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BusyBox 1.37 has been released as the first feature release in one and a half years for this "Swiss Army Knife of embedded Linux" systems. With BusyBox 1.37 comes some new options, many fixes, and other enhancements...

Printer bug sends researchers into uproar, affects major Linux distros  CyberScoop

Tor Project and Tails Linux distribution merge to enhance online privacy tools  BetaNews

1. CUPS flaws enable Linux remote code execution, but there’s a catch  BleepingComputer
2. That doomsday critical Linux bug: It's CUPS. May lead to remote hijacking of devices  The Register
3. Critical Linux CUPS Printing System Flaws Could Allow Remote Command Execution  The Hacker News

CUPS flaws enable Linux remote code execution, but there’s a catch  BleepingComputer

Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector now supports Amazon Linux 2023  AWS Blog

Red Hat Warns About Remote Code Execution Flaws Impacting Enterprise Linux  CRN

Critical 9.9 Linux bug: CUPS your ears, the details are now here!  The Stack

There's been much speculation since this morning over a reported "severe" unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting Linux systems that carries a CVSS 9.9.9 score... The embargo has now lifted with the details on this nasty issue...

Old Vulnerability Rated 9.9 Impacts All GNU/Linux Systems, Researcher Claims  HackRead

Earlier this week in the launch-day Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids review/benchmarks I unfortunately wasn't able to provide any CPU power consumption and performance-per-Watt benchmarks due a Linux kernel issue and the minimal time ahead of launch for testing. I've now repeated the Xeon 6980P benchmarking on the Linux 6.8 kernel of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with power monitoring working and have those power efficiency numbers to share today for how Granite Rapids compares to prior Emerald Rapids / Sapphire Rapids / Ice Lake and against the current AMD EPYC Bergamo/Genoa(X) competition.

Intel Xeon 6980P vs. AMD EPYC Power Efficiency / Performance-Per-Watt Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Critical doomsday Linux bug is CUPS-based vulnerability  The Register

That doomsday critical Linux bug: It's CUPS. May lead to remote hijacking of devices  The Register

Doomsday 9.9 RCE bug could hit every Linux system  The Register

FYSA – Critical RCE Flaw in GNU-Linux Systems  Security Intelligence

FYSA – Critical RCE Flaw in GNU-Linux Systems  Security Intelligence

The Shiny New COSMIC Linux Desktop Environment Gets Its First Update  How-To Geek

COSMIC Alpha 2 Released with Bluetooth Settings, Much-Improved File Manager  9to5Linux

PostgreSQL 17 is out today as the newest annual feature release to this widely-used SQL database server. Notable with PostgreSQL 17 is having an AVX-512 optimized bit_count function along with several other heavy hitting performance optimizations...