Collaborate Disseminate
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell talk with Shimon Schocken about Nand2Tetris, the free course about building a computer from first principles. What was the inspiration for the course? …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 822: Nand2Tetris
OpenSSH has a newly fixed pair of vulnerabilities, and while neither of them are lighting the Internet on fire, these are each fairly important. The central observation made by the …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: OpenSSH, JumbledPath, and RANsacked
This week, Jonathan Bennett talks Rocky Linux with Gregory Kurtzer and Krista Burdine! Where did the project come from, and what’s the connection with CIQ and RESF? Listen to find …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 821: Rocky Linux
There’s a constant tension between governments looking for easier ways to catch criminals, companies looking to actually protect their users’ privacy, and individuals who just want their data to be …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: The UK Wants Your iCloud, Libarchive Wasn’t Ready, and AWS
This week, Jonathan Bennett talks Thunderbird with Ryan Sipes! What’s the story with almost becoming part of LibreOffice, How has Thunderbird collected so many donations, and more! https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/11/the-untold-history-of-thunderbird/ https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/06/so-thats-it-for-thunderbird/ Did …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 820: Please Don’t add AI Clippy to Thunderbird
There are some interesting questions afoot, with the news that the Contec CMS8000 medical monitoring system has a backdoor. And this isn’t the normal debug port accidentally left in the …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Medical Backdoors, Strings, and Changes at Let’s Encrypt
This week, Jonathan Bennett talks Session and cryptocurrency skepticism with Kee Jeffries! Why fork Signal? How does Session manage to decentralize? And why the cryptocurrency angle? Listen to find out! …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 819: Session, It’s all Abot the Metadata
DeepSeek has captured the world’s attention this week, with an unexpected release of the more-open AI model from China, for a reported mere $5 million training cost. While there’s lots …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: DeepSeek’s Oopsie, AI Tarpits, And Apple’s Leaks
This week, Jonathan Bennett, Doc Searls, and Jeff Massie talk about Deepseek, technical solutions to Terms of Service abuse, and more! Did you know you can watch the live recording …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 818: I Don’t Care About the Roman Empire
Cisco’s ClamAV has a heap-based buffer overflow in its OLE2 file scanning. That’s a big deal, because ClamAV is used to scan file attachments on incoming emails. All it takes …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: ClamAV, The AMD Leak, and The Unencrypted Power Grid