Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Note: This post was updated to clarify the relationship of the internal WAF tool with the incident on Dec. 5. On December 5, 2025, at 08:47...
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crates.io: Malicious crates finch-rust and sha-rust
Summary On December 5th, the crates.io team was notified by Kush Pandya from the Socket Threat Research Team of two malicious crates which were trying to...
Read moreUpdating Rust’s Linux musl targets to 1.2.5
Updating Rust’s Linux musl targets to 1.2.5 Beginning with Rust 1.93 (slated for stable release on 2026-01-22), the various *-linux-musl targets will all ship with musl...
Read moreSMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers
China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in time...
Read moreAV1 — Now Powering 30% of Netflix Streaming
AV1 — Now Powering 30% of Netflix Streaming Liwei Guo, Zhi Li, Sheldon Radford, Jeff Watts Streaming video has become an integral part of our daily lives. At Netflix,...
Read moreColin Watson: Free software activity in November 2025
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian. I had a bit less time than usual, because Freexian collaborators gathered in Marseille this month...
Read moreThe Pulse #155: 5-day RTO looms for those at Big Tech?
The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it...
Read moreEngineering more resilient crops for a warming climate
Scientists are using AlphaFold to strengthen a photosynthesis enzyme for resilient, heat-tolerant crops.
Read moreFragments Dec 4
Rob Bowley summarizes a study from Carnegie Mellon looking on the impact of AI on a bunch of open-source software projects. Like any such study, we...
Read moreWerner Vogels predicts the future
Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, stops by to help us explore his tech predictions for 2026 and beyond. Will companionship be redefined by consumer robots? Will quantum-safe...
Read moreBen Hutchings: FOSS activity in November 2025
Debian packages: debian-cd: Bugs: replied to #1120055: Please include ifenslave, vlan and possibly bridge-utils to netinst CD firmware-nonfree: Bugs: closed #1106074: include potentially non-redistributable C&M firmware...
Read moreFileBrowser Quantum Hits Stable!
A guest post from Graham Steffaniak, the developer of the popular file management platform FileBrowser Quantum Continue reading on selfh.st…
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