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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
| Time |
Event |
| 3:20p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (hivex), Fedora (djvulibre and thunderbird), openSUSE (monitoring-plugins-smart and perl-Image-ExifTool), Oracle (kernel and kernel-container), Red Hat (kernel and kpatch-patch), SUSE (drbd-utils, java-11-openjdk, and python3), and Ubuntu (exiv2, firefox, libxstream-java, and pyyaml). | | 3:32p |
Two stable kernels Stable kernels 5.10.36 and 5.4.118 have been released. They both contain important fixes throughout the tree. Users should upgrade. | | 4:36p |
Announcing coreboot 4.14 The coreboot firmware project has released
version 4.14. " These changes have been all over the place, so that there's no
particular area to focus on when describing this release: We had
improvements to mainboards, to chipsets (including much welcomed
work to open source implementations of what has been blobs before),
to the overall architecture." | | 5:10p |
Making eBPF work on Windows (Microsoft Open Source Blog) The Microsoft Open Source Blog takes
a look at implementing eBPF support in Windows. " Although support for eBPF was first implemented in the Linux kernel, there has been increasing interest in allowing eBPF to be used on other operating systems and also to extend user-mode services and daemons in addition to just the kernel.
Today we are excited to announce a new Microsoft open source project to
make eBPF work on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 and later. The ebpf-for-windows project aims to allow developers to use familiar eBPF toolchains and application programming interfaces (APIs) on top of existing versions of Windows. Building on the work of others, this project takes several existing eBPF open source projects and adds the “glue” to make them run on Windows." | | 9:39p |
Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely on a CPAP Machine Hacker (Vice) Vice takes
a look at the SleepyHead system
for the management of CPAP machines.
The free, open-source, and definitely not FDA-approved piece of
software is the product of thousands of hours of hacking and
development by a lone Australian developer named Mark Watkins, who
has helped thousands of sleep apnea patients take back control of
their treatment from overburdened and underinvested doctors. The
software gives patients access to the sleep data that is already
being generated by their CPAP machines but generally remains
inaccessible, hidden by proprietary data formats that can only be
read by authorized users (doctors) on proprietary pieces of
software that patients often can’t buy or download.
| | 10:43p |
[$] Pyodide: Python for the browser Python in the browser has long been an item on the wish list of many in the Python community. At this point, though, JavaScript has well-cemented its role as the language embedded into the web and its browsers. The Pyodide project provides a way to run Python in the browser by compiling the existing CPython interpreter to WebAssembly and running that binary within the browser's JavaScript environment. Pyodide came about as part of Mozilla's Iodide
project, which has fallen by the wayside, but Pyodide is now being spun
out as a community-driven project. |
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