Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Security, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 05, 2025

• Web Browsers/Web Servers

  • Matt Fantinel ☛ The Quest for a Good Arc Replacement

    I’ve been a happy Arc user since 2022. It’s well-designed, significantly improved how I use a web browser, works well, and has (had) a team of passionate and talented people behind it that frequently pumped out some nice, weird, fun ideas. However, lately I’ve been trying to find a good replacement for it and got reminded of how hard it is to find a good option for a browser.

  • The Ladybird Browser Initiative ☛ This Month in Ladybird - July 2025

    As usual, we’ve made some progress on the Web Platform Tests. We’ve added 13,090 passing tests for a new total of 1,831,856.

  • Mozilla

    • Firefox Nightly: Custom Profile Avatars Arrive in Nightly – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 186

      Highlights

• Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

  • Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice project and community recap: July 2025

    Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started July with some very positive news: a Danish Ministry is switching from Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice.

• Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

  • Open Data

    • Scoop News Group ☛ Statistics, public data leaders condemn Trump’s order to fire BLS commissioner

      “This rationale for firing Dr. McEntarfer is without merit and undermines the credibility of federal economic statistics that are a cornerstone of intelligent economic decision-making by businesses, families, and policymakers,” Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a statement Friday night.

• Standards/Consortia

  • Six Colors ☛ [Installing] audiobooks to an iPhone

    This is where we hit the first snag. Steven exported the audio as MP3, and Apple’s Books app for Mac read the chapter markers but seemed to think they were zero seconds long. A little research on my part found that “chapterized” audio files, ones with chapter breaks, can work with MP3, but most apps handle this better with the newer-but-not-at-all-new AAC format (part of MP4). So I exported to AAC, which uses the .m4a extension by default, tested it with Books, and thought all was good.

• Security

  • LWN ☛ Security updates for Monday

    Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-21-openjdk, kernel, libxml2, and lz4), Debian (exempi, ruby-graphql, and sope), Fedora (binutils, chromium, gdk-pixbuf2, libsoup3, poppler, and reposurgeon), Mageia (glib2.0 and wxgtk), Oracle (jackson-annotations, jackson-core, jackson-databind, jackson-jaxrs-providers, and jackson-modules-base and libxml2), Red Hat (kernel, pandoc, pcs, qemu-kvm, redis, and rsync), SUSE (chromedriver, coreutils, cosign, docker, gdk-pixbuf-devel, glib2, gnutls, grub2, gstreamer-plugins-base, helm, ignition, java-21-openjdk, jbigkit, jq, kernel, kubernetes1.28, kwctl, libxml2, nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed, opensc, pam-config, protobuf, python310, tgt, and valkey), and Ubuntu (linux-iot).

  • SANS ☛ New Feature: Daily Trends Report, (Mon, Aug 4th)

    I implemented a new report today, the "Daily Trends" report. It summarizes noteworthy data received from our honeypot. As with everything, it will improve if you provide feedback :)

  • Security Week ☛ Nvidia Triton Vulnerabilities Pose Big Risk to Hey Hi (AI) Models

    Nvidia has patched over a dozen vulnerabilities in Triton Inference Server, including another set of vulnerabilities that threaten Hey Hi (AI) systems.