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Collabora has introduced the Linux distribution Apertis 2026, originally designed to support automotive systems but then reoriented for a wider range of electronic devices, embedded technologies, and industrial equipment. Among the devices using Apertis are the Atari VCS gaming console, Raspberry Pi 4 board, R-car automotive SoCs, and the Bosch D-tect 200 object detection scanner for walls. Benchmark […]
Attackers were able to hijack a maintainer's account and release two malicious NPM packages of axios, which provides an HTTP client implementation for browsers and Node.js. The axios package has over 100 million downloads per week and is a dependency for 174,000 other packages. The malicious changes were integrated into the releases of Axios 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 through the substitution of the fake dependency plain-crypto-js 4.2.1, […]
After several years of development, debugging, discussions, improvements, and efforts, the stable release of ‘Alt Mobile’ has come out — a distribution for mobile devices that is kept up to date alongside other distributions on the Eleventh platform. This is not AOSP — it is the familiar ‘Alt’. Unlike most popular mobile operating systems, ‘Alt Mobile’ is not based on AOSP (Android Open Source Project) and does not […]
The release of Archinstall 4.0 has been published, which has been an option in the Arch Linux installation ISO images since 2021. Archinstall operates in console mode and can be used instead of the default manual installation mode. The Archinstall code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Archinstall provides both guided and automated modes of operation. In […]
Vivo officially announced the new camera phone X300 Ultra in China. According to Android Authority, the device is capable of raising the bar for video recording on smartphones. Vivo confirmed that the smartphone will also be available for sale in international markets later. The Vivo X300 Ultra is positioned as a camera phone that can compete with the iPhone in video recording capabilities. But let's start with the basics […]
On March 20, 2026, version 10.0.0 of the KiCAD printed circuit board design automation system was released. Most, if not all, of the new version's features and usability improvements are described in discussions on the user forum. Some of them were also presented in a report at FOSDEM 2026. A more detailed and complete list of all changes is available on GitLab. The application area of KiCAD […]
The release of 4MLinux 51.0 is now available, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on the JWM window manager. 4MLinux can be used both as a live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks, as well as a system for recovery from failures and a platform for launching mini-servers. A live image is prepared for download […]
Several European companies and organizations, including Nextcloud, IONOS, Eurostack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, and BTactic, have presented the open collaborative document editing platform Euro-Office, which is based on the codebase of the ONLYOFFICE office suite. In the fork, rebranding has been carried out, and changes have been made to the AGPLv3 license text to remove additional conditions regarding the logo and trademarks. Such changes have been perceived positively by the ONLYOFFICE developers […]
The company Bazalt SPO has introduced the mobile platform ALT Mobile 11.0 ('Alt Mobile'), designed for smartphones, tablets, and embedded devices with touch screens, such as barcode scanners, cash registers, and data collection terminals. The platform is built on the package base of the Sisyphus repository (p11) and is equipped with the Phosh graphical shell, based on GNOME technologies and using the Phoc composite server. For download […]
The ISO committee for C++ language standardization has approved the final version of the specification that forms the international standard 'C++26'. The features outlined in the specification are partially already supported in the GCC, Clang, and Microsoft Visual C++ compilers. Libraries that support the C++26 standard are implemented within the Boost project. In the next two months, the approved specification will be in the document preparation stage for publication, during which […]
Anthropic, OpenAI, and other technology companies are preparing AI models that could significantly heighten the threat of large-scale cyberattacks on corporate, government, and municipal systems. The focus is on the yet-to-be-released AI model Claude Mythos from Anthropic. According to Axios, the company is already warning senior U.S. officials that its arrival in 2026 markedly increases the likelihood of such attacks. Mythos is described […]
Hello! We have created Monogram — a new open-source Telegram client for Android using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. The code is available on GitHub under the GPLv3 license, and updates can be found on our Telegram channel. Why did we do this? The official client has become an overly complicated monolith, with source code being published with significant delays. Additionally, we dislike the imposition of iOS styling at the expense of Android guidelines. […]