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FragAttacks: New Security Vulnerabilities Affecting WiFi Devices, 12 CVEs Issued

Phoronix - Wed, 05/12/2021 - 20:37
FragAttacks was made public on Tuesday as a set of new security vulnerabilities affecting WiFi devices. These are just not some driver-level bugs but rather three of the vulnerabilities are attributed as design flaws in the WiFi standard itself and in turn most devices on the market...

GNU Guix 1.3 Released With Better User Experience, Initial POWER9 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 05/12/2021 - 19:22
GNU Guix as a cross-platform package manager based on Nix and also being the package management solution for the Linux-based GNU Guix system distribution is out with a new version...

LibreOffice Adds A Command Popup / HUD, Inspired By Half-Decade Old Microsoft Office Feature

Phoronix - Wed, 05/12/2021 - 18:18
Adding to the changes building up for LibreOffice 7.2 ahead of its debut in August is a "Command Popup" or a heads-up display (HUD) of sorts for easily running LibreOffice commands...

GCC 12 Adds Support For New #elifdef #elifndef Directives

Phoronix - Wed, 05/12/2021 - 17:52
With C2X and potentially a future version of C++, there is finally the #elifdef and #elifndef directives. The GNU Compiler Collection is preparing its support...

4 Linux terminal multiplexers to try

opensource.com - Wed, 05/12/2021 - 15:01

Linux users generally need a lot of virtual visual space. One terminal window is never enough, so terminals have tabs. One desktop is too constraining, so there are virtual desktops. And sure, application windows can stack, but how much better is it when they tile? Heck, even the back-end text console has F1 to F7 available for flipping back and forth between tasks.


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3 features that debuted in Python 3.0 you should use now

opensource.com - Wed, 05/12/2021 - 15:00

This is the first in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Python 3.0 was first released in 2008, and even though it has been out for a while, many of the features it introduced are underused and pretty cool. Here are three you should know about.


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Kali Linux 2021.1 – Fresh Installation Guide

Tecmint - Wed, 05/12/2021 - 14:00
The post Kali Linux 2021.1 – Fresh Installation Guide first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Kali Linux is arguably one of the best out-of-the-box Linux distributions available for security testing. While many of the tools in Kali can be installed in most Linux distributions, the Offensive Security team developing

The post Kali Linux 2021.1 – Fresh Installation Guide first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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