Thursday, May 16th, 2013

Time	Event
1:08a	[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 16, 2013 The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 16, 2013 is available. (Comment on this)
3:16p	Blender dives into 3D printing industry (Libre Graphics World) Libre Graphics World looks at the use of Blender in 3D printing; the recent 2.67 release includes a "3D printing toolbox." "While Blender cannot help with making actual devices easier to use, it definitely could improve designing printable objects. And that's exactly what happened last week, when Blender 2.67 was released." (Comment on this)
3:29p	Thursday's security advisories CentOS has updated openswan (C5; C6: code execution). Debian has updated kernel (many vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated openvpn (F17; F18: possible plaintext recovery) and clamav (F18: multiple vulnerabilities). Mageia has updated flash-player-plugin (many vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated thunderbird (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities), firefox (OL5; OL6: multiple vulnerabilities), and openswan (OL5; OL6: code execution). Red Hat has updated openswan (code execution). Slackware has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities) and thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated kernel (10.04: multiple vulnerabilities) and kernel (12.04; 12.10; 13.04; 12.04 Quantal hardware enablement kernel: perf privilege escalation). (Comment on this)
3:59p	Ten years of Groklaw Groklaw is celebrating its tenth anniversary. "Thank you for sticking to the job for ten years without giving out, and for funding the necessary activities that make Groklaw Groklaw. We made a difference in this old world. It's an achievement we can tell our grandchildren about some day. Not everyone can say that, but we actually made a difference. And nobody can take that away from us." (Comment on this)
9:14p	Strongbox and Aaron Swartz (The New Yorker) The New Yorker magazine has started a service called Strongbox that allows anonymous information to be sent to magazine. It is based on the DeadDrop free software project that was created by the late Aaron Swartz, which uses the Tor network to preserve anonymity. The magazine also has an article by Kevin Poulsen, who organized the project, about its history. "In New York, a computer-security expert named James Dolan persuaded a trio of his industry colleagues to meet with Aaron to review the architecture and, later, the code. We wanted to be reasonably confident that the system wouldn't be compromised, and that sources would be able to submit documents anonymously—so that even the media outlets receiving the materials wouldn't be able to tell the government where they came from." (Comment on this)

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