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We discovered an integer overflow in the Linux kernel’s create_elf_tables() function: on a 64-bit system, a local attacker can exploit this vulnerability via a SUID-root binary and obtain full root privileges.

Audiobooks are a great way to consume literature. Many people who don’t have time to read, choose to listen. Most people, myself included, just use a regular media player like VLC or MPV for listening to audiobooks on Linux. Today, we will look at a Linux application built solely for listening to audiobooks. We review Cozy, an audiobook player for Linux.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files to and from a remote network. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the linux ftp command through practical examples.

If you’re using Linux for quite a while and it is your daily task to install and test new Linux distributions, then you might have seen at times all the installed operating systems are not listed in the GRUB menu. It may be due to GRUB not being installed correctly, or GRUB not able scan the hard drives correctly. If it ever happened to you, do not freak out! It is really very easy to solve.

And they'll keep winning while everyone still wants Gmail and YouTube. Google has received massive fines for its recent stewardship of Android, but there was no conspiracy or underhand tactics about how it got there: Google won this monopoly on merit.…

The Document Foundation announced today the availability of the second point release in the latest LibreOffice 6.1 open-source and cross-platform office suite series, LibreOffice 6.1.2.

The new release 0.133 of the Culmus fonts is now available for download.

Eight IT leaders look back at the IT roles that kicked off their careers

Third major release of the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system in 2018 is now out, providing users with a stable release of a key security feature that has been in development for two years, while previewing a new sandboxing isolation capability.

With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.

According to a recent user survey by Mesosphere, forecasts of the demise of on-premises data centers don't appear to be coming true . While companies do continue to move to the cloud, many are taking the hybrid approach, keeping much of their data and workloads within the four walls of their own data centers.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look France's new secure operating system, IBM's bias-hunting toolkit, using open source AI to diagnose cancer, and more. French security agency releases CLIP OS The National Cybersecurity Agency of France takes digital protection very seriously — so seriously, in fact, that the organization has its own secure operating system, which it's open sourced. read more

Disagreements between fields in a database can be tricky to diagnose and even harder to detect.

R is a fast growing open source programming language and environment that specializes in statistical computing and graphics representation. It is supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing and mainly used by statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and performing data analysis.

Remember remember the first of November Skype 7 (aka Classic) has finally run out of lives. Microsoft yesterday announced plans to kill it off once and for all in an update to a two-month-old blog-post.…

One can argue that containers and DevOps were made for one another. Certainly, the container ecosystem benefits from the skyrocketing popularity of DevOps practices, both in design choices and in DevOps’ use by teams developing container technologies. Because of this parallel evolution, the use of containers in production can teach teams the fundamentals of DevOps and its three pillars: The Three Ways. Principles of flow Container flow read more

The software enabling this technology comes in many forms, with Docker as the most popular. The recent rise in popularity of container technology within the data center is a direct result of its portability and ability to isolate working environments, thus limiting its impact and overall footprint to the underlying computing system. To understand the technology completely, you first need to understand the many pieces that make it all possible. Join us this weekend as we learn about Containers.

Hackers share general public's love of popular programming language Python, either the world's most popular programming language or a close runner up, turns out to be the most widely used language for hacking tools.…

Occasionally Ubuntu can throw some errors when updating the system and that can confuse the user. Here are the common Ubuntu update errors and how to fix them with minimal fuss.

Video: In an e-mail to the BBC, Torvalds comes over as a voice of reason in the heated Linux Code of Conduct fights.