Best Linux After Dark Podcasts (2025)

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Linux After Dark – Episode 98 25:12

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12d ago25:12

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It’s the £50 Linux machine challenge! We all had a budget of 50 GBP (~65 USD) to buy the best computer we could find to run Linux. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.By The Late Night Linux Family

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North Korea’s covert coders caught. 30:41

17h ago30:41

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The Feds shut down a covert North Korean IT operation. Google releases an emergency update to fix a new Chrome zero-day. A major U.S. trade show and event marketing firm suffers a data breach. NetScaler patches a pair of critical vulnerabilities. A sophisticated cyber attack targets The Hague. An Iran-linked hacking group threatens to release email…

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Late Night Linux – Episode 340 29:34

1d ago29:34

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Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more. News Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds Fedora Linux dev…

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Late Night Linux – Episode 340 29:34

1d ago29:34

29:34

Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more. News Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds Fedora Linux dev…

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Late Night Linux – Episode 340 29:34

1d ago29:34

29:34

Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more. News Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds Fedora Linux dev…

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U.S. braces for Iranian cyber intrusions. 40:16

1d ago40:16

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CISA warns organizations of potential cyber threats from Iranian state-sponsored actors.Scattered Spider targets aviation and transportation. Workforce cuts at the State Department raise concerns about weakened cyber diplomacy. Canada bans Chinese security camera vendor Hikvision over national security concerns.Cisco Talos reports a rise in cybercr…

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 127 29:55

3d ago29:55

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When and how to use benchmarking in your project, why it’s hard, and why optimising your code can be even harder. Blog post about the speed of ripgrep hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool Profile-guided optimization Andy benchmarking IndexedDb Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact pag…

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Jamil Jaffer: You should run towards risk. [Strategy] [Career Notes] 8:01

3d ago8:01

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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Senior Vice President for Strategy, Partnerships, and Corporate Development at IronNet Cybersecurity, Jamil Jaffer, shares how his interest in technology brought him full circle. Always a tech guy, Jamil paid he way through college doing computer support. Jamil went to law school and worked in various jobs …

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A tale of two botnets. [Research Saturday] 24:55

4d ago24:55

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This week we are joined by Kyle Lefton, Security Researcher from Akamai, who is diving into their work on "Two Botnets, One Flaw - Mirai Spreads Through Wazuh Vulnerability." Akamai researchers have observed active exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a critical RCE vulnerability in Wazuh, by two Mirai-based botnets. The campaigns highlight how quickly …

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Turbulence in the cloud. 37:13

5d ago37:13

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Hawaiian Airlines reports a cybersecurity incident. Microsoft updates its Windows Resiliency Initiative after the 2024 CrowdStrike crash. CitrixBleed 2 is under active exploitation in the wild. Researchers disclose a critical vulnerability in Open VSX. Malware uses prompt injection to evade AI analysis. A new report claims Cambodia turns a blind ey…

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 33 32:17

5d ago32:17

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How much observability and monitoring is really needed, the tooling people actually use (from Datadog and Grafana Cloud to open source options like Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo), and how to approach observability without overcomplicating things. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed…

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No panic—just patch. 35:46

6d ago35:46

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Patches, patches and more patches.A patient death has been linked to the 2023 ransomware attack on an NHS IT provider. U.S. authorities indict the man known online as “IntelBroker”. A suspected cyberattack disrupts Columbia University’s computer systems. A major license plate reader company restricts cross-state data access after reports revealed m…

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2.5 Admins 253: ImpossibleFS 27:55

6d ago27:55

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Jim is concerned that we might not see another next-gen filesystem that can compete with ZFS, no matter how much we all want one. Plus whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload Discussio…

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Open-source, open season. 32:26

7d ago32:26

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Cybercriminals target financial institutions across Africa using open-source tools. Threat actors are using a technique called Authenticode stuffing to abuse ConnectWise remote access software. A fake version of SonicWall’s NetExtender VPN app steals users’ credentials. CISA and the NSA publish a guide urging the adoption of Memory Safe Languages. …

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Iran’s digital threat after U.S. strikes. 31:35

