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Euro-Office has been created, a fork of ONLYOFFICE. The ONLYOFFICE project accused the fork of violating the license.

Several European companies and organizations, including Nextcloud, IONOS, Eurostack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, and BTactic, have presented the open collaborative document editing platform Euro-Office, which is based on the codebase of the ONLYOFFICE office suite. In the fork, rebranding has been carried out, and changes have been made to the AGPLv3 license text to remove additional conditions regarding the logo and trademarks. Such changes have been perceived positively by the ONLYOFFICE developers […]

Mobile platform ALT Mobile 11.0, built on GNOME technologies.

The company Bazalt SPO has introduced the mobile platform ALT Mobile 11.0 ('Alt Mobile'), designed for smartphones, tablets, and embedded devices with touch screens, such as barcode scanners, cash registers, and data collection terminals. The platform is built on the package base of the Sisyphus repository (p11) and is equipped with the Phosh graphical shell, based on GNOME technologies and using the Phoc composite server. For download […]

The C++26 standard has been approved

The ISO committee for C++ language standardization has approved the final version of the specification that forms the international standard 'C++26'. The features outlined in the specification are partially already supported in the GCC, Clang, and Microsoft Visual C++ compilers. Libraries that support the C++26 standard are implemented within the Boost project. In the next two months, the approved specification will be in the document preparation stage for publication, during which […]

Anthropic has warned that its upcoming model, Claude Mythos, will become a "hacker's wonder weapon."

Anthropic, OpenAI, and other technology companies are preparing AI models that could significantly heighten the threat of large-scale cyberattacks on corporate, government, and municipal systems. The focus is on the yet-to-be-released AI model Claude Mythos from Anthropic. According to Axios, the company is already warning senior U.S. officials that its arrival in 2026 markedly increases the likelihood of such attacks. Mythos is described […]

Monogram, an alternative open client for Telegram on Android

Hello! We have created Monogram — a new open-source Telegram client for Android using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. The code is available on GitHub under the GPLv3 license, and updates can be found on our Telegram channel. Why did we do this? The official client has become an overly complicated monolith, with source code being published with significant delays. Additionally, we dislike the imposition of iOS styling at the expense of Android guidelines. […]

The founder and leader of Ubuntu MATE has announced his departure from the project

Martin Wimpress, co-founder and leader of the Ubuntu MATE distribution, who served as the Director of Desktop Development at Canonical from 2019 to 2021, announced that his involvement in the project is coming to an end, and he is looking for developers who are willing to continue working on the Ubuntu MATE distribution and can maintain the packages related to the MATE desktop environment in the Ubuntu repository. […]

The PyPI package telnyx has been compromised

The developers of the Telnyx VoIP platform have warned users about the compromise of the popular (756 thousand downloads per month) telnyx package in the PyPI repository, which implements an SDK for calling the Telnyx API. On Linux, the malware activated upon importing the module and searched for and sent SSH keys, credentials, environment variable contents, API access tokens, and connection parameters to cloud services like AWS, GCP, Azure. […]

Compromise of the PyPI package Telnyx

The developers of the Telnyx VoIP platform have warned users about the compromise of the telnyx package in the PyPI repository, which has 756 thousand downloads per month and provides an SDK for calling the Telnyx API from Python programs. On March 27, attackers managed to publish two malicious releases, telnyx 4.87.1 and 4.87.2, after seizing the maintainer's credentials, gaining access to PyPI. The malicious versions spread […]

Release of the SystemRescue 13.0 distribution

The release of SystemRescue 13.0 is available, a specialized Live distribution based on Arch Linux, designed for system recovery after a crash. The graphical environment used is Xfce. The size of the ISO image is 1.3 GB (amd64). The new release includes a script to change the scaling level for high pixel density screens. An issue with displaying overly small fonts in the console on HiDPI screens has been resolved. […]

Ubuntu 26.10 plans to add ntpd-rs and discontinue support for Btrfs, XFS, ZFS, LVM, and LUKS in /boot.

Jon Seager, Vice President of Engineering at Canonical and Technical Lead of the Ubuntu project, announced plans to integrate the NTP server ntpd-rs, written in Rust and already used in the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority infrastructure, into the fall release of Ubuntu 26.10. The ntpd-rs project will become the third component, following Rust Coreutils and sudo-rs, integrated into Ubuntu as part of the […]

Release of the network security scanner Nmap 7.99.

The release of the network security scanner Nmap 7.99 has been published, designed for conducting network audits and identifying active network services. The project code is provided under the NPSL (Nmap Public Source License), which is based on the GPLv2 license and supplemented with recommendations (not requirements) for using the OEM licensing program and purchasing a commercial license if the manufacturer does not wish to open the code of their product according to the requirements […]

Introducing Monogram, an alternative open client for Telegram on Android

A group of independent enthusiasts has released the Monogram project, developing a new open Telegram messenger client for the Android mobile platform. The project is written in Kotlin using the Jetpack Compose declarative UI framework. The code is open under the GPLv3 license (the project also has its own Telegram channel). The main motivation for creating an alternative application is stated as the need to ensure transparency in development and address the accumulated issues of the original client. […]

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