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Google has completed the largest acquisition in its history: Wiz will become part of Google Cloud

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A year after the announcement and regulatory checks, Google has finalized the acquisition of Wiz, a company specializing in cybersecurity, for a record $32 billion. The startup, which previously declined a sale for $23 billion, will help the tech giant create unified security for Google Cloud's cloud environment and combat new types of vulnerabilities arising from vibe coding. This purchase marks the largest acquisition in history […]

Intel has presented the dream of the anonymous — the Heracles chip for working with encrypted data without decryption.

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Intel has unveiled a chip for Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) that performs tasks 5,000 times faster than traditional server processors. This accelerator, Heracles, was developed for the U.S. military to counteract hacking from quantum computers. Heracles speeds up the processing of fully encrypted information without any decoding, maintaining confidentiality at all stages. Fully homomorphic […]

curl 8.19.0

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On March 11, after more than two months of development and 538 commits, version 8.19.0 (the 273rd) of the cross-platform command-line utility and library curl, written in C and released under the curl license, was released. Key changes Security The bug bounty program for vulnerability discovery has been discontinued; however, this has not stopped people from finding vulnerabilities in curl: CVE-2026-1965 – improper reuse of HTTP Negotiate connections; […]

Igalia has introduced Moonforge, a distribution for embedded systems.

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Igalia, a company known for its contributions to free projects such as GNOME, GTK, WebKitGTK, Epiphany, Maemo, GStreamer, Wine, Mesa, and freedesktop.org, has introduced the Moonforge project, simplifying the creation and maintenance of custom Linux distributions for various devices and embedded systems. The distribution is based on build tools and package metadata from the OpenEmbedded and Yocto projects. Project-specific developments […]

The Android platform kernels include AutoFDO optimization.

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Google has summarized the integration of AutoFDO (Auto-Feedback-Directed Optimization) when building the Linux kernel for the Android platform. AutoFDO utilizes profiling results with information on the execution frequency of various code sections to enhance the performance of frequently executed operations. The AutoFDO optimization is implemented in the Linux kernel 6.12 for Android 16 and 6.6 for Android 15, and it will also be included in […]

Release of D7VK 1.5 adds support for Direct3D 3.

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The release of D7VK 1.5 has been announced, which develops the implementation of graphic APIs Direct3D 3, 5, 6, and 7 proposed by Microsoft in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. D7VK works by translating calls to the Vulkan API and allows retro games tied to the Direct3D 3, 5, 6, and 7 APIs to be run on Linux using Wine. The project's code is written […]

Patches proposed to remove the ability to build IPv6 as a kernel module.

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An engineer from SUSE has proposed a series of patches for inclusion in the linux-next branch, which shapes the functionality of Linux kernel 7.1, removing the ability to build the IPv6 stack as a kernel module. The reasoning includes a desire to avoid complications and simplify maintenance. The ability to build IPv6 as a module remains in the kernel mainly for historical reasons and […]

Beta testing of Fedora Linux 44. Initiative to promote innovations in Fedora.

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The beta version of the Fedora Linux 44 distribution has been released, marking the transition to the final testing phase, where only critical bug fixes are allowed. The release is scheduled for April 14. It encompasses Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, Fedora Server, Fedora IoT, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora IoT Edition, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, and live builds distributed in the form of spins with […]

The release of Solaris 11.4.90 CBE.

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This is a variant of the Solaris 11.4 operating system, aimed at being used by developers of open-source software and for personal purposes. CBE simplifies access to the latest versions of programs and updates for those who wish to use Solaris for free. Unlike the main Solaris 11.4 builds, for which the license allows free use for testing, development, and personal projects, the edition […]

PortableGL 0.100

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On March 5, after six months of development and more than a hundred commits, version 0.100.0 of the PortableGL project was released. This project develops a software implementation of the OpenGL 3.x graphics API, completely written in the C language. In theory, PortableGL can be used in any applications that accept a texture or framebuffer as input. The code is packaged as a single header file and is distributed under the MIT license. The project […]

Release of uChmViewer 8.6, a program for viewing chm and epub files

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The release of uChmViewer 8.6 is now available, a program for viewing eBooks in CHM and EPUB formats. Notable features of the viewer include improved support for languages other than English, the ability to disable JavaScript, auto-detection of encodings, accurate searching in CHM files with Cyrillic characters, the ability to use complex search expressions, a bookmarking system, and saving the history of operations associated with viewed files, as well as text size scaling. The code […]

Release of the Zentyal 8.1 Server Distribution

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Two years after the last release, the server Linux distribution Zentyal 8.1 has been published, built on the package base of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and specializing in creating servers for servicing local networks of small and medium enterprises. Among other things, the distribution is positioned as an alternative to Windows Server and includes components for replacing Microsoft Active Directory services and Microsoft […]

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