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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...

JavaScript for Data Science Version 4.0 / January 2020 — Maya — Greg All royalties from the sale of this book are being donated to R-Ladies, a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community. Introduction versus Data Science” would be a better title for this book. While that one word sums up how many people view the language, we hope we can convince you that modern JavaScript is usable as well as us...

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...

FEATURE NEWS Can Physical Safety Applications be Addressed by Open Source Software Systems? The Linux Foundations ELISA Project Says Yes By Arti LoftusApril 23, 2021 The physical and digital worlds are continually coalescing, especially as "co-botting" and other solutions are enabling human beings to work side-by-side with machines to get work done faster, more profitably, and with higher yield and quality outcomes. One of the best examples of a commu...

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...

ELISA Project Welcomes Codethink, Horizon Robotics, Huawei Technologies, NVIDIA and Red Hat to its Global Ecosystem News provided by Share this article Share this article SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) Project, an open source initiative that aims to create a shared set of tools and processes to help companies build and certify Linux-based safety-critical applications and systems, announced that Codethink, Horizon Robotics,...

Informationweek Sponsored Article Cloud Threats Are Different, Your Security Should Be Too As organizations scale cloud environments, they create new threat vectors that pose fundamental challenges to existing security operating models. In the unlikely chance that you havent noticed, enterprises have been rapidly moving IT infrastructure and operations to the cloud for a while now. This new foundation is helping deliver innovative capabilities and applications at an amazing pace. However, as or...

Distro similarities All Linux distributions use the Linux kernel and benefit from updates that are made to the operating system core software and processes.  They all use standard Linux commands like cd, ls, rm, and cp to navigate the directory structure. They also include many familiar commands like find, grep, tail, more, cat, and ps.  All Linux versions have similar commands to add and remove users, move files around, and interact with external devices with device drivers. The Linux commun...

Surveyors and their global role as humanitarians Every year, surveying associations worldwide celebrate Global Surveyor’s Day during the third week of March. This year is no different (even during a pandemic) and will be recognized on Tuesday, March 23. While this past year has been full of challenges, the role of the surveyor on a global scale has continued to grow. As a professional land surveyor in the midwestern portion of the United States, my surveying experiences have been wide-ranging...

Illustration by Zoran Svilar In 2020, billionaires made out like bandits. Jeff Bezos’s personal holdings surged from $113 to $184 billion. Elon Musk briefly eclipsed Bezos, with a net worth rise from $27 billion to over $185 billion. For the bourgeoisie presiding over “Big Tech” corporations, life is grand. Yet, while the expanded dominance of these corporations in their domestic markets is the subject of numerous critical analyses, their global reach is a fact seldom discussed, especial...