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Ubuntu adds asterisks in SUDO
Ubuntu 26.04 ends a 40-year old sudo tradition. What’s this about? When you run a command in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS using sudo and enter your password, you now see asterisks (*) appear as you type. Previously you’d see nothing but a gaping black void reflecting your own uncertainty back at you. Ubuntu uses a new…
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities
Five Eyes warn: Patch your Cisco SD-WAN or risk root takeover.A rare joint alert from all five spy agencies means serious business. The Five Eyes intelligence alliance is urgently warning defenders to patch two Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities used in attacks. First discovered by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), all five of the alliance’s intelligence…
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Removal of GTK2 from Forky
Debian 14 will drop Gtk2 – unless Ardour rides to the rescueMany dependent apps, including FreePascal and Lazarus, face the chop. Version 2 of the widely used Gtk toolkit will be dropped from the next Debian release. The problem is that many things still need it, including FreePascal and its Lazarus IDE. Debian 14, codenamed…
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Danes Push for Digital Sovereignty
Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence Denmark’s tech modernization agency plans to replace Microsoft products with open-source software to reduce dependence on U.S. tech firms. In an interview with the local newspaper Politiken, Danish Minister for Digitalisation Caroline Stage Olsen confirmed that over half of the ministry’s staff will…
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Kernel 6.19 is Out
Linux Kernel 6.19 Officially Released, This Is What’s New. Introduces support for the PCIe Link Encryption security feature and support for the AMD Smart Data Cache Injection (SDCI) feature. Linux kernel 6.19 is now available for download, as announced today by Linus Torvalds himself, featuring enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to…
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Bitlocker unlocked for US Feds
Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for fedsIf you’re serious about encryption, keep control of your encryption keys If you think using Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption will keep your data 100 percent safe, think again. Last year, Redmond reportedly provided the FBI with encryption keys to unlock the laptops of Windows users charged in a…
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