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The 4MLinux 49.0 release is available, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of any other projects and uses a graphical environment based on the JWM window manager. 4MLinux can be utilized both as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks, as well as for recovery systems and as a platform for running mini-servers. A live image has been prepared for download […]
Information about phishing victims, which administrators of the Python package repository PyPI recently warned about, has been disclosed. As a result of messages sent to confirm their email, which pointed to a fake site pypj.org (the letter 'j' instead of 'i'), accounts of four maintainers were compromised. Consequently, the attackers generated two tokens for API access […]
Mozilla China has announced the discontinuation of services for Firefox users in China. As of July 27, registration for the Chinese versions of Firefox Accounts (accounts.firefox.com.cn) and Firefox Community has been stopped, and the ability to post messages and comments on the forum has been blocked. Starting September 29, the website firefox.com.cn, the forum (mozilla.com.cn), the homepage (home.firefoxchina.cn), and resources for downloading and updating Firefox […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2025-46811) has been detected in the SUSE Manager toolkit, which is designed for centrally managing IT infrastructure that utilizes various Linux distributions. This vulnerability permits command execution on any systems serviced through SUSE Manager without authentication. Commands are executed with root privileges, granting full control over the entire infrastructure. The issue has been assigned a critical severity level (9.3 out of 10). The vulnerability is caused by the presence of a handler […]
Vivo, holding approximately 10% of the global smartphone market (5th place among smartphone manufacturers), has unveiled the first official open release of the BlueOS kernel (Blue River OS). The BlueOS operating system has been in development since 2018 and is already being used in the Vivo Watch series of smartwatches. Vivo is also working on applying BlueOS in smart glasses, robots, smart terminals, and consumer […]
The classic desktop environment CDE (Common Desktop Environment) has been added to the OpenBSD ports collection. CDE was developed in the early 1990s through the collaborative efforts of companies such as Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu, and Hitachi, and has been supplied for many years as the default graphical environment for Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Digital UNIX, and UnixWare. In 2012, the code […]
Christian Schaller, head of the Fedora Desktop Team and the desktop systems development group at Red Hat, published the results of an assessment on the suitability of using large language models in the development process of graphical applications for Linux. As part of the experiment, he used the AI assistant Claude to translate the outdated graphical application Xtraceroute to current technologies. The Xtraceroute application visualizes the path of network packets […]
Collabora has announced the implementation of support for the Vulkan 1.4 graphics API in the PanVK Vulkan driver for ARM GPU devices based on the V10 architecture, such as Mali-G610 and Mali-G310. The changes are included in the Mesa codebase and will be offered to users in the upcoming Mesa 25.2 release, which is currently in release candidate status. The current stable release, Mesa 25.1, features PanVK […]
Canonical has dismissed Till Kamppeter, the leader of the OpenPrinting project, which develops components for printing in Linux and has been maintaining the CUPS printing server since 2021 after Apple lost interest in the project. Till is a co-founder of OpenPrinting and has been involved with the project since its inception in 2001. A […]
After six months of development, the release of the GNU C Library 2.42 (glibc) has been published, which fully complies with the standards of ISO C23 and POSIX.1-2024. The new release involved 70 developers. Among the improvements implemented in Glibc 2.42, it's worth noting: The pthread_create function has added support for lightweight guard pages for stack protection, which can be accessed […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux kernel 6.16. Among the most notable changes are: a driver for accelerating OpenVPN, a Kexec HandOver mechanism, default inclusion of five-level memory page tables for x86, removal of the DCCP protocol, a zloop block driver, the ability to send core dumps via UNIX socket, support for atomic writes in XFS, offload processing of audio for USB devices, optimizations in Ext4, virtual […]
The release of the SVT-AV1 3.1.0 library (Scalable Video Technology AV1) has been announced, featuring implementations of both the encoder and decoder for the AV1 video encoding format, utilizing the hardware parallelization extensions available in x86_64 and ARM processors for acceleration. The project was created by Intel in partnership with Netflix to achieve a performance level suitable for on-the-fly video transcoding and applications in […]