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Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” is released
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source cross-platform email client, personal information manager, news client, RSS and chat client that is operated by the Mozilla Foundation’s subsidiary, MZLA Technologies Corporation. Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird Community. The project strategy… Read more
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Risk Factors Associated With Open-Source LLMs
How Risky Is Your Open-Source LLM (large language model) Project? A new research explains the risk factors associated with open-source LLMs. Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, such as GPT engines, have been creating big waves in the AI domain recently, and there is a big hype in the market, both among retail individuals… Read more
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Mastodon fixes vulnerability
The maintainers of the open source software that powers the Mastodon social network published a security update on Thursday that patches a critical vulnerability making it possible for hackers to backdoor the servers that push content to individual users. Mastodon is based on a federated model. The federation comprises thousands of separate servers known as… Read more
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“StackRot”: Vulnerability affecting kernel 6.1 to 6.4
Details have emerged about a newly identified security flaw in the Linux kernel that could allow a user to gain elevated privileges on a target host. Dubbed “StackRot”, the flaw impacts Linux versions 6.1 through 6.4. There is no evidence that the shortcoming has been exploited in the wild to date. “As StackRot is a… Read more
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Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2 release
Not to be confused with OpenBSD, FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which was based on Research Unix. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993. In 2005, FreeBSD was the most popular open-source BSD operating system, accounting for more than three-quarters of all… Read more
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Open Source Summit Europe 2023
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the schedule for Open Source Summit Europe, the foremost event for open source code and community contributors in Europe. The conference takes place September 19-21 in Bilbao, Spain, with pre-event programming and co-located events on September 17-18 as well. Read the… Read more
