Two kernel zero‑day fixes, two quick Tails releases, and one Tor‑backed project determined to keep its privacy‑minded users safe — this is open source security hygiene in action.
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Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
Use-after-free bug in Exim’s GnuTLS BDAT handling lets remote attackers corrupt memory, with no workaround other than upgrading to version 4.99.3.
A trusted Debian dev turns scary new kernel bugs into a temporary one‑click fix until distros ship permanent patches.
The PHP Group retires its quirky, and partly non‑GPL‑compatible licenses in favor of the widely used BSD 3‑Clause.
Out with the old; in with the new. Gerald Pfeifer’s nearly seven‑year run as chair ends with SUSE veteran Jeff Mahoney moving into the role.
With Podman 6 bringing big under‑the‑hood networking and modernization changes, Fedora is calling on experienced users to put the daemonless container engine through its paces.
We missed April's target, so May is having to do extra duty. It's time to come to bat in our 2026 Independence Fundraiser.
Warp opens its client code at last, though its broader AI ambitions for Oz orchestration remain firmly proprietary.
Ask Jeeves rode the dot‑com bubble, reemerged as Ask.com under IAC, and now disappears into history in an era when AI summaries increasingly replace traditional search results.
‘Copy Fail’ puts Linux users on alert as kernel patches race out and distros scramble to push them to the update channel.