Article note: The little new-media (from the big landscape shift when video got democratized) studio is eventually consumed and dissolved by the gigantic incumbent old media conglomerate.
Article note: Oh dip.
For enterprise-ball-squeezer Broadcom to be that "generous" with patches, this must be bad enough they're worried about reputation damage and/or getting blamed for internet-scale problems.
VMware is urging customers to patch critical vulnerabilities that make it possible for hackers to break out of sandbox and hypervisor protections in all versions, including out-of-support ones, of VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation products.
A constellation of four vulnerabilities—two carrying severity ratings of 9.3 out of a possible 10—are serious because they undermine the fundamental purpose of the VMware products, which is to run sensitive operations inside a virtual machine that’s segmented from the host machine. VMware officials said that the prospect of a hypervisor escape warranted an immediate response under the company’s IT Infrastructure Library, a process usually abbreviated as ITIL.
“Emergency change”
“In ITIL terms, this situation qualifies as an emergency change, necessitating prompt action from your organization,” the officials wrote in a post. “However, the appropriate security response varies depending on specific circumstances.”
Article note: Holy shit Apple is going hard on this.
The EU just handed them a $2B fine in the Spotify case, and to add to their already substantial malicious compliance on the DMA, they've suspended Epic's (who have been among the most aggressive in perusing access) developer account.
Microsoft got away with a not-even-as-bold implementation of this kind of shit for a couple years in the 90s before getting smacked down, but either some executives have a staggering amount of hubris, or the calculus on how much the walled garden and associated anti-competitive practices are worth is just so much lucre it seems worth it not to give any ground.
Article note: I thought her whole strategy was to wait and hope she became the defacto Republican candidate because Trump was rendered ineligible due to a conviction in one of his various felony cases or a stroke or something.
The contest that many Americans had long hoped to avoid — the 2024 sequel of Biden vs. Trump — is an inescapable reality.
Firefox has a facility to use native file pickers via xdg-portals, which most of the internet will tell you is set in a key in about:config called widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal. Quite some time ago, that was split into more granular keys so … Continue reading →
