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Gixy-Next has been introduced, a fork of Gixy-ng, stripped of AI-generated changes.

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The first release of the Gixy-Next project has been announced, which develops a static analyzer for Nginx configuration files, allowing the identification of problematic settings that negatively affect security and performance. The project is developed by Joshua Rogers, who uncovered 55 vulnerabilities in the Squid proxy server several years ago. Gixy-Next was created as a fork of the Gixy-ng project, which continued developing the Gixy toolkit, open-sourced by Yandex in 2017 and the latest […]

Linus Torvalds has experimented with vibe coding in his new project AudioNoise.

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Linus Torvalds has released a new project, AudioNoise, related to his passion for guitar pedals. AudioNoise allows users to generate random sound effects while playing electric guitar. The project's goal is to explore the fundamentals of digital sound processing, just as he once explored the hardware aspect by experimenting with the assembly of guitar pedals. The main code is written in C, but it also includes […]

Release of energy consumption optimizers auto-cpufreq 3.0.0 and TLP 1.9.1.

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The release of the auto-cpufreq 3.0.0 utility has been published, designed for the automatic optimization of CPU speed and power consumption in the system. The utility monitors the laptop's battery status, CPU load, CPU temperature, and system activity, dynamically activating power-saving or high-performance modes depending on the situation and selected options. It supports devices with Intel, AMD, and ARM processors. […]

Release of File Manager Double Commander 1.2.0

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A new branch of the dual-pane file manager Double Commander 1.2 is available, developing an alternative to Total Commander and providing compatibility with its plugins. The quality level of branch 1.2 is currently rated as a beta version (in branch 1.1.x, the beta indicator was replaced with 'gamma' in release 1.1.12, seven months after 1.1.0). Three user interface options are offered — based on GTK2, Qt5, and […]

Cloudflare has been fined €14.2 million in Italy for refusing to block pirate sites on the 1.1.1.1 DNS service.

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The Italian communications regulator (AGCOM) has fined Cloudflare €14.2 million for failing to comply with requirements regarding the blocking of pirate content in the public DNS service 1.1.1.1. This penalty against Cloudflare is the largest imposed for non-compliance with anti-piracy legislation in Italy, as the fine is calculated based on the company's total revenue. In February 2025, AGCOM issued a notice to the company […]

New versions of Debian 13.3 and 12.13.

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The third corrective update for the Debian 13 distribution has been released, including accumulated package updates and fixes to the installer. The release includes 108 updates addressing stability issues and 37 updates addressing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 13.3 include updates to the latest stable versions of packages like ansible, apache2, containerd, dpdk, flatpak, gnome-shell, mbedtls, mutter, postgresql-17 […]

The alpha testing of the Orion browser for Linux has begun.

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The developers of the Kagi search engine have introduced the alpha release of the Orion web browser for the Linux platform. Orion builds for Linux are packaged in the flatpak format. Previously, the browser was only available for macOS and iOS platforms. The Orion browser is built on the WebKit engine and is notable for its default blocking of ads and tracking code, lack of data collection and telemetry, and integration with Kagi's search services […]

QEMU is in the process of removing support for 32-bit host systems.

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Richard Henderson, one of the maintainers of the QEMU project and the second most active contributor, has published a set of patches that remove support for 32-bit host systems from QEMU. Support for 32-bit host environments was deprecated in April last year in QEMU 10.0, and in the December release 10.2, support for mips32 platforms was removed from the TCG (Tiny Code Generator) […]

The UNIXv4 code, the first OS with a kernel written in C, has been restored. Vulnerability in UNIXv4.

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At the end of last year, during cleanup at the University of Utah’s computing center, an archival magnetic tape containing the source code of the UNIXv4 operating system was discovered. This system was developed in 1973 for the PDP-11/45 and was considered lost. UNIXv4 continued the development of the operating system UNIXv3, released a year earlier, which was the first to use the C language and unnamed pipes. […]

Analysis of bug fixes in the Linux kernel — on average, bugs are noticed after 2 years.

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The results of a study on the time it takes to detect and fix bugs in the Linux kernel have been published. The data was obtained by analyzing the resolution of 125,000 bugs marked in the Git repository with the tag "Fixes:", referring to the commit where the error occurred. The average time to detect bugs in the kernel was 2.1 years. Considering only the bugs fixed in 2025, this figure was 2.8 years. […]

Loss32 — a Windows-like system similar to ReactOS, but based on the Linux kernel.

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The Loss32 project is developing a Win32/Linux distribution that combines the Linux kernel with a Windows-style graphical environment built on Wine and custom components from ReactOS. The distribution aims to recreate a Windows desktop environment and provide tools for seamlessly running Windows applications while also supporting traditional Linux programs. The first prototype of Loss32 is expected to be released this month. […]

Google is shifting to publishing the Android code twice a year.

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A warning about changes to the code publication scheme has appeared on the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) repository website, where the source code of the Android platform is hosted. This new scheme implies that new Android code will only be opened after each release. The AOSP content will now be updated only twice a year—in the second and fourth quarters. Previously, Google published code quarterly. Instead of continuous […]

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