Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

Time	Event
2:41p	[$] Living with the surveillance state The final day of LinuxCon Europe had some of the only content that was focused on the largely European audience at the conference. Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, gave a talk about living in a surveillance state, with an unmistakable slant toward Europe and the rest of the world outside of the US. Click below (subscribers only) for the full report from LinuxCon Europe 2013. (Comment on this)
3:47p	Mozilla: Pushing the Web Audio API to its limits The Mozilla Hacks site has an extensive article on the Web Audio API, which is included in the just-announced Firefox 25 release. "From a game designer perspective we can use the functionality of the Web Audio API to tune the soundscape of our game. We can run a whole lot of separate sounds simultaneously while also adjusting their character to fit an environment or a game mechanic. You can have muffled sounds coming through a closed door and open the filters for these sounds to unmuffle them gradually as the door opens. In real time. We can add reflecting sounds of the environment to the footsteps of my character as we walk from a sidewalk into a church." (Comment on this)
4:55p	Tuesday's security updates Fedora has updated bugzilla (F18; F19: multiple vulnerabilities), gnutls (F19: code execution), libuv (F19; F18: denial of service), nodejs (F19; F18: denial of service), python-djblets (F19; F18: multiple vulnerabilities), and ReviewBoard (F19; F18: multiple vulnerabilities). Gentoo has updated acpid (privilege escalation) and mediawiki (multiple vulnerabilities). Mandriva has updated dropbear (multiple vulnerabilities), icu (multiple vulnerabilities), python-pycrypto (information leak), roundcubemail (code execution), and x11-server (BS1.0; ES5.0: code execution). openSUSE has updated jakarta-commons-fileupload (11.4: overwrites content), libzrtpcpp (12.x: multiple vulnerabilities), rtkit (11.4: authorization bypass), and zrtpcpp (11.4: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
5:28p	Firefox 25 released Firefox 25 has been released. See the release notes for details. This version adds Web Audio support among other changes and bug fixes. (Comment on this)
5:50p	Linaro Connect USA 2013 Begins- Monday Recap The Linaro Blog covers the first day of the 2013 Linaro Connect conference. The blog post has links to videos for Monday's sessions. (Thanks to Paul Wise) (Comment on this)
11:40p	2013 Kernel Summit coverage It took a great deal of typing, but your editor is pleased to announce that the full report from the 2013 Kernel Summit is now available to LWN subscribers. The discussions at this years summit covered a wide range of issues from control groups to git tree practices to device trees and more. It was an interesting event; hopefully the writeup brings out the high points for those who weren't there. (Comment on this)

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