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The release of the specialized distribution Tails 7.2 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been announced, which is developed as part of the Tor project. The distribution is based on the Debian 13 package base, comes with the GNOME 48 desktop, and is designed for anonymous web access using the Tor toolkit. By default, all connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by a packet filter. When saving user data […]
Canonical has announced the introduction of a 15-year update policy for LTS releases of Ubuntu. This extension will apply to all current LTS releases starting from Ubuntu 14.04. Thus, support for Ubuntu 14.04 has been extended to April 2029, updates for Ubuntu 24.04 will be provided until 2039, for Ubuntu 22.04 until 2037, for Ubuntu 20.04 until 2035, and so on. Public updates, as well as […]
Google has announced the start of testing a developer verification system for Android applications and a revision of the previously announced restrictions on installing applications from manually downloaded APK packages created by developers who have not registered their packages with Google and have not verified their personal data. It is noted that the company has taken into account the concerns and requests of the community and decided to implement an option for advanced users who accept the risks associated with […]
The developers of the yt-dlp project, which continues the development of the youtube-dl toolkit for downloading audio and video from online services, have announced that starting with today's release yt-dlp 2025.11.12, a third-party JavaScript engine is required to fully download content from YouTube. The use of a JavaScript engine is explained by the introduction of checks on YouTube that require the execution of code in JavaScript. Support for working with YouTube without JavaScript has been declared […]
After six months of development, the GNU project has introduced the free electronic payment system GNU Taler 1.1. The platform is considered ready for the implementation of working payment services and can already be legally applied for selling goods in Switzerland. Enterprises wishing to set up sales payments using GNU Taler only need to have an account with any Swiss bank and launch the backend provided by the platform for organizing […]
The release of the Tribblix 38 distribution has been published, based on the developments of the Illumos project, which continues the evolution of the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and the basic set of system utilities from OpenSolaris. The project aims to maintain the classic retro style of Solaris while using modern versions of software. The kernel and command-line tools are borrowed from Illumos, while everything else is rebuilt using a custom build system for distribution […]
After nearly two years since the last update, a corrective release of the Apache OpenOffice 4.1.16 office suite has been published, addressing 7 vulnerabilities and fixing several bugs. Ready packages have been prepared for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Fixed vulnerabilities include: CVE-2025-64406 — a buffer overflow when importing specially crafted CSV format files. This vulnerability may potentially lead to overwriting […]
The release of the Firefox 145 web browser has occurred, along with updates to previous Long Term Support branches — 140.5.0 and 115.30.0. The Firefox 146 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for December 9. Key innovations in Firefox 145 (1, 2, 3): Support for 32-bit Linux systems has been discontinued. It is noted that maintaining Firefox on 32-bit platforms is becoming increasingly challenging […]
The release of the D7VK 0.3 project has been published, which develops the implementation of the Direct3D 7 graphical API proposed by Microsoft in 1999. The implementation works by translating calls to the Vulkan API and allows running retro games tied to the Direct3D 7 API on Linux using Wine. The project code is written in C++ and is distributed under the Zlib license. As a basis for […]
Security researchers from Microsoft have developed a side-channel attack technique called Whisper Leak, which allows for the classification of request topics to services based on large language models through passive analysis of encrypted traffic transmitted over a TLS connection. Information regarding the size of network packets and the delays between their transmissions was sufficient to determine the topics of requests to AI chatbots with over 98% accuracy. […]
The release of Easyeffects 8.0.0 (previously known as PulseEffects) has been published, expanding the collection of plugins for PipeWire, a system service and graphical interface with an equalizer, spectrum analyzer, and various sound effects, such as limiting maximum volume, reducing dynamic range, leveling volume, filtering certain frequencies, and eliminating noise. Effects can be applied specifically to individual applications. The project code is written […]
The release of the lightweight distro MX Linux 25, created through the collaboration of communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects, has been published. This release is based on a Debian package base with enhancements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. The distribution uses the sysVinit initialization system and custom tools for configuring and deploying the system. 64-bit builds (x86_64) are available for download […]