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TDE Release R14.0.12 Brings PolicyKit Support and Updates
”Trinity Desktop Environment brings the latest application updates, bug fixes, and enhancements to its release Trinity R14.0.12. Trinity Desktop Environment is a Fork of KDE version 3.5 and a continuation of feature updates and bug fixes by a small development team. This independent and standalone desktop project is still alive today for those who believe how excellent the KDE 3 desktop methodology is. Trinity Desktop Environment release R14.0.12 brings new applications, enhancements and significant bug fixes.”Classic Bethesda titles come to Steam, play them easily on Linux
“With the Bethesda Launcher shutting down, they've begun the migration to Steam and now some of their classics have become available to download easily.”
How To Use Debug Module In Ansible Playbooks
“In this guide, we will discuss what is Ansible debug module, what are the supported parameters in debug module and finally how to use the debug module with each parameter in Ansible playbooks with examples in Linux.”
Monitor your network switches with this open source tool
”If a switch is performing poorly or fails, the impact is immediately noticeable by users. Monitoring switches with Simple Network Management Protocol is one way to detect network performance problems. ~ With Power over Ethernet switches, you can monitor the PoE budget for an entire switch or for the traffic on individual ports. ~ Monitoring all your switches provides an overview of your interfaces and helps detect problems such as broken patch or installation cables, dirty fiber optics, configuration errors such as duplex mismatching, or unauthorized connections to unused ports.”5 Best Mastodon Clients for Ubuntu and Other Linux
”Are you planning to leave Twitter and join Mastodon? Use these free and open-source Mastodon clients for your Linux desktop.”How to create incremental and differential backups with tar
”With tar we can create archives which can be used for various purposes: To package applications source code. ~ Before we see how to use tar to create incremental and differential backups, it is important to understand the difference between these types of backup.”GitHub issues final report on supply-chain source code intrusions
”Early in April 2022, news broke that various users of Microsoft's GitHub platform had suffered unauthorised access to their private source code. GitHib has now updated its incident report to say that it is "in the process of sending the final expected notifications to GitHub.com customers who had either the Heroku or Travis-CI OAuth app integrations authorised in their GitHub accounts." ~ Source control systems typically also provide historical lists of official releases, tools for supporting and maintaining different release versions alongside each other, and online forums for reporting bugs and suggesting changes.”How to deploy an Apache web server quickly
”A web server makes it easy to do things like test web applications, implement a proof-of-concept project, or just get familiar with web development.”How to get started with MySQL and MariaDB
“Learn how to install, view, and query data in MySQL and its open source implementation, MariaDB.”
4 SSH tricks that every sysadmin should know
”Learn how to run one-off commands, tunnel other applications, and securely copy files using the secure shell tool.”
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Phishing goes KISS: Don’t let plain and simple messages catch you out!
”KISS improves security when your IT team avoids jargon and makes complex-but-important tasks easier to understand, but it reduces security when crooks steer clear of mistakes that would otherwise give their game away.”You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results
”Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. The move comes just months after Google rolled out a new policy enabling people under the age of 18 to request removal of their images from Google search results.”Here's a New Tool That Scans Open-Source Repositories for Malicious Packages
”The Open Source Security Foundation has announced the initial prototype release of a new tool that's capable of carrying out dynamic analysis of all packages uploaded to popular open source repositories.”Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document
”"We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data". Facebook is facing what it describes internally as a "tsunami" of privacy regulations all over the world, which will force the company to dramatically change how it deals with users' personal data. And the "fundamental" problem, the company admits, is that Facebook has no idea where all of its user data goes, or what it's doing with it, according to a leaked internal document obtained by Motherboard.”Google Project Zero Detects a Record Number of Zero-Day Exploits in 2021
”Google Project Zero called 2021 a "record year for in-the-wild 0-days," as 58 security vulnerabilities were detected and disclosed during the course of the year.”
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Ex-BitMEX CEO explains how Bitcoin will have hit $1 million by 2030
”The European Union "is finished, while yield curve control will put the U.S. in a "doom loop." Bitcoin will cost $1 million by 2030, one of the industry's best-known pundits insists, as countries worldwide shun the euro and United States dollar. In his latest blog post published o April 27, the former CEO of crypto derivatives giant BitMEX, doubled down on his sky-high price prediction for Bitcoin and gold.”Purpose Bitcoin ETF adds 1.1K BTC as data hints investors want to 'buy the dip'
”The world's flagship Bitcoin spot ETF is back buying Bitcoin after spending four weeks reducing its holdings. ~ Data from on-chain monitoring resource Coinglass confirms that on April 27, Canada's Purpose Bitcoin ETF added 1,132 BTC to its holdings.”Ethereum risks 35% drop by June with ETH price confirming ‘ascending triangle’ fakeout
”Ethereum's native token Ether faces the possibility of a 35% price correction in Q2 as it comes closer to breaking below its "ascending triangle" pattern. ~ Notably, Ether broke above its ascending triangle on March 28 only to return to its range a week later — a fake breakout. ~ A pseudonymous analyst at Seeking Alpha, argues that investors have been repositioning their capital to gain exposure to funds associated with Ethereum's blockchain rivals, namely, Solana, Avalanche, Terra and Algorand.”NFT Buying Frenzies Disrupt Solana and Ethereum Blockchains
”Ethereum continued unabated, but the cost of blockspace skyrocketed to levels not seen since 2020. While the proximate cause of the outages was the same the source of demand and each network's response to it was quite different.”ApeCoin (APE) hits a new all-time high ahead of this week’s Otherside land auction
”APE price continues to hit new all-time highs as BAYC, MAYC and NFT investors prepare for the highly anticipated Otherside land auction. The nonfungible token and Metaverse sectors have been the bright spots in an otherwise sideways crypto market in 2022 and proof of this comes as the APE token hit a new all-time high at $22.60 on April 28.”2021 Cryptocurrency Gains by Country: Ethereum Leads as Gains Skyrocket Around the World
2021 was another strong year for cryptocurrency, as assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum were able to build on positive momentum gained at the end of 2020 and hit new all-time highs in 2021. ~ We're expanding our analysis beyond Bitcoin, and will provide data on realized gains across all crypto assets Chainalysis tracks.
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episode S3 Ep80: Ransomware news, phishing woes, NAS bugs, and a giant hole in Java by Naked Security podcast
380.5 – Master and Apprentice (LPIC-1) — MintCast
196: Pop!_OS 22.04, GNOME, Ubuntu Gaming, LineageOS 19, Twitter Acquired and more Linux news — This Week in Linux
Linux Action News: Linux Action News 238