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When the Linux maintainers found out about this, they quickly banned the entire university from Linux development, before the Linux Foundationsent the university a list of demands, to which it would seem the university quickly acceded, pulling its paper from an IEEE conference to which it was accepted and agreeing to provide “all information necessary to identify all proposals of known-vulnerable code from any U of MN experiment.” Linux kernel developers do not like being experimented on, w...

How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I suggest you find a different community to do experiments on,” wrote Linux Foundation fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman in a livid email. “You are not welcome here.” Ho...

Apr 29, 2021 14:22 EDT with 2 comments VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Some of the features of VirtualBox are: Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This mak...

Until recently, small or non-traditional defense companies had very few opportunities to win lucrative Department of Defense (DoD) contracts. However, through a change in their contract award approach and the embrace of Open Source Software (OSS) as a strategic accelerator for new and innovative solutions, the DoD has opened the door to many smaller and midsize companies to actively contribute. OSS opens the door for any development company to create unique and valuable applications in a relati...

The Linux Foundations demands to the University of Minnesota for its bad Linux patches security project ZDNet 4 hrs ago © Fatos Bytyqi To say that Linux kernel developers are livid about a pair of University of Minnesota (UMN) graduate students playing at inserting security vulnerabilities into the Linux kernel for the purposes of a research paper "On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits" is a gross understatement.  Greg Kr...

08:43 | RTX 3070 Ti Rumored With the 3080 Ti now functionally confirmed to exist in a 12GB SKU, and with a freshly rumored May 26th release date (and 25th review date), we can all declare our boredom of this GPU and move on to the next rumor. The next one is the RTX 3070 Ti, alleged to exist by HKEPC. HKEPC’s Chinese-language coverage cited AIB partners in Taiwan (most of them) as the source for the information.  HKEPC says that the RTX 3070 Ti will be available in early June. The media outl...

Our community does not appreciate being experimented on says Kroah-Hartman Share Copy Updated Computer scientists at the University of Minnesota theorized they could sneak vulnerabilities into open-source software – but when they tried subverting the Linux kernel, it backfired spectacularly. And now their entire school – or at least anyone using a umn.edu email address – has been banned from offering future Linux kernel contributions. Qiushi Wu, a doctoral student in computer scie...

April 13, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET Anyone who joined a video call during the pandemic probably has a global volunteer organization called the Internet Engineering Task Force to thank for making the technology work. The group, which helped create the technical foundations of the internet, designed the language that allows most video to run smoothly online. It made it possible for someone with a Gmail account to communicate with a friend who uses Yahoo, and for shoppers to safely enter their credit car...

QuickLogic Signs Global Distribution Agreement with Mouser Electronics News provided by Share this article Share this article SAN JOSE, Calif., April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a developer of ultra-low power multi-core voice-enabled SoCs, low power FPGA, embedded FPGA IP, and display bridge solutions, today announced it has signed a worldwide distribution agreement with Mouser Electronics, providing design engineers immediate and easy access to QuickLogics E...