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Security updates for Monday

LWN.net
91 posts last month
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups, kernel, and mysql-selinux and mysql8.4), Debian (cjson, jetty9, and shibboleth-sp), Fedora (bustle, cef, checkpointctl, chromium, civetweb, cups, forgejo, jupyterlab, kernel, libsixel, linenoise, maturin, niri, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, python-uv-build, ruff, rust-busd, rust-crypto-auditing-agent, rust-crypto-auditing-client, rust-crypto-auditing-event-broker, rust-matchers, rust-monitord, rust-monitord-exporter, rust-secret-service, rust-tracing-subscriber, rustup, tcpreplay, tuigreet, udisks2, uv, and…

Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc6

LWN.net
91 posts last month
The 6.17-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "But really, none of it is very large. So everything seems slated for a normal release in two weeks. Please do keep testing, so that we don't get complacent."

[$] Creating a healthy kernel subsystem community

LWN.net
91 posts last month
Creating welcoming communities within open-source projects is a recurring topic at conferences; those projects rely on contributions from others, so making them welcome is important. The kernel has, rather infamously over the years, been an oft-cited example of an unwelcoming project, though there have been (and are) multiple efforts to…

A Taste of Matter

Doc Searls Weblog
11 posts last month
Two kinds of barbeque sauce sold by Costco, at one moment in time.

We had a party recently that required cooking an enormous number of baby back ribs. To acquire a volume of barbeque sauce sufficient to soak all the slabs, we took a run to our nearest Costco (an…

Car Goes

Doc Searls Weblog
11 posts last month
My little station wagon parked between two trucks.

The other day I bought a refrigerator at Costco. When a guy rolled it out on a flat to help me lift it into the car, he said, “This isn’t going to fit in there.” Then it did.

It might not have…

Security updates for Friday

LWN.net
91 posts last month
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cups, imagemagick, libcpanel-json-xs-perl, and libjson-xs-perl), Fedora (checkpointctl, chromium, civetweb, glycin, kernel, libssh, ruff, rust-secret-service, snapshot, and uv), Mageia (curl), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (cups, curl, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, regionServiceClientConfigAzure, regionServiceClientConfigEC2, regionServiceClientConfigGCE, trivy, and xen), and Ubuntu (cups, node-cipher-base, and qemu).

Privacy is a Contract

Doc Searls Weblog
11 posts last month


In the natural world, privacy is a social contract: a tacit agreement that we respect others’ private spaces. We guard those spaces with the privacy tech we call clothing and shelter. With language and gestures we also signal what’s okay and what’s not. “Manners” are about as formal as the…

[$] A policy for Link tags

LWN.net
91 posts last month
The Git source-code management system stores a lot of information about changes to code — but it does not hold everything that might be of interest to a developer who needs to investigate a specific change in the future. Commits in a repository are the end result of a (sometimes…

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    LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed, listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.

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