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The release of AppGrid 1.9.0 — a third-party open launcher for applications for KDE Plasma 6 — has been published. The release took place on June 14, 2026, as indicated on the release page on GitHub. AppGrid is positioned as a modern alternative to the standard Kickoff and Kicker menus: the project offers an application grid, search, favorites, integration with KRunner, and two launch forms — a central window and a popup menu […]
The Opengram project has been published on GitHub — an open server implementation of Telegram, written in C#/.NET 9. The project implements MTProto and allows you to deploy a compatible server component of the messenger on your own infrastructure. Opengram supports personal chats, groups, supergroups, channels, secret chats, Bot API, calls through TURN/STUN and mediasoup, stickers, reactions, custom emojis, stories, Stars, and Star Gifts. Architecturally, the server […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux Kernel 7.1. Among the most notable changes are: a new ntfsplus driver, the first stage of phasing out support for CPU i486, removal of old Ethernet adapters, removal of ISDN and AX.25 protocols, inclusion by default of the Intel FRED mechanism, support for BPF handlers in io_uring, optimization of the swapping subsystem, support for sub-schedulers in sched_ext, and zero-copy I/O mode in the driver […]
Despite the measures taken by Arch Linux developers, the activity of injecting malicious code into the AUR (Arch User Repository) has not stopped. Just hours ago, malicious code was injected into another 54 packages that were left without maintainers (history of the retraction of malicious edits). Unlike the attacks from the day before yesterday, this time, instead of the npm package manager, the platform […] was used to install malicious dependencies.
Fedora Linux developers have clarified the situation regarding the expiration of Microsoft's certificate at the end of June, which is used to sign the Shim layer for verified boot of Linux distributions in UEFI Secure Boot mode. Transitioning to a new certificate should be seamless for users, as the effective expiration of the certificate will only prevent its future use […]
Recently (since June 9, 2026), neural network developers have faced a phenomenon that could have far-reaching consequences. LLM producers are not only clearly refusing clients on certain topics, but also implementing implicit mechanisms. The well-known model Claude, considered one of the best or even the best LLM for software development, is quietly and unobtrusively changing its approach compared to […]
The GlobalSign certification center, registered in Belgium and owned by the Japanese corporation GMO Group, has begun the revocation of SSL certificates previously issued to Russian companies affected by the sanctions currently in place in the European Union. In a letter to GlobalSign's partners, sent by the director of the Russian office, it was stated that the revocation of certificates started on June 13 at 04:10 (MSK) and will be conducted in phases. The reason given is the consortium's assertion [...].
On June 11, version 1.1.0 of the cross-platform collection of games, tests, and puzzles called Puzzle was released. The project was developed to enhance productivity and stimulate mental activity. If you are looking for free puzzles (for both children and adults) or simply want to play offline games, this collection covers all major cognitive areas: Logical puzzles: test your logical abilities with [...].
On June 10, version 1.2.0 of the cross-platform multi-threaded console utilities par2cmdline was released for creating, verifying, and recovering files in PAR 2.0 format, using Reed-Solomon codes. Builds are provided for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows. The project is written in C++ and is distributed under the GNU GPL 3 license. Changes: the ability to accept input files from standard [...].
Usually, tickets for good conferences are not cheap. Here — it’s free. On July 30, the Kuber Community Day conference will take place in Moscow for the second time. This practical event will bring together DevOps and SRE specialists, developers, architects, operations engineers, and all those interested. The organizers declare: two streams of technical presentations, a master class on creating a K8s operator, round tables, and even Arch Dating — short meetups [...].
An experimental release of the open implementation of Win32 API — Wine 11.11 has been published. Since the release of 11.10, 25 bug reports have been closed, and 223 changes have been made. The most important changes include: the winewayland driver, which allows using Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol, has added support for the Wayland protocol alpha-modifier-v1, allowing applications to change the transparency level of surfaces and handle transparency operations [...].
Proxmox, a company known for developing the Proxmox Virtual Environment distribution for deploying virtual server infrastructures, has announced the release of the Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.1 distribution, presented as a ready-made solution for quickly establishing a system for monitoring email traffic and protecting internal mail servers. The installation ISO image is available for free download. Distribution-specific components are released under the AGPLv3 license. To install updates […]