Wednesday, July 31st, 2013

Time	Event
3:03p	[$] Jolla: Sailfish OS, Qt, and open source Jolla's Vesa-Matti Hartikainen came to Akademy 2013 to talk about—and show off—the new Jolla phone with Sailfish OS. Like a number of related projects, Jolla (pronounced as "Yo-la") was created in the wake of Nokia's move away from MeeGo. While Sailfish OS is based on Linux and many other open source technologies, the "user experience" (UX) layer is (currently) closed, but it's clear that Jolla has put a lot of thought into how to interact with a mobile phone. Whether that translates to success in the marketplace remains to be seen, but Hartikainen's demo was impressive. Subscribers can click below for a report of the talk from this week's edition. (Comment on this)
5:05p	Security advisories for Wednesday CentOS has updated 389-ds-base (C6: information disclosure), haproxy (C6: denial of service), and sos (C5: privilege escalation). Fedora has updated fdupes (F17; F18; F19: overwrites file permissions), libkdcraw (F17: code execution), moodle (F17: multiple vulnerabilities), rubygem-passenger (F17; F18; F19: insecure temporary directory usage), and xlockmore (F19: screen lock bypass). Today's update to Fedora 17's libkdcraw was accompanied by over 100 security advisories for various KDE packages, none of which are actually affected. openSUSE has updated file-roller (path traversal). Oracle has updated 389-ds-base (OL6: information disclosure), bind (OL6: denial of service), and sos (OL5: privilege escalation). Red Hat has updated 389-ds-base (RHEL6: information disclosure), haproxy (RHEL6: denial of service), and sos (RHEL5: privilege escalation). Scientific Linux has updated 389-ds-base (SL6: information disclosure), haproxy (SL6: denial of service), and sos (SL5: privilege escalation). SUSE has updated IBM Java 1.6.0 (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated linux-ti-omap4 (13.04: format string vulnerability). (Comment on this)
7:20p	EFF: Trolling Effects - New Web Resource Launched to Shine Light on Patent Trolls The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of organizations and law schools have launched Trolling Effects, an online resource that aims to "unite and empower would-be victims of patent trolls through a crowdsourced database of demand letters and to serve as a clearinghouse of information on the troll epidemic." (Comment on this)

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