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How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel

The Verge

Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I I suggest you find a different community to do experiments on,” wrote Linux Foundation fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman in a livid email. But among the other major characters — the Linux developers — there was no such hesitancy.

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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

The Verge

Photo: Linux Mint. By the federal government’s Digital Analytics Program (DAP) count in October 2020, 3.2 If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. Teams now runs on Linux.

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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

Hacker Earth

Here are some of the hottest tech skills (a mix of programming languages, tools, and frameworks; in random order) to hire for in 2020, which will help you thrive in the workplace of tomorrow. JavaScript has been the fastest-growing and the most sought-after programming language for years. Source: Twitter. JavaScript.

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

According to IDC, IBM sold more than 4,300 IBM Z systems in 2020, for approximately $3.5 IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000. The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source.

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CVE-2020-15359: VDALabs Uses Mayhem To Find MP3Gain Stack Overflow

ForAllSecure

Researchers from VDA Labs used ForAllSecure Mayhem to discover a stack overflow ( CVE-2020-15359 ) in a popular open source sound utility, MP3Gain. 2) Finding CVE-2020-15359. Finding CVE-2020-15359 Through Fuzzing. Mayhem has a CLI available to download and that was used on a local Linux host. 6) Summary.

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CVE-2020-15359: VDALabs Uses Mayhem To Find MP3Gain Stack Overflow

ForAllSecure

Researchers from VDA Labs used ForAllSecure Mayhem to discover a stack overflow ( CVE-2020-15359 ) in a popular open source sound utility, MP3Gain. 2) Finding CVE-2020-15359. Finding CVE-2020-15359 Through Fuzzing. Mayhem has a CLI available to download and that was used on a local Linux host. 6) Summary.

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CVE-2020-15359: VDALabs Uses Mayhem To Find MP3Gain Stack Overflow

ForAllSecure

Researchers from VDA Labs used ForAllSecure Mayhem to discover a stack overflow ( CVE-2020-15359 ) in a popular open source sound utility, MP3Gain. 2) Finding CVE-2020-15359. Finding CVE-2020-15359 Through Fuzzing. Mayhem has a CLI available to download and that was used on a local Linux host. 6) Summary.

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