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Choosing AnyType: A Platform for Scalable, Secure Governance
STF needed a scalable, secure, and asynchronous collaboration system for representatives across multiple time zones. This article explains why AnyType was selected, how it is used today, and which features and challenges matter most as the Software Transparency Foundation.
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Thunderbird ☛ State of the Thunder 14: The 2026 Mobile Roadmap - The Thunderbird Blog
Welcome back to the latest State of the Thunder. In the last Community Office Hours, Heather and Monica sat down with members of the mobile team in a retrospective to celebrate the first year of the Thunderbird for Android app. In this recording, however, Alessandro is leading viewers through the upcoming mobile roadmap, both for Android and iOS.
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Chromium
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Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications
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Scoop News Group ☛ Google addresses 107 Android vulnerabilities, including two zero-days
Google’s public vulnerability disclosure and reporting program for Android has been uneven this year. While the company typically issues dozens of security patches each month, Google reported no vulnerabilities in July and October, just six in August and two vulnerabilities in November.
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Education
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Ruben Schade ☛ The Llama Book
They’re right. The Camel Book is up there with The Pickaxe and K&R for introducing a generation of system administrators and developers to the then-nascent Perl language. The wood cut graphic of a camel (long a mainstay of O’Reilly books) has found its way into broader Perl lore, becoming a mascot of the language as a whole. Some graphics like the Programming Republic of Perl use that exact artwork.
The Camel Book is arguably the book for Perl, but it wasn’t ours. Eskild and I learned from the Llama Book, or Learning Perl, another O’Reilly classic that’s held in equally high regard, if not reverence: [...]
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FSF / Software Freedom
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[Repeat] FSF ☛ We support your freedom — support the Licensing and Compliance Lab
From the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) earliest efforts protecting user freedom to the formation of the Licensing and Compliance Lab (the Lab) in 2001 and beyond, the tactics and methods used to keep the GNU project and the GNU General Public License (GPL) strong for software freedom have been consistent. We have software freedom today because of the deliberate efforts of our predecessors, but to quote the memorable original Star Trek character, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, "All right, it's worked so far, but we're not out yet." From copyright and compliance to education and support, our tried and proven work continues, and we will not stop fulfilling our mission to promote and defend users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and distribute software.
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