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Brendan Gregg, one of the developers of the dynamic debugging system DTrace, now working at Intel and developing performance analysis tools based on eBPF in the Linux kernel, has announced the open sourcing of the iaprof (AI Flame Graphs) toolkit. This toolkit is designed for analyzing Intel GPU performance information and visualizing it. The code is written in C […]
Redis Ltd has announced a change in the licensing policy of the project. Starting with the release of Redis 8.0, the project's code has become available under the AGPLv3 open license. The shift to an open license was made possible by the return of Salvatore Sanfilippo, the creator of the Redis database, to the company. After leaving Redis Ltd, Salvatore developed a set of vector extensions (Vector Sets), which was ready […]
The release of the free boot firmware Libreboot 25.04 has been published, which has the status of an experimental release focused on feature development (stable releases mainly contain fixes and are published about once a year, the last stable release was in December). The project develops a ready-built version of the Coreboot project, providing a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripherals, and […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the finit initialization system (CVE-2025-29906), allowing anyone to log in as any user without password verification. Exploiting this vulnerability involves manipulating the login prompt and requires console access. The vulnerability has been present since version 3.0 (October 2017) and was fixed in the finit 4.11 release. Subsequently, version 4.12 has been released which addresses […]
After two and a half years since the release of version 6.4, the DragonFly BSD 6.4.1 operating system has been released. Developed in 2003 as an alternative fork of FreeBSD 4.x, DragonFly BSD features the distributed versioned file system HAMMER, support for booting 'virtual' kernel systems as user processes, and the capability for caching data and metadata on SSDs […]
Beta testing has begun for the openSUSE Leap 16 distribution, built on technologies from the next major branch of the commercial SLES 16 distribution, transitioning to the new SLFO (SUSE Linux Framework One) platform, previously known as ALP (Adaptable Linux Platform). openSUSE Leap 16 will retain characteristics of a classic distribution using traditional packages, while providing an atomically updated system with a base of […]
Google has released version 136 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable version of the free Chromium project, which forms the basis of Chrome, is available. Chrome differs from Chromium by including Google branding, a crash notification system, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update system, always-on Sandbox isolation, the provision of keys for Google API, and the submission of RLZ parameters […]
The possibility of creating a working exploit for the vulnerability CVE-2025-21756 has been demonstrated, caused by an error in the Linux kernel leading to use-after-free memory access. The issue affects the implementation of AF_VSOCK addressed sockets intended for network interaction between guest systems and hosts. The published exploit allows code execution with root privileges on systems running Linux kernel 6.6.75 (other versions require […]
Recently, there has been a significant increase in web bot activity indexing traffic. In addition to functioning bots, there has been a rise of 'feral' bots that ignore the robots.txt indexing rules, coming from tens of thousands of different IP addresses, masquerading as legitimate users, and not adhering to a reasonable request rate policy. Such bots create a massive parasitic load on servers, disrupt normal system operations, and consume administrators' time. Activity from such […]
The release of the Sculpt project 25.04 has been announced, developing an operating system based on the Genode OS Framework technologies, which can be used by regular users for everyday tasks. The project's source code is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. A system image of 32 MB is available for download, which can be used on PCs, PinePhone smartphones, and MNT Reform laptops. Operation on systems with […]
The release of the Firefox 138 web browser has taken place, along with updates to past long-term support branches — 115.23.0 and 128.10.0. The Firefox 139 branch has entered beta testing, with its release scheduled for May 27. Key innovations in Firefox 138: A new profile management system has been proposed. In the profile form, users can create completely independent browsing sessions, each with its own […]
The release of 4MLinux 48.0 is now available, a minimalist user distribution that is not a derivative of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on the JWM window manager. 4MLinux can be used both as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks, as well as a system for recovery after failures and a platform for running mini-servers. Live images are prepared for download […]