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Firefox 149.0.2, a patch release, is now available, fixing 41 vulnerabilities. All vulnerabilities are caused by memory management issues, such as buffer overflows and accessing memory after it's been freed. These issues could potentially lead to malicious code execution when opening specially crafted pages. Non-security changes: Fixed a bug that caused the browser toolbar to become unresponsive […]
The uutils coreutils 0.8.0 (Rust Coreutils) project has been released. It is a development of the GNU Coreutils package analogue written in Rust. coreutils includes more than a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln and ls. The goal of the project is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, among other things, capable of running on Windows, Redox […]
Competitors OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have launched a joint effort to thwart Chinese companies' attempts to mine the skills of American AI models to create their own products and gain an advantage in the global AI race, Bloomberg reports. Computer of the Month, Special Issue: The Age of Rollback, or How the Memory Chip Shortage Affects Gaming PC Hardware Choices. For information sharing […]
Nvidia's RTX Remix platform, which transforms old games with path tracing, was previously incompatible with FromSoftware's iconic action RPG Dark Souls, but a group of enthusiasts has made the impossible possible. Path-traced Dark Souls is made possible thanks to a toolset by Ekozmaster and Kim2091 (built using agent-based engineering), a codebase by xoxor4d, and […]
Google quietly released an app that can convert speech to text offline, meaning without an internet connection. The app, called Google AI Edge Eloquent, is currently only available for Apple iOS; the developer has promised a version for Android with deep system integration. After installing the app, users can install a local model […]
The Solod (So) programming language is presented. It provides a subset of the Go language transcompiled into a C (C11) representation suitable for compilation with the GCC, Clang, and zig cc compilers. A key difference between Solod and Go and Tinygo is its use of manual memory management, which operates without a garbage collector, automatic memory allocation, or reference counting. The transpiler for Solod is written in […]
On April 6, 2026, the Artemis II crew successfully completed a historic seven-hour flyby of the Moon, bringing humanity back to Earth's natural satellite since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Furthermore, the Artemis 2 crew traveled a record distance from their home planet, surpassing the distance set during the Apollo missions. The international crew included astronauts […]
Unknown individuals carried out a DDoS attack on the resources of the Rostelecom telecom operator. The provider's network has now been restored, TASS reports, citing the company's press service. During the attack, incoming traffic to Rostelecom's network was filtered, affecting the availability of internet resources. Complaints about the telecom operator's performance began arriving the evening of the previous day, April 6. By 22:27 PM Moscow time, there were no reports of disruptions in […]
Realme has announced the launch of the Realme P4 Power smartphone in Russia. It features a powerful processor, long battery life thanks to a massive 10,001 mAh battery, and water and dust resistance according to IP69, IP68, and IP66 standards. The Realme P4 Power is powered by a 4nm Dimensity 7400 Ultra processor paired with 8 or 12 GB of RAM […]
A team of researchers from the University of Toronto developed the GPUBreach attack, which, similar to the GDDRHammer and GeForge attacks announced recently, uses the RowHammer technique to corrupt GDDR video memory bits and damage the GPU memory page table. GPUBreach allows root access to the main system environment by executing an unprivileged CUDA kernel on an NVIDIA GPU. A unique feature of the attack is its ability to operate with the IOMMU enabled. […]
Valve has published its March report analyzing the preferences of Steam game delivery service users. The share of active Steam users using the Linux platform reached 5.33%, which is twice the figure reported in the previous month. Considering that Steam has an estimated 132 million active users, 5.33% equates to approximately 7 million users. In the February […]
A set of patches has been released for the Linux kernel implementing the DRBD 9 distributed replicated block device, which allows for the creation of a RAID-1 array using network mirrored drives connected to different systems. The driver will initially be tested in the linux-next branch and finalized for integration into the Linux 7.2 kernel. The older version of DRBD has been included in the kernel since […]