VLC 3.0.24 is out, billed as the video player’s ‘biggest security release ever’ with more than 130 fixes across the app and its bundled libraries. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the bulk of security flaws patched by the update are “hard to exploit in practice” – among them OOB, integer overflow, double-free and use-after-free issues – he notes not all are ‘harmless’ so encourages users to update. No major new user-facing features arrive with this update to the open-source player, notable improvements are present. VLC 3.0.24 supports ATRAC3 & ATRAC9 decoding (the former used by Sony MiniDiscs the later for […]
Version 157.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. It features "Firefox's biggest visual refresh in years", the ability to use hardware AV1 decoding with WebRTC calls, and a number of fixes.
Ahead of the October ISO refresh of the Arch Linux media, Archinstall 4.5 released today as the newest update to this convenient, text-based Arch Linux installer...
Archinstall 4.5 text-mode installer for the Arch Linux distribution is now available with AArch64 support for GRUB and Limine EFI installations, AArch64 root partition type GUID support, and other changes.
Christian Legnitto is the maintainer of rust-gpu and Rust CUDA, two libraries that make it possible to program a computer's graphics processing unit (GPU) from Rust. He isn't satisfied with the current state of GPU support in Rust, however. In a talk at RustConf 2026, he explained his vision for how the GPU could become an ordinary compiler target for normal Rust code, without the need for any special libraries or new ecosystem support. That vision is not yet fully implemented, but he does have a prototype that he is preparing to release.
It’s taken longer than expected, but users can now upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 from 24.04 directly, without command-line workarounds. Canonical has finally flipped the switch on in-place upgrades for LTS systems. A notification will let users know that a new LTS is available, which can be actioned right away, ignored or “remind me later”‘d. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS was released on 23 April 2026, and direct upgrades from Ubuntu 25.10 were enabled a few weeks after the ISO downloads went live. However, upgrades from 24.04 LTS to 26.04 LTS were not. Canonical only officially gives LTS-to-LTS upgrades the go ahead once […]
Destroy Any Website is a browser-based run-and-gun that lets you run amok on any public-facing website. You take command of a character and access a variety of weapons. The aim is to score points by blasting your chosen target to literal pieces. Run, jump and jetpack around the site elements using WASD controls and take aim using your mouse. A competitive multiplayer mode lets you pick a website, share a code with a pal and then compete to reach a destruction score, replete with scoreboard. Lest anyone panic, the wanton destruction the in-browser game can unleash is done on a […]
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