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Microsoft has open-sourced its ComicChat IRC client, which renders dialogue as comics generated from characters chosen by participants and reflecting their emotions. ComicChat uses the standard IRC protocol, can connect to standard IRC servers, and is compatible with text-based IRC clients. The code is written in C++ and is open-sourced under the MIT license. An expert system is used to generate the frame plots, […]
The OpenBSD project has published a patch (CVE-2026-57589) for a kernel vulnerability affecting the implementation of System V semaphores (sem) system calls. The issue is caused by a reference to previously freed memory in the sys_semget() function and can be exploited to gain root privileges by an unprivileged local user in the default configuration. The patch was included in the OpenBSD-current codebase on May 23rd, but for […]
The NTFS-3G package, version 2026.7.7, has been released. It includes a free user-space driver using the FUSE mechanism and the ntfsprogs utility suite for manipulating NTFS partitions. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version fixes nine vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution with root privileges when processing specially formatted partitions or disk images with […]
The main nginx 1.31.3 branch has been released, continuing development of new features. The parallel stable nginx 1.30.4 branch, which only includes changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities, has also been released. These updates address three vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-42533 – a buffer overflow that occurs when using regular expression substitution checks in the "map" directive […]
System76, a company developing LinuxPop!_OS, the distribution, has released the COSMIC 1.3.0 desktop environment. Packages for COSMIC 1.3.0 are available in Pop!_OS 24.04 and are expected to be available in Fedora, NixOS, and Arch soon. Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and licensed under the GPLv3 (applications) and MPL-2.0 (libraries). COSMIC is being developed as a universal […]
The FreeBSD-CURRENT codebase, which forms the basis for the FreeBSD 16 branch, has been updated to remove the last remaining GPL-licensed components—the diff3 and dialog utilities—from the base system. diff3 has been replaced with a BSD-licensed version from the OpenBSD project, and bsddialog, a utility specifically developed for FreeBSD, has been developed to replace dialog. The installer has been converted […]
The SVT-AV1 4.2.0 (Scalable Video Technology AV1) library has been released, featuring implementations of the AV1 video encoding format encoder and decoder, which are accelerated using hardware parallel computing extensions present in x86_64 and ARM processors. The project was created by Intel in partnership with Netflix with the aim of achieving a level of performance suitable for on-the-fly video transcoding and use in […]
Release 0.7.0.0 of the s6-rc service manager has been published. It is designed to manage the launch of initialization scripts and services. It supports dependency tree tracking and automatic service startup or shutdown to achieve a specified state. The s6-rc toolkit can be used both in initialization systems and for organizing the launch of arbitrary services based on events reflecting system state changes. The system supports initialization scripts, […]
Sylvestre Ledru, Director of Engineering at Mozilla, announced the transition to a two-week release cycle for Firefox. Starting in September, new releases will be released every two weeks instead of every four weeks. The change is already reflected in the release schedule: Firefox 154, scheduled for August 18, will be the last release with a four-week cycle. Then, in […]
After five months of development, the stable release of Weston 16.0, a composite server, has been published. It advances technologies that will enable full support for the Wayland protocol in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other user environments. Weston's development aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for in-car infotainment systems, smartphones, and televisions.
Researchers from the University of Michigan developed a tool called MVPNalyzer for detecting information leaks and analyzing VPN performance, and used it to test 281 VPN applications for the platform. AndroidThe most popular VPN apps distributed through Google Play were selected for study. A total of 2.4 billion VPN apps were found to have various security and privacy issues […]
The developers of GNOME OS, a distribution for GNOME developers and testers, have announced a toolkit initiative to simplify testing experimental versions of software in distributions distributed as atomically updated monolithic system images. The GNOME OS Developer Tool Suite, which is being developed, will enable the compilation, distribution, and testing of extensions for distributions delivered as system images. The toolkit will enable developers and […]