Thursday, January 15th, 2015

Time	Event
1:24a	[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 15, 2015 The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 15, 2015 is available. (Comment on this)
5:01p	Security advisories for Thursday CentOS has updated firefox (C7; C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird (C6; C5: three vulnerabilities), and xulrunner (C7: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated iceweasel (multiple vulnerabilities) and kernel (multiple vulnerabilities, including one from 2013). Debian-LTS has updated unrtf (two code execution flaws). Fedora has updated firefox (F21; F20: multiple vulnerabilities), kde-runtime (F21: kwallet crypto botch from 2013), and owasp-esapi-java (F21; F20: crypto botch from 2013). Mageia has updated flash-player-plugin (multiple vulnerabilities) and python-pip (denial of service). Mandriva has updated libsndfile (code execution), libvirt (denial of service), mpfr (code execution), and untrf (denial of service). Oracle has updated firefox (OL5: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated flash-plugin (RHEL5&6: multiple vulnerabilities). SUSE has updated kernel (SLERTE11SP3: multiple vulnerabilities, some from 2012 and 2013) and xorg-x11-server (SLE11SP3: multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated coreutils (14.04, 12.04, 10.04: two vulnerabilities, one from 2009), curl (HTTP request injection), firefox (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: multiple vulnerabilities), gparted (12.04: code execution), GTK+ (14.04: lock screen bypass), unzip (three code execution flaws), and ubufox (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
7:48p	Varda: Sandstorm raises $1.3M seed; paying forward crowdfunds On the Sandstorm blog, co-founder and CEO Kenton Varda gives an update on the funding and plans for the company behind the open-source Sandstorm personal cloud platform. We looked at the project back in June. "In fact, we are now arguably more aligned with the community than before. Whereas previously there had been a lot of pressure on us to focus on our subscription-based managed hosting option as a way to get revenue, our immediate goal now is just to develop and prove the platform. That means that self-hosted users are just as important to us as paying subscribers. To that end, the first thing we have done with our new money is to hire Asheesh Laroia, a long-time self-hosting and Free Software enthusiast, whose main focus will be improving Sandstorm’s self-hosting experience. To be clear, everything you need to run your own Sandstorm server will always be free and open source, still developed in the open." (Comment on this)
9:08p	[$] Eben Moglen returns to LCA One of the defining moments of LCA 2005 was Eben Moglen's keynote, which was mostly focused on the dangers that software patents presented to our community. Ten years later, Eben returned to LCA for another keynote address. While he had some things to say about software patents, it is clear that Eben thinks that the largest threats to our community — and our freedom in general — come from elsewhere. (Comment on this)

<< Previous Day

2015/01/15 [Calendar]

Next Day >>