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FSF faces DDoS Attacks
The Free Software Foundation’s services face “ongoing (and increasing) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks,” senior systems administrator Ian Kelling wrote Wednesday. The FSF SysOps team consists of two full-time tech team employees and a handful of dedicated volunteers. A large part of our work is running the software and physical servers that host websites…
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More News on sudo Holes
Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros. Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is below –…
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sudo Vulnerability Enables Privilege
12-Year-Old Sudo Linux Vulnerability Enables Privilege Escalation to Root User A significant security vulnerability discovered in the widely used Sudo utility has remained hidden for over 12 years, potentially exposing millions of Linux and Unix systems to privilege escalation attacks. The vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-32462 allows unauthorized users to gain root access on affected systems…
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Building the kernel on macOS natively
I’ve recently added a Linux compatibility layer to Starina operating system based on a lightweight VM approach similar to WSL2. I can cross-compile its init program with Cargo. I can prepare a container image contents using skopeo. However, I need to build the genuine Linux kernel, preferably on my daily driver: macOS. The most common way to…
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Google offers AI agent protocol to Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation has launched the Agent-2-Agent (A2A) project on GitHub. The open source protocol initiated by Google networks AI agents with each other. The Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, developed by Google together with many other industry partners and service providers such as Atlassian, PayPal, Accenture, and McKinsey and presented in April of this year, has…
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Fairphone 6 now available
Website: https://www.fairphone.com Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5. Fairphone 6 continues to be repair-friendly and was just announced this morning while already the Linux support patches have hit the Linux kernel mailing list. The Fairphone…
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