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Wednesday, June 17th, 2015

    Time Event
    3:15p
    [$] Leap-second issues, 2015 edition
    The leap second is an occasional ritual wherein Coordinated Universal Time
    (UTC) is held back for one second to account for the slowing of the Earth's
    rotation. The last leap second happened on June 30, 2012; the next is
    scheduled for June 30 of this year. Leap seconds are thus infrequent
    events. One might easily imagine that infrequent events involving time
    discontinuities would be likely to expose software problems, and, sure
    enough, the 2012 leap second had
    its share of issues    . The 2015 leap second looks to be a calmer affair,
    but it appears that it will not be entirely problem-free.
    4:14p
    Security advisories for Wednesday

    Debian-LTS has updated linux-2.6 (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated kernel (RHEL5.9: privilege escalation).

    SUSE has updated java-1_7_0-ibm (SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated aptdaemon (15.04, 14.10, 14.04, 12.04: information leak), devscripts (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: directory traversal), and wpa, wpasupplicant (15.04, 14.10, 14.04, 12.04: multiple vulnerabilities).

    7:36p
    Cool new features coming to Blender 2.75 (Opensource.com)
    Opensource.com takes
    a look     at the upcoming release of Blender 2.75. "One of the biggest features merged into Blender this go-round were from the multiview branch. In short, Blender now fully supports the ability to create stereoscopic 3D images. With the increased pervasiveness of 3D films and televisions—not to mention VR headsets in gaming—a lot of people are interested in generating images that play nice in this format. And now Blender can."
    7:39p
    [$] Micro Python on the pyboard
    A 2013 Kickstarter
    project     brought us Micro Python, which is a version
    of Python 3 for microcontrollers, along with the pyboard to
    run it on. Micro Python is a complete rewrite of the interpreter that
    avoids some of the CPython (the canonical Python interpreter written in C)
    implementation details that don't work well on microcontrollers.
    I recently got my hands on a pyboard and decided to give it—and
    Micro Python—a try.

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