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A clarion call from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warning about upcoming changes to the Chrome
browser’s extension API was not the first such—from the EFF or from
others. The time of the switch to Manifest
V3, as the new API is known…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (apache-log4j2, firefox-esr, libssh2, modsecurity-apache, and tang), Fedora (lapack, log4j, rust-libsqlite3-sys, rust-rusqlite, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (bind, botan2, chr…

Just in time for the upcoming holidays, “KDE’s educational suite of more than 170 activities and pedagogical games”, GCompris, has released version 2.0. It includes new and updated games and activities, including:

Getting back to numeracy…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.15.10, 5.10.87, and 5.4.167 stable kernels. These are fairly
small updates, but, unlike yesterday’s single
self-test bug fix updates, do contain important fixes throughout the tree; users
sh…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel), Fedora (dr_libs, libsndfile, and podman), openSUSE (fetchmail, log4j, log4j12, logback, python3, and seamonkey), Oracle (go-toolset:ol8, idm:DL1, and nodejs:16), Red Hat (go-toolset-1.16 and …

The 5.15.9, 5.10.86, and 5.4.166 stable kernels have been
released. “Only change here is a permission setting of a netfilter
selftest file.
No need to upgrade if this problem is not bothering you.”

Security updates have been issued by Debian (apache-log4j2 and mediawiki), Fedora (libmysofa, libolm, and vim), Oracle (httpd), Red Hat (go-toolset:rhel8), and Ubuntu (apache-log4j2 and mumble).

When last we looked in on the great typing PEP
debate for Python, back in August, two PEPs were still being
discussed as alternatives for handling annotations in the language.
The steering council was considering the issue after deferring on a
d…

Adding fs-verity file-integrity information
to RPM packages for Fedora 36 is the
topic of a recent discussion on the Fedora devel mailing list. The feature
would provide a means to install files from RPM packages as read-only files
that c…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-babel), Fedora (golang-github-opencontainers-image-spec and libmysofa), openSUSE (hiredis), Oracle (firefox and thunderbird), Red Hat (thunderbird and virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2), Scientific L…