In his talk, Evan Smith gives practical tips on how to become a kinder engineer.

The blog presents some practical Nginx features, e.g., rate-limiting, caching, and the split-client module.

The Google Project Zero team explains how AMD-specific led to KVM virtual machine escape.

This site and the related paper focuses on same-site attacks on the modern web through the takeover of insufficiently secured subdomains.

This page provides end-of-life dates for different tools and technologies.

List of alternatives to common Linux/UNIX commands.

traitor checks for local misconfigurations and vulnerabilities and exploits them automatically to pop a root shell.

elfcat generates HTML files from ELF binaries.

Virtio-FS is a shared filesystem for letting local virtual machines access host directories.

Rocky Linux 8.4, bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, is now generally available. The Rocky Linux community also provides a tool to aid the conversation from the 8.4 versions of Alma Linux, CentOS, RHEL, and Oracle Linux.

Besides all the other improvements, SLE 15 SP3 is the first release that provides binary compatibility with the corresponding openSUSE Leap version 15.3.

Google announced »a simple, unified schema for describing vulnerabilities precisely. «

The article looks at two recent backup issues: One caused by the retention time of iCloud backups and the other caused by the malicious remote factory reset of Western Digital My Book Live NAS, based on a three-year-old CVE that Western Digital never fixed.

Debian is moving away from OpenGPG for repository signing.

The paper describes Facebook's distributed file system called Tectonic. It can address and store exabytes with optimized resource utilization and less operational complexity.

GitHub Container registry supporting OCI images is now GA and comes with anonymous access for public containers, permission control for containers, and visibility independent of the repository. The existing Docker registry at docker.pkg.github.com will be automatically migrated to the new container registry in the coming weeks.

»Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s dominance poses risks to the global economy, amid geopolitical tensions and a major chip shortage.«

»pgCenter is a command-line admin tool for observing and troubleshooting Postgres.«