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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 are striving 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. Windows-PhotoFiltre application. The project 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 has announced an expansion of its vulnerability bounty program. Android, the Chrome browser, and the underlying components. The maximum reward for creating an exploit for the platform Android, which allows for code execution at the Pixel Titan M2 chip level without any user action (zero-click), is set at $1.5 million if an attacker succeeds […]
On May 7, OpenWrt 25.12.3, an operating system based on the kernel, was released. Linux, designed for embedded devices. Security fixes: Kernel Linux: Fixed vulnerability CVE-2026-31431 ("Copy Fail"). 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 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 confirmation by scanning a QR code with a smartphone. The problem is that the requirements for smartphones that can be used to solve the CAPTCHA include relatively new versions. iPhone/iPad, as well as […]
Microsoft has released a monthly update to its Azure distribution. Linux 3.0.20260506. The 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 generated for the aarch64 and x86_64 architectures. The installation image size is 770 MB. Changes in the new version include: Added to 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 […]
The team responsible for forming releases Debian, announced the transition of reproducible package rebuilding to a mandatory feature. Yesterday, changes were made to the build system that block the addition of new packages that don't support reproducible builds to the repository. The testing repository also prevents updating existing packages that have build reproducibility regressions. Debian 13, comprising 36427 source packages, support […]
Nocturne 1.0, a music player with music library management and connectivity to online music services, is released. The project is written in Python using libadwaita widgets and the gstreamer multimedia library and is licensed under the GPLv3 license. Builds are available in Flatpak format. Key features: Support for playback of local files, as well as music from streaming services and […]
Intel is scheduled to unveil its Nova Lake processors in the second half of this year. While much was already known about them, their successors have only revealed their designations. A new leak provides a more complete picture of Intel's processor plans for the next two years. This insight was made possible by DigiTimes, […]
On May 5, the Khronos consortium released the OpenCL 3.1 specification—the latest update to the open standard for cross-platform computing on CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, NPUs, and other accelerators. The release is timed to coincide with the IWOCL 2026 conference and builds on the OpenCL 3.x model, in which some features are first tested as extensions and then migrated to the standard's mandatory core. The main change in OpenCL 3.1 is […]