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FDA si je premislil in bo preveril cepivo mRNA proti gripi

• Matej Huš :: 18. feb 2026 ob 19:11
• Znanost in tehnologija

Vinay Prasad, direktor Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA

Slo-Tech - Moderna je sporočila, da si je FDA po vnovičnem krogu pogovorov premislil in bo obravnaval prijavo za odobritev cepiva mRNA proti gripi, ki ga je razvilo podjetje. FDA je minuli teden zavrnil obravnavo prijave, ker naj bi Moderna tretjo fazo kliničnih preizkusov izvedla na neprimeren način, saj naj bi bila kontrola slabša od trenutno najboljšega znanega načina cepljenja proti gripi. Več na Slo-Techu.

Windows 7 in 8.1 izgubil še Firefox, res je čas za zamenjavo

• Matej Huš :: 18. feb 2026 ob 19:11
• Operacijski sistemi

Slo-Tech - Uporabniki Windows 7, 8 ali 8.1, ki jih je resda le okoli 3-5 odstotkov, so dobili še en razlog, da se od zastarelega operacijskega vendarle poslovijo. Še zadnji brskalnik, ki je na teh operacijskih sistemih prejemal redne posodobitve, je obupal. Mozilla bo ukinila podporo za Firefox 115 ESR, ki je izšel davnega julija 2023 in je še vedno podprt. To je zadnja še podprta verzija Firefoxa, ki deluje na Windows 8.1 in starejših. Konec februarja bo te podpore konec. Več na Slo-Techu.

Prihaja novi Googlov Pixel 10a

• Matej Huš :: 18. feb 2026 ob 19:11
• Rezultati

Slo-Tech - Bliža se tisti del leta, ko bo izšel novi Googlov telefon Pixel. V fizične prodajalne bo prispel 5. marca, prednaročila pa so se že začela. Še vedno bo možno kupiti tudi Pixel 9a, od katerega se novinec ne razlikuje bistveno. Po zunanjosti je praktično enak, le kamero so pomaknili nekoliko niže, da ne štrli več z zadnjega dela. Tudi notranjost ni drastično drugačna. Več na Slo-Techu.

Back in 2022 Intel announced OpenPGL as an open-source library for path guiding to help enhance the quality of path-based renderers. With time Blender began making use of OpenPGL and other industry interest and adoption. Unfortunately, Intel quietly ended work on OpenPGL in 2025 but has now fortunately found a new home...

Linux hardware vendor System76 has begun teasing a redesign of their Thelio chassis that is used by their modern desktops and workstations. Helping distinguish System76 from other Linux desktop/PC vendors has been their custom-engineered, built-in-the-USA enclosures and now they are preparing to launch a next-generation design...

The x86 platform driver updates were merged recently for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window. As is a common theme for platform-drivers-x86, a lot of the feature work is around Linux laptop drivers for enhancing the support on modern hardware...

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The "More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification" (AccECN) mechanism is defined by this RFC draft. The Linux kernel has been gaining support for AccECN with TCP over the last few releases; the 7.0 release will enable it by default for general use. AccECN is a subtle change to how TCP works, but it has the potential to improve how traffic flows over both public and private networks.

The UN Open Source Principles are comprised of eight guidelines and provide a framework to guide the use

Earlier this month Dell sent over a review sample of their new UltraSharp U5223KW monitor. While the model number may not imply much, this monitor is outright incredible. The Dell UltraSharp U5223KW is a 52-inch 6K @ 120Hz monitor with integrated USB hub also working as a KVM switch, 140 Watt power delivery support for USB-C/Thunderbolt laptops, 2.5G Ethernet, and the color reproduction and visuals with this Dell 6K monitor are impeccable.

Justin Wheeler writes in Fedora Magazine that Fedora is now available in Syria once again:

Last week, the Fedora Infrastructure Team lifted the IP range block on IP addresses in Syria. This action restores download access to Fedora Linux deliverables, such as ISOs. It also restores access from Syria to Fedora Linux RPM repositories, the Fedora Account System, and Fedora build systems. Users can now access the various applications and services that make up the Fedora Project. This change follows a recent update to the Fedora Export Control Policy. Today, anyone connecting to the public Internet from Syria should once again be able to access Fedora.

[...] Opening the firewall to Syria took seconds. However, months of conversations and hidden work occurred behind the scenes to make this happen.

The Asahi Linux project, which is working to implement support for Linux on Apple CPUs, has published a detailed 6.19 progress report.

We've made incredible progress upstreaming patches over the past 12 months. Our patch set has shrunk from 1232 patches with 6.13.8, to 858 as of 6.18.8. Our total delta in terms of lines of code has also shrunk, from 95,000 lines to 83,000 lines for the same kernel versions. Hmm, a 15% reduction in lines of code for a 30% reduction in patches seems a bit wrong…

Not all patches are created equal. Some of the upstreamed patches have been small fixes, others have been thousands of lines. All of them, however, pale in comparison to the GPU driver.

The GPU driver is 21,000 lines by itself, discounting the downstream Rust abstractions we are still carrying. It is almost double the size of the DCP driver and thrice the size of the ISP/webcam driver, its two closest rivals. And upstreaming work has now begun.

Adam Harvey, on behalf of the crates.io team has published a blog post to inform users of a change in their practice of publishing information about malicious Rust crates:

The crates.io team will no longer publish a blog post each time a malicious crate is detected or reported. In the vast majority of cases to date, these notifications have involved crates that have no evidence of real world usage, and we feel that publishing these blog posts is generating noise, rather than signal.

We will always publish a RustSec advisory when a crate is removed for containing malware. You can subscribe to the RustSec advisory RSS feed to receive updates.

Crates that contain malware and are seeing real usage or exploitation will still get both a blog post and a RustSec advisory. We may also notify via additional communication channels (such as social media) if we feel it is warranted.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ceph, gimp, gnutls28, and libpng1.6), Fedora (freerdp, libpng, libssh, mingw-libpng, mingw-libsoup, mingw-python3, pgadmin4, python-pillow, thunderbird, and vim), Mageia (postgresql15), Red Hat (python-urllib3), SUSE (cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, cont, frr, gpg2, kubernetes, kubernetes-old, libsodium, libsoup-2_4-1, libssh, libtasn1, libxml2, nodejs22, openCryptoki, openssl-3, and python311-pip), and Ubuntu (frr, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-gkeop, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-aws-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-gcp-fips, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx, linux-oem-6.17, linux-realtime, linux-raspi-realtime, nova, and pillow).

The Linux 7.0 kernel is shipping improvements for LoongArch, the Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS64 and RISC-V and has been showing much potential for their domestic PC manufacturing...

Asahi Linux developers have published a status report following the recent Linux 6.19 kernel release to outline recent progress and upcoming items around Apple Silicon support on Linux. This year will also mark five years that Asahi Linux has been around for bringing Linux to the Apple M-Series hardware...

As part of enhancing the FreeBSD experience on laptops and desktops, FreeBSD developers have been working toward adding a convenient desktop install option to their text-based installer for easily deploying the KDE Plasma desktop along with the necessary GPU drivers. After it didn't get wrapped up in time for the FreeBSD 15.0 release, that desktop installer option is now ready for testing...

Last year we began seeing Linux patches preparing the kernel for Intel Data Streaming Accelerator "DSA" 3.0 IP. Finally with the Linux 7.0 kernel those patches in updated form have now been merged...