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Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019

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    1:03p
    GNOME's patent-troll counterattack
    Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC filed a patent
    suit     against the GNOME Foundation in September, asserting a violation
    in the Shotwell photo manager. GNOME has now gone
    on the counterattack    , questioning the validity of the patent and whether
    it applies to Shotwell at all. There is also an unspecified counterclaim
    to strike back against Rothschild. "We want to send a message to all
    software patent trolls out there — we will fight your suit, we will win,
    and we will have your patent invalidated. To do this, we need your
    help.    "
    2:48p
    Security updates for Tuesday
    Security updates have been issued by CentOS (jss and kernel), Debian (libpcap, openjdk-8, and tcpdump), Fedora (java-11-openjdk), openSUSE (libreoffice), Oracle (java-1.7.0-openjdk), Red Hat (java-1.7.0-openjdk, python, and wget), Scientific Linux (java-1.7.0-openjdk), SUSE (ceph, ceph-iscsi, ses-manual_en, dhcp, openconnect, and procps), and Ubuntu (exiv2, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, linux-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke-5.0, linux-snapdragon, and uw-imap).
    5:34p
    Firefox 70 released
    Version
    70     of the Firefox web browser is out. The headline features include a
    new password generator and a "privacy protection report" showing users
    which trackers have been blocked.
    "Amazing user features and protections aside, we’ve also got plenty
    of cool additions for developers in this release. These include DOM
    mutation breakpoints and inactive CSS rule indicators in the DevTools,
    several new CSS text properties, two-value display syntax, and JS numeric
    separators.    " See the release
    notes     for more details.
    6:03p
    Tails 4.0
    Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live
    System) is, as the spelled out name implies, a privacy focused
    distribution, designed to run from removable media. Version 4.0 has been released. "We are especially proud to present you Tails 4.0, the first version of Tails based on Debian 10 (Buster). It brings new versions of most of the software included in Tails and some important usability and performance improvements. Tails 4.0 introduces more changes than any other version since years."

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