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Devs discover “realityOS” hints in Apple logs and code

Enlarge / Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, California. (credit: Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Software developers have discovered apparent references to a new Apple operating system called “realityOS” in App Store upload logs and in GitHub repositories used by the company. The references were shared widely by developers Rens Verhoeven and Steve Troughton-Smith on Twitter. […]

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Cryptocurrency launchpad hit by $3 million supply chain attack

Enlarge (credit: Austin Distel) SushiSwap’s chief technology officer says the company’s MISO platform has been hit by a software supply chain attack. SushiSwap is a community-driven decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that lets users swap, earn, lend, borrow, and leverage cryptocurrency assets all from one place. Launched earlier this year, Sushi’s newest offering, Minimal Initial SushiSwap Offering (MISO), is […]

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Travis CI flaw exposed secrets of thousands of open source projects

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A security flaw in Travis CI potentially exposed secrets of thousands of open source projects that rely on the hosted continuous integration service. Travis CI is a software-testing solution used by over 900,000 open source projects and 600,000 users. However, a vulnerability in the tool made it possible for secure environment […]

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Audacity’s new owner is in another fight with the open source community

Enlarge / MuseScore (the website) offers access to hundreds of thousands of sheet music arrangements. MuseScore (the application) allows easy editing and modification, MIDI playback, and more. (credit: Muse Group) Muse Group—owner of the popular audio-editing app Audacity—is in hot water with the open source community again. This time, the controversy isn’t over Audacity—it’s about […]

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Github reverses takedown of reverse-engineered GTA source code

Shots from the reverse-engineered version of Grand Theft Auto III showing off the graphical improvements over the 2002 original. [credit: RockStar Games ] The reverse-engