Infiltration, GNU/Linux, and Reproducible Builds

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 07, 2025

• GNU/Linux

  • Audiocasts/Shows

    • mintCast Podcast ☛ mintCast Round Table 09-06-25

  • Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

    • GNOME Desktop/GTK

      • Aryan Kaushik: GNOME Outreachy Dec 2025 Cohort

        The GNOME Foundation is interested in participating in the December-March cohort of Outreachy and is looking for 1 intern.

        If you are interested in mentoring AND have a project idea in mind, please visit the Internship project ideas repository and submit your proposal by 10th September 2025. All proposals are triaged by Allan Day, Matthias Clasen and Sri Ramkrishna before approval.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • Hackaday ☛ Knowing That It Is Possible

      We like to think that we can do almost anything. Give me a broken piece of consumer electronics, and I’ll open it up and kick the capacitors. Give me an embedded Linux machine, and I’ll poke around for a serial port and see if it’s running uboot. But my confidence suddenly pales when you hand me a smartphone.

• Infiltration

  • Web Browsers/Web Servers

    • Mozilla

      • September 6 Tech news roundup: Linux Mint 22.2 released, Hollow Knight: Silksong is out, Firefox brings Copilot to its sidebar [Ed: After outsourcing Firefox development to Microsoft Mozilla turns Firefox into Microsoft malware that spies on users. Unbelievable self-inflicted wound. Mozilla is dying.]

        Mozilla continues to add AI features in Firefox. The browser maker has introduced a new AI chatbot that can be accessed from Firefox Nightly’s sidebar, and it’s none other than Microsoft Copilot. This is an optional feature, and you can disable it completely.

        [...]

        Some Firefox fans are not happy with the direction Mozilla is heading towards, despite the chatbot feature being completely optional.

• Security

  • Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in August 2025

    Welcome to the August 2025 report from the Reproducible Builds project!

    Welcome to the latest report from the Reproducible Builds project for August 2025. These monthly reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, and highlight items of news from elsewhere in the increasingly-important area of software supply-chain security. If you are interested in contributing to the Reproducible Builds project, please see the Contribute page on our website.