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At the KubeCon Europe conference, The Register interviewed Greg Kroah-Hartman, who is responsible for maintaining stable and ‘staging’ branches of the Linux kernel, serving as the maintainer in 16 kernel subsystems. The interview discusses Greg's perspective on bug reports generated by AI. AI is already being utilized in the kernel for reviewing changes in the networking subsystem, eBPF, and […]
Unexpectedly for all cybersecurity experts, Google announced a significant acceleration in the timeline for Q-Day—the moment when quantum computers will be able to break modern public-key cryptography. In the material published on March 25, 2026, the company stated it now plans to be fully prepared for this event by 2029, rather than in the more distant future, […]
A minor release of the operating system "Alt Education" 11.1 has been released. The build is prepared for x86_64 and AArch64 based on the 6.12 (LTS) kernel. Download image from ftp.altlinux.org download.basealt.ru mirror.yandex.ru In the new image, it is now possible to choose only one desktop environment during installation—KDE Plasma or Xfce. By default, the system offers the updated KDE Plasma 6. An application "Alt Components" has been added for […]
After a year of development, the release of the open-source parametric 3D modeling system FreeCAD 1.1 has been published, which features flexible customization options and a functionality expansion through plug-ins. The interface is built using the Qt library. Plug-ins can be created in Python. It supports saving and loading models in various formats, including STEP, IGES, and STL. The FreeCAD code is distributed under the […]
Ahead of the May release, Xbox Game Studios and the developers from the British studio Playground Games have unveiled the full system requirements for the open-world racing arcade Forza Horizon 6. Forza Horizon 6 was created with the capabilities of the latest graphics hardware in mind, but is optimized for both high-end systems and gaming laptops as well as portable PCs (Steam Deck, Xbox ROG […]
After two years of development, the release of the LibreQoS 2.0 platform is now available, designed to organize fair distribution of the available bandwidth among users and to reduce the negative effects caused by intermediate packet buffering (Bufferbloat) by network equipment. The platform can be used by providers or administrators of private networks to optimize traffic flows, maintain delays at a minimum level, and manage bandwidth distribution according to priorities. […]
On March 24, 2026, versions 5.3.0 and 6.0.0 of the popular graphic editor Krita were released. Along with the stable version 5.3.0, version 6.0.0 was introduced, marking the transition to the Qt 6 library. A notable feature of these releases is that both versions are built from the same source code. The choice between them depends on the Qt versions used during the build. Changes: Krita […]
Firefox 149 is now available. Linux: The file chooser dialog provided by the XDG portal org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser is used whenever possible (it is better integrated with the desktop environment and has more features), instead of the standard GTK3 interface. It is now possible to arrange the content of two tabs side by side. The corresponding command will appear in the tab's context menu when one or two tabs are selected (browser.tabs.splitView.enabled). Shield icons […]
The first public release of the VitruvianOS project has taken place, which has been developing an operating system based on Debian/Linux since 2019, designed to bring the simplicity, responsiveness, and flexibility of BeOS to modern hardware and implement API compatibility with applications created for Haiku and BeOS. The project's code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. VitruvianOS utilizes user space components from the Haiku OS. Instead of […]
The main branch of nginx 1.29.7 has been released, continuing the development of new features, as well as the release of the stable branch nginx 1.28.3, which only incorporates changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. The updates address 6 vulnerabilities, three of which lead to buffer overflows. Four vulnerabilities have been assigned a high severity level (8.8 or 8.5 […]
Oracle has announced the release of Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 (UEK 8.2), a variant of the Linux kernel developed for use in the Oracle Linux distribution as an alternative to the standard kernel package from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The kernel is available for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. The source code of the kernel, including separate patches, has been published in a public Git repository by Oracle. The Unbreakable […]
Norwegian startup Lace Lithography, supported by Microsoft, has raised $40 million in its first funding round to develop a lithographic scanner that uses a beam of helium atoms for processing silicon wafers. The company claims that its technology will enable the creation of chip elements that are 10 times smaller than existing lithography systems, with a beam width of just 0.1 nm — EUV scanners from ASML use […]