today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 20, 2025

• GNU/Linux

  • Linux Made Simple ☛ 2025-07-13 [Older] Linux Weekly Roundup #333

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Debian Family

    • DebConf25

      Usually, I like to do a more detailed write-up of DebConf, but I was already quite burnt out when I got here, so I’ll circle back to a few things that were important to me in later posts.

      In the meantime, thanks to everyone who made this DebConf possible, whether you volunteered for one task or were part of the organisation team. Also a special thanks to the wonderful sponsors who turned this DebConf from running into a small deficit into a gain.

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • Linux On Mobile ☛ 2025-07-13 [Older] Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (28/2025): Automatically Focussed

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Slashdot ☛ LibreOffice Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin As Currency

• Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

  • Wired ☛ At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds

    Now a new study by a team of medical cybersecurity researchers has taken the first steps toward quantifying the cost of CrowdStrike's disaster not in dollars, but in potential harm to hospitals and their patients across the US. It reveals evidence that hundreds of those hospitals' services were disrupted during the outage, and raises concerns about potentially grave effects to patients’ health and well-being.

  • The Record ☛ Japanese police release decryptor for Phobos ransomware after February takedown

    On Thursday, Japanese officials published the free decryption tool and a guide in English for organizations impacted by the group’s attacks. U.S. prosecutors previously said operators of the strains collected upwards of $16 million from about 1,000 victims worldwide dating back to 2019.