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[$] Constant-time instructions and processor optimizations
Of all the attacks on cryptographic code, timing attacks may be among the most insidious. An...
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Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium and vim), Slackware (openssh), and Ubuntu (lrzip and...
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 7.5 Community [LWN.net]
Version 7.5 of the LibreOffice Community edition is now available. LibreOffice is, of course, the FOSS...
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Ekstrand: Exploring Rust for Vulkan drivers, part 1 [LWN.net]
Faith Ekstrand begins an exploration of using the Rust language to write Vulkan graphics drivers. Whenever...
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OpenSSH 9.2 released [LWN.net]
OpenSSH 9.2 has been released. It includes a number of security fixes, including one for a...
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GNU C Library 2.37 released [LWN.net]
Version 2.37 of the GNU C Library has been released. This looks like a relatively low-key...
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[$] Git archive generation meets Hyrum's law
On January 30, the GitHub blog carried a brief notice that the checksums of archives (such...
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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cinder, glance, nova, openjdk-17, and python-django), Fedora (caddy, git-credential-oauth,...
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 2, 2023
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 2, 2023 is available.
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Go 1.20 released [LWN.net]
Version 1.20 of the Go language has been released. We’re particularly excited to launch a preview...
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[$] Convergence in the pip and conda worlds?
The discussions about the world of Python packaging and the problems caused by its disparate tools...
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TrenchBoot Anti Evil Maid for Qubes OS [LWN.net]
The Qubes OS news site has a detailed article on work being done to ensure the...
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Elementary OS 7 released [LWN.net]
Version 7 of the Ubuntu-based elementary OS distribution has been released. In the latest version of...
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Three stable kernel updates [LWN.net]
The 6.1.9, 5.15.91, and 5.10.166 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of...
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (fig2dev and libstb), Fedora (seamonkey), SUSE (ctags, python-setuptools, samba,...
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Cook: Bounded flexible arrays in C [LWN.net]
Kees Cook has posted a detailed document describing the work to improve safety of flexible-length arrays...
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[$] Using low-cost wireless sensors in the unlicensed bands
When it comes to home automation, people often end up with devices supporting the Zigbee or...
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (bind, firefox, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, libXpm, pki-core, sssd, sudo,...
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Maintainer confidential: Opportunities and challenges of the ubiquitous but under-resourced Yocto Project (Linux.com) [LWN.net]
Over at Linux.com, Yocto Project architect Richard Purdie writes about various kinds of problems that the...
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[$] The Linux SVSM project
If legacy networks are like individual homes with a few doors where a handful of people...
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Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (curl, dojo, git, lemonldap-ng, libapache-session-browseable-perl, libapache-session-ldap-perl, libzen, node-object-path, openjdk-11,...
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Kernel prepatch 6.2-rc6 [LWN.net]
The 6.2-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. It's suspiciously small, but who am I to...
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Rust 1.67.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 1.67.0 of the Rust language has been released. The list of new features is relatively...
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[$] GFP flags and the end of GFP_ATOMIC
Memory allocation within the kernel is a complex business. The amount of physical memory available on...