Tech News Digest - 2025-03-12
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[$] New terms of service for PyPI
Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:22:35 +0000
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The Python Software Foundation (PSF) announced new terms of service (ToS) for the Python Package Index (PyPI), which has raised questions about the changes and their process. The new ToS are longer and more complex than the previous version, with some specific wording causing concerns among users.
On February 25, the Python Software Foundation (PSF), which runs the Python Package Index (PyPI), announced new terms of service (ToS) for the repository. That has led to some questions about the new ToS, and the process of coming up with them. For one thing, the previous terms of use for the service were shorter and simpler, but there are other concerns with specific wording in the new agreement.
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Traversal-resistant file APIs (The Go Blog)
Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:13:18 +0000
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Damien Neil wrote an article for the Go Blog about path traversal vulnerabilities and how the os.Root API in Go 1.24 can help prevent them. The os.Root API allows relative paths and symlinks within the root directory, resolving filenames according to the local platform's semantics.
Damien Neil has written an article for the Go Blog about path traversal vulnerabilities and the os.Root API added in Go 1.24 to help prevent them.
Root permits relative path components and symlinks that do not escape the root. For example, root.Open("a/../b") is permitted. Filenames are resolved using the semantics of the local platform: On Unix systems, this will follow any symlink in "a" (so long as that link does not escape the root); while on Windows systems this will open "b" (even if "a" does not exist).
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[$] Zig's 0.14 release inches the project toward stability
Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:49:19 +0000
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The Zig project has released version 0.14 of its language, which includes changes from over 250 contributors and new convenience features, broader architecture support, and progress towards removing its dependency on LLVM. Despite having an inconsistent release schedule, including delays for version 0.14, Zig is being used as an alternative to C with better metaprogramming capabilities by several projects.
The Zig project has announced the release of the 0.14 version of the language, including changes from more than 250 contributors. Zig is a low-level, memory-unsafe programming language that aims to compete with C instead of depending on it. Even though the language has not yet had a stable release, there are a number of projects using it as an alternative to C with better metaprogramming. While the project's release schedule has been a bit inconsistent, with the release of version 0.14 being delayed several times, the release contains a number of new convenience features, broader architecture support, and the next steps toward removing Zig's dependency on LLVM.
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Below: local privilege escalation (SUSE security team blog)
Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:47:20 +0000
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The SUSE Security Team has published an analysis of a vulnerability (CVE-2025-27591) in the "below" tool, which allows recording and displaying system data. The team discovered that the "below" service was packaged with openSUSE Tumbleweed and runs as a systemd service with root privileges, but had problematic log directory permissions applied in its code.
The SUSE Security Team blog has a post with a detailed analysis of a vulnerability (CVE-2025-27591) in the below tool for recording and displaying system data.
In January 2025, Below was packaged and submitted to openSUSE Tumbleweed. Below runs as a systemd service with root privileges. The SUSE security team monitors additions and changes to systemd service unit files in openSUSE Tumbleweed, and through this we noticed problematic log directory permissions applied in Below's code.
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The LLVM project stabilizes its Fortran compiler
Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:15:42 +0000
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The LLVM project's Fortran compiler, previously known as "flang-new", will now simply be called "flang" starting from LLVM's 20.1.0 release on March 4. After years of development and discussion, the community has deemed flang stable and complete enough to earn its new name, marking a significant milestone in the project's history.
The LLVM project's Fortran compiler, which has for many years gone by the name "flang-new", will now simply be "flang", starting from LLVM's 20.1.0 release on March 4. The announcement, which includes details about the history of flang, comes after a long period of development and discussion. The community has considered renaming flang several times before now, but has always held off out of a feeling that the compiler was not yet ready. Now, the members of the project believe that flang has become stable and complete enough to earn its name.
We are almost 10 years from the first announcement of what would become LLVM Flang. In the LLVM monorepo alone there have been close to 10,000 commits from around 400 different contributors. Undoubtedly more in Classic Flang before that.
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Welcome Gemma 3: Google's all new multimodal, multilingual, long context open LLM
Category: AI (Ollama)
Tags: AI
Published: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT
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LeRobot goes to driving school: World’s largest open-source self-driving dataset
Category: AI (Ollama)
Tags: General
Published: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT
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LLM Inference on Edge: A Fun and Easy Guide to run LLMs via React Native on your Phone!
Category: AI (Ollama)
Tags: AI
Published: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT
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Hugging Face and JFrog partner to make AI Security more transparent
Category: AI (Ollama)
Tags: General
Published: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT
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A Deepdive into Aya Vision: Advancing the Frontier of Multilingual Multimodality
Category: AI (Ollama)
Tags: General
Published: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT
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