LWN.net: New Year’s Eve security updates
Debian-LTS has updated cacti (regression in previous security fix). Fedora has updated arts (F22: privilege escalation), claws-mail (F23: code execution), cups-filters (F22: code execution), kdelibs3...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Bay is Back to Square One After Months of Domain Hopping
This week The Pirate Bay lost use of several of its 'hydra' domain names that millions of people have become accustomed to over the past year. The great irony here is that the site is now back to using...
View ArticleLWN.net: Cannon: Where are we in the Python 3 transition?
Brett Cannon continues his series of posts on Python 3 with a blog post likening the path of its adoption to the Kübler-Ross model (i.e. the five stages of grief). "Unfortunately people are running up...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: AWS Podcasts – Banter, Predicsis, Peak, Urban Massage,...
For my final batch of 2015 podcasts, I spoke with representatives of Banter, Predicsis, Peak, Urban Massage, Contentful, Babbel, and Intel IoT. As always, the “Episode” links go directly to the audio...
View ArticleGrigor Gatchev - A Weblog: Запо-прекраснаНоваГодина…
… прекрасна поезия от Мария Донева: Твоето нещо Твоето нещо ще те намери. Скътани вещи в тъмни килери. Точните думи – в някоя книга. В празника шумен – няколко мига, твои и само за тебе приготвени....
View Articlexkcd.com: 2016
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View ArticleMatthew Garrett: The current state of boot security
I gave a presentation at 32C3 this week. One of the things I said was "If any of you are doing seriously confidential work on Apple laptops, stop. For the love of god, please stop." I didn't really...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Five Piracy Predictions for 2016
Today marks the start of a new year which will undoubtedly bring many more innovations and legal troubles related to file-sharing and piracy. We take a look at some recent developments and the stunning...
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
The first security updates of 2016 have arrived. Debian has updated ganeti (multiple vulnerabilities) and icedove (multiple vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated ia32-libs (multiple...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Live Giant Squid
Giant squid filmed swimming through a harbor in Japan: Reports in Japanese say that the creature was filmed on December 24, seen by an underwater camera swimming near boat moorings. It was reportedly...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: When Hollywood Raids Pirates, What Do They Search For?
During December five men from the UK received sentences totaling 17 years after leaking thousands of movies onto the Internet. In an earlier article we revealed how the men were tracked down. Today...
View ArticleДни: За много години
Разказвам на Теда части от Стария завет, стигам до Давид, дето отначало бил пастир, след това станал изкусен арфист, после победил Голиат и накрая бил провъзгласен за цар. А брат ми се обажда: „Той бил...
View ArticleLWN.net: GIMP and GEGL in 2015
The GIMP project has released its annual year-end retrospective, looking back on development on the GIMP editor itself, project infrastructure, and closely related software projects like the Generic...
View ArticleLWN.net: Python to move to GitHub
Just over one year ago, LWN covered the deliberations within the Python project on how to improve its development workflow. Now, after much discussion, it has been announced that the project will be...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Four Persistent Online Piracy Misconceptions Busted
While regular visitors to these pages are probably extremely tuned into the way the file-sharing world operates, more casual readers may have one or two things they'd like clearing up. Here are four of...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2016
Posting a list of the world’s most-visited torrent sites has been a long-standing tradition at TF, which we continue today. At the start of 2016 KickassTorrents is pulling in most traffic followed by...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Secret Lovers: Public and Private Torrent Sites
Which is best - public torrent sites like KickassTorrents and Pirate Bay or private torrent sites like What.cd and PassThePopcorn? While that's an interesting and everlasting debate, the big secret is...
View ArticleКако Сийке, не съм от тях!: Интересни неща – януари 2016
Нова година - нов късмет и нова категория в блога: статии и всякакви други интересни неща, които можете да прочетете. Или да не прочетете. Джо Роган, Дмитри Клоков, езотеричен екзистенциализъм и...
View ArticleGrigor Gatchev - A Weblog: Red Star OS
Първата севернокорейска операционна система. Вчера можах да я разгледам за кратко. (За мое съжаление не ми позволиха да си откопирам инсталационното СД.) Ето и набързо придобитите впечатления. Наглед...
View ArticleLWN.net: Bottomley: A modest proposal on the DCO
James Bottomley is trying to make life easier for projects that want to accept contributions using the developer certificate of origin as the contribution agreement, but which are concerned about...
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