Open-source News

Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?  The New York Times

The Google Open-Source Blog today announced Jpegli, a JPEG coding library for encode/decode that maintains backwards compatibility with JPEG while offering around a 35% compression ratio improvement for high quality JPEG compression...

Outrageous: Microsoft to charge $61 for Windows 10 updates — consider switching to Linux!  BetaNews

The Netherlands-based PC vendor NovaCustom that specializes in privacy/security minded hardware and user freedoms has announced their V54 and V56 laptops. These new laptops powered by Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" SoCs are self-proclaimed as the fastest Coreboot laptops in the world...

"We got lucky": What the XZ Utils backdoor says about the strength and insecurities of open source  ITPro

Last year the X.Org Server disabled byte-swapped clients by default over being a large and known attack surface within the X.Org/XWayland codebase. That's proven itself to further be the case with 3 of 4 new CVEs made public today being around the byte-swapped code...

The Linux Security Journey — SUID (Saved User ID)  Medium

Ubuntu 24.04 Beta delayed due to malicious code in xz-utils, other Linux distros are also affected  Tom's Hardware

A new XZ backdoor scanner will be able to safeguard any Linux binary from threats  TechRadar

Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Addressed in Ubuntu 18.04  Security Boulevard

David Malcolm of Red Hat's compiler team is out with his annual blog post summarizing the static analysis improvements to find with the upcoming GCC 14 stable compiler release...

Linux Kernel 6.7 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.8  9to5Linux

Linux Kernel 6.7 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.8  9to5Linux

In February was the announcement of the Crucial T705 PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 SSD while reaching retail channels in March. This is a very speedy PCIe 5.0 solid-state drive that Crucial recently sent over for our Linux testing and review.

Crucial T705 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD On Linux Review  Phoronix

Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team has landed support in the RADV Vulkan driver for the Vulkan VK_EXT_device_address_binding_report extension with Mesa 24.1...

The Mystery of 'Jia Tan,' the XZ Backdoor Mastermind  WIRED

MangoHud 0.7.2-rc1 adds Wayland keybinds, a time label and bug fixes  GamingOnLinux

In addition to the Linux Foundation and others starting Valkey as a fork of the open-source Redis following the upstream move to dual source-available licensing, Redict is another new fork getting established...

XZ Utils Open-Source Software Supply Chain Attack  Spiceworks News and Insights