News Wrap: Linux Utility Backdoor, Steam Zero Day Disclosure Drama

From a backdoor placed in the Webmin utility to vulnerability disclosure drama around zero-days in Valve’s Steam gaming clients, Threatpost breaks down this week’s top stories. Continue reading News Wrap: Linux Utility Backdoor, Steam Zero Day Disclosure Drama

NASA's steam-propelled CubeSats control one another in space

NASA's OCSD CubeSats use water/steam for propulsion

CubeSats are tiny spacecraft with huge potential, but their small stature doesn’t lend itself to typical propulsion methods. This has led scientists to get creative in working out ways of shifting them through space, including harnessing photons from the Sun and using regular ol’ H20 as a propellant. NASA’s OCSD mission has now leaned on the latter to pull off a first-of-a-kind maneuver between two of its CubeSats in low-Earth orbit.

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The Saga of 32-Bit Linux: Why Going 64-Bit Raises Concerns Over Multilib

The story of Linux so far, as short as it may be in the grand scheme of things, is one of constant forward momentum. There’s always another feature to implement, an optimization to make, and of course, another device to support. With developer’s eyes always on the horizon ahead of …read more

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Derp! DDoS attacker who brought down EA, Sony, and Steam jailed for 27 months

A 23-year-old man has plenty of time to mull over whether it’s funny to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against online video gaming services, after he was sentenced to prison this week.
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PiTop, Makers Of Raspberry Pi Laptops, Release Something That’s Not A Laptop

The Raspberry Pi the closest thing to a modular laptop. That’s the idea behind the Pi-Top, a laptop with a Raspberry Pi as a brain. Need an upgrade? No problem, just get the latest Pi, they’re up to four now.

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