8d ago31:35

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Cybersecurity warnings about possible Iranian retaliation have surged. A potential act of sabotage disrupts the NATO Summit in The Hague. Canadian cybersecurity officials discover Salt Typhoon breached a major telecom provider. The U.S. House bans WhatsApp from all government devices. APT28 uses Signal chats in phishing campaigns targeting Ukrainia…

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Linux Matters 58: The Very Hungry Caterpillar 29:39

8d ago29:39

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In this episode: Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations. Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day Trips. Mark made a timelapse with Velocity lapse and Youcut. See it on Makertube. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listene…

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Late Night Linux – Episode 339 24:14

9d ago24:14

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Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and European government departments moving away from Microsoft and they might stick with Linux and FOSS this time. Discoveries Strudel rsyncy Spring IceCream DNS4EU News/discussion Two city governments in Den…

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Late Night Linux – Episode 339 24:14

9d ago24:14

24:14

Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and European government departments moving away from Microsoft and they might stick with Linux and FOSS this time. Discoveries Strudel rsyncy Spring IceCream DNS4EU News/discussion Two city governments in Den…

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Late Night Linux – Episode 339 24:14

9d ago24:14

24:14

Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and European government departments moving away from Microsoft and they might stick with Linux and FOSS this time. Discoveries Strudel rsyncy Spring IceCream DNS4EU News/discussion Two city governments in Den…

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Iran’s digital retaliation looms. 36:38

9d ago36:38

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US warns of heightened risk of Iranian cyberattacks. Cyber warfare has become central to Israel and Iran’s strategies. Oxford City Council discloses data breach. Europe aiming for digital sovereignty. Michigan hospital network says data belonging to 740,000 was stolen by ransomware gang. RapperBot pivoting to attack DVRs. A picture worth a thousand…

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Jadee Hanson: Cybersecurity is a team effort. [CISO] [Career Notes] 10:09

10d ago10:09

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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Jadee Hanson, CIO and CISO at Code 42, started her technology journey thanks to the help of a teacher in high school. She began college studying computer science and ended with a degree in computer information systems as it had more of the business side. Working in the private sector for companies such as D…

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Signed, sealed, exploitable. [Research Saturday] 19:22

11d ago19:22

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Dustin Childs, Head of Threat Awareness at Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, joins to discuss their work on "ZDI-23-1527 and ZDI-23-1528: The Potential Impact of Overly Permissive SAS Tokens on PC Manager Supply Chains." The research explores two critical vulnerabilities (ZDI-23-1527 and ZDI-23-1528) that could have enabled attackers to hijack the M…

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A blast from the breached past. 31:43

12d ago31:43

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An historic data breach that wasn’t. Aflac says it stopped a ransomware attack. Cloudflare thwarts a record breaking DDoS attack. Mocha Manakin combines clever social engineering with custom-built malware. The Godfather Android trojan uses a sophisticated virtualization technique to hijack banking and crypto apps. A British expert on Russian inform…

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Linux After Dark – Episode 98 25:12

12d ago25:12

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It’s the £50 Linux machine challenge! We all had a budget of 50 GBP (~65 USD) to buy the best computer we could find to run Linux. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.By The Late Night Linux Family

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2.5 Admins 252: Nintendon’t Back Up 29:37

13d ago29:37

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Nintendo cuts off Switches that dare to play backed up games, more Microsoft AI exploits, why you shouldn’t regularly spin down hard drives, and securing applications on a home server. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware – A Cost-Efficient, Data-Sure Storag…

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Juneteenth: Reflecting, belonging, and owning your seat at the table. [Special Edition] 35:26

13d ago35:26

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We put together an open conversation between our podcast hosts, CyberWire Daily's Dave Bittner, T-Minus Space Daily’s Maria Varmazis, and CISO Perspectives podcast’s Kim Jones. Their conversation goes deeper than just the historical significance of Juneteenth, diving into candid conversations on allyship, representation, and the enduring value of d…

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Typhoon on the line. 28:35

14d ago28:35

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Viasat confirms it was breached by Salt Typhoon. Microsoft’s June 2025 security update giveth, and Microsoft’s June 2025 security update taketh away. Local privilege escalation flaws grant root access on major Linux distributions. BeyondTrust patches a critical remote code execution flaw. SMS low cost routing exposes users to serious risks. Erie In…

