Valuable News – 2020/03/02

The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX or BSD systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here.

Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive overload. Thus one needs to focus only on what is important without the need to grep(1) the Internet everyday. Hence the idea of providing such information ‘bulk’ as I already do that grep(1).

UNIX

Intel KVM Virtualization Hit by Vulnerability Over Unfinished Code.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-KVM-CVE-2020-2732

FreeNAS 11.3-U1 Available.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-3-u1/

POWER to the People – Making FreeBSD First Class Citizen on POWER.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/power-to-the-people-making-freebsd-a-first-class-citizen-on-power/

BSD Weekly – Issue 9.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/9

FreeBSD Finally Removes GCC 4.2.1 from Base System after 13 Years.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=358454

Netdata 1.20 Released.
https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases/tag/v1.20.0

Nextcloud Urgent Security Issue in NGINX/php-fpm.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/urgent-security-issue-in-nginx-php-fpm/

Operating on Power – Ubuntu MATE.
http://vivapowerpc.eu/20200228-1444_Operating_on_Power_Ubuntu_MATE

Release of pkg 1.13 for FreeBSD.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=525794

X11 xorg 1.20.7 on HardenedBSD Comes with PIE/RELRO+BIND_NOW/CFI/SafeStack Protections.
https://twitter.com/lattera/status/1233412881569415168

NetBSD Fundraising 2020.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/fundraising_2020

BSD Now 339 – BSD Fundraising.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/339

Install Microweber Website Builder on FreeBSD 12.
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-microweber-website-builder-on-freebsd-12/

In Other BSDs for 2020/02/29.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/02/29/24219.html

Wine 5.3 Announcement.
https://www.winehq.org/announce/5.3

GhostBSD 20.02 Now Available.
https://ghostbsd.org/20.02_release_announcement

OpenBSD RISC-V Notes.
https://github.com/MengshiLi/openbsd-riscv-notes

Hardware

EPYC Trip to Rome – AMD is Cloudflare 10th Generation Edge Server CPU.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/an-epyc-trip-to-rome-amd-is-cloudflares-10th-generation-edge-server-cpu/

Defeating Laptop BIOS Password.
https://github.com/skysafe/reblog/blob/master/0000-defeating-a-laptops-bios-password/README.md

AMD Launches Ultra Low Power Ryzen Embedded APUs Starting at 6W.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15554/amd-launches-ultralowpower-ryzen-embedded-apus-starting-at-6w

Testing Chinese x86 CPU – Deep Dive Into Zen Based Hygon Dhyana Processors.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15493/hygon-dhyana-reviewed-chinese-x86-cpus-amd/

Other

EU Commission to Staff – Switch to Signal Messaging App.
https://www.politico.eu/pro/eu-commission-to-staff-switch-to-signal-messaging-app/

EU Wants Easy Replaceable Smartphone Batteries to Comeback.
https://www.ubergizmo.com/2020/02/eu-wants-easy-replaceable-batteries/

We Found 6 Critical PayPal Vulnerabilities and PayPal Punished Us for It.
https://cybernews.com/security/we-found-6-critical-paypal-vulnerabilities-and-paypal-punished-us/

Programmers Generate Every Possible Melody in MIDI to Prevent Lawsuits.
https://www.musictech.net/news/programmers-generate-every-possible-melody-in-midi-to-prevent-lawsuits/

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