Coordinated Disclosure: 1-Click RCE on GNOME (CVE-2023-43641) (github.blog)
Today, in coordination with Ilya Lipnitskiy (the maintainer of libcue) and the distros mailing list, the GitHub Security Lab is disclosing CVE-2023-43641, a memory corruption vulnerability in libcue. We have also sent a text-only version of this blog post to the oss-security list....
Court blocks Kenya from deploying police officers to Haiti to fight gangs (www.theguardian.com)
No evidence yet of Iran link to Hamas attack, says Israeli military (www.theguardian.com)
Steam Next Fest October 2023 is live! (store.steampowered.com)
Play demos of upcoming games for the next seven days, October 9th - October 16th.
Walgreens pharmacy staff walk out, citing unsafe working conditions (www.washingtonpost.com)
Cork Rule (slrpnk.net)
Blowing across a glass coke bottle sound
Wizard Rule (slrpnk.net)
Sick man of Europe (slrpnk.net)
when someone starts reminding me how old some of my favorite things from when I was younger are (slrpnk.net)
Monthly Review | Marxian Ecology, East and West: Joseph Needham and a Non-Eurocentric View of the Origins of China’s Ecological Civilization (monthlyreview.org)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/803365...
Mbankolo landslides kill 30 in Cameroon capital Yaoundé (www.bbc.com)
Rescue efforts are hampered by flooding, forcing locals to pull out bodies with their bare hands.
WhatsApp expands unique usernames to identify accounts on iOS (omgbulletin.com)
Irulic (sh.itjust.works)
Unity CEO John Riccitiello Is OUT! (gamefromscratch.com)
From GameFromScratch.com
Pre-registration for Battle Crush beta testing is open - DroidLocal (droidlocal.com)
Battle Crush will have a beta test between October 23 and 30. See how to participate and which countries are eligible.
King Loser — '76 Comeback [1995] (yewtu.be)
Having just posted a Jon Spencer tune, my mind flicked to New Zealand’s King Loser....
Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately (arstechnica.com)
John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, the company whose 3D game engine had recently seen backlash from developers over proposed fee structures, will retire as CEO, president, and board chairman at the company, according to a press release issued late on a Monday afternoon, one many observe as a holiday.
Jerboa 0.0.49-alpha Release (github.com)
The Spider Poem (poemsprout.blogspot.com)
GHC 9.8.1 is now available (discourse.haskell.org)
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the final release of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org. GHC 9.8 brings a number of new features and improvements...