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Tuesday August 27, 2024. 02:53 PM
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (nodejs:20), Debian (python3.11), Fedora (dotnet8.0), Red Hat (bind, krb5, libreoffice, linux-firmware, orc, orc:0.4.28, and orc:0.4.31), SUSE (mariadb and openssl-3), and Ubuntu (linux-aws-5.4).
Monday August 26, 2024. 10:45 PM
The developers of the Pidgin chat program have announced that a malicious plugin had been listed on its third-party plugins list for over one month. This plugin included a key logger and could capture screenshots. It went unnoticed at the time that the plugin was not...
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest €686,400 toward improvements in the FreeBSD project's infrastructure, security, regulatory compliance, and developer experience: The work commissioned by STF also aligns...
The genksyms tool has long been buried deeply within the kernel's build system; it is one of the two C-code parsers shipped with the kernel (the other being the horrifying kernel-doc script). It is a key part of how the kernel's module-loading infrastructure works. While...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, python-html-sanitizer, and trafficserver), Fedora (nginx, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, python-webob, python3-docs, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, and zabbix), Red Hat...
Sunday August 25, 2024. 05:35 PM
The 6.11-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'Other than the timing, there's not a whole lot unusual here. The diffstat looks fairly flat, which means 'mostly pretty small changes'.' Linus Torvalds added a note that today marks the 33rd anniversary of the first Linux...
Friday August 23, 2024. 03:47 PM
On the second day of DebConf24 in Busan, South Korea, Holger Levsen provided a history lesson on the 'first 11 years' of the Reproducible Builds project. He has been involved in the project for most of that time and has been a Debian user since the mid-1990s, contributor...
The Forgejo project has announced that, starting from version 9.0, Forgejo will be released under the GPLv3 license (or a later version). Older versions of the software forge remain MIT-licensed. A copyleft license makes reusing other copyleft software easier. Recently,...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (community-mysql, iaito, and radare2), Oracle (python3.12-setuptools and tomcat), Red Hat (krb5 and podman), Slackware (ffmpeg), SUSE (apache2, expat, firefox, webkit2gtk3, and xen), and Ubuntu (imagemagick and libxstream-java).
Thursday August 22, 2024. 08:51 PM
Version 24.8 of the LibreOffice office suite has been released. Changes include the ability to filter identifying information from exported files, easier creation of cross reference, better control over hyphenation, a number of new spreadsheet functions, accessibility...
On July 30, Al Viro sent a patch set to the linux-fsdevel mailing list with a comprehensive cover letter explaining his recent work on ensuring that the kernel's internal representation of file descriptors are used correctly in the kernel. File descriptors are ubiquitous;...
Matthew Garrett describes the role of the Secure Boot Advanced Targeting mechanism and how it played into the recent Windows upgrade problems. So why is this suddenly relevant? SBAT was developed collaboratively between the Linux community and Microsoft, and Microsoft...
One tactic often used by attackers set on compromising a system is heap spraying; in short, the attacker fills as much of the heap as possible with crafted data in the hope of getting the target system to use that data in a bad way. If heap spraying can be blocked, attackers ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, bind, bind9.16, curl, edk2, firefox, gnome-shell, grafana, jose, krb5, libreoffice, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, orc, pcs, poppler, python-setuptools, python-urllib3, python3.11-setuptools, python3.12-setuptools,...
Wednesday August 21, 2024. 08:03 PM
Ars Technica covers a recent update that is causing problems for users with systems that dual-boot Windows and Linux. 'Note that Windows says this update won't apply to systems that dual-boot Windows and Linux,' one frustrated person wrote. 'This obviously isn't true, and...
Gentoo developer Michał Górny has written a lengthy blog post that explains how Gentoo approaches releases: Gentoo is something of a hybrid, as it combines the best of both worlds. It is a rolling release distribution with a single shared repository that is available to...
Linux installers receive a disproportionate amount of attention compared to the amount of time that most users spend with them. Ideally, a user spends only a few minutes using the installer, versus years using the distribution after it is installed. Yet, the installer sets...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (aom, cinder, dovecot, glance, and nova), Fedora (mysql8.0), Oracle (curl and libreoffice), SUSE (oniguruma, openssl-1_0_0, openssl1, and xen), and Ubuntu (cacti, curl, exfatprogs, firefox, and vim).
At PyCon 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Anthony Shaw looked at the various kinds of parallelism available to Python programs. There have been two major developments on the parallel-execution front over the last few years, with the effort to provide subinterpreters, each...
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