Tag: Open source
How Apple protects itself from hackers from the future – Business
In a laboratory in Paris, hackers on behalf of Apple torture their own chips with cold, heat and lasers. The goal: find security gaps before secret services do. It would…
Fedora 40: Unified Kernel Images are coming
Fedora 40: Unified Kernel Images are coming After a rather well-behaved previous version, Fedora 40 once again delivers some notable changes: First of all, Gnome 46 as the primary desktop…
iX Workshop: Hardening Linux servers | heise online
Malware and hacker attacks are no longer just a Windows issue – Linux servers and the services running on them are also increasingly coming under attack. The five-day intensive workshop…
How Germany can advance digitalization in administration and education – Economy
In studies, Germany reliably lands at the bottom when it comes to digitalization. In the current EU index for the digital economy and society, “Desi” for short, it only ranks…
Microsoft: German engineer stops global hacker attack
A Microsoft engineer notices irregularities and possibly prevents a global hacker attack. The tech scene celebrates the German as a hero. The 38-year-old software engineer Andres Freund lives in San…
Anonymizing Linux: Tails 6.1 with small fixes
The developers have released version 6.1 of the Linux distribution Tails, which is designed for anonymous movement on the Internet. In it they essentially correct some annoying errors and bring…
xz attack: backdoor unraveled, more details on affected distros
xz attack: backdoor unraveled, more details on affected distros After the discovery of a backdoor in the xz tools, which are included in many open source platforms, further details became…
Photo manager digiKam 8.3.0 advances move to Qt6
The developers of the open source image manager digiKam have released version 8.3.0. Above all, they corrected errors and carried out further fine-tuning when switching to the Qt 6 framework.…
FreeBSD 13.3 with better WiFi support and OpenZFS 2.1.14
FreeBSD 13.3 with better WiFi support and OpenZFS 2.1.14 For those who have not yet updated to FreeBSD 14.0, the FreeBSD developers are providing a new point release of the…
“Linux is the world’s standard operating system” – Business
It doesn’t always have to be Google, Adobe or Microsoft: almost 70 percent of all German companies use loud a survey by the business association Bitkom open source software. This…