Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & CentOS 6 Patched Against Spectre V4, Lazy FPU Flaws

Users of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS Linux 6 operating system series received important kernel security updates that patch some recently discovered vulnerabilities. Now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS Linux 7 operating system series were patched against the Spectre Variant 4 (CVE-2018-3639) security vulnerability, as well as the Lazy FPU State Save/Restore CPU flaw, it's time for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS Linux 6 to receive these important security updates, which users can now install them on their computers.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Users Get LibreOffice 6.1, Mozilla Firefox 61, and FFmpeg 4

The month of July 2018 was pretty busy for the openSUSE Tumbleweed development team, and the first two weeks of the month already delivered dozens of updates and security fixes. openSUSE developer Dominique Leuenberger reports that a total of nine snapshots have been released in July 2018 for the openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux operating system series, which follows a rolling release model where users install once and receive updates forever. As expected, these 9 snapshots bring numerous updates and bugfixes.

Today in Techrights

• Asking the USPTO to Comply With 35 U.S.C. § 101 is Like Asking Pentagon Officials to Pursue Real, Persistent Peace
• BT and Sonos Are Still Patent Bullies, Seeing Patents as a Backup Plan
• Jim Skippen, a Longtime Patent Troll, Admits That the Trolling Sector is Collapsing
• From East Asia to the Eastern District of Texas: XYZ Printing, Maxell, and X2Y Attenuators
• Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data
• ‘Transaction’ Complete: Former EPO Executive From Belgium Takes the Seat of António Campinos at EU-IPO
• EPO Abuses Against People With Disabilities Followed by Legal Bullying?
• Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)
• Links 14/7/2018: Mesa 18.1.4, Elisa 0.2.1, More on Python’s Guido van Rossum
• Links 13/7/2018: Kube 0.7.0, Trisquel 8.0 LTS Reviewed

today's leftovers

• Debian Policy call for participation

  Thanks to efforts from several contributors I was able to push a substantive release of Policy a little over a week ago.

• Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Taiwan Travel Blog - Day 5

  Old Zhuilu Road has quite a story behind it. It was built in the 1910s under the Japanese occupation of the Taiwan island. Most of the trail already existed, but the Japanese forced the natives to make it at least a meter large everywhere (it used to be only 10cm wide) using dynamite.

• Fifth GSoC Report

  This week i used to look into the existing Debian SSO solution that works with certificates. The idea is not to change it, but to integrate it with the chosen OAuth2/SAML solution. To test this, i’ve pulled the code and set up my own instance of it. Fortunatly it is a Django application, so i now have some experience with that. Its not working yet, but i’m getting there.

• netdev day 1: IPsec!

• How to Change SMTP Settings in Discourse

• Configuring Lubuntu 18.04 to enable hibernation using a swap file

• Don't miss the GOG weekend sale which has some rather nice Linux games

  GOG are doing weekend sale celebrating French game studios and there's quite a few really good Linux games worth picking up.

• Third-person shooter with Battle Royale modes 'Crazy Justice' to launch towards the end of this month

  It's seen a number of delays, along with repeated silence from the developer but it looks like Crazy Justice [Official Site] may finally arrive this month. After promising daily updates almost two weeks ago and then going silent, the developer Black Riddles Studio today put out an update on Twitter which gave an estimated release date of "anywhere between 20th-30th of July".

• libutf8proc>=2.1.1-3 update requires manual intervention

  The libutf8proc package prior to version 2.1.1-3 had an incorrect soname link. This has been fixed in 2.1.1-3, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked soname link created by ldconfig

• Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Has Increased Its Red Hat (RHT) Position; ISUZU MOTORS LTD ORD ORDINARY SHARES (ISUZF) SI Increased By 4.51%

• Granahan Investment Management Lowered By $520,606 Its Red Hat (RHT) Stake; Wisconsin Energy (WEC) Sentiment Is 0.5

• Capital Counsel Boosted By $804,749 Its Red Hat Com (RHT) Stake; Crestwood Advisors Upped Its Stryker Com (SYK) Holding

• Daiwa SB Investments Ltd. Acquires Shares of 3,190 Red Hat Inc (RHT)

• Libre Computer’s Renegade Elite single-board PC hits Indiegogo for $99

  As promised, Libre Computer’s latest single-board computer is up for pre-order through a crowdfunding campaign. You can reserve a Renegade Elite for a pledge of $99 at Indiegogo and if everything goes according to plan, the tiny computer board with a Rockchip RK3399 processor should ship in September. The price includes a case, and Libre Computer says after the crowdfunding campaign concludes, the retail price will jump to $129.