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Wednesday September 13, 2023. 01:33 PM
The 6.5.3, 6.4.16, and 6.1.53 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains a large number of important fixes. Note that the 6.4.x line ends with 6.4.16.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (e2guardian), Fedora (libeconf), Red Hat (dmidecode, kernel, kernel-rt, keylime, kpatch-patch, libcap, librsvg2, linux-firmware, and qemu-kvm), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (chromium and shadow), and Ubuntu (cups, dotnet6, dotnet7,...
Tuesday September 12, 2023. 11:18 PM
The GCC stack-protector feature detects stack-based buffer overruns by putting a canary value on the stack and noticing if that value is changed. It turns out, though, that dynamically allocated local variables (such as variable-length arrays and space obtained with...
Arduino has emerged as one of the prime success stories of the open-hardware movement. In recent years, the company has shifted its focus toward Internet of Things (IoT) applications. As part of this transformation, it has completely redesigned its open-source integrated...
Ars Technica reports on a credential-stealing Trojan horse that would infect only some of those who installed the 'Free Download Manager'. The article is based on a Kaspersky report that details the malicious payload offered up at that site from 2020 to 2022. The site,...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (node-cookiejar and orthanc), Oracle (firefox, kernel, and kernel-container), Red Hat (flac and httpd:2.4), Slackware (vim), SUSE (python-Django, terraform-provider-aws, terraform-provider-helm, and terraform-provider-null), and...
Monday September 11, 2023. 04:24 PM
Linus Torvalds released 6.6-rc1 and closed the 6.6 merge window on September 10. At that point, 12,230 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository, which is exactly 500 more than were pulled for 6.5 at this stage in the cycle. Over 7,000 of those...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (frr, kernel, libraw, mutt, and open-vm-tools), Fedora (cjose, pypy, vim, wireshark, and xrdp), Gentoo (apache), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, clamav, ghostscript, librsvg, libtiff, openssl, poppler, postgresql, python-pypdf2,...
Linus has released 6.6-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. All the stats for 6.6 look fairly normal so far - as always, the bulk of the patch is drivers (a bit of everything, but networking and gpu are the two biggest areas), with arch updates coming in as a...
Friday September 8, 2023. 05:54 PM
In a series of posts on his blog, Oscar Benjamin looks at SymPy, which is a Python-based symbolic-mathematics library. In the first article, he outlines the 'big changes for SymPy with particular focus on speed'. The second covers polynomial handling; subsequent articles...
The work to add support for large anonymous folios to the kernel has been underway for some time, but this feature has not yet landed in the mainline. The author of this work, Ryan Roberts, has been trying to get a handle on what the remaining obstacles are so he can address ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, libssh2, memcached, and python-django), Fedora (netconsd), Oracle (firefox and thunderbird), Scientific Linux (firefox), SUSE (open-vm-tools), and Ubuntu (grub2-signed, grub2-unsigned, shim, and shim-signed, plib, and...
This Ars Technica article looks at the widespread deployment of Google's 'privacy sandbox' in the Chrome browser: If you haven't been following this, this feature will track the web pages you visit and generate a list of advertising topics that it will share with web pages ...
Thursday September 7, 2023. 06:56 PM
The Ubuntu blog has a detailed article on plans to add full-disk encryption, with the key stored in the system's trusted platform module (TPM), to the desktop distribution. In order to deliver these benefits, the implementation of TPM-backed FDE relies on two main design...
OpenSUSE Leap is a hybrid distribution; it is based on SUSE's enterprise distribution (SLE), which follows the 'slow and stable' approach, but adds a number of newer packages on top. Leap is intended to be a desktop-oriented distribution with a stable and reliable base. As...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (erofs-utils, htmltest, indent, libeconf, netconsd, php-phpmailer6, tinyexr, and vim), Red Hat (firefox), and Ubuntu (linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-fde-5.15,...
Wednesday September 6, 2023. 10:50 PM
The 6.5.2, 6.4.15, 6.1.52, and 5.15.131 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
A recent discussion on the Python forum looked at a way to protect module objects (and users) from mistaken attribute assignment and deletion. There are ways to get the same effect today, but the mechanism that would be used causes a performance penalty for an unrelated, and ...
The Mozilla Foundation has published a report on the data-collection and privacy practices of 25 car brands. We reviewed 25 car brands in our research and we handed out 25 'dings' for how those companies collect and use data and personal information. That’s right: every...
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