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[$] Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package

Chromium , the open-source upstream project for Google's Chrome web browser, is the browser of choice for many Linux users. It has also gained a reputation as being difficult for Linux distributions to package and build : Chromium has a complex build system, the project bundles many of its dependencies, and it has frequent releases. All of that, plus user complaints, has led the maintainers of…

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Apple’s new parental controls are having a messy roll out ↦

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, writing at The Verge, illuminates some challenges with the new parental controls Apple added in this year’s software updates: I’m not even trying to use Screen Time on my…

  • Technical challenges plague Apple's parental control rollout
  • iPad cannot be updated to iOS 27, rendering controls inoperable
  • Other devices fail to register update, causing ghost devices

OpenSSH 10.6 released

Version 10.6 of OpenSSH has been released. The announcement notes that the OpenSSH team has been receiving a large number of AI-assisted security bug reports.

  • OpenSSH 10.6 released with hybrid post-quantum signature algorithm
  • -p option added for sftp s lmkdir / mkdir commands
  • scp -R option deprecated due to security risks

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