| 4:01p |
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium, firefox, libxslt, and thunderbird), Debian (firefox-esr, icoutils, and pidgin), Fedora (firefox, freetype, GraphicsMagick, kdelibs, kdelibs3, kernel, libupnp, munin, php-pear-PHP-CodeSniffer, thunderbird, and wireshark), Mageia (flac, flash-player-plugin, potrace, and wireshark), openSUSE (bitlbee, cacti, kdelibs4, kio, lynx, openssh, pax-utils, perl-Image-Info, Wireshark, and xen), and SUSE (qemu). |
| 6:45p |
LLVM 4.0.0 released
The LLVM 4.0.0 release is out. "This release is the result of the community's work over the past six
months, including: use of profile data in ThinLTO, more aggressive
aggressive dead code elimination, experimental support for coroutines,
experimental AVR target, better GNU ld compatibility and significant
performance improvements in LLD, as well as improved optimizations,
many bug fixes and more." The LLVM compiler project has moved to a
new numbering scheme with this release, where the first number increments
with each major release. |
| 7:24p |
Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor The world wide web has been around for 28 years now. Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee writesabout the challenges facing the modern web, including the loss of control of our personal data, the spread of misinformation, and the lack of transparency in political advertising. " Political advertising online
has rapidly
become a sophisticated industry. The fact that most people get their
information from just a few platforms and the increasing sophistication of
algorithms drawing upon rich pools of personal data, means that political
campaigns are now building individual adverts targeted directly at
users. One
source suggests that in the 2016 US election, as many as 50,000
variations of adverts were being served every single day on Facebook, a
near-impossible situation to monitor. And there are suggestions that some
political adverts – in the US and around the world – are being used in
unethical ways – to point voters to fake news sites, for instance, or to keep
others away from the polls. Targeted advertising allows a campaign to
say completely different, possibly conflicting things to different
groups. Is that democratic?" |