LWN recently reported on the Trivy compromise that led, in turn, to the compromise of the LiteLLM system; that article made the point that the extent of the problem was likely rather larger than was known. The Next Web now reports that the Trivy attack was used to compromise a wide range of European Commission systems. The European Union's computer emergency response team said on Thursday that a supply chain attack on an open-source security scanner gave hackers the keys to the European Commiss…

"Canonical is no longer pretending that 4GB is enough," writes the blog How-to-Geek, noting Ubuntu 26.04 LTS "raises the baseline memory to 6GB, alongside a 2GHz dual-core processor, and 25GB of storage..." Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) set the floor at 1GB — a modest ask when it launched more than a decade ago in 2014. Then came the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) that pushed the number to 4GB, surviving quite well in the era of 16GB being considered standard for mid-range laptops.... Ubuntu…

Chainguard reveals why many DevOps teams struggle with container security. Explore insights and solutions to streamline your security processes effectively. The post Chainguard Thinks Most DevOps Teams Are Solving Container Security The Hard Way appeared first on Linux Today .

The Tour de Los Padres is coming! The race organizer post the route on ridewithgps . This works, but has convoluted interfaces for people not wanting to use their service. I just wrote a simple script to export their data into a plain .gpx file, including all the waypoints. Their exporter omits those. The gpx-from-ridewithgps.py script: # !/usr/bin/python3 import sys import json def quote_xml (s): return s.replace( "&" , "&" ).replace( "" , " " ) print ( "Reading stdin" , file =sys.stderr) data…