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On March 3, version 7.3 of the fast cross-platform text search utility ugrep was released. For more efficient searching through large amounts of files on slow storage devices, or when searching through many archives (zip, zstd, tar, bzip2, bzip3, 7z, lzma, lz4, brotli, etc.), you can first perform indexing with the ugrep-indexer utility (included with the ugrep distribution since version 6.0). The utility […]
Firefox 136 is available with support for vertical tab placement, AI chatbots, automatic conversion of HTTP requests to HTTPS, and VA-API support on AMD graphics cards. Linux: Hardware acceleration for video decoding (VA-API) is enabled on systems with AMD GPUs (requires Mesa version 24.2 or newer). Official ARM64 (AArch64) builds are available as tarballs, as well as from the APT repository. […]
Members of the technical committee of the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), part of the Linux Foundation, have approved the acceptance of the Cozystack project, which develops a platform for building private clouds and PaaS. Cozystack has achieved sandbox project status within CNCF. The Cozystack developers have begun the process of integration with the CNCF infrastructure. The Cozystack platform is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license and allows users to build a cloud for deployment on existing hardware […]
Correction updates for the collaborative development platform GitLab — versions 17.9.2, 17.8.5, and 17.7.7 — have been released, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2025-25291, CVE-2025-25292) that allows SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) authentication bypass. The vulnerability exists in the Ruby library ruby-saml, which implements SAML authorization functions. Besides GitLab, the vulnerability also affects other projects using this library. The issue has been fixed in ruby-saml updates 1.18.0 […]
A new version of the control panel for Focusrite audio interfaces from the Scarlett, Clarett/Clarett+, and Vocaster series has been released. ALSA Scarlett Control Panel offers a convenient interface for managing signal routing and volume in the interface channels, as well as for additional settings like firmware updates and enabling mass storage device mode for some models. Focusrite provides the developer with the necessary technical information and […]
The first alpha version of the native RPCS3 port, a PlayStation 3 emulator, on Android has been released. It is being developed by one of the founders of the RPCS3 project (as well as RPCSX – a PS4 emulator), who has been working on it for many years, DH. An official native RPCS3 port for ArmLinux (Raspberry Pi, PineBook, Ubuntu Touch, Orange Pi, and other Linux devices with Arm) was previously released. Source: linux.org.ru
A vulnerability (CVE-2025-27363) has been identified in the FreeType font rendering library, which could potentially lead to code execution when processing specially crafted files with variable fonts or TrueType GX fonts. The issue only manifests in FreeType releases up to and including version 2.13.0 and is fixed in version 2.13.1 (June 2023). It is believed that the vulnerability has been exploited in the past for […]
Jon Seager, Vice President of Engineering at Canonical and technical leader of the Ubuntu project, introduced an initiative to replace system utilities in Ubuntu with equivalents written in Rust. The first goal of the initiative is to transition Ubuntu 25.10 to using the uutils toolkit by default instead of the GNU Coreutils. If the experiment is deemed successful, uutils will also be […]
The Open Source Initiative (OSI), which verifies licenses for compliance with Open Source criteria, has officially approved the Open Source principles proposed by the United Nations (UN) to stimulate collaboration and the widespread implementation of open source code within UN departments and beyond. These principles were developed by the Open Source United community, organized by the UN Executive Council as part of the 'Digital Technology Network' program, and […]
Another patch for Windows 11 24H2 has proven to be extremely unstable and rife with issues. Users are reporting freezes during installation, BSoD ('Blue Screen of Death'), and inability to boot the system. Fixes have not yet been released. Just a couple of days ago, Microsoft issued update KB5053598 for Windows 11 24H2, which includes several important security fixes. This is a mandatory update that installs […]
In mid-2023, Intel announced the x86S initiative — a simplification of x86. The initiative involved the complete removal of real mode, the elimination of 16-bit instructions from protected/long mode, and the partial removal of 32-bit instructions (for user mode, 32-bit instructions were retained — only system ones were removed). Additionally, the VTx mechanism — virtualization extensions, which were previously intended to be preserved […]
The release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 (Focal) has been announced. This update is part of the 20.04 series; however, the developers are focusing on transitioning the system to another branch of Ubuntu, which means the list of changes is small. Key new features include support for VoLTE (Voice over LTE) on Volla Phone X23 and Volla Phone 22 (through the Halium layer); the ability to remove the avatar of an added contact; support has been added for […]