BlogFlockThe GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) project decided to break from the OpenPGP standard for email encryption in 2023, and instead adopted its own homegrown LibrePGP specification. The GPG 2.4 branch, the last one to adhere to OpenPGP, will be reaching the end of life in mid-2026. The Fedora project is…
Stenberg: The end of the curl bug-bounty program
Curl creator Daniel Stenberg has written a blog post explaining why the project is ending its bug-bounty program, which started in April 2019:
The never-ending slop submissions take a serious mental toll to manage and sometimes also a long time to debunk. Time and energy that is completely wasted while…
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gimp, glib2, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, net-snmp, pcs, and thunderbird), Debian (apache2, imagemagick, incus, inetutils, libuev, openjdk-17, php7.4, python3.9, shapelib, taglib, and zvbi), Fedora (mingw-glib2, mingw-harfbuzz, mingw-libsoup, mingw-openexr, pgadmin4, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, and wireshark), Gentoo (Asterisk, Commons-BeanUtils, GIMP, inetutils, and Vim, gVim),
Flying Fckery
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Go now to FlightAware’s MiseryMap. Cick on the blue Play button and watch The Great Storm of January 25-26 move across the land and cause massive delays at airports in its path. (I just spent too much time learning how buggy Apple’s screen recording function is, but I did…
Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc7
The 6.19-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for
testing.
So normally this would be the last rc of the release, but as I've mentioned every rc (because I really want people to be aware and be able to plan for things) this release we'll have an rc8 due to the holiday…
Daze Off
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What emerges?
You know how Google's original (and continuing) mission was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"? It didn't happen with Google. Gemini gets closer. So I'm thinking, if search was the larval stage, and now Gemini is the pupal stage…
The Room Where It Will Happen
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MyTerms is done and ready to begin.
The launch is next Wednesday, in the room above at Imperial College London.
Back in ’22, I called MyTerms (IEEE 7012) The Most Important Standard in Development Today. Now it’s finished and more important than ever.
Join the launch.…
GNU C Library 2.43 released
Version 2.43 of the
GNU C Library has been released. Changes include support for the mseal() and openat2()
system calls, experimental support for building with the Clang compiler,
Unicode 17.0.0 support, a number of security fixes, and much more.
Dept. of Contentions
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YouTube plans to let creators make AI Shorts using their own likeness.
[$] Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS
Filesystems seem to be one of those many areas where the problems are well understood, but there is always somebody working toward a better solution. As a result, filesystem development in the Linux kernel continues at a fast pace even after all these years. In recent news, the EROFS filesystem…