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TSMC will ship obsolete 28nm chip production equipment from Taiwan to Germany.

Taiwanese company TSMC is expanding its production facilities not only in the US and Japan, but also in Germany. The ESMC joint venture, located at Fab 24, which is currently under construction, is expected to begin producing components using mature process technologies by the end of next year. The equipment freed up during the modernization of its Taiwanese fabs will be sent by TSMC to Germany. This was reported by ComputerBase.de […]

Vulnerability in the execve system call granting root access in FreeBSD

A vulnerability (CVE-2026-7270) has been discovered in FreeBSD that allows an unprivileged user to execute code with kernel privileges, gaining root access to the system. The vulnerability affects all FreeBSD releases released since 2013. An exploit has been publicly available and has been tested on systems running FreeBSD 11.0 through 14.4. The vulnerability was fixed in FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p7, 14.4-RELEASE-p3, 14.3-RELEASE-p12, and 13.5-RELEASE-p13. For older […]

A killswitch has been proposed for emergency disabling of vulnerable kernel functionality. Linux

Sasha Levin from NVIDIA, who maintains the LTS kernel branches Linux and a member of the organization's advisory board Linux Foundation, prepared a set of patches with the implementation of the killswitch mechanism for the kernel LinuxThe proposed feature allows for instant disabling access to certain functionality of the running kernel. Killswitch is expected to be useful for temporarily blocking vulnerabilities until an update is installed […]

Firefox 150.0.2 Update: 423 vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox in April

Firefox 150.0.2, a patch release, is now available. It addresses 27 vulnerabilities (10 of which are classified as CVE-2026-8093 and 16 as CVE-2026-8092). All of these vulnerabilities are caused by memory management issues, such as buffer overflows and accessing memory after it's been freed. These issues could potentially lead to malicious code execution when opening specially crafted pages. All of these vulnerabilities have been assigned a […]

The official Twitter channel has been compromised. Ubuntu

Following a DDoS attack on Canonical's infrastructure, attackers managed to gain control of the channel Ubuntu on the X.com social network (Twitter). In the channel Ubuntu An announcement was posted about the Numbat AI agent, which was presented as a decentralized AI built on blockchain and Solana cryptocurrency technologies. It was stated that the AI ​​agent could be tested on the ai- website.ubuntu.com, which was registered a few hours before […]

Mobile platform release Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3. Volla Plinius smartphone with Ubuntu touch

Firmware update released Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3, based on the package base Ubuntu 24.04. The firmware is being developed by the UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform. Ubuntu Touch, after Canonical disassociated itself from it. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, which has been renamed Lomiri. Update Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 will be formed in the coming days […]

OpenWrt update 25.12.3

OpenWrt 25.12.3, a minor release of the distribution developed for network devices such as routers, switches, and access points, has been released. OpenWrt supports over 2200 devices and offers a build system that simplifies cross-compilation and the creation of custom builds. These builds allow you to create ready-made firmware with the desired set of pre-installed packages, optimized for specific tasks. Ready-to-use builds have been published for 41 target platforms. Among […]

Dirty Frag vulnerabilities that modify the page cache to gain root access on any distribution Linux

In the core Linux Two vulnerabilities have been identified that are similar in nature to the Copy Fail vulnerability disclosed a few days ago, but affect different subsystems—xfrm-ESP and RxRPC. The series of vulnerabilities has been codenamed Dirty Frag (also referred to as Copy Fail 2). The vulnerabilities allow an unprivileged user to gain root privileges by overwriting process data in the page cache. An exploit is available that works […]

Telegram has received a major AI update—bots can now be summoned to any chat, along with other new features.

Telegram received a major update, almost entirely dedicated to AI and automation. The messenger now features a guest mode for bots, the ability for bots to communicate with each other, chat automation tools, and a search engine with over 100 million emoji and stickers. Telegram also updated its polls and moderation tools. The main new feature is the so-called guest mode for bots. Now AI bots […]

Release of Mesa 26.1, a free implementation of OpenGL and Vulkan

After three months of development, the release of the free implementation of the OpenGL and Vulkan APIs, Mesa 26.1.0, has been released. The first release of the Mesa 26.1.0 branch has an experimental status - after the final stabilization of the code, the stable version 26.1.1 will be released. In Mesa 26.1, support for the Vulkan 1.4 graphics API is available in the ANV drivers for Intel GPUs, RADV for AMD GPUs, NVK for […]

Demand for Anthropic's AI services skyrocketed 80-fold in the first quarter, prompting the company to tap Musk's supercomputer.

Unlike its competitor OpenAI, Anthropic is making more deliberate investments in expanding its computing power, which is impacting its ability to meet the booming demand for AI solutions. Anthropic's CEO admitted that demand for the company's services skyrocketed 80-fold in the first quarter, and therefore it is experiencing a shortage of computing power. At a developer conference in […]

Recreating a Unity Custom Shell Using Wayfire and Libadwaita

Developer MA Muqtadir, who is involved in the theme design Ubuntu Yaru, a developer of the Vanilla OS distribution, presented the first results of an experiment to recreate the Unity user interface using modern GNOME stack components and the Wayland protocol. The demonstrated prototype is built on the Wayfire compositing manager, which uses Wayland and enables the creation of lightweight user interfaces with 3D effects […]

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