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I'm excited to present my project — a simple WebRTC chat. It can be launched with three commands. Under the hood is ReactJS (this is the front end + wrapped in ElectronJS if you want an app that plays system audio during screen sharing and globally supports hotkeys). On the backend, it uses pure WebSocket on Node.js + Mediasoup.js as the SFU server. License — MIT. I don't plan to maintain this […]
The unofficial Telegram client Nekogram has been found to contain obfuscated code that secretly sends the phone numbers of users who log into the app to the bot ‘@nekonotificationbot’, associated with the user identifier. The modification for collecting phone numbers is present only in the compiled APKs distributed through Google Play, GitHub, and the project's Telegram channel. This phone-collecting change is not present in the source code on GitHub and in the APK package from the F-Droid catalog […]
The accompanying NPM package axios, which recently had malicious updates released, has revealed details of an attack that allowed the attackers to gain access to its computer and all credentials. The attack was carried out using a typical social engineering method that had previously been used to compromise developers of cryptocurrency wallets and AI platforms. The attacker posed as the founder of a well-known company and […]
Another release of the desktop-oriented operating system MidnightBSD 4.0.4 has taken place. The new version includes important security fixes, improved support for modern AMD processors, as well as a system for age verification and access control. MidnightBSD is positioned as a user-friendly operating system based on the FreeBSD codebase, aimed at workstations. A key new feature is the age verification daemon aged (Age daemon) and the utility […]
Google has released a new family of large language models, Gemma 4, based on the Gemini 3 model technologies. Gemma 4 is distributed under the Apache license in variants with 2.3, 4.5, 25.2, and 30.7 billion parameters (E2B, E4B, 31B, and 26B A4B). The E2B and E4B variants are suitable for use on mobile devices, Internet of Things (IoT) systems, and boards of type […]
Microsoft is testing a new browser behavior model for Edge in Windows 11. Participants in the Windows Insider Program report that a banner appears at the top of the web browser indicating that the application “now launches on Windows login, so it's ready when you want to browse the web. You can change this at any time in settings.” Journalists […]
A minor release of the 'Alt Server' operating system 11.1 has been launched. The build is prepared for x86_64 and AArch64 based on kernel 6.12 (LTS). Download the image from ftp.altlinux.org download.basealt.ru mirror.yandex.ru In the new image, the edition selection has been moved to the installer interface — one ISO allows you to deploy different configurations. Package lists are generated dynamically, depending on the selected edition — 'Alt Server' or 'Alt Domain'. […]
ICT ROSA has released the ROSA Fresh 13.2 distribution, built on the rosa 13 platform. The distribution is available for free and developed with community involvement. The release is aimed at a wide range of users. Available for download are builds with KDE 6 desktops (4 GB), KDE 5 (4 GB), LXQt (3 GB), and GNOME (4 GB), along with builds for servers […]
After six months of development, OpenSSH 10.3 has been released, an open-source implementation of client and server for SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. Key changes: A vulnerability was fixed that allowed an attacker controlling the username passed when running the ssh utility to potentially execute arbitrary shell commands. The vulnerability is present in systems using the '%u' substitution in some configuration file directives, such as 'Match exec'. […]
On March 20, version 1.0.0 of the ‘Intel Optimization Zone – Intel Tuning Guides’ was released — a repository dedicated to optimizing software for Intel, ranging from BIOS settings for specific workloads to recommended application/server software configurations for achieving maximum performance on Intel hardware. The repository contains tuning guides, optimization recipes, and the most well-known methods and recommendations for analysis […]
Cloudflare has released the EmDash content management system. Like WordPress, the new system supports extension through plugins, allows templates for building various types of websites, and provides an administration interface, but it can operate on serverless computing platforms and enhances security through the use of TypeScript with static types and the isolation of plugins in separate sandbox environments. […]
After over a year of development, on March 32, version 1.0.0 Beta of the cross-platform, multithreaded, SIMD-optimized file manager FARS was released. Features: It requires any terminal emulator that supports Sixel formats, Kitty Graphics Protocol, or iTerm2. It is preferable for the terminal to support the Kitty Keyboard Protocol for more key combinations to be available. Parsing ESC sequences in the terminal is conducted by the Lug 0.5.0 library. For user […]