A plain rsync copy mirrors a source to a destination, but it keeps only one copy. The moment you sync again, the previous state is gone. Full copies on every run fix that, but they waste large amounts of disk space because most files do not change between backups. The –link-dest option solves both problems….
Jay Neiva and Mauro Carrillo discovered that Authlib did not properlyvalidate cryptographic keys embedded in JWT headers. An attacker couldpossibly use this issue to forge trusted tokens, resulting inauthentication and authorization bypass. (CVE-2026-27962) Jay Neiva and Mauro Carrillo discovered that Authlib incorrectly handledRSA1_5 encrypted tokens. An attacker could possibly use this issue torecover sensitive encrypted…
An open source, speech-to-text tool for Linux called Vocalinux has just introduced its 0.14 beta release, bringing about a mix of refinements that touch keyboard shortcuts, remote transcription, and Wayland reliability. We kick things off with the most important usability addition. Earlier, users were stuck with the default toggle or push-to-talk bindings for recording audio…
DistroWatch.com: ShredOS Last Update: 2026-05-22 13:42 UTC ShredOS is a small live Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to securely erase the contents of disks. It can boot from a USB device, CD or DVD and it supports both BIOS and UEFI booting. The system boots directly into nwipe, a program that securely erases the…
Yesterday saw the release of AMD’s Lemonade 11.0 local AI server as well as ROCm 7.14 as the first production release built using TheRock. Out today is AMD’s GAIA 0.22 software as their latest AI software release in working toward the AMD Advancing AI event next week in California. AMD’s GAIA local AI app has…
An open source, speech-to-text tool for Linux called Vocalinux has just introduced its 0.14 beta release, bringing about a mix of refinements that touch keyboard shortcuts, remote transcription, and Wayland reliability. We kick things off with the most important usability addition. Earlier, users were stuck with the default toggle or push-to-talk bindings for recording audio…
The Perl development team has announced the release of Perl 5.44, the first stable production version in the new 5.44 series, which follows about 12 months of development since Perl 5.42. The most notable language addition is experimental support for named parameters in subroutine signatures. Until now, arguments in Perl signatures were primarily passed according…
Minecraft is set for another big update with a fresh Minecraft 26.3 Snapshot 4 ready for testing, and overall it’s quite a big technical upgrade. They have finally moved on from the ancient GLFW which hasn’t seen a release since early 2024, up to the modern cross-platform SDL3 library to power window management, input and…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is getting a fix for Nautilus that restores ‘Delete’ as the focused button in the trash confirmation dialog, undoing an accidental swap that made ‘Cancel’ the focused button instead. That ‘unintentional’ focus flip meant you could no longer hit enter to action file deletion for Trash since it instead cancelled it. I’ve…
It was discovered that the Net::IMAP client in Ruby did not properlysanitize Symbol arguments passed to IMAP commands. A remote attackercontrolling a malicious IMAP server, or able to influence commandarguments, could use this to inject arbitrary IMAP commands via CRLFsequences. (CVE-2026-42258) It was discovered that the Zlib::GzipReader in Ruby did not correctlyensure sufficient buffer capacity…
