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Windows Update paralyzes Linux again
Windows-Update legt erneut Linuxe lahm | heise online (German language)
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Same update, different author. In English:
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update | Ars Technica
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Official Microsoft Response:
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Apple users in the EU get more freedom when choosing apps
Safari, the App Store, the photo and camera apps - users will soon be able to delete all of these Apple-owned apps from iPhones and iPads. This is made possible by an EU law. Apple: Apple-Nutzer in der EU bekommen mehr Freiheit bei Auswahl von Apps | ZEIT ONLINE (German)
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Zen Browser has me intrigued. It’ll be interesting to see what all they add as time goes on.
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Proton VPN on Linux now supports the WireGuard protocol for both free and paid users. When in use, it has the potential to offer a better-performing and more secure VPN experience.
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EU turning apple into android day by day…congrats
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It is the citizens who enjoy freedom of choice. The EU has simply created the framework for this.
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On August 25th, 1991, the 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds made his now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he’s working on a free operating system for 386(486) AT clones, just as a “hobby.”
That’s right, it’s been 33 years since he made that announcement and he probably never dreamed that the so-called “hobby” would turn into something huge, used by millions of computer users around the globe.
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As a follow-up to the weekend drama around the size of Bcachefs “fixes”, a revised pull request was honored ahead of v6.11-rc5. This merge brings a reduced set of Bcachefs patches for the week. Just a variety of smaller fixes to this experimental CoW file-system.
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Intel SGX keys dumped again. Not yet widely confirmed, but the source was involved in the previous disclosures (it’s a thread):
If you don’t want to (or can’t) scroll through Twitter, it’s also available to read at this third party thread aggregator: Thread by @_markel___ on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
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In a concerning turn of events, the Pidgin messaging app was the unfortunate host of a malicious plugin that compromised user security.
The plugin, named ss-otr (ScreenShareOTR), was initially added to Pidgin’s third-party plugin roster on July 6th; unbeknownst to users and developers, it harbored harmful components.
The alarming discovery was made on August 16th when an alert was raised by the user, who reported that the plugin contained a keylogger and was capable of capturing screenshots to send to unauthorized parties.
This report prompted immediate action from the Pidgin team, who promptly removed the plugin from their listing and began an in-depth investigation into the breach.
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