| 4:17p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (spip), Mageia (chromium-browser, kernel, kernel-linus, and trojita), openSUSE (mumble and opera), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, java-1.8.0-ibm, kernel, kernel-rt, net-snmp, nodejs:10, nodejs:12, nodejs:14, nss, perl, python, and rh-nodejs10-nodejs), and SUSE (jasper, python-bottle, and python-urllib3). |
| 8:41p |
5.12 Merge window delayed
Those of us who are watching the mainline kernel repository may have been
wondering why it appears that no pull requests for the 5.12 merge window
have yet been acted upon. The problem, it seems, is power outages caused
by the severe winter weather in the US Pacific northwest. Until that gets
resolved, which could take a few days, the 5.12 merge window is likely to
remain on hold. |
| 8:45p |
[$] Malware in open-source web extensions On February 4, millions of browser tabs were suddenly terminated. Not everyone was surprised; the dozen people who spent the last four months waiting for this tragedy to occur watched in relief as the
first in a rapid stream of GitHub
comments began pouring in. The Great Suspender, a Chrome extension that suspended inactive tabs, with around two-million users, had been forcibly uninstalled because it contained malware. This was a serious problem for users, in part due to the difficulty in recovering the lost tabs, but the extension's malevolence had been painfully obvious to anyone who cared to investigate it. |