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Can’t DOGE the inquiry. 33:09

15d ago33:09

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A House oversight committee requests DOGE documents from Microsoft. Predatory Sparrow claims a cyberattack on an Iranian bank. Microsoft says data that happens in Europe will stay in Europe. A complex malware campaign is using heavily obfuscated Visual Basic files to deploy RATs. A widely used CMS platform suffers potential RCE bugs. North Korea’s …

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Late Night Linux – Episode 338 29:24

15d ago29:24

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X11 is basically dead (again) and we are quite pleased, the Linux Foundation sets out to fix the WordPress mess and some of us are cynical, custom ROMs for Pixel phones are going to be much more difficult to make, Apple is adding proper OCI containers to macOS, and more. News Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 t…

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Late Night Linux – Episode 338 29:24

15d ago29:24

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X11 is basically dead (again) and we are quite pleased, the Linux Foundation sets out to fix the WordPress mess and some of us are cynical, custom ROMs for Pixel phones are going to be much more difficult to make, Apple is adding proper OCI containers to macOS, and more. News Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 t…

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Late Night Linux – Episode 338 29:24

15d ago29:24

29:24

X11 is basically dead (again) and we are quite pleased, the Linux Foundation sets out to fix the WordPress mess and some of us are cynical, custom ROMs for Pixel phones are going to be much more difficult to make, Apple is adding proper OCI containers to macOS, and more. News Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 t…

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Darknet drug marketplace closed for business. 37:24

16d ago37:24

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International law enforcement takes down a darknet drug marketplace. The Washington Post is investigating a cyberattack targeting several journalists' email accounts. Anubis ransomware adds destructive capabilities. The GrayAlpha threat group uses fake browser update pages to deliver advanced malware. Researchers uncover a stealthy malware campaign…

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 126 25:25

17d ago25:25

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How we deal with complex projects involving non-technical people as well as developers. How to manage expectations about timing, how to deal with issues, why documenting conversations is important, and more. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to th…

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Mark Nunnikhoven: Providing clarity about security. [Cloud strategy] 8:53

17d ago8:53

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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Distinguished Cloud Strategist at Lacework, Mark Nunnikhoven, has gone from taking technology to its limits for his own understanding to providing clarity about security for others. Mark fell in love with his Commodore 128 and once he realized he could bend the machine to his will, it set him on the path to…

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Hiding in plain sight with vibe coding. 21:49

18d ago21:49

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This week, Dave is joined by ⁠Ziv Karliner⁠, ⁠Pillar Security⁠’s Co-Founder and CTO, sharing details on their work on "New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot and Cursor: How Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents." Vibe Coding - where developers use AI assistants like GitHub Copilot and Cursor to generate code almost instantly - has become central to how e…

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Cloudflare’s cloudy day resolved. 29:03

19d ago29:03

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Cloudflare says yesterday’s widespread outage was not caused by a cyberattack. Predator mobile spyware remains highly active. Microsoft is investigating ongoing Microsoft 365 authentication services issues. An account takeover campaign targets Entra ID users by abusing a popular pen testing tool. Palo Alto Networks documents a JavaScript obfuscatio…

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 32 24:17

19d ago24:17

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After over 10 years of using Synology appliances for his backups, Gary has had enough of their shenanigans and needs to rethink his whole setup. Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives AOOSTAR NAS series UGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NAS Fractal Design Node 304 – Black – Mini Cube Compact Computer Case T…

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Scam operations disrupted across Asia. 34:04

20d ago34:04

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Interpol’s Operation Secure dismantles a major cybercrime network, and Singapore takes down scam centers. GitLab patches multiple vulnerabilities in its DevSecOps platform. Researchers unveil a covert method for exfiltrating data using smartwatches. EchoLeak allows for data exfiltration from Microsoft Copilot. Journalists are confirmed targets of P…

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2.5 Admins 251: OversharePoint 31:54

20d ago31:54

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SharePoint is exploitable by Microsoft’s AI, NIST proposes a new metric for exploited vulnerabilities, SBCs that look cool for a mini NAS and a router, and setting up a first NAS with 4 disks. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes The Maintainer’s Dilemma: Strategies for Supporting Legacy Drivers Acro…

