Linus Torvalds Invites Attackers to Join the Ke… » Linux Magazine

Torvalds is not a huge fan of the ‘security community’ as he doesn’t see it as black and white. He maintains that bugs are part of the software development process and they cannot be avoided, no matter how hard you try. “constant absolute security does not exist, even if we do a perfect job,” said Torvalds in a conversation with Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation.

“As a technical person, I’m always very impressed by some of the people who are attacking our code,” Torvalds said. “I get the feeling that these smart people are doing really bad things that I wish they were on our side because they are so smart and they could help us.”

Source: Linus Torvalds Invites Attackers to Join the Ke… » Linux Magazine

Apache bug leaks contents of server memory for all to see—Patch now | Ars Technica

Another vulnerability hits the news. Whilst similar to heartbleed in leaking memory contents, it does not seem to be too risky if you’re running it as a single user, and the memory leak isn’t huge quantities.

Saying that, this vulnerability also may also affect cloud systems. For example, on AWS, (which has httpd), doing a version check:

$ httpd -v
Server version: Apache/2.4.27 (Amazon)
Server built: Aug 2 2017 18:02:45

However, without knowing how Amazon have setup Apache behind the scenes, are we able to say definitely that we are/aren’t affected?

Source: Apache bug leaks contents of server memory for all to see—Patch now | Ars Technica

This woman’s thank-you note to coffee stand staff will make you feel better about humanity

In a world of terrorists, idiots, and anti-democratic assholes, it’s nice to see there are some kind-hearted people out there.

Black, no sugar, with an extra shot of compassion please!

Source: This woman’s thank-you note to coffee stand staff will make you feel better about humanity

Android 8.0 Oreo, thoroughly reviewed | Ars Technica

Looking forward to when LineageOS can upgrade to Oreo. There’s a lot of new features that may make life a lot easier generally. Take a look in the article for details

We take a 20,000 word deep-dive on Android’s “foundational” upgrades.

Source: Android 8.0 Oreo, thoroughly reviewed | Ars Technica

Google Chrome : Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) – YouTube

This is an old advert by Google Chrome featuring Hatsune Miku, the Vocaloid virtual singer, following in the same line as Honda’s series of adverts featuring her too. Selling the idea that Miku is a virtual singer, but you can be anything else — Musician, Producer, Composer, etc.
 
(Only found out by some Tweets)
Hatsune Miku, Virtual Singer
Everyone, Creator
 

We’re testing Video Chat and Screen Share with 5% of players, today.

Discord is starting to eat away at Skype. At long last….

It’s real. It’s kick-flip and-a-sodie-pop real.

Source: We’re testing Video Chat and Screen Share with 5% of players, today.

[Ars Technica] Niantic cancels European Pokémon Go gatherings after Chicago fiasco

The fallout continues…

Dev wants to “guarantee the best possible gameplay” after Chicago cell failure.

Source: Niantic cancels European Pokémon Go gatherings after Chicago fiasco | Ars Technica

Lunch Run | Run | Strava

Doing a run through the local area while playing Ingress, and found someone by the name of “Andy” had done a lap of Hadley Wood and back down into the village in the time it took me to clean up the village. Perhaps I need to get my distance back pretty sharpish.

Source: Lunch Run | Run | Strava

[Engadget] Russian censorship law bans proxies and VPNs

Russia has just gone a step closer to being like North Korea….

Source: Russian censorship law bans proxies and VPNs

[Ars Technica] Pokemon Go Fest’s blunders result in class-action lawsuit

Ouch, Niantic, you really messed up this time….

Although personally I would have thought with all the events you have done for Ingress (anomalies, etc.) you would have figured out the best way to handle this.

Although, saying that, there are FAR more PGO fans than there are Ingress fans….

 

What could go wrong other than spotty Internet, huge lines, and a server meltdown?

Source: Pokemon Go Fest’s blunders result in class-action lawsuit | Ars Technica