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A regression has been identified in the Linux kernel 7.0 that reduces PostgreSQL performance by half.

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An engineer from Amazon has identified a regression specific to Linux kernel 7.0, which is expected to be released on April 13. Changes to the task scheduler settings have led to a significant reduction in throughput and responsiveness when running the PostgreSQL database on ARM64 architecture systems. Using kernel 7.0, performance metrics during the pgbench "simple-update" test have nearly halved — from […]

Durov promised to complicate the detection and blocking of Telegram traffic.

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Telegram founder Pavel Durov, commenting on the blocking of Telegram in Russia, stated that the messenger will continue to adapt, making its traffic more difficult to detect and block. According to Durov, 65 million Russians use the messenger daily via VPN, with more than 50 million sending messages every day. Ahead of the block, Telegram proposed that Russians subscribe to the Premium service for two years […]

GDDRHammer and GeForge attacks distort GPU memory to access all CPU memory

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Researchers from several universities in the USA and Australia have developed two Rowhammer-class attacks — GDDRHammer and GeForge — that allow for bit-flipping in GDDR memory chips when running unprivileged CUDA kernel on NVIDIA GPUs. Unlike the GPUHammer method introduced last year, the new attacks are not limited to affecting data processed in GPU memory, but allow for […]

Release Wine 11.6

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An experimental release of the open implementation of Win32 API — Wine 11.6 — has been published. Since the release of 11.5, 28 bug reports have been closed and 261 changes made. The most significant updates include: Work has resumed on the wineandroid driver, enabling functionality on the Android platform. Heuristics for determining the order of DLL loading have been added to improve support for game mods. Continued efforts to improve compatibility with VBScript. […]

The Netherlands has created the world's first "solar" roofing tile with a flexible perovskite film and an efficiency of 12.4%.

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The world's first solar roof tile using thin-film perovskite has been developed in the Netherlands. This new element has relatively low efficiency; however, it allows a tiled roof to look like a regular roof rather than a collection of angled solar panels. The 'solar' tile is ready for mass production and could become an integral part of urban architecture, combining electricity generation […]

Ubuntu 26.04 Plans: Increased RAM Requirements

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The release notes for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 (last update on 27.03.2026) reveal that the new Ubuntu Desktop with a Gnome-based environment now requires at least 6 GB of RAM and 25 GB of disk space. The server version 26.04 now requires 1.5 GB of RAM, while 22.04 only required 1 GB, and 18.04 required just 512 MB. On […]

Release of OpenCloud 6.0 File Sharing Platform

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The release of the OpenCloud 6.0 platform has been announced, allowing users to deploy a file-sharing and content collaboration system on their own servers. The project is presented as an open alternative to proprietary systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive, and Dropbox, in compliance with the GDPR regulations in effect in the European Union. The project is based on a fork of the OCIS (ownCloud Infinite Scale) platform. Unlike the original codebase […]

libinput Security Notification

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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the libinput library: CVE-2026-35093: Sandbox escape in plugins. A bug in the plugin loader allowed loading precompiled bytecode that bypasses runtime checks and thus is not sandboxed. This creates an opportunity for an attack that allows a malicious plugin to gain unrestricted access to the system, depending on user privileges. CVE-2026-35094: Use of […]

Alpha release of the Pidgin 3 messenger and announcement of the Gaim 3 messenger

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The first alpha release of the Pidgin 3.0 (2.95) instant messaging client has been presented. This release is noted as not yet suitable for everyday use. The builds are prepared in Flatpak format and hosted in the beta repository on Flathub. The Pidgin 3 branch has been in development since 2011, and prior to that, it was discussed for three years at the conceptual level. In Pidgin 3, a transition has been made […]

VChat — a simple video chat on WebRTC

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I'm excited to present my project — a simple WebRTC chat. It can be launched with three commands. Under the hood is ReactJS (this is the front end + wrapped in ElectronJS if you want an app that plays system audio during screen sharing and globally supports hotkeys). On the backend, it uses pure WebSocket on Node.js + Mediasoup.js as the SFU server. License — MIT. I don't plan to maintain this […]

The unofficial Telegram client Nekogram was sending phone numbers to the developer's bot.

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The unofficial Telegram client Nekogram has been found to contain obfuscated code that secretly sends the phone numbers of users who log into the app to the bot ‘@nekonotificationbot’, associated with the user identifier. The modification for collecting phone numbers is present only in the compiled APKs distributed through Google Play, GitHub, and the project's Telegram channel. This phone-collecting change is not present in the source code on GitHub and in the APK package from the F-Droid catalog […]

Details revealed regarding the capture of credentials associated with the NPM package axios

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The accompanying NPM package axios, which recently had malicious updates released, has revealed details of an attack that allowed the attackers to gain access to its computer and all credentials. The attack was carried out using a typical social engineering method that had previously been used to compromise developers of cryptocurrency wallets and AI platforms. The attacker posed as the founder of a well-known company and […]

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