta testing has begun for the openSUSE Leap 16 distribution, built on technologies from the next major branch of the commercial SLES 16 distribution, transitioning to the new SLFO (SUSE Linux Framework One) platform, previously known as ALP (Adaptable Linux Platform). openSUSE Leap 16 will retain characteristics of a classic distribution using traditional packages, while providing an atomically updated system with a base of […]

Release of web browser Chrome 136 with isolation of viewed links style

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Google has released version 136 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable version of the free Chromium project, which forms the basis of Chrome, is available. Chrome differs from Chromium by including Google branding, a crash notification system, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update system, always-on Sandbox isolation, the provision of keys for Google API, and the submission of RLZ parameters […]

Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel Allowing Privilege Escalation via VSOCK

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The possibility of creating a working exploit for the vulnerability CVE-2025-21756 has been demonstrated, caused by an error in the Linux kernel leading to use-after-free memory access. The issue affects the implementation of AF_VSOCK addressed sockets intended for network interaction between guest systems and hosts. The published exploit allows code execution with root privileges on systems running Linux kernel 6.6.75 (other versions require […]

Using a Zip Bomb to Combat Malicious Web Bots

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Recently, there has been a significant increase in web bot activity indexing traffic. In addition to functioning bots, there has been a rise of 'feral' bots that ignore the robots.txt indexing rules, coming from tens of thousands of different IP addresses, masquerading as legitimate users, and not adhering to a reasonable request rate policy. Such bots create a massive parasitic load on servers, disrupt normal system operations, and consume administrators' time. Activity from such […]

The Genode project has released the general-purpose OS Sculpt 25.04.

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The release of the Sculpt project 25.04 has been announced, developing an operating system based on the Genode OS Framework technologies, which can be used by regular users for everyday tasks. The project's source code is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. A system image of 32 MB is available for download, which can be used on PCs, PinePhone smartphones, and MNT Reform laptops. Operation on systems with […]

Release of Firefox 138

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The release of the Firefox 138 web browser has taken place, along with updates to past long-term support branches — 115.23.0 and 128.10.0. The Firefox 139 branch has entered beta testing, with its release scheduled for May 27. Key innovations in Firefox 138: A new profile management system has been proposed. In the profile form, users can create completely independent browsing sessions, each with its own […]

Release of 4MLinux 48.0

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The release of 4MLinux 48.0 is now available, a minimalist user distribution that is not a derivative of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on the JWM window manager. 4MLinux can be used both as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks, as well as a system for recovery after failures and a platform for running mini-servers. Live images are prepared for download […]

Release of Wayland-Protocols 1.44 and the composite server Weston 14.0.2

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The release of the wayland-protocols package 1.44 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that complement the base Wayland protocol and provide the necessary capabilities for building composite servers and user environments. In Wayland-Protocols 1.44, a new protocol, color-representation-v1, has been introduced to define the color representation of a Wayland surface. Using the new protocol, clients can transmit metadata required to determine transparency, color model, sub-sampling, and quantization range, […]

Release of OpenBSD 7.7

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The release of the free UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 7.7 has been presented. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 after a conflict with the NetBSD developers, which resulted in Theo being denied access to the NetBSD CVS repository. After that, Theo de Raadt and a group of like-minded individuals created a new open-source project based on the source tree of NetBSD […]

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