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Distribution releases for creating firewalls IPFire 2.29 Core 186 and NethSecurity 8.0.

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A release of the distribution for creating routers and firewalls, IPFire 2.29 Core 186, has been published. IPFire features a simple installation process and an intuitive web interface filled with informative graphs for configuration. The size of the installation ISO image is 421 MB (x86_64, AArch64). The system is modular: in addition to basic packet filtering and traffic management functions, modules are available for IPFire to implement prevention systems […]

SELKS 10 is available, a distribution for creating intrusion detection systems

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Stamus Networks has announced the release of the specialized distribution SELKS 10, designed for deploying intrusion detection and prevention systems, as well as organizing responses to identified threats and monitoring network security. It provides users with a fully ready-to-use network security management solution that can be utilized immediately after download. The distribution supports operation in Live mode and launching in virtualization environments or […]

Rust 1.79 has been released. A consortium has been created for developing highly reliable systems in Rust.

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The release of the general-purpose programming language Rust 1.79 has been published, originally based on the Mozilla project, but now developed under the aegis of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation. The language is focused on safe memory handling and provides means for achieving high task parallelism while avoiding the use of garbage collectors and a runtime (the runtime is reduced to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). […]

Release of web browser Chrome 126 with integrated OCR engine

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Google has released version 126 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in its use of Google logos, the presence of a notification system in case of crashes, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, permanent inclusion of Sandbox isolation, provision of keys for Google API, and transaction when […]

Google is transitioning ChromeOS to components of the Android platform.

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Google has announced that it is working on adapting the Chrome OS operating system to a version of the Linux kernel and the frameworks used in the Android platform. It is noted that the work on migrating the Chrome OS system environment to the components of the Android platform is at an early stage and will take a long time before the new system variant is suitable for end users. Of already […]

Valve has released Proton 9.0-2, a package for running Windows games on Linux

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Valve has released a new version of the Proton 9.0-2 project, based on the Wine project's codebase and aimed at enabling the launch of games developed for Windows in Linux, which are presented in the Steam catalog. The project developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows direct launching of Windows-only games in the Linux Steam client. The package includes the implementation of […]

Release of boot firmware Libreboot 20240612 and Canoeboot 20240612

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A release of the open-source boot firmware Libreboot 20240612 is available. The project builds upon the existing Coreboot assembly, providing a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware responsible for initiating the CPU, memory, peripheral devices, and other hardware components, minimizing binary inserts. Libreboot aims to create a system environment that can do without proprietary software as much as possible, not only at the operating system level […]

800 new packages have been added to the Linux patent protection program

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The Open Invention Network (OIN), aimed at protecting the Linux ecosystem from patent claims, has announced an expansion of the list of packages covered by the patent non-assertion agreement and the provision for the free use of certain patented technologies. The list of components in distributions that fall under the definition of a Linux system (“Linux System”), covered by the agreement among OIN participants, has been expanded to include […]

Release of the openSUSE Leap 15.6 distribution

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After a year of development, the release of the openSUSE Leap 15.6 distribution has taken place. The release is based on a unified set of binary packages with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 6, along with some user applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. The use of the same binary packages in SUSE and openSUSE simplifies transitions between distributions, saves resources on package building, updating distribution, and […]

The Linux kernel will feature the ability to use eBPF for creating task schedulers

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Linus Torvalds expressed his readiness to accept patches implementing the "sched_ext" (SCX) mechanism, which allows the use of eBPF for creating CPU schedulers that cover almost all aspects of task execution planning and CPU resource distribution, into the Linux kernel 6.11, which is expected to be released at the end of September. Such schedulers can be dynamically loaded and executed within the Linux kernel in an eBPF virtual machine, in […]

Firefox 127 Release

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The release of web browser Firefox 127 has occurred, and an update has been made to the long-term support branch — 115.12.0. The Firefox 128 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for July 9. Key innovations in Firefox 126 include the addition of a button to close all duplicate tabs in the current […] to the "V" menu, which lists all open tabs and to the tab's context menu.

Security analysis of 100 free VPN applications for the Android platform

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Top10VPN, a publication that reviews and tests VPN services, conducted an assessment of the 100 most popular free VPN apps for the Android platform, which collectively have over 2.5 billion installations (the testing focused on 100 free VPN apps that have recorded the highest number of downloads in the Google Play catalog). Key findings include that 88 of the tested apps have various issues leading to information leaks. […]

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