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Collaborative development platform Forgejo 8.0 now available, split from Gitea

The release of the collaborative development platform Forgejo 8.0 has been published, which since February has completely separated into a self-sufficient project from the Gitea system (previously Forgejo developed in the form of a synchronized fork). The project allows you to deploy on your servers a system for collaboration with Git repositories, reminiscent of GitHub, Bitbucket and Gitlab in terms of the tasks it solves. The fork was created in 2022 after attempts to commercialize […]

Amarok music player 3.1.0 released

After three months of development, the release of the music player Amarok 3.1.0, which was very popular during the times of KDE 3 and KDE 4, was published. After the release of KDE 5, the project was abandoned, but this year it was revived and ported to Qt5 and the KDE Frameworks 5 libraries. The project code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. […]

Russian distribution has been published Astra Linux Special Edition

RusBITech-Astra LLC has introduced a special-purpose distribution kit Astra Linux Special Edition 1.8, which can be used to protect confidential information and state secrets up to the "special importance" level. The distribution is based on a package database. Debian GNU/Linux and contains additional security mechanisms, such as its own mandatory access control system, auditing, file integrity and authenticity control (PARSEC), guaranteed deletion […]

xen 4.19

After 8 months of development, Xen 29 was released on July 2024, 4.19. Major ARM changes: support for FF-A notifications; introduction of dynamic node programming using overlay dtbo. x86: disable HVM PIRQs by default; reduction of IOMMU setup time for the hardware domain; allowing HVM/PVH domains to map foreign pages; announcement of support for PVH dom0 with reservations; introduction of a new x2APIC driver using […]

Arch Linux ISO 2024.08.01 with archinstall 2.8.1 and kernel 6.10

A new installation image for the Arch distribution has been quietly and unnoticed. LinuxIt is primarily notable for its updated archinstall installation script, version 2.8.1, which adds experimental LVM support. Additionally, archinstall has refactored several key functions, including suggest_single_disk_layout(), format(), and umount(), to improve the installer's reliability. The installer has also received a Finnish translation, various bug fixes, and […]

Change of technical leader in the Go project

The Go community is celebrating an important milestone: Starting September 1, Austin Clements will become the new technical leader of the Go project, including the Go team at Google and the project itself. Russ Cox, who has led the project for more than 12 years, announced the move, emphasizing that the leadership role is a service, not an honorary title. Cox noted that changing leaders brings […]

Microsoft has published the Azure distribution. Linux 3.0

Microsoft has released the first stable update to the new Azure distribution branch. Linux 3.0, which was previously distributed under the name CBL-Mariner. The distribution is being developed as a universal base platform for Linux-environments used in cloud infrastructure, edge systems, and various Microsoft services. The project aims to unify the environments used in Microsoft. Linux-solutions and simplified maintenance Linux-systems for various purposes in the current state. Project developments […]

Intel will lay off more than 15% of its staff by the end of this year

An important element of Intel's quarterly report this week was the announcement of intentions to cut 15 employees, which was already discussed at the rumor level the day before. The workforce reduction of more than 000% is part of Intel's medium-term plan to save material resources. By the end of 15, the company hopes to save $2025 billion for higher priority purposes. How […]

Hackers built a $500 laser device to hack and reverse engineer chips

At the upcoming Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, NetSPI employees - white hat hackers Sam Beaumont and Larry "Patch" Trowell - will present an inexpensive RayV Lite device for hardware hacking of chips using lasers. The RayV Lite tool is an attempt to create a budget version of the ultra-expensive laser tools of intelligence agencies for hacking and reverse engineering […]

The leader of the Go project has decided to leave his post

Russ Cox has announced his retirement from his role as project leader for the Go programming language, a position he held for the past 12 years. The reason for leaving is the desire to ensure leadership turnover, without which the project may stagnate. It is assumed that the change of leader will create conditions for the growth of the project, allow a new look at things and provide an opportunity […]

According to the StatCounter service, the share Linux- distributions reached 4.45%

According to the StatCounter rating, which monitors global statistics on the use of web browsers, the share of distributions Linux Among desktop systems, the share of desktop distributions exceeded 4.45% for the first time. The statistics were collected based on a counter placed on 1.5 million websites. The 4% mark was surpassed by desktop distributions. Linux in March. In June, the share Linux amounted to 4.05%. At the same time, the popularity of the ChromeOS operating system continues to decline, the share of which […]

Google Announces Chrome Update for PC with Integrated AI Features Powered by Gemini

Google has announced a significant update to the desktop version of the Chrome browser by integrating Gemini artificial intelligence into search and Google Lens. Now interaction with information and image processing will become easier and at the same time more effective. Users will have access to a new search history experience and an improved Lens tool. As reported by Techcrunch with reference to the Google blog, the updated […]

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