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Release of Wine 5.11 and Wine Staging 5.11

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An experimental release of the open-source implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.11 — has been made. Since the release of version 5.10, 57 bug reports have been closed and 348 changes have been made. The most important changes include: The Mono engine has been updated to version 5.1.0 with support for the WpfGfx library; work continues on the implementation of a separate shared Unix library (.so) for NTDLL; an initial implementation of the NetIO kernel driver has been added; […]

Creating bootable images with boobstrap v1.0

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I would like to introduce you to a framework called boobstrap, written in POSIX shell, for creating bootable images with GNU/Linux distributions. The framework allows you to complete the entire process in three simple steps: from deploying a system in chroot, creating an initramfs image that includes the system from chroot, to ultimately producing a bootable ISO image. boobstrap includes three utilities mkbootstrap, mkinitramfs […]

Firefox Preview 5.2 is available for Android

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A new experimental version of the Firefox browser for Android, developed under the codename Fenix as a replacement for the standard Firefox for Android, has been released. It will soon be available in the Google Play catalog (requires Android 5 or newer). Additionally, starting with Firefox 77, beta builds of the regular Firefox will now be offered on […]

111 Chrome extensions, downloaded 32 million times, caught collecting sensitive data

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Awake Security has reported the discovery of 111 Google Chrome extensions that send users' confidential data to external servers. Among these extensions were those capable of capturing screenshots, reading clipboard contents, analyzing the presence of access tokens in cookies, and intercepting input in web forms. In total, the identified malicious extensions accounted for 32.9 million downloads in the Chrome Web Store, […]

Ubuntu Appliance — a new initiative from Canonical

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Canonical, in collaboration with NextCloud, Mosquitto, Plex, OpenHAB, and AdGuard, presents new specialized Ubuntu builds. These allow you to easily and quickly turn a PC or Raspberry Pi into a ready-made solution. The following builds are available: OpenHAB — smart home automation platform https://ubuntu.com/appliance/openhab Media server Plex https://ubuntu.com/appliance/plex Cloud server NextCloud https://ubuntu.com/appliance/nextcloud MQTT Broker Mosquitto for IoT communications […]

Mozilla VPN has been introduced

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Mozilla has launched a new service called Mozilla VPN, which was previously tested under the name Firefox Private Network. This service allows users to set up VPN access for up to 5 devices at a price of $4.99 per month. Access to Mozilla VPN is currently only available for users in the USA. The service can be useful when working on networks that are untrustworthy, for example, when […]

Chrome and other applications will consume less RAM in the new Windows 10

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In the May update for Windows 10, Microsoft introduced an improved mechanism for managing dynamic memory, which will reduce RAM consumption by various applications. Microsoft stated in its official Windows blog that it is already utilizing this new capability in the development of its proprietary Edge browser, which now, as a reminder, is based on the Chromium engine. According to the results of early tests, memory consumption reduction […]

The Ubuntu project released builds for deploying server platforms on Raspberry Pi and PCs

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Canonical has introduced the Ubuntu Appliance project, initiating the release of fully configured Ubuntu builds optimized for the quick deployment of ready-made server applications on Raspberry Pi or PCs. Currently, there are builds available for launching cloud storage and collaboration platform NextCloud, MQTT broker Mosquitto, media server Plex, home automation platform OpenHAB, and the ad-blocking DNS server AdGuard. Builds […]

Release of the Rescuezilla Backup Distribution 1.0.6

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A new version of the Rescuezilla 1.0.6 distribution has been released, designed for backup, system recovery after failures, and diagnosing various hardware issues. The distribution is built on the Ubuntu package base and continues the development of the 'Redo Backup & Rescue' project, which was discontinued in 2012. Rescuezilla supports backup and recovery of accidentally deleted files in Linux, macOS, and Windows partitions. […]

Mozilla has transitioned to using a shared regular expression engine with Chromium

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The JavaScript engine SpiderMonkey used in Firefox has been transitioned to use an updated implementation of regular expressions based on the current Irregexp code from the JavaScript engine V8, used in browsers based on the Chromium project. The new RegExp implementation will be proposed in Firefox 78, scheduled for June 30, and will enable the implementation of all missing ECMAScript features related to regular expressions in the browser. It is noted that […]

Monolinux — a single-file distribution that boots on ARMv7 528 MHz CPUs in 0.37 seconds

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Erik Moqvist, the creator of the Simba platform and the cantools toolkit, is developing a new Monolinux distribution focused on creating embedded Linux systems for standalone execution of specific applications written in C. Notably, the distribution packages the software as a single statically compiled executable file, including all components necessary for the application to run (essentially, the distribution constitutes the Linux kernel […]

Release of the password cracking program hashcat 6.0.0

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A significant release of the password cracking program hashcat 6.0.0 has been published, claiming to be the fastest and most functional in its field. Hashcat offers five cracking modes and supports over 300 optimized password hashing algorithms. Crack computations can be parallelized leveraging all available system computing resources, including the use of CPU vector instructions, GPU, and others […]

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