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Climate change is causing disasters such as wildfires, floods, and other extreme weather-related events to become both more intense and more frequent.
In a previous article, we looked at how to form IT disaster plans and business continuity strategies in the face of climate change,...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a new version of their Privacy Badger tool, which updates how the tool fights “link tracking” across several Google products.
“With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images...
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The Raspberry Pi 5 has been officially launched. And, according to the announcement from Eben Upton, “virtually every aspect of the platform has been upgraded, delivering a no-compromises user experience.”
The new model, which features a 64-bit quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 processor running at 2.4GHz, is...
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Registration is now open for Hacktoberfest, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The annual month-long hacking event encourages open source contributions through pull/merge requests in participating open source projects.
Things to know:
You can register anytime between September 26 and October 31, 2023.
Pull requests can...
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Open source projects and communities play a critical role in accelerating progress toward the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to a new report from Linux Foundation (LF) Research.
Digital Public Goods
The 52-page report, written by Kirsten Sandberg, notes that digital public goods,...
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A bill underscoring the importance of securing open source software is currently pending in the United State Senate, reports Pete Raumann.
This bill (Securing Open Source Software Act of 2023) aims to “establish the duties of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) concerning open source...
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Harness has released Gitness as an open source competitor to GitHub, reports Frederic Lardinois. The tool offers a “one-stop shop where you can host your Git repositories and automated DevOps pipelines seamlessly,” according to the website.
And, Gitness “can run on the smallest virtual machine...
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OpenTF, the newly formed fork of Terraform, has been rebranded as OpenTofu, with support from the Linux Foundation, reports Sean Michael Kerner.
When Hashicorp changed Terraform’s license from the open source Mozilla Public License v2.0 to a business source license last month, it raised concerns...
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Long-term support (LTS) for Linux kernels is being reduced from six to two years, reports Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
The change is being made for the simple reason that people are not using these versions, says Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer and executive editor of LWN.net....
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As You Were
If you will be using rsync to create backups, it makes sense to keep the attributes of the original files. By attributes I mean permissions (read, write, execute, see the “Access Permissions” article) and timestamps – that is, information on the last...
