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Palit has unveiled the GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card in its new Infinity 3 design. The new card features a triple-fan cooling system and no RGB lighting. As part of the series, the manufacturer released a standard GeForce RTX 5080 Infinity 3 model and an overclocked version, the GeForce RTX 5080 Infinity 3 OC. The factory overclocked version is rated at a boost frequency of […]
After seven months of development, version 0.2.0 of the OpenZL framework for creating lossless data compressors has been released. The framework consists of a core library and tools for creating specialized compressors, described in SDDL. Creating a good specialized compressor involves two steps: analyzing the data to extract structure. Using good backend compressors that exploit the extracted structure to achieve good compression. […]
Graeme Geldenhuys, developer of the fpGUI graphical user interface, the PasBuild build system, the FPTest testing system, and the opdebugger debugger, presented Blaise, a compiler for a dialect of the Object Pascal programming language. The author's goal was to create a language free of decades of legacy, often overlapping, features. The main features of the new dialect are: For all dynamically created objects […]
After two and a half years of development and nearly seven years since its last major release, Photoflare 1.7.0, the image editor, has been released. Its developers strive to find the optimal balance between functionality and user-friendliness. The project was originally founded as an attempt to create an open, cross-platform alternative to the Windows application PhotoFiltre. The project's code is written in C++ using the Qt library and […]
South Korean publisher and developer Pearl Abyss announced the release of another major update for the open-world fantasy action-adventure game Crimson Desert on all target platforms. Key changes in 1.06.00 (2,5 GB on PC) include special vehicles, the ability to extract materials used to upgrade equipment, a display option for scabbards, and night tone adjustments. With the release of 1.06.00 […]
Google announced an expansion of its bounty program for vulnerabilities in the Android platform, Chrome browser, and underlying components. The maximum reward for creating an Android exploit that allows for zero-click code execution on the Pixel Titan M2 chip is set at $1.5 million, provided the attacker succeeds […]
Developers from Galaxy Grove, with support from Kwalee, have set a firm release date for their city-building simulator, Town to City. The project will leave Early Access on May 26th, and a special trailer was released to mark the occasion. Town to City is being marketed by its creators as a cozy city-building simulator in which players can create a vibrant settlement and plan its life according to their own […]
OpenWrt 25.12.3, a Linux-based operating system for embedded devices, was released on May 7th. Security fixes: Linux kernel: Fixed CVE-2026-31431 ("Copy Fail") vulnerability. In previous releases, this only affected StarFive platform users and those with the kmod-crypto-user module installed. mbedtls: Updated to version 3.6.6 (fixes several CVEs). OpenSSL: Updated to version 3.5.6 […]
Google has announced a new generation of its reCAPTCHA bot-filtering system, which is used on many websites to verify human requests. The new reCAPTCHA implementation, instead of selecting images that match the given question, uses QR code scanning with a smartphone for verification. The problem is that the requirements for smartphones capable of solving the captcha include relatively new iPhone/iPad versions, as well as […]
Microsoft has released the monthly update for the Azure Linux distribution, version 3.0.20260506. This distribution is being developed as a universal base platform for Linux environments used in cloud infrastructure, edge systems, and various Microsoft services. The project's proprietary developments are distributed under the MIT license. Package builds are available for the aarch64 and x86_64 architectures. The installation image size is 770 MB. Changes in the new version include: The repository (SPECS […]
A gray market proxy service in China resells access to Anthropic's Claude AI models for a tenth of the official price, profiting from stolen credentials, model substitution, and the resale of user requests and responses, according to a study by Oxford China Policy Lab researcher Zilan Qian. These proxy networks, which Chinese developers call "way stations," operate openly […]
On May 5th, after five months of development, version 1.9.3 of the cross-platform libgit2 library, which implements core Git methods, was released. The library is written in C and licensed under the GNU General Public License 2 (GPL 2) with a special linking exception, allowing the source code to remain private. The project also provides the lg2 and git2-experimental console utilities as examples. Numerous bindings to libgit2 exist […]