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Lees meerNewly discovered flaw affects OpenSSH 8.7 and 8.8 daemon The founder of Openwall has discovered a new signal handler race condition in the core sshd daemon used in RHEL 9.x and its various offshoots.…
Lees meerJust 12% of providers have completed rip and replace of ZTE, Huawei Updated The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reiterated to Congress that more cash is needed if smaller broadband providers are to be compensated for removing Chinese…
Lees meerMac migrants (if any exist) will find Powertoys Run strangely familiar Friday FOSS Fest Microsoft's collection of Power Toys for the current versions of Windows has some nifty little helpers, and Power Run may be comfortingly familiar if you're mor…
Lees meerClassic Outlook for Windows shuffles a little closer to the end of the road The new Microsoft Outlook will hit General Availability on August 1, and Microsoft is not backing down on the move away from COM (Component Object Model) add-ins.…
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Lees meerPotential for combo with Arm tantalizes Japan's SoftBank, which owns CPU designer Arm, has acquired UK chip house Graphcore for an unspecified sum.…
Lees meerRed team exercise revealed a score of security fails The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says a red team exercise at a certain unnamed federal agency in 2023 revealed a string of security failings that exposed its most cri…
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Lees meerFuture Androids may let you dock them and use them as a desktop – as standard It's been tried before, more than once, but if it comes as a stock feature, maybe people will actually start to use the feature.…
Lees meerDriving a new car in the EU? Get ready for a cacophony of beeps and whistles if you're a bit heavy on the go pedal It was a big week for road safety campaigners in the European Union as Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) technology became mandatory …
Lees meerAdmits it may struggle to fund and implement replacement infrastructure Updated The Xen Project – creator and manager of the open-source Xen hypervisor and associated tools – has warned its community of potential problems flowing from the imminent …
Lees meerMac migrants (if any exist) will find Powertoys Run strangely familiar Friday FOSS Fest Microsoft's collection of Power Toys for the current versions of Windows has some nifty little helpers, and Power Run may be comfortingly familiar if you're mor…
Lees meerThe slippery Ukrainian national must also pay a hefty $74 million on top of the jail time A Ukrainian malware kingpin who evaded law enforcement for a decade will face nine years in prison for his role in the IcedID malware operation.…
Lees meerClassic Outlook for Windows shuffles a little closer to the end of the road The new Microsoft Outlook will hit General Availability on August 1, and Microsoft is not backing down on the move away from COM (Component Object Model) add-ins.…
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