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Ghost students “haunting” online colleges. 37:06

21d ago37:06

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Patch Tuesday. Mozilla patches two critical FireFox security flaws. A critical flaw in Salesforce OmniStudio exposes sensitive customer data stored in plain text. The Badbox botnet continues to evolve. AI-powered “ghost students” enrolling in online college courses to steal government funds. Hackers steal nearly 300,000 vehicle crash reports from t…

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Ask The Hosts – Episode 25 16:46

21d ago16:46

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Sports we’d take up if we were less unfit and lazy, whether we listen to our own podcasts, what the best time of day is, and our favourite sci-fi shows. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.By The Late Night Linux Family

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Jedai tricks, human risks. 33:59

22d ago33:59

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An unsecured Chroma database exposes personal information of Canva Creators. A researcher brute-forces Google phone numbers. Five zero-day vulnerabilities in Salesforce Industry Cloud are uncovered. Librarian Ghouls target Russian organizations with stealthy malware. SAP releases multiple security patches including a critical fix for a NetWeaver bu…

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Linux Matters 57: Nerdy Day Trips 36:54

22d ago36:54

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In this episode: Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix This technique can be applied to other purposes. Get the technical details from Martin’s blog: The Nix Space Heist: Reclaiming 130GB in GitHub Actions Alan has resurrected a very nerdy website. Go to Nerdy Day Trips² and submit your favourite fascina…

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Late Night Linux – Episode 337 31:36

23d ago31:36

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Redis finally picks the right licence but it’s probably too late, the Ubuntu release process is being modernised, GNOME drops X11 for good and gets a new Executive Director, the Android Desktop mode is officially happening, and Linux Format magazine is no more. Plus a cool Frigate update, auto dark mode in Plasma, and Fender’s new audio workstation…

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Late Night Linux – Episode 337 31:36

23d ago31:36

31:36

Redis finally picks the right licence but it’s probably too late, the Ubuntu release process is being modernised, GNOME drops X11 for good and gets a new Executive Director, the Android Desktop mode is officially happening, and Linux Format magazine is no more. Plus a cool Frigate update, auto dark mode in Plasma, and Fender’s new audio workstation…

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Late Night Linux – Episode 337 31:36

23d ago31:36

31:36

Redis finally picks the right licence but it’s probably too late, the Ubuntu release process is being modernised, GNOME drops X11 for good and gets a new Executive Director, the Android Desktop mode is officially happening, and Linux Format magazine is no more. Plus a cool Frigate update, auto dark mode in Plasma, and Fender’s new audio workstation…

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White House reboots cybersecurity priorities. 36:12

23d ago36:12

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A new White House executive Order overhauls U.S. cybersecurity policy. The EU updates its “cybersecurity blueprint”. The Pentagon’s inspector general investigates Defense Secretary Hegseth’s Signal messages. Chinese hackers target U.S. smartphones. A new Mirai botnet variant drops malware on vulnerable DVRs. 17 popular Gluestack packages on NPM hav…

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Ell Marquez: It's okay to be new. [Linux] [Career Notes] 9:52

24d ago9:52

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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Linux and Security Advocate at Intezer Ell Marquez shares her journey from the family ranch to security. Needing a life change due to a bunch of circumstances that had occurred that left her almost homeless, Ell found out about a six week Linux boot camp that took her down the path toward technology. She fe…

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A new stealer hiding behind AI hype. [Research Saturday] 25:08

25d ago25:08

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This week, we are joined by Michael Gorelik, Chief Technology Officer from Morphisec, discussing their work on "New Noodlophile Stealer Distributes Via Fake AI Video Generation Platforms." A new threat dubbed Noodlophile Stealer is exploiting the popularity of AI-powered content tools by posing as fake AI video generation platforms, luring users in…

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Beware of BADBOX. 33:20

26d ago33:20

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The DOJ files to seize over $7 million linked to illegal North Korean IT workers. The FBI warns of BADBOX 2.0 malware targeting IoT devices. Researchers uncover a major security flaw in Chrome extensions. ESET uncovers Iranian hackers targeting Kurdish and Iraqi government officials. Hitachi Energy, Acronis and Cisco patch critical vulnerabilities.…