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Security updates have been issued by Debian (ansible and bluez), Fedora (curl, kernel, mod_auth_openidc, rust-rav1e, and webkit2gtk3), Mageia (kernel and kernel-linus), openSUSE (php7 and python-reportlab), Oracle (ruby:2.7), Red Hat (microcode_…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (tomcat8), Mageia (bluez, exiv2, fetchmail, libsndfile, nodejs, php-pear, python-pillow, and rabbitmq-server), openSUSE (apache-commons-compress, balsa, djvulibre, mariadb, mysql-connector-java, nodejs…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (jetty9 and openexr), openSUSE (mariadb and virtualbox), Red Hat (go-toolset-1.15 and go-toolset-1.15-golang), SUSE (djvulibre and mariadb), and Ubuntu (opencryptoki).

The GPSD project provides a
daemon for communicating with various GPS devices in order to retrieve the
location information that those sensors provide. But the GPS satellites
also provide highly accurate time information that GPSD can
extract …

Over on the Google Security Blog, Kees Cook describes his vision for approaches to assuring kernel security in a more collaborative way. He sees a number of areas where companies could work together to make it easier for everyone to use recent k…

Neovim 0.5, the fifth major version of the Neovim
editor, which descends from the venerable vi
editor by way of Vim, was
released
on July 2. This release is the culmination of almost two years of work,
and it comes with some major feat…

On his blog, Colin Watson has a lengthy reflection on moving the code for Ubuntu’s Launchpad software-collaboration web application from Python 2 to Python 3. He looks at some of the problem areas for upgrading, both in general and for…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (libsndfile and openjdk-11), Fedora (php-pear and seamonkey), openSUSE (fastjar and php7), SUSE (php72, qemu, and sqlite3), and Ubuntu (libsndfile, php-pear, and qpdf).

On its blog, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has
announced
a call for white papers about GitHub
Copilot and the questions surrounding
it. The FSF will pay $500 for papers that it publishes because they
“help elucidate the problem”:

We can se…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (webkit2gtk), Fedora (ruby and webkit2gtk3), Mageia (aspell and varnish), openSUSE (git), SUSE (ardana-cobbler, cassandra, cassandra-kit, crowbar-core, crowbar-openstack, documentation-suse-openstack-c…