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The release of the Privoxy 4.2.0 proxy server has been published, designed for creating personal web content filters. With Privoxy, users can cut out ads, discard tracking cookies, remove pop-ups, block the loading of third-party JavaScript code, and make arbitrary user-defined modifications to web pages. Privoxy can be installed both on local user systems and on servers to create a centralized content filtering infrastructure […]
Fedora Linux mail server administrators noticed problems with the Microsoft Outlook email client after updating the distribution. Diagnostics revealed that in the new version of the IMAP/POP3 server package Dovecot 2.4.3, authentication via IMAP and POP3 protocols was disabled by default, allowing plain text password transmission in sessions without […]
Canonical announced that after including AMD ROCm in the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS archives, it plans to deliver newer versions of ROCm through the Stable Release Updates mechanism. This means that the AMD computing stack for AI/ML and HPC will be updated as part of the regular stable updates for Ubuntu, without needing to wait for the next distribution release. The announcement was published on June 3, 2026, in the blog […]
Following the release of the rsync file synchronization utility 3.4.3 with fixes for 6 vulnerabilities, regressions affecting previously working configurations have been noted. Additionally, misunderstanding and dissatisfaction were caused by the addition of about 50 changes to the rsync repositories over the past two weeks, prepared using the AI model Claude. Some users linked the onset of regressions to the generation of low-quality vulnerability fixes using […]
The version 3.1 of the ZX Spectrum emulator Glukalka is ready for desktop. New in this version: Full functionality on all versions of Qt 4-6 (game loading from the web works). Functionality has been restored in OpenGL mode. Improved file splitting algorithm for music dumping. Sound is played through OpenAL (Mac), QtMultimedia (if the plugin is available), and Alsa (Linux). Minor fixes and improvements, […]
On May 27, version 2.93.0 of the GitHub CLI console utility was released, intended for working with GitHub repositories. The utility is written in Go and distributed under the MIT license. Key changes Security A security vulnerability was discovered and fixed, where API requests to TUF repository mirrors using the commands gh attestation, gh release verify, and gh release verify-asset were processed incorrectly […]
Microsoft has introduced a port of the Coreutils utility suite for the Windows platform. It includes several dozen utilities, such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, cp, find, sleep, tee, echo, uptime, and ls. This toolkit allows users to directly utilize standard utilities available in Linux and macOS on Windows without the need for a WSL layer. The project's goal is to simplify the transition between Unix-like systems, […]
The release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 26.04 LTS is now available, providing a pre-configured and ready-to-use desktop environment based on the Sway tiling window manager. This distribution is an unofficial edition of Ubuntu 26.04, crafted with both experienced GNU/Linux users and newcomers in mind, who wish to try a tiling window manager environment without the need for lengthy setups. Builds have been prepared for download […]
The developers of X.Org have released xorg-server 21.1.23 and XWayland 24.1.12, addressing a total of nine vulnerabilities in the X.Org X Server and XWayland. The fixes were published on June 2, 2026; source archives xorg-server-21.1.23 and xwayland-24.1.12 are already available in the official X.Org directory. The issues affect both the classic X.Org Server and XWayland, a component through which X11 applications operate within a Wayland session. Therefore, the update is important […]
The release of Open Image Denoise 2.5.0 has been announced — a free library by Intel for noise suppression in images generated by ray tracing. The project is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license and is part of the Intel Rendering Toolkit. Release v2.5.0 was published on GitHub on June 2, 2026. Open Image Denoise is designed to eliminate Monte Carlo noise typical of stochastic rendering methods, including […]
A corrective release (1.01) of the Book-Like CMS 'Froggy-BLC', which operates on files without a database, has occurred. In this release: Untangling the logic of ‘obscure’ code. Minor improvements. Closing potential vulnerabilities. NB: The author does not know how to write quality code, so the system is not very well implemented; please do not judge harshly. The system was initially planned to be called Temple-CMS due to a similar backstory: due to schizophrenia, the author is driven by […]
The accompanying open-source toolkit ScanCode Toolkit is designed to scan code for intersections with third-party copyrights, identify used licenses, and detect unpatched vulnerabilities. It has criticized a project that created an AI clone of the ScanCode product, rewritten from Python to Rust (the name of the clone is not mentioned, but it apparently pertains to the Provenant project). It is claimed that the rewritten project […]