Wednesday, June 29th, 2016

Time	Event
1:58p	PulseAudio 9.0 is out The PulseAudio 9.0 release is out. Changes include improvements to automatic routing, beamforming support, use of the Linux memfd mechanism for transport, higher sample-rate support, and more; see the release notes for details. See also: this article from Arun Raghavan on how the beamforming feature works. "The basic idea is that if you have a number of microphones (a mic array) in some known arrangement, it is possible to 'point' or steer the array in a particular direction, so sounds coming from that direction are made louder, while sounds from other directions are rendered softer (attenuated)." (Comment on this)
3:06p	Security advisories for Wednesday Fedora has updated haproxy (F24: denial of service) and xguest (F24: insecure password creation). openSUSE has updated phpMyAdmin (Leap42.1, 13.2; 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities). SUSE has updated kvm (SLES11-SP3: multiple vulnerabilities) and qemu (SLE12-SP1: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
7:35p	[$] Networking without an operating system At last year's PyCon in Montréal, Josh Triplett introduced the work he and others have done to port Python to run in the GRUB boot loader. At this year's PyCon in Portland, Oregon, he updated attendees on progress that has been made in the BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS) to add networking support. True to form, his presentation came with an eye-opening demonstration of the networking implemented in BITS. (Comment on this)

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