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An anonymous reader quotes a report from XDA Developers: A few days ago, we spotted that the HP Smart App was being installed on people’s PCs without their consent. Even worse, the app would reappear if users tried to uninstall it or clean-installed Wi… Continue reading A Windows Update Bug Is Renaming Everyone’s Printers To HP M101-M106
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates to fix a high-severity CPU bug that has the potential to be maliciously exploited against cloud-based hosts. The flaw, affecting virtually all modern Intel… Continue reading Intel Fixes High-Severity CPU Bug That Causes ‘Very Strange Behavior’
In a rare move, Apple hit pause on development of next year’s software updates for the iPhone, iPad, Mac and other devices so that it could root out glitches in the code. From a report: The delay, announced internally to employees last week, was meant … Continue reading Apple Delays Work on Next Year’s iPhone, Mac Software To Fix Bugs
“Earlier this month, the California Department of Food and Agriculture quarantined 69 square miles of metro L.A. after invasive and destructive Mediterranean fruit flies were found at a home in the Leimert Park neighborhood,” notes The Hill. Officials … Continue reading Millions of Fruit Flies Will Be Dropped On Los Angeles
Richard Speed reports via The Register: Asahi Linux, a project to port Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, has reported a combination of bugs in Apple’s macOS that could leave users with hardware in a difficult-to-recover state. The issues revolve around how … Continue reading Asahi Linux Goes From Apple Silicon Port Project To macOS Bug Hunters
One of the things ssh can do is execute a command on a remote server. Most of us expect it to work transparently when doing so, simply passing the command …read more Continue reading SSH Can Handle Spaces In Command-line Arguments Strangely
Wednesday Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of the 6.4.2 kernel. “All users of the 6.4 kernel series must upgrade.”
The Hacker News reports:
Details have emerged about a newly identified security flaw in the Linux kernel that could allow a us… Continue reading Researchers Discovered a New Linux Kernel ‘StackRot’ Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered
Wednesday Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of the 6.4.2 kernel. “All users of the 6.4 kernel series must upgrade.”
The Hacker News reports:
Details have emerged about a newly identified security flaw in the Linux kernel that could allow a us… Continue reading Researchers Discovered a New Linux Kernel ‘StackRot’ Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Wednesday BleepingComputer reported:
Malwarebytes confirmed today that the Windows 11 22H2 KB5027231 cumulative update released this Patch Tuesday breaks Google Chrome on its customers’ systems… While uninstalling the KB5027231 update fixes the issue… Continue reading Windows 11 Update Breaks Chrome for Some Antivirus Software Users
Long-time Slashdot reader waspleg shared this story from Hot Hardware:
Red Hat Linux developer Richard WM Jones has shared an eyebrow raising tale of Linux bug hunting. Jones noticed that Linux 6.4 has a bug which means it will hang on boot about 1 in… Continue reading Dev Boots Linux 292,612 Times to Find Kernel Bug