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Linux's FineIBT Protections "Critically Flawed" Until Intel CPUs Appear With FRED
FineIBT is a Linux kernel initiative led by Intel engineers that aimed to combine the best of Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) and Control Flow Integrity. FineIBT was merged in 2022 for the Linux 6.2 kernel as an alternative control flow integrity implementation. Some FineIBT weaknesses were previously addressed but... Read more
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OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion: A New Era in Storage Flexibility
ZFS has proven itself to be a reliable and trustworthy filesystem over many years of use. Its RAID-Z level, an advanced form of RAID-5, had a major flaw in its initial implementation: users couldn’t add disks to a RAID-Z array. There was no easy way to expand it after initial... Read more
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Report: AI coding assistants aren’t a panacea
As they gain in popularity, AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot may appear to be boosting productivity. But in reality, they could be causing overall code quality to decline. That’s the top-line finding from a new report released by software engineering platform GitClear, which analyzed 211 million code lines... Read more
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Is Eurostack’s ‘European Alternative’ Too Guided by America’s Vision?
Our European correspondent takes a gander at Eurostack's "European alternative for digital sovereignty" and finds it surprisingly filled with ideas and solutions that seem to come straight out of the United States. The post Is Eurostack’s ‘European Alternative’ Too Guided by America’s Vision? appeared first on FOSS Force.... Read more
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Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature for UK users after government demanded backdoor
In an unprecedented step, Apple caved to a reported U.K. government’s demand to prevent users from using end-to-end encryption in iCloud. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... Read more
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Gentoo Makes QEMU Cloud Deployment Easier
Gentoo announced new cloud-ready images in QCOW2 format, offering weekly updates, password-less root, and easy KVM acceleration.... Read more -
HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support
HP rescinds European support call strategy due to "feedback."... Read more -
DeepSeek to open-source parts of online services code
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek plans to open-source portions of its online services’ code as part of an “open source week” event next week. DeepSeek will open-source five code repositories that have been “documented, deployed and battle-tested in production,” the company said in a post on X on Thursday. Code repositories... Read more
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A huge trove of leaked Black Basta chat logs expose the ransomware gang’s key members and victims
A leaker allegedly published the leaked internal messages after the group allegedly targeted Russian banks © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... Read more