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Release of Protox 1.6, Tox client for mobile platforms

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An update for Protox, a mobile messaging application that allows users to communicate without a server, based on the Tox protocol (s-toxcore), has been released. This update focuses on improving the client and its usability. Currently, only the Android platform is supported. The project is seeking iOS developers to port the application to Apple smartphones. The program serves as an alternative to the Tox clients Antox and Trifa. The project code […]

User identification by browsing history

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Mozilla employees have published the results of a study on the possibility of identifying users based on their browsing profiles, which can be visible to third parties and websites. Analyzing 52,000 browsing profiles provided by Firefox users participating in the experiment showed that website preferences are characteristic of each user and remain consistent. The uniqueness of the obtained browsing history profiles was 99%. At […]

The Iceweasle Mobile project has started the development of a Firefox fork for Android.

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Mozilla developers successfully completed the migration of Firefox 68 users for the Android platform to the new browser, which is being developed under the Fenix project and recently offered to all users as an update 'Firefox 79.0.5'. The minimum platform requirements have been raised to Android 5. Fenix uses the GeckoView engine, built on Firefox Quantum technologies, and a set of Mozilla Android Components libraries, which […]

A preview release of Xfce 4.16 is available

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Testing of the pre-release version of the Xfce 4.16pre1 user environment has begun. The release is expected in October or November. The most notable change in the new branch is the transition of the interface to the GtkHeaderBar widget and the application of client-side decoration (CSD), which allowed for the placement of menus, buttons, and other interface elements in the window header. Among other changes, optional support has also been discontinued […]

Update of the Thunderbird email client 78.2.1

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The release of the Thunderbird 78.2.1 email client is now available, which has enabled built-in OpenPGP support by default for all users, used for end-to-end encryption of correspondence and signing emails with a digital signature. This release also disables the use of MD5, SM2, and SM3 algorithms in the OpenPGP implementation. The main difference between the built-in OpenPGP support and the previously offered Enigmail add-on is the use of the RNP library […]

Censorship-resistant social media apps on Fediverse may be removed from Google Play

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Google has sent warnings to the developers of Android applications Husky, Fedilab, and Subway Tooter, which allow communication in decentralized social networks of the Fediverse, about the need to rectify violations of the Play Store catalog rules. They have been given 7 days to address the concerns, after which non-compliant applications will be removed from the Google Play catalog. The reason for the intended block mentions the possibility of using the applications to access […]

A font has been released that automatically censors offensive expressions

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The Finnish company TietoEVRY has released a TTF font called "The Polite Type," which turns offensive English expressions, as deemed by the authors, into ligatures, replacing them with neutral expressions or blurred spots. Naturally, if you add the character 200C or 200B (zero width non-joiner or zero width space) and even an extra space or change the case, the censorship doesn’t activate. The font is declared "open-source," […]

Linux kernel development statistics

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The Linux Foundation has prepared an informative report showcasing the development statistics of the Linux kernel. Notably, the first Linux kernel 0.01 consisted of 88 files and 10,239 lines of code. The latest kernel 5.8 includes 69,325 files and 28,442,673 lines of code (over 110 million tokens). More than half of the code present in the latest releases was written in the past seven years. […]

Release of htop 3.0 utility

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The release of the diagnostic utility htop 3.0 has been announced, providing tools for interactive process monitoring in the style of the top program. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The utility is notable for features such as free vertical and horizontal scrolling of the process list, tools for evaluating SMP performance and utilization of each CPU core, a tree view mode, flexible interface customization options, and support for […]

Fedora IoT, a comprehensive solution for the Internet of Things, becomes an official edition of Fedora.

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Starting with Fedora version 33, the Fedora IoT project, positioned as a comprehensive solution for the Internet of Things, will receive official release status. Over the past few years, the Fedora team has been developing a distribution tailored for the concept of the 'Internet of Things.' This fall, starting with the Fedora 33 release, this project eagerly anticipates its first official release. […]

Malicious activity detected in the NPM package fallguys

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NPM developers have warned about the removal of the fallguys package from the repository due to detected malicious activity. Aside from displaying an ASCII graphic splash screen featuring a character from the game "Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout", this module included code attempting to transfer some system files via webhook to the Discord messenger. The module was published in early August but only managed to get 288 downloads before […]

Release Wine 5.16

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An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.16 has been made. Since the release of version 5.15, 21 bug reports have been closed and 221 changes have been made. The most important changes include: support for AVX registers on x86 added in ntdll. Improved ARM64 support for macOS. Ongoing work on restructuring console support. Bug reports related to the operation of games and applications have been closed: Memorex […]

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