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  • Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities

    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…

  • Removal of GTK2 from Forky

    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…

  • Danes Push for Digital Sovereignty

    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…

  • Kernel 6.19 is Out

    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…

  • Bitlocker unlocked for US Feds

    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…

  • New Deepin Linux adds AI

    New Deepin Linux adds AI

    China’s Deepin Linux gets a slick desktop – and, yes, built-in AIShows Chinese Startup moving in tandem with other big tech Browsers Uniontech’s Deepin 25.0.10 release shows that the Chinese desktop world isn’t waiting on Western tech. It’s modern and good-looking, and has built-in “AI”. Deepin 25.0.10 is the latest point release of Uniontech’s free…

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