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Friday, April 29th, 2016
| Time |
Event |
| 7:34a |
The ACM 2015 technical awards The Association for Computing Machinery has announced the recipients of its 2015 technical awards. They are Brent Walters, Michael Luby, Eric Horvitz, and: " Richard Stallman, recipient of the ACM
Software System Award for the development and leadership of GCC (GNU
Compiler Collection), which has enabled extensive software and hardware
innovation, and has been a lynchpin of the free software movement." | | 4:07p |
Friday's security updates Debian has updated subversion (multiple vulnerabilities).
Fedora has updated i7z (F23:
denial of service).
openSUSE has updated php5
(Leap 42.1: multiple vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated ntp (SLE11; SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities). | | 10:45p |
WebExtensions in Firefox 48 At the Mozilla blog, Andy McKay announces
that the browser maker has officially declared WebExtensions ready to
use for add-on development. "With the release of Firefox 48, we feel WebExtensions are
in a stable state. We recommend developers start to use the
WebExtensions API for their add-on development." The
WebExtensions support released for Firefox 48 includes improvements to
the "alarms,
bookmarks,
downloads,
notifications,
webNavigation,
webRequest,
windows
and tabs"
APIs, support for a new Content Security Policy that limits where
resources can be loaded from, and support in Firefox for Android. LWN
looked at the WebExtensions API in December. |
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