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Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
Thunderbird will support Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) natively, all written in Rust! Read about our Rusty adventures, the technical nature of the EWS
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,681 posts.
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VLC vs. the App Stores
Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users…
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Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize
BlueHats prizes is an initiative by the French Interministerial Digital Directorate. They are awarded to maintainers of critical free and open source projects. In 2024 four prizes of € 10 000 each will be given out. We are happy to announce the winner of the first 2024 BlueHats prize is Simon Kelley, maintainer of the…
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Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
Updates & fixes, dev contributors, and the new COSMIC App Store.
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LXQt 2.0.0
The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 2.0.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment.
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Firefox 125
NOTE: Due to a high-severity quality issue discovered shortly before release, the 125.0 release was skipped in favor of 125.0.1.
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PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias
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Kate editor on all platforms
Unix like systems with X11 or Wayland All Unix like systems with either X11 or Wayland are well supported since ever. Linux with X11 and now Wayland is for a long time the primary system on that Kate work happens. Over the years it was, like most of the KDE applications, ported to various BSD variants. Be it some…
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Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
Defending Mastodon from Donald Trump's social media
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OpenBSD is a cozy operating system
With the recent release of OpenBSD 7.5, I decided to run through my personal OpenBSD “installer” for laptop/desktop devices. The project is built off of the dwm tiling window manager and only installs a few basic packages. The last time I updated it was with the release of 7.3, so it’s been due for an minor rework.
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XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis
Kaspersky analysis of the backdoor recently found in XZ, which is used in many popular Linux distributions and in OpenSSH server process.
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OpenTofu Response to HashiCorp's Cease and Desist Letter
On April 3rd, we received a Cease and Desist letter from HashiCorp regarding our implementation of the "removed" block in OpenTofu, claiming copyright infringement on the part of one of our core developers. We were also made aware of an article posted that same day with the same accusations. We have investigated these…
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Hello OLMo: A truly open LLM
Introducing OLMo 7B, a truly open, state-of-the-art large language model.
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Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website
I’ve received numerous complaints via email, social media, and forums regarding a website that poses a significant threat to our community. The copycat site in question is https://notepad.plus/ which appears prominently when users google for “download Notepad++”.
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Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days
This article shares some of the lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days.
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Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
The Redict community is pleased to announce the release of Redict 7.3.0, the first stable version of our copyleft fork of Redis® OSS 7.2.4.1 You can download the release on Codeberg, or download one of our official container images from registry.redict.io. We have written comprehensive documentation detailing our…
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Debian Git Monorepo
Lars Wirzenius Consulting Ltd has created a Git repository with the source code of Debian 12 (bookworm), the main component. It's one repository for all the source code, as one commit. It's a monorepo .
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The xz attack shell script
Andres Freund published the existence of the xz attack on 2024-03-29 to the public oss-security@openwall mailing list. The day before, he alerted Debian security and the (private) distros@openwall list. In his mail, he says that he dug into this after “observing a few odd symptoms around liblzma (part of the xz…
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Timeline of the xz open source attack
Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression library, eventually being granted commit access and maintainership. Using that access, they installed a very subtle, carefully hidden backdoor into liblzma, a part of xz that also…
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The end of Pepper&Carrot and my next project
Hey, I feel like I'm at a big crossroads and this is an important blog post, but you probably already guessed that from the title.
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Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects
Originally a thread on Twitter about the xz/liblzma vulnerability, when I finished typing it, I realized I had a real world slice of Open Source interaction that deserved more attention.
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Significant performance and correctness improvements to the kernel
The Redox official website
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Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16
Veloren 0.16 Release
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Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor
Please note: This is being updated in real-time. The intent is to make sense of lots of simultaneous discoveries
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The rev.ng decompiler goes open source
In this blog post we announce the open sourcing of the rev.ng decompiler, the start of the UI closed beta, how to try rev.ng and much more!
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The Next Big Step in Mojo Open Source
At Modular, open source is ingrained in our DNA. We firmly believe for Mojo to reach its full potential, it must be open source. We have been progressively open-sourcing more of Mojo and parts of the MAX platform, and today we’re thrilled to announce the release of the core modules from the Mojo standard library under…
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Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
Community maintainers, contributors, and users will continue collaborative development of an open source, in-memory data store under the new Valkey name.