Early Friday the principal author of GNU Privacy Guard (the free encryption software) warned that version 1.9.0 of its cryptographic library Libgcrypt, released January 19, had a “severe” security vulnerability and should not be used. A new version 1.9.1, which fixes the flaw, is available for download, Help Net Security reports:
He also noted that Fedora 34 (scheduled to be released in…
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How to Get Interviews (Coursera Networking for Job Search Guide)
Download this guide in PDF format This guide is designed to help job seekers get more interviews. If you’re eager to increase the number of interviews you’re currently getting, we have some tips and strategies for you that can make a big difference in your results and help you overcome some of the challenges associated […]
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New Research Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Lived In London While Working On Bitcoin.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Satoshi didn’t leave much behind when he decided to leave the scene for good back in April, 2011. But, he did leave enough for us to conduct a thorough research into his whereabouts when he was working on Bitcoin. To conduct this research, we gathered data from the following:
Satoshi’s Bitcointalk account (539 available posts)
His 34…
Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver For Linux
According to Phoronix, a Dell privacy driver is is being prepared for the Linux kernel. From the report: Beginning in Dell’s 2021 laptop models they are providing hardware-based “privacy buttons” to disable microphone and camera support. These new Dell privacy buttons are basically hardware kill switches for the microphone and web camera video stream. The Dell privacy driver sent out on…
Linux 5.9 Boosts CPU Performance With FSGSBASE Support
FSGSBASE support in Linux “has the possibility of helping Intel/AMD CPU performance especially in areas like context switching that had been hurt badly by Spectre/Meltdown and other CPU vulnerability mitigations largely on the Intel side,” Phoronix wrote back in August. As it started its journey into the kernel, they provided a preview on August 10: The FSGSBASE support that was finally…
Emacs Developers (Including Richard Stallman) Discuss How to Build a More ‘Modern’ Emacs
LWN.net re-visits the emacs-devel mailing list, where the Emacs 28 development cycle has revived discussions about how to make the text editor more “modern” and attractive to new users: A default dark theme may not be in the future, leading one to think that there may yet be hope for the world in general. But there does seem to be general…
Linux Developers Continue Evaluating The Path To Adding Rust Code To The Kernel
Phoronix reports:
As mentioned back in July, upstream Linux developers have been working to figure out a path for adding Rust code to the Linux kernel. That topic is now being further explored at this week’s virtual Linux Plumbers Conference… To be clear though, these Rust Linux kernel plans do not involve rewriting large parts of the kernel in Rust (at least…
Should Perl 7 Be Backwards Compatible?
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: What’s up with Perl 7? Perl Foundation board member Ricardo Signes tried to sum up the state of the community in a detailed post to the “Perl 5 porters” mailing list. And in a section titled “To Break or Not To Break,” he writes that “The central Perl 7 question is not about version numbering, but…
China Is Now Blocking All Encrypted HTTPS Traffic That Uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI
China’s Great Firewall “is now blocking HTTPS connections set up via the new TLS 1.3 encryption protocol and which use ESNI (Encrypted Server Name Indication),” reports ZDNet: The block has been in place for more than a week, according to a joint report authored by three organizations tracking Chinese censorship — iYouPort, the University of Maryland, and the Great Firewall Report….
‘Will 2020 Be The Year Of Rust In The Linux Kernel?’
An intriguing exchange happened on the Linux Kernel Mailing List after a post by Nick Desaulniers, a Google software engineer working on compiling the Linux Kernel with Clang (and LLVM). Hackaday reports:
Nick simply tested the waters for a possible future of Rust within the Linux kernel code base, which is something he’s planning to bring up for discussion in this year’s…