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Sameer Samat, Google's president of ecosystem development related to Android, spoke at the Qualcomm summit about the work on merging the Android and Chrome OS platforms, the results of which will reach users in 2026. Android will remain the primary platform, with its capabilities expanded for use on laptops and PCs. The results of this project […]
System76 has announced the readiness of the beta version of the COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust. At the same time, the first beta release of the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution, shipped with COSMIC, has been introduced. Initially, the first stable release of COSMIC was planned for the first quarter of 2025, but the development has been delayed, and more than a year after the publication of the first alpha version, the project has only reached the beta version. Beta version testing […]
The OTA-10 Focal firmware (over-the-air) has been introduced, developed by the UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical distanced itself from it. This is the ninth release of Ubuntu Touch, based on the package base of Ubuntu 20.04. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, which has been renamed Lomiri. The Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Focal update in […]
Lead developer of XLibre, Enrico Weigelt, has submitted a proposal for implementing a Vulkan extension for X11, which would allow for network transparency at the X11 protocol level combined with low-latency GPU rendering of the interface. The creation of an intermediate layer, libvulkan, is proposed, which would handle the rendering of X protocol data via the GPU on the client side. The mechanism is put forward as an alternative to GLX and DRI. The proposal […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2025-39698) has been identified in the asynchronous I/O interface io_uring provided by the Linux kernel, allowing an unprivileged user to execute their code at the kernel level. The vulnerability is caused by the lack of existence checks for an object before operations are performed on that object. The vulnerability has been addressed in kernel updates 6.16.4 and 6.12.44. The status of the new version of the package or a fix in distributions can be checked on the following pages […]
Rust language developers have warned about the discovery of malicious code in the faster_log and async_println packages in the crates.io repository. The packages were uploaded to the repository on May 25 and have since been downloaded 8424 times. Attackers exploited the similarity of the package names with those of popular legitimate packages (e.g., faster_log instead of fast_log) to deliver modified clones, hoping that users […]
After a year of development, a new stable branch of the PostgreSQL DBMS 18 has been released. Updates for this new branch will be provided for five years until November 2030. Support for PostgreSQL 13.x, the oldest supported branch, will end on November 13. Key innovations include the addition of an asynchronous input/output subsystem, which increases input/output throughput and eliminates delays. Additionally available on all […]
The release of elementary OS 8.0.2 has been published, positioned as a fast, open-source, and privacy-conscious alternative to Windows and macOS. The project focuses on high-quality design aimed at creating an easy-to-use system that consumes minimal resources and ensures high boot speed. Users are provided with their own Pantheon desktop environment. Bootable ISO images (3.3 GB) are prepared for download […]
The release of the Pale Moon web browser 33.9.0 has been announced, which forked from the Firefox codebase to provide greater efficiency, maintain a classic interface, minimize memory consumption, and offer additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are available for Windows and Linux (x86_64). The project's code is released under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to classic interface organization without transitioning to […]
The release of OpenWrt distribution 24.10.3 has taken place, developed for network devices such as routers, switches, and access points. OpenWrt supports 2771 devices and offers a build system that simplifies cross-compilation and the creation of custom builds. Such builds allow the formation of ready-to-use firmware with a desired set of pre-installed packages, optimized for specific tasks. Ready builds have been published for 39 target platforms. The main changes are in […]
The Chinese company ByteDance, which operates the TikTok service, has published patches with the implementation of the Parker system (PARtitioned KERnel) in the Linux kernel developer mailing list. This system allows multiple Linux kernels to run simultaneously on one computer without using traditional virtualization. In terms of its objectives, Parker resembles the Multikernel project introduced a few days ago but differs in architecture and implementation. Parker utilizes partitioning […]
After a new wave of phishing attacks on maintainers, incidents involving the compromise of popular packages, and the emergence of worms affecting dependencies, NPM has decided to implement additional security measures: Two-factor authentication will be mandatory for local package publication. The use of one-time passwords (TOTP) for two-factor authentication will be deprecated. Users will transition to the FIDO U2F protocol. The shift to granular tokens, lifespan […]