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The global tech sector lost 73,200 jobs in a single quarter—and there's more to come.

The wave of layoffs in the global tech sector is gaining momentum. In the first quarter of 2026, 95 companies laid off more than 73,200 employees, according to Layoffs.fyi. The main driver is AI-driven business restructuring. Corporations are shifting budgets to automation and IT infrastructure, while simultaneously shutting down traditional divisions. If this trend continues, annual job losses will be significantly higher. The largest share […]

Developers Linux Mint announced a move to a longer development cycle.

Developers Linux Mint announced it was switching to a longer development cycle. The next major release, Linux Mint 23 is now expected only by the end of 2026, and the project itself intends to abandon its previous more frequent release schedule in order to devote more time to the actual development of new features rather than testing and packaging releases. At the same time, the project also announced […]

Kernel 7.1 includes a new NTFS driver.

Linus Torvalds accepted the kernel Linux Version 7.1, expected to be released in mid-June, includes a set of changes with a new implementation of the NTFS file system driver. The new driver is included under the name "ntfs," which was previously used for an older, read-only driver that has been removed from the kernel. Until now, the primary NTFS driver in the kernel was ntfs3, which was added […]

Bcachefs 1.38.0 Release. NASty distribution for deploying Bcachefs-based NAS

Kent Overstreet has published the Bcachefs 1.38.0 file system. The release includes two packages: bcachefs-kernel-dkms, which contains a kernel module built using the Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) system, and bcachefs-tools, which contains the user-space bcachefs utility, which implements commands for creating (mkfs), mounting, restoring, and verifying the file system. The packages are compiled for Debian, Ubuntu and are expected for Arch […]

Release of the content management system Joomla 6.1

The release of a free content management system took place Joomla 6.1. Joomla It provides features such as user and media management tools, support for creating multilingual page variants, an advertising campaign management system, a user address book, voting, a built-in search, a link categorization and click-through tracking system, a WYSIWYG editor, a template system, news feed management, an XML-RPC API for integration with other systems, page caching […]

IPv8 draft presented

The IETF website has released an Internet Draft of the IPv8 protocol, which is intended to finally replace the outdated IPv4, something IPv6 never fully achieved. IPv8's key feature is compatibility with IPv4, which is used in most devices. What does the address look like in the new standard: IPv4: 93.184.216.34 IPv8: 0.0.251.240.93.184.216.34 — essentially, it's […]

Remote code execution in a fork of the qmail mail server from the Sagredo project

A vulnerability (CVE-2026-41113) has been discovered in the qmail fork of the Sagredo project. This vulnerability allows for remote execution of arbitrary commands on the server with the qmailr user's privileges. The vulnerability is caused by the lack of escaping of special characters in the hostname returned by the DNS server when determining the MX gateway, combined with the passing of the resulting hostname to the popen command without proper argument separation and filtering when invoking the shell. The vulnerability […]

LibreSSL 4.3 Cryptographic Library Release

The developers of the OpenBSD project have released LibreSSL 4.3.0 portable edition, which develops a fork of OpenSSL aimed at providing a higher level of security. The LibreSSL project is focused on high-quality support for SSL / TLS protocols with the removal of unnecessary functionality, the addition of additional security features and a significant cleaning and reworking of the code base. The release of LibreSSL 4.3.0 is considered experimental, […]

In China, heavy drones have begun delivering freshly picked spring tea to gourmets straight from mountain plantations.

The Chinese company AutoFlight successfully completed the country's first test of delivering freshly picked spring tea using a 2-ton air cargo drone. The logistics began at a site near mountain plantations and ended in Shanghai, 2000 km away. The drone handled the task on the mountainous section of the route, saving hours on road delivery, while a high-speed train […]

Voyager 1's instruments have been turned off to conserve energy, but the interstellar journey continues.

On April 17, 2026, NASA engineers shut down one of the scientific instruments on the Voyager 1 spacecraft—the Low-Energy Charged Particle (LECP) experiment. Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California made the decision to conserve energy from the spacecraft's nuclear power source. Voyager 1, launched in 1977 and now in flight for nearly 49 years, remains the most […]

A Dutch warship was tracked using a simple Bluetooth tracker.

Military personnel around the world are making significant efforts to ensure operational security, but routine precautions sometimes give way to simple solutions: journalists monitored the location of a Dutch naval warship for 24 hours as part of a low-cost experiment. The problem was uncovered by Dutch broadcaster Omroep Gelderland, whose journalist Just Vervaart reported how the anti-aircraft destroyer HNLMS […]

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