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iTWire Thursday, 29 April 2021 09:44 Uni group reveals the sordid buggy Linux kernel patch story Shares Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay Students and the staff member at the University of Minnesota who were involved in submitting known buggy patches to the Linux kernel project have released a statement which they claim details the full history behind their actions which were geared towards writing a research paper. In the statement, which was not attributed to anyone...

iTWire Monday, 19 April 2021 07:47 Jonathan Carter wins second term as Debian leader Shares South African developer Jonathan Carter. Supplied South African developer Jonathan Carter will continue to lead the Debian GNU/Linux project for a second year, after winning the election for the position, the results of which were declared over the weekend. only one opponent, Sruthi Chandran. She contested the elections in 2020 as well, but was unsuccessful that year too. Debian use...

Rounded corners are nice, but what you really want is Linux 5.10, right? Richard Speed Mon 19 Apr 2021 // 15:02 UTC Share Copy Windows Insiders have been given a bit of Linux love with the arrival of a freshly updated kernel and an all-important clock fix. Having yanked the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 out of the usual Windows servicing cadence, Microsofts engineers have been able to update WSL 2 without requiring a full-on OS patch. The original 4.19 branch was u...

iTWire Friday, 16 April 2021 11:54 Rust support in Linux may be possible by 5.14 release: Torvalds Featured Linus Torvalds: "C++ solves _none_ of the C issues, and only makes things worse. It really is a crap language." Courtesy YouTube The first patches for Rust support in the Linux kernel have been posted and the man behind the kernel says the fact that these are being discussed is much more important than a long post by Google about the language. Linus Torvalds to...

AWS CloudShell now available in Sydney region AWS CloudShell now available in Sydney region The web-based shell environment, based on Amazon Linux 2, was first launched by AWS last December. Credit: 166316213 © Michael Vi | Dreamstime.com Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its AWS CloudShell tool in its Asia Pacific Sydney region, making it available to local customers and partners.  The tool is a browser-based shell environment, based on Amazon Linux 2, for develo...

By SUSE on Apr 6, 2021 8:05AM Learn what this means for SAP users. SUSE and SAP have further strengthened their strategic partnership, reinforcing customers’ confidence to deploy SAP solutions faster and more efficiently. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is an SAP Endorsed App, available on SAP® App Center. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server has demonstrated proven results and has undergone testing by SAP, earning SAP’s premium cert...

Posted April 13th, 2021 for The Qt Helsinki, FINLAND. 13 April 2021: Leading global software company, The Qt Company, has today announced that it will acquire froglogic GmbH, a major provider of quality assurance tools, such as test automation tools. The acquisition will bring froglogic’s market-leading test automation tools into the Qt product portfolio to offer a complete, streamlined package for customers, extending the offering to encompass the entire software development p...

Sierra Wireless resumes production after ransomware attack By 10:00 AM Canadian IoT solutions provider Sierra Wireless announced that it resumed production at its manufacturing sites halted after a ransomware attack that hit its internal network and corporate website on March 20. After learning of the attack, the company hired the services of "KPMG, one of the world’s leading forensic investigation and cyber incident response firms, to lead Sierra Wireless’ response and investigation into ...

Malware attack is preventing car inspections in eight US states By 06:40 PM A malware cyberattack on emissions testing company Applus Technologies is preventing vehicle inspections in eight states, including Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Utah, and Wisconsin. On Tuesday, March 30th, vehicle emissions testing platform Applus Technologies suffered a "malware" attack that caused them to disconnect their IT systems. "Unfortunately, incidents such as this are fairly common a...

PHPs Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code By Yesterday, two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src Git repository maintained by the PHP team on their  git.php.net server. The threat actors had signed off on these commits as if these were made by known PHP developers and maintainers, Rasmus Lerdorf  and Nikita Popov. RCE backdoor planted on PHP Git server In an attempt to compromise the PHP code base, two malicious commits were pushed to the official PHP Git reposi...