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Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
| Time |
Event |
| 2:54p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (sogo), Fedora (libvirt), Gentoo (polkit), Mageia (binutils, freeradius, guile1.8, kernel, kernel-linus, libgrss, mediawiki, mosquitto, php-phpmailer, and webmin), openSUSE (bluez and jdom2), Oracle (kernel and xstream), Scientific Linux (xstream), and SUSE (kernel and python-pip). | | 4:22p |
Tails 4.20 is out Tails is a privacy focused distribution and Tails 4.20
" completely changes how to connect to the Tor network from
Tails" with the new Tor Connection assistant.
This new assistant is most useful for users who are at high risk of
physical surveillance, under heavy network censorship, or on a poor
Internet connection:
- It protects better the users who need to go unnoticed if using Tor
could look suspicious to someone who monitors their Internet connection
(parental control, abusive partner, school or work network, etc.).
- It allows people who need to connect to Tor using bridges to configure
them without having to change the default configuration in the Welcome
Screen.
- It helps first-time users understand how to connect to a local Wi-Fi
network.
- It provides feedback while connecting to Tor and helps troubleshoot
network problems.
| | 6:31p |
Firefox 90 released Version
90 of the Firefox browser is out. The headline feature this time around, beyond working links in PDF output, is a new
version of the SmartBlock feature which appears to have been designed with a specific goal in mind: " Third-party Facebook scripts are
blocked to prevent you from being tracked, but are now automatically loaded
'just in time' if you decide to 'Log in with Facebook' on any
website." | | 9:35p |
[$] Copyleft-next and the kernel The Linux kernel is, as a whole, licensed under the GPLv2, but various parts and pieces are licensed under other compatible licenses and/or dual-licensed. That picture was much murkier only a few years back, before the SPDX in the kernel project cleaned up the licensing information in most of the kernel source by specifying the licenses, by name rather than boilerplate text, directly in the files. A recent move to add yet another license into the mix is encountering some headwinds, but the license in question was already being used in a few kernel files, and has been for four years at this point. |
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