Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

Time	Event
4:35p	Microsoft joins The Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation has announced that Microsoft has joined as a platinum member. "From cloud computing and networking to gaming, Microsoft has steadily increased its engagement in open source projects and communities. The company is currently a leading open source contributor on GitHub and earlier this year announced several milestones that indicate the scope of its commitment to open source development." (Comment on this)
5:01p	Security advisories for Wednesday Debian has updated akonadi (denial of service), gst-plugins-bad0.10 (code execution), and moin (cross-site scripting). Debian-LTS has updated mysql-5.5 (multiple unspecified vulnerabilities) and postgresql-9.1 (PostgreSQL 9.1 is eol, users are encouraged to upgrade). Mageia has updated libarchive (unspecified). openSUSE has updated pcre (13.2: multiple vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated 389-ds-base (OL6: three vulnerabilities) and kernel (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated 389-ds-base (RHEL6: three vulnerabilities), atomic-openshift (RHOSCP3.3: redirect network traffic), atomic-openshift-utils (RHOSCP3.2,3.3: code execution), firefox (RHEL5,6,7: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (RHEL6: two vulnerabilities), and nss and nss-util (RHEL5,6,7: three vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
5:36p	Farewell to Rob Collins The EuroPython Society shares the sad news that Rob Collins has passed away. "Many of you may know Rob from the sponsored massage sessions he regularly ran at EuroPython in recent years and which he continued to develop, taking them from a single man setup (single threaded process) to a group of people setup by giving workshops (multiprocessing) and later on by passing on his skills to more leaders (removing the GIL) to spread wellness and kindness throughout our conference series." (Comment on this)

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