Ubuntu Patches Major Security Vulnerabilities in Rsync
Doing anything right now? Oh, you’re reading this – appreciated – but once you’re done go and install the pending update to Rsync, pushed out to all supported versions of Ubuntu desktop and server this week. Rsync is a command-line tool preinst...
Offer: Volunteer labor for your open source project
OSNews Sponsor OS-SCi is educating the next generation FOSS engineers, and as part of their coursework, they’re looking for worthy open source projects to which they can contribute their time and effort. In addition to the work they provide during th...
Nepenthes: a dangerous tarpit to trap LLM crawlers
If you don’t want OpenAI’s, Apple’s, Google’s, or other companies’ crawlers sucking up the content on your website, there isn’t much you can do. They generally don’t care about the venerable robots.txt, and while people like Aaron Schwart...
Intel THC Drivers To Be Submitted For Linux 6.14
The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is poised to introduce support for Intel THC... The Touch Host Controller IP block found in the PCH of modern Intel laptops for dealing with touchscreen, touchpads, and similar functionality...
Microsoft releases 161 Windows security updates
Speaking of Microsoft shipping bad code, how about an absolutely humongous ‘patch Tuesday’? Microsoft today unleashed updates to plug a whopping 161 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including three “zero-day” weaknesses...
Intro to Ktor: The server-side stack
My previous article introduced Ktor and some of its basic features for building web applications. Now, we’ll expand the example application developed in that article by adding persistent data and HTMX, which will provide more interactive views. Th...
Where big piles of mud come from
I’ve worked on some big piles of mud over the years. You know, those sprawling applications made up of millions of lines of code, written by countless developers over the course of a decade or two, most of them long forgotten and utterly unknown to...
Triple Buffering Support Updated Against Latest GNOME 48 Code
It's been over four years now that the GNOME Mutter pull request has been open for introducing dynamic triple/double buffering support. It's still not clear that it will be ready for merging with GNOME 48 due out in March but at least the patches have ...
