David Timothy Strauss | October 21, 2016
Mitigating dirtyc0w with systemd
Basic mitigation
Known exploits for the CVE-2016–5195 vulnerability involve the madvise syscall, so it’s possible to mitigate by excluding the necessary call...
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation | October 21, 2016
OpenTracing: Microservices in Plain View
By Ben Sigelman (@el_bhs), OpenTracing co-author
Those building microservices at scale understand the role and importance of distributed tracing: after all, it...
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Wired | October 21, 2016
What We Know About Friday’s Massive East Coast Internet Outage
This morning’s attack started around 7am and was aimed at Dyn, an Internet infrastructure company headquartered in New Hampshire. That first bout was resolved...
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The Linux Foundation | October 21, 2016
This Week in Open Source News: Blockchain Tech Can Help Ease the Refugee Experience, Nasdaq to Provide OSS Platform, & More
This week in open source and Linux news, The executive director of The Hyperledger Project explains how blockchain can help refugees identify themselves,...
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Jack Wallen | October 21, 2016
An Introduction to MySQL
At some point in your life as a Linux administrator, you’re going to have to work with a database. And because you’re working with the Linux platform, chances...
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ArsTechnica | October 21, 2016
“Most Serious” Linux Privilege-Escalation Bug Ever Is Under Active Exploit (updated)
A serious vulnerability that has been present for nine years in virtually all versions of the Linux operating system is under active exploit, according to...
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insideHPC | October 21, 2016
Video: HPC Opportunities in Deep Learning
"This talk will provide empirical evidence from our Deep Speech work that application level performance (e.g. recognition accuracy) scales with data and...
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