Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations
Hours after the release of Ubuntu 23.10, Canonical has pulled the ISOs and is re-spinning them after user-submitted translations for the Ubuntu installer turned out to contain hate speech… ⌘ Read more

GnuCOBOL 3.2 Released After 2+ Years In Development
For those fond of the COBOL programming language and continuing to make use of it in new development efforts, GnuCOBOL 3.2 was released on Friday as the latest feature update for this 21+ year old free software effort around being an open-source COBOL implementation… ⌘ Read more

Bug Bounties May Sound Great, But Aren’t Always Handled Well
Bug bounty programs setup by large corporations to reward and recognize security researchers for properly reporting new bugs and security vulnerabilities is a great concept, but in practice isn’t always handled well. Security researcher Adam Zabrocki recently shared the troubles he encountered in the bug bounty handling at Google for Chrome OS and in turn for Intel with it having been an i915 Linux kernel graphics driver vulnerability… ⌘ Read more

TornadoVM Continues Adapting Java OpenJDK/GraalVM For Heterogeneous Hardware
A new release of TornadoVM is now available, the open-source plug-in to OpenJDK and GraalVM to allow for Java code to run on heterogeneous hardware with ease – including various GPU models as well as FPGAs… ⌘ Read more

Mozilla Announces Mozilla.ai For “Trustworthy AI”
Mozilla announced today they are investing $30 million USD to build Mozilla.ai as a new start-up focused on “building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem.”.. ⌘ Read more

ipmitool Repository Archived, Developer Suspended By GitHub
The ipmitool utility on Linux systems is widely-used for controlling IPMI-enabled servers and other systems. This tool for interacting with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is extremely common with server administrators while now its development is in a temporary state of limbo due to GitHub… ⌘ Read more

Whoops: Linux’s strcmp() For The m68k Has Always Been Broken
It turns out the hand-written Assembly code providing an optimized string comparison “strcmp” function for the Motorola 68000 (m68k) processor architecture has “always been broken” and only now uncovered at the end of 2022… ⌘ Read more

The Linux Kernel Has Been Forcing Different Behavior For Processes Starting With “X”
An ugly hack within the Linux kernel that has been in mainline for over three years has been called out. Due to a buggy X.Org Server / xf86-video-modesetting DDX, the Linux kernel has been imposing different behavior on whether a process starts with “X” and in turn disable the atomic mode-setting support… ⌘ Read more