Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
… Tons of software in this user-maintained Arch Linux user repository were impacted by this nasty security incident. …
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Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack
… At this stage it's a bit surprising they don't completely shutdown AUR until they can better verify the security and safety of this user-supplied repository or at least implement new safeguards on changes. …
NVIDIA & Others Form The Open Secure AI Alliance
… The Open Secure AI Alliance aims to help increase the security and safe usage around open-source AI models and builds off the Linux Foundation's Akrites initiative and OpenSSF. …
FreeBSD Receives Funding To Launch AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery
… This is a $250k USD grant for key members of the FreeBSD Security Team. Beyond the Alpha-Omega involvement, Netflix is going to be helping test and validate changes from this security research. …
Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run
… 5 Comments Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud "Foxboron" announced today he is resigning from the project. …
pkgcli As PackageKit's Modern, Nicer Command Line Interface
… OpenJPH 0.28 Up To 1.9x Faster With New AVX2 Optimizations For High-Throughput JPEG2000 OpenCV 5.0 Released With Rewritten DNN Engine, Built-In LLM & VLM Support Blender 5.2 LTS Enters Beta With New Features AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May …
Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute
…Red Hat engineers are considering a separate, minimal package of the GRUB bootloader that would be focused just on UEFI boot, UEFI Secure Boot enabled, and the bare minimal number of built…
Intel TDX Now Much More Practical With Ability To Apply Important Updates Without Reboot
… Albeit it's a bit surprising it took so long until run-time updates for TDX modules became a reality considering security concerns these days and server administrators despising downtime. …
Linux Foundation & Others Launch "Akrites" To Defend Open-Source Software From AI-Enabled Exploits
… Given the wild pace of new security-related bug discoveries being made these days by large language models, Akrites is an industry-wide effort to help ensure that critical open-source software is mitigated and secured in a timely manner. …
Linux 7.2 Gets Rid Of The Last Optimized MD5 Implementation
… But with Linux 7.2 now moving fast in deprecating AF ALG due to its security woes , the PowerPC demonstrated use-case for this optimized MD5 code is no longer applicable. …