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Wednesday October 29, 2025. 06:05 PM
ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has announced a report on 'the critical role of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) within the Domain Name System (DNS)'. The report is aimed at policymakers and examines recent cybersecurity regulations in the US,...
A new class of attacks on Android phones, called 'Pixnapping', was announced on October 13. It allows a malicious app to gather output rendered in a victim app, pixel-by-pixel, by exploiting a GPU side-channel. Depending on what the victim app displays, anything from...
Version 15.0 of the Tor Browser has been released: This is our first stable release based on Firefox ESR 140, incorporating a year's worth of changes that have been shipped upstream in Firefox. As part of this process, we've also completed our annual ESR transition audit,...
Debian's ftpmaster team has been responsible for allowing new packages to enter Debian, removing old packages, and otherwise maintaining Debian's package archive for more than two decades. As of October 26, the team is no more and its duties are being split between two new...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.6, 6.12.56, 6.6.115, 6.1.158, 5.15.196, 5.10.246, and 5.4.301 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users of these kernels are advised to upgrade.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gimp, python-authlib, and xorg-server), Fedora (chromium and git-lfs), Mageia (poppler and tomcat), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, redis, and redis:6), SUSE (fetchmail, grafana, ImageMagick, kernel-devel, libluajit-5_1-2, proxy-helm, ...
Tuesday October 28, 2025. 05:49 PM
Fil-C is a memory-safe implementation of C and C++ that aims to let C code — complete with pointer arithmetic, unions, and other features that are often cited as a problem for memory-safe languages — run safely, unmodified. Its dedication to being 'fanatically...
The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora Linux 43, with 'what's new' articles for Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, and Fedora Atomic Desktops. For those of you installing fresh Fedora Linux 43 Spins, you may be greeted with the new Anaconda...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, libtiff, squid:4, and thunderbird), Debian (strongswan and webkit2gtk), Fedora (pcre2, qt5-qtbase, squid, unbound, and xen), Mageia (icu and libtpms), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk,...
Monday October 27, 2025. 07:46 PM
BPF lets users load programs into a running kernel. Even though BPF programs are checked by the verifier to ensure that they stay inside certain limits, some users would still like to ensure that only approved BPF programs are loaded. KP Singh's patches adding that...
The Python Software Foundation, earlier this year, successfully obtained a $1.5 million grant from the US National Science Foundation 'to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI'. The actual grant came with some strings attached though, in the form of a...
Version 0.3.0 of Rust Coreutils, part of the uutils project, has been released. This release adds safe directory traversal for several utilities, better error handling, and performance improvements. The project has upgraded its test suite reference from GNU coreutils 9.7 to...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (intel-microcode, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, openjdk-21, python-pip, request-tracker4, thunderbird, and tika), Fedora (cef, chromium, complyctl, cri-o1.31, cri-o1.32, cri-o1.33, cri-o1.34, docker-buildkit, docker-buildx, dovecot,...
Version 3.26.0 of the Valgrind memory-profiling and debugging framework has been released. Notable changes include updated support for the Linux Test Project (LTP) to version v20250930, many new Linux syscall wrappers, and the license for Valgrind has been changed from GPLv2 ...
Linus has released 6.18-rc3 for testing. 'Things feel fairly normal, and in fact the numbers say it's been a bit calmer than usual, but that's likely just the usual fluctuation in pull request timing rather than anything else'.
Friday October 24, 2025. 04:08 PM
Version 0.14 of the Typst document processor has been released. If you need to comply with accessibility-related regulations, Typst 0.14 has your back. Typst now generates accessible documents by default, with opt-in support for stricter checks. For those working with...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (webkit2gtk3), Debian (bind9, chromium, python-internetarchive, and tryton-sao), Fedora (dokuwiki and php-php81_bc-strftime), Mageia (firefox, nss & rootcerts and thunderbird), Slackware (openssl), SUSE (bleachbit, chromium,...
Open-source foundations and projects that have charity status in the US may want to see if GoFundMe has created a profile for them without permission. The company has operated since 2010 as a self-service fundraising platform; individuals or groups could create pages to...
Thursday October 23, 2025. 10:34 PM
The Ubuntu Project has announced that a bug in the Rust-based uutils version of the date command shipped with Ubuntu 25.10 broke automatic updates: Some Ubuntu 25.10 systems have been unable to automatically check for available software updates. Affected machines include...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.17.5, 6.12.55, and 6.6.114 stable kernels. As usual, each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.
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