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Telegram has started marking users of third-party clients, warning about decreased message security.

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Telegram users have discovered that the messenger has started displaying a warning on the profile of a contact who is using an unofficial client. The notification is accompanied by an explanation regarding potential reductions in message security. The service has not publicly announced the launch of this feature. At the same time, Telegram did not clarify whether the labeling applies to all third-party applications without exception or only to some of those clients. News of the impending change became known […]

Wireless optical communication indoors has shown new records in speed and efficiency.

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The infamous 'tin foil hats' will no longer be needed for those concerned about health in a world saturated with radio waves. Wireless optical networks promise to alleviate Wi-Fi congestion in indoor spaces, including homes. This new technology will not replace cellular networks or regular Wi-Fi access points but may address speed shortages for various tasks and save on energy consumption. [ … ]

OpenVMS Software has released the VMS/XDE developer toolkit for Linux

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I don't know who will need this, but I was delighted. As an old VMS user, I couldn't pass this by. The company OpenVMS Software, which acquired the rights to OpenVMS and is now continuing the development of this OS for x86, has released a developer toolkit for VMS on Linux. It installs on Linux/X86-64 and Windows/WSL. VMS/XDE is a set of compilers and libraries, natively executed on Linux, [ … ]

For the first time, a woman will lead Debian. The position on age verification in Debian

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Andreas Tille, the leader of the Debian project, published a monthly report explaining that he did not participate in the project leader elections for the third time to encourage other members to put forward their candidacies. As a result, this year there is only one candidate for the leadership position — Sruthi Chandran, a participant from India. Voting started yesterday and [ … ]

Microsoft will forcibly upgrade computers with older OS versions to Windows 11 25H2.

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Microsoft will forcibly upgrade computers running Windows 11 24H2 to the current 25H2 version. Support for 24H2 officially ends on October 13, 2026 — this new measure is obviously part of the company's strategy to ensure that all devices remain up to date. The automatic installation of the new platform version will be rolled out on computers with Windows 11 24H2 in Home and Pro editions; systems with [ … ]

The release of MidnightBSD 4.0.4 with age verification tools

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The release of the desktop-oriented operating system MidnightBSD 4.0.4 has taken place, based on FreeBSD with elements ported from DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. The basic desktop environment is built on Xfce (optionally, you can install the combination of GNUstep + Window Maker + GWorkspace). Unlike other desktop builds of FreeBSD, the MidnightBSD OS was originally developed as a fork of FreeBSD 6.1-beta, which was synchronized in 2011 [ … ]

A regression has been identified in the Linux kernel 7.0 that reduces PostgreSQL performance by half.

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An engineer from Amazon has identified a regression specific to Linux kernel 7.0, which is expected to be released on April 13. Changes to the task scheduler settings have led to a significant reduction in throughput and responsiveness when running the PostgreSQL database on ARM64 architecture systems. Using kernel 7.0, performance metrics during the pgbench "simple-update" test have nearly halved — from […]

Durov promised to complicate the detection and blocking of Telegram traffic.

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Telegram founder Pavel Durov, commenting on the blocking of Telegram in Russia, stated that the messenger will continue to adapt, making its traffic more difficult to detect and block. According to Durov, 65 million Russians use the messenger daily via VPN, with more than 50 million sending messages every day. Ahead of the block, Telegram proposed that Russians subscribe to the Premium service for two years […]

GDDRHammer and GeForge attacks distort GPU memory to access all CPU memory

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Researchers from several universities in the USA and Australia have developed two Rowhammer-class attacks — GDDRHammer and GeForge — that allow for bit-flipping in GDDR memory chips when running unprivileged CUDA kernel on NVIDIA GPUs. Unlike the GPUHammer method introduced last year, the new attacks are not limited to affecting data processed in GPU memory, but allow for […]

Release Wine 11.6

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An experimental release of the open implementation of Win32 API — Wine 11.6 — has been published. Since the release of 11.5, 28 bug reports have been closed and 261 changes made. The most significant updates include: Work has resumed on the wineandroid driver, enabling functionality on the Android platform. Heuristics for determining the order of DLL loading have been added to improve support for game mods. Continued efforts to improve compatibility with VBScript. […]

The Netherlands has created the world's first "solar" roofing tile with a flexible perovskite film and an efficiency of 12.4%.

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The world's first solar roof tile using thin-film perovskite has been developed in the Netherlands. This new element has relatively low efficiency; however, it allows a tiled roof to look like a regular roof rather than a collection of angled solar panels. The 'solar' tile is ready for mass production and could become an integral part of urban architecture, combining electricity generation […]

Ubuntu 26.04 Plans: Increased RAM Requirements

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The release notes for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 (last update on 27.03.2026) reveal that the new Ubuntu Desktop with a Gnome-based environment now requires at least 6 GB of RAM and 25 GB of disk space. The server version 26.04 now requires 1.5 GB of RAM, while 22.04 only required 1 GB, and 18.04 required just 512 MB. On […]

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