TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.
Fact: More of us care about climate change than we think. (ourworldindata.org)
Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week (www.phoronix.com)
The Earth's projected warming by 2100 has fallen in the last ten years. (ciphernews.com)
openSUSE Factory enabled bit-by-bit reproducible builds (news.opensuse.org)
Yousaf: Trans women will be protected under misogyny law (www.bbc.com)
A California firm may have a concrete way to help the planet with cleaner cement (apnews.com)
the first time in nearly 20 years, the U.S. is setting limits on pollution from chemical plants (www.propublica.org)
Hero who confronted stabber promised Australia visa - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains (news.ucr.edu)
Zellij (a terminal multiplexer) 0.40.0 released (zellij.dev)
Stranger saves woman's 4 yr old son from flying puck (www.wbng.com)
Mark Cuban is ‘proud to pay’ $275.9 million in taxes (www.cnbc.com)
Users of Zsh and zi plugin manager should beware the suspicious repo and author. (recurse.social)
Texas' skyscrapers are going dark to keep billions of birds safe (www.bbc.com)
The World Health Organization said Nigeria has become the first country in the world to roll out the "revolutionary" new Men5CV vaccine against meningitis. (www.reuters.com)
Last year, a 50% rise in annual cases was reported across 26 African countries regarded as meningitis hyperendemic countries.
A 605 MW PV plant in Germany is now Europe's largest solar farm (electrek.co)
Gentoo Linux Becomes a Software in the Public Interest Project Because…Bookkeeping and Taxes (fossforce.com)
Rimworld's Anomaly DLC has now released. (store.steampowered.com)
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)
The Government Can Spy on You Using Your Wireless Headphones (www.headphonesty.com)
Fallout 4 is Getting Free Updates (fallout.bethesda.net)
You Must Spend $80 To Unlock The King Kong Glove In Call Of Duty (kotaku.com)
Japan is giving Washington 250 new cherry trees to replace those to be lost in construction work (wtop.com)
EPA announces first-ever national regulations for "forever chemicals" in drinking water (www.cbsnews.com)
Slay the Spire 2 Steam page is up (store.steampowered.com)
Star Wars Outlaws' $110 and $130 editions prompt a collective sigh from potential players tired of season passes and ill-advised early access periods (www.pcgamer.com)
An Update on Battlefield 2042 and Welcoming Motive Studio to the Team (www.ea.com)
In 2015, video of a judge recognizing the defendant was her friend from middle school went viral. 10 years later he's clean and works as a successful manager. (www.unilad.com)
Starship Troopers: Extermination - Announcing Update 0.7.0: The New Vanguard (store.steampowered.com)
A teacher promised his 1978 class an eclipse party. He just hosted it. (www.washingtonpost.com)
XZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbanned (github.com)
DLC-sized Starfield mod turns it into a city builder with mechs, biodomes and food production (www.nexusmods.com)
New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Penpot 2.0, a major milestone in our journey, is now yours to explore and enjoy! (community.penpot.app)
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House, Senate leaders nearing deal on landmark online privacy bill (archive.is)
Need tips for my beard trimming routine. This is what I currently do! Any pointers? (lemmy.world)
Chat control is back as proposal in EU despite being voted out just few months ago (www.patrick-breyer.de)
“I was thrown out of fourth grade because I couldn’t write my own name, and it’s all been downhill from there” - Linus Torvalds (www.yarchive.net)
Companies line up to undercut key data privacy law (www.politico.com)
Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? (www.nytimes.com)
Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.
Za rule (i.imgur.com)
It's true if you think about it. Rule (lemmy.world)