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Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

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    1:50p
    Mozilla: Protecting our brand from a global spyware provider
    The Mozilla blog reports
    that Mozilla is using its trademarks to back up a cease-and-desist letter to
    Gamma International, the maker of the infamous FinFisher surveillance
    system. "We cannot abide a software company using our name to
    disguise online surveillance tools that can be – and in several cases
    actually have been – used by Gamma’s customers to violate citizens’ human
    rights and online privacy.    "
    5:04p
    Security advisories for Wednesday
    Fedora has updated pdns-recursor (F18; F17:
    ghost domain name resolving flaw).
    6:06p
    [$] Go and Rust — objects without class
    Since the advent of object-oriented programming languages around the
    time of Smalltalk in the 1970s, inheritance has been a mainstay of the
    object-oriented vision. It is therefore a little surprising that both
    "Go" and "Rust" — two relatively new
    languages which support
    object-oriented programming — manage to avoid mentioning it.
    In this subscriber-only article, Neil Brown looks at how this classic
    object-oriented concept has evolved in two recent languages.
    6:24p
    New stable kernels
    Greg KH has released a new set of stable kernels; 3.8.11, 3.4.43, and 3.0.76. As usual, these releases contain many
    important fixes.
    6:43p
    The SFC aims to create better non-profit accounting software
    The Software Freedom Conservancy has announced a campaign to raise
    money and hire a developer to produce a useful, free-software accounting
    system aimed at the needs of non-profit organizations. "Indeed,
    Conservancy reached out into the broader fiscal sponsorship community
    beyond the FLOSS NPO community and discovered that many larger fiscal
    sponsors — even those willing to use proprietary components — have cobbled
    together their own unique systems, idiosyncratically tailored to their
    specific environments. Thus, good, well-designed, and reusable accounting
    software for non-profit fiscal sponsorship is not just missing in the
    software freedom community; it's missing altogether.    " The goal is
    to raise $75,000 for the first year's worth of work.
    7:42p
    OpenBSD 5.3 released
    OpenBSD 5.3 has been released. The release announcement (click below)
    contains a lengthy list of new features and improvements.

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