LAN 116: Linux Action News 116¶
- Air Date: 2019-07-28
- Duration: 29 mins 49 secs
About this episode¶
Fedora CoreOS is introduced and its future looks bright, VLC's president debunks security claims, Mozilla debuts an open-source router firmware and the Android flaw that might be our favorite in years.
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- Introducing Fedora CoreOS — A new Fedora edition built specifically for running containerized workloads securely and at scale.
- VLC developer debunks reports of ‘critical security issue’ — Widespread reports of a ‘critical security issue’ that supposedly impacted users of VLC media player have been debunked as “completely bogus” by developers.
- Android Phones Open to ‘Spearphone’ Eavesdropping — A Spearphone attacker can use the accelerometer in LG and Samsung phones to remotely eavesdrop on any audio that’s played on speakerphone, including calls, music and voice assistant responses.
- Sailfish OS 3.1 released — Redesigns to core apps such as People, Phone, Messages and Clock. Other areas that have been improved include; Document viewers, Email, Calendar, Dual SIM Card viewer information and Gallery gestures which have been improved.
- Mozilla debuts implementation of open source router firmware — Experimental builds of WebThings Gateway 0.9 are available on GitHub for the Turris Omnia router, with expanded support for routers and developer boards to come down the line.
- Alibaba Reveals 16-core RISC-V Chip — Alibaba Group’s chip subsidiary, Pingtouge Semiconductor, this week announced what it claims is the most powerful RISC-V based processor
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16-core risc-v, accelerometers, alibaba, android, coreos container linux, cve-2019-13615, fedora coreos, immutable infrastructure, jean-baptiste kempf, linux action show, linux news podcast, mozilla webthings, pingtouge, sailfish os, seitseminen, spearphone, videolan, vlc, webthings gateway