For more than a decade, F-Droid has helped people discover and install free and open source Android apps. F-Droid 2.0 builds on that foundation with a modern interface, better app discovery, improved ...

Sudheendra Raghav Neela, a member of a group of researchers from Graz University of Technology, has announced the release of research into file-notification attacks that would allow spying on user ...

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress 's get_page_template () function for page-template resolution that could allow remote-code execution (RCE) by an unauthenticated attacker, in ...

The Radicle peer-to-peer code-collaboration project has disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in the network protocol used by Radicle nodes. The first flaw is that the network protocol used by ...

The open-source consulting firm Igalia has put out an announcement celebrating 25 years of working on upstream FOSS projects for its clients. The list of projects the company has worked on is rather ...

Linus Torvalds has released the 7.3-rc4 kernel prepatch. It is, unsurprisingly at this point, large: "We all know the drill by now: 'it's big, yadda yadda'".

The biggest surprise is that Linux's legacy in-kernel console – the text-mode interface normally hidden beneath the GUI – has been replaced with a software-controlled alternative. The replacement ...

PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today.

Pádraig Brady has announced GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) version 9.12. " There have been 288 commits by 16 people in the 21 weeks since 9.11 ". New features include an -A option for uname which ...

Sean Whitton has announced that the original fix for an arbitrary code execution flaw in Emacs ( CVE-2024-53920) was incomplete. Bas Alberts discovered that viewing or editing untrusted files in modes ...

According to Kroah-Hartman, this batch may set a record for the number of patches with more than 9,000 in total between them. There are more than 1,800 patches in 7.2.6 alone. Users of these kernels ...

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