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Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
| Time |
Event |
| 3:08p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (tomcat), Debian (asterisk, graphicsmagick, and libpdfbox-java), openSUSE (apache2 and git), Oracle (tomcat), Red Hat (kernel and Satellite 6.4), Slackware (libssh), SUSE (binutils, ImageMagick, and libssh), and Ubuntu (clamav, libssh, moin, and paramiko). | | 4:36p |
[$] Secure key handling using the TPM
Trusted Computing has not had the best
reputation over the years — Richard Stallman dubbing it "Treacherous
Computing" probably hasn't helped — though those fears of taking away
users' control of their computers have not proven to be founded, at least yet.
But the Trusted
Platform Module, or TPM, inside your computer can do more than just
potentially enable lockdown. In our second report from
Kernel Recipes 2018,
we look at a talk from James Bottomley about how the TPM works,
how to talk to it, and how he's using it to improve his key handling. | | 10:30p |
[$] A new direction for i965
Graphical applications are always pushing the limits of what the hardware
can do and
recent developments in the graphics world have caused Intel to rethink its
3D graphics driver. In particular, the lower CPU overhead that the Vulkan
driver on Intel hardware can
provide is becoming more attractive for OpenGL as well. At the 2018 X.Org Developers Conference Kenneth
Graunke
talked about an experimental re-architecting of the i965 driver using Gallium3D—a
development that came as something of a surprise to many, including him. |
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