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Friday, June 25th, 2021
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| 1:49p |
MyGNUHealth Personal Health Record 1.0 released The first stable release of MyGNUHealth is out.
I am proud to announce the first stable release of MyGNUHealth, the GNU
Health Personal Health Record for desktop and mobile devices.
From now on, anyone can benefit from a Libre Personal Health
application that respects our privacy, both from our desktops and from
our libre phones (such as the PinePhone). MyGNUHealth is more than a
health and activity tracker, since it incorporates state-of-the-art
technology and resources from medicine, genomics and
bioinformatics. Thanks to the integration with the GNU Federation, we
can communicate and share the information we wish with our health
professionals in real-time.
See this
announcement for more information. | | 2:39p |
Google's open-source vulnerability schema The Google Security Blog announces
the release of a schema intended to describe vulnerabilities in a
project-independent manner:
With this schema we hope to define a format that all vulnerability
databases can export. A unified format means that vulnerability
databases, open source users, and security researchers can easily
share tooling and consume vulnerabilities across all of open
source. This means a more complete view of vulnerabilities in open
source for everyone, as well as faster detection and remediation
times resulting from easier automation.
This schema is already being provided by a number projects, including Go,
Rust, Python, DWF, and OSS-Fuzz. | | 3:05p |
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium, dovecot, exiv2, helm, keycloak, libslirp, matrix-appservice-irc, nginx-mainline, opera, pigeonhole, tor, tpm2-tools, and vivaldi), Debian (libgcrypt20), Fedora (pdfbox), Mageia (graphicsmagick, matio, and samba and ldb), openSUSE (dovecot23, gupnp, libgcrypt, live555, and ovmf), SUSE (gupnp, libgcrypt, openexr, and ovmf), and Ubuntu (ceph and rabbitmq-server). | | 3:31p |
[$] Suppressing SIGBUS signals The mmap()
system call creates a mapping for a range of virtual addresses; it has a long list of options controlling just how that mapping should work. Ming Lin is proposingthe addition of yet another option, called MAP_NOSIGBUS, which changes the kernel's response when a process accesses an unmapped address. What this option does is relatively easy to understand; why it is useful takes a bit more explanation. | | 6:02p |
Take control over your data with Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform (Mozilla blog) Over on the Mozilla blog, the company has announced a new platform, Mozilla Rally, that " puts users in control of their data and empowers them to contribute their browsing data to crowdfund projects for a better Internet and a better society". Rally comes out of work that Mozilla did with Professor Jonathan Mayer's research group at Princeton University .
Your data is valuable. But for too long, online services have pilfered, swapped, and exploited your data without your awareness. Privacy violations and filter bubbles are all consequences of a surveillance data economy. But what if, instead of companies taking your data without giving you a say, you could select who gets access to your data and put it to work for public good?
[...] By leveraging the scale of web browsers – a piece of software used by billions of people around the world – Rally has the potential to help address societal problems we could not solve before. Our goal is to demonstrate that there is a case for an equitable market for data, one where every party is treated fairly, and we welcome mission-aligned organizations that want to join us on this journey.
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