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Monday, December 31st, 2012
| Time |
Event |
| 5:26p |
Security advisories for Monday Debian has updated moin (multiple
vulnerabilities), virtualbox-ose (denial of
service), ghostscript (code execution) and
mediawiki-extensions (cross-site
scripting).
Fedora has updated libtiff (F17; F16:
multiple code execution vulnerabilities), v8 (F17: multiple vulnerabilities) and bind (F16: denial of service).
Ubuntu has updated moinmoin
(multiple vulnerabilities). | | 6:02p |
Simon 0.4.0 released Simon is a system for speech recognition; version
0.4.0 is now available. " This new version of the open source
speech recognition system Simon features a whole new recognition layer,
context-awareness for improved accuracy and performance, a dialog system
able to hold whole conversations with the user and more." | | 9:11p |
The H Year: 2012's Wins, Fails and Mehs The H rates
some highlights of 2012. " Win – The Linux community’s reboots Secure Boot – Microsoft’s requirement that OEMs start using UEFI’s Secure Boot function had caused much concern within the Linux community, but when that had died down, developers at Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical and the Linux Foundation worked on a range of solutions for Linux distributions, large and small, to use if they wanted to boot on a machine with Secure Boot enabled and a user not capable of disabling it. Good ideas and information was exchanged, code was written and answers were found; that's how things should work." |
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