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Fedora 34 is ready for public consumption following beta The new Fedora logo on a monitor The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora 34 following a little over a month of beta testing. Fedora 34 ships with the new GNOME 40 desktop which comes with a big overhaul of the GNOME interface compared to GNOME 3.38 (the previous version). Additionally, the default BTRFS file system comes with transparent compression enabled which should prolong the life of solid-state disks. A...

Researcher finds 5 privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux kernel Oracle Co-Founder Larry Ellison delivers a keynote address at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in 2006. A researcher found five similar vulnerabilities in the kernel of Linux operating systems that can allow an attacker to escalate local privileges on a victim’s network. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) A researcher at Positive Technologies found five similar vulnerabilities in the kernel of Linux operating systems...