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Bug Bounty Programs May Sound Great, But Aren't Always Handled Well

Phoronix - Fri, 05/19/2023 - 06:04
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...

Ampere Computing Announces AmpereOne With Up to 192 Cores Per Socket

Phoronix - Thu, 05/18/2023 - 23:00
Ampere Computing announced this morning that their AmpereOne family of processors have entered production and provided additional details on these in-house designed Arm server processors.

sdl12-compat Gets More Games Working For This SDL1-On-SDL2 Compatibility Layer

Phoronix - Thu, 05/18/2023 - 22:30
The sdl12-compat project that implements the SDL 1.2 API/ABI atop SDL 2.x interfaces for better game compatibility on modern Linux systems is out today with a new pre-release...

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