Collaborate Disseminate
We would be remiss if we didn’t address the X Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that’s been happening this week. It seems like everyone is is trying to make …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: The X DDoS, The ESP32 Basementdoor, and the camelCase RCE
This week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Doc Searls about SCaLE and Personal AI! What’s the vision of an AI that consumers run themselves, what form factor might that take, and …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 824: Gratuitous Navel Gazing
The fine researchers at Google have released the juicy details on EntrySign, the AMD Zen microcode issue we first covered about a month ago. And to give away the punchline: …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Zen Jailbreak, Telegram Exploit, and VMware Hyperjack
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb talk with Joao Correia about TuxCare! What’s live patching, and why is it so hard? And how is this related to .NET 6? …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 823: TuxCare, 10 Years Without Rebooting!
It’s usually not a good sign when your downloaded theme contains obfuscated code. Yes, we’re talking about the very popular Material Theme for VSCode. This one has a bit of …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Malicious Themes, Crypto Heists, and Wallbleed
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