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The release of the GNUnet 0.25 framework, designed for building secure decentralized P2P networks, has been announced. Networks created with GNUnet have no single point of failure and can guarantee the privacy of user information, including protection against possible abuses by administrators who have access to network nodes. GNUnet supports the creation of P2P networks over TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, Bluetooth, and WLAN, and can operate […]
The W3C Consortium has announced the readiness of the specification that standardizes the intermediate code WebAssembly 3.0 and its associated API, enabling the creation of high-performance applications that can be transferred between browsers and hardware platforms. WebAssembly provides a browser-independent universal low-level intermediate code for executing applications compiled from various programming languages. The WebAssembly technology can be used to execute tasks in the browser that require high […]
After nine months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 258 has been presented. Key changes: discontinuation of support for cgroups v1 and System V-style system management components, new utilities systemd-factory-reset and systemd-pty-forward, the concept of home areas, support for booting from a disk image obtained via HTTP. Among the changes in the new release: a new utility systemd-factory-reset has been added to initiate or cancel settings reset in […]
After six months of development, the release of the GNOME 49 desktop environment has been published. For a quick evaluation of GNOME 49's capabilities, specialized Live builds based on openSUSE and an installation image prepared under the GNOME OS initiative are offered. GNOME 49 is also included in the experimental builds of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43. In the new release: the Showtime video player is enabled by default, which […]
The release of the StartWine-Launcher 411 application, developed for running Windows-based programs and games on Linux systems, has been published. The primary goal of developing StartWine-Launcher was to simplify the process of creating Wine prefixes by newcomers — sets of libraries and dependencies necessary for running Windows applications in Linux. The code for StartWine-Launcher is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is based on […]
After six months of development, Oracle has released Java SE 25 (Java Platform, Standard Edition 24), with the open project OpenJDK serving as its reference implementation. Apart from removing some deprecated features, Java SE 25 maintains backward compatibility with previous releases of the Java platform—most previously written Java projects will run without changes on […]
The attack on package maintainers in the NPM repository has escalated. In addition to using malware to intercept payments and sensitive information, attackers have shifted to embedding a worm in compromised packages to automate the injection of malware into dependencies. The use of the worm was documented following the compromise of the NPM package @ctrl/tinycolor, which has 2.2 million weekly downloads and is used as a direct […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 143 has occurred, and updates for previous long-term support branches—140.3.0 and 115.28.0—have been formulated. The Firefox 144 branch has entered beta testing, with its release scheduled for October 14. Key new features in Firefox 143 (1, 2, 3): Added the ability to pin tabs as always-visible shortcuts by dragging the tab with the mouse to the beginning of the […]
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, in collaboration with engineers from Google, have developed a new Rowhammer attack technique—Phoenix (CVE-2025-6202)—that bypasses the TRR (Target Row Refresh) protection mechanisms used in DDR5 chips, which prevent cell corruption due to charge loss. A proof-of-concept exploit has been published that allows modification of a specific bit in RAM and achieves an increase in […]
The Open Media Alliance (AOMedia), which oversees the development of the AV1 video encoding format, announced the release of an open standard and reference implementation for the new AV2 video encoding format by the end of the year. This new standard is viewed not only as a continuation of the development of the AV1 video codec but also as the foundation for the future AOMedia technology stack. The development of AV2 has been underway for several years, with the first preliminary implementation being […]
The release of the mobile platform /e/OS 3.1, focused on user data privacy, has been presented. The platform was created by Gaël Duval, the founder of the Mandrake Linux distribution. The project supports 253 smartphone models and creates firmware builds for the most popular ones. Custom editions of devices based on OnePlus, Fairphone, Teracube, and Pixel smartphones have been prepared, distributed with the pre-installed /e/OS firmware under the Murena […] brand.
Nick Wellnhofer announced his departure from the position of maintainer of the libxml2 library. Nick has been involved in the development of libxml2 since 2016 and was added to the group of maintainers in 2022, remaining practically the only active developer since then. After Nick's departure, the project is left without maintenance. The libxml2 library is used in operating systems and products of Apple companies […]