Tuesday, October 8th, 2013

Time	Event
4:28p	Tuesday's security updates CentOS has updated xinetd (C6: privilege escalation/code execution). Debian has updated kfreebsd-9 (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated seamonkey (F18: multiple vulnerabilities). Mandriva has updated openjpa (code execution). openSUSE has updated gpg2 (11.4: information disclosure). Oracle has updated xinetd (OL6; OL5: privilege escalation/code execution). Red Hat has updated xinetd (privilege escalation/code execution). SUSE has updated mysql, mysql-client (SLE11 SP3: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
8:10p	Firefox Developer Tools and Firebug Here's a Mozilla blog entry on current developments with the Firefox developer tools. "The tools have improved a lot lately: black-boxing lets you treat sources as system libraries that won’t distract your debugging flow. Source maps let you debug source generated by transpilers or minimizers. The inspector has paint flashing, a new font panel, and a greatly improved style inspector with tab completion and pseudo-elements. The network monitor helps you debug your network activity." (Comment on this)
11:40p	Google Summer of Code 2014 and Google Code-in 2013/14 Google has announced its next Summer of Code program a bit earlier than usual because they will be celebrating an anniversary: "To date, the program has produced 50 million lines of open source code from more than 8,500 student developers—and in 2014, we'll mark the 10th anniversary of Google Summer of Code." The program will be getting larger and, this year, participants are getting larger stipends. (Comment on this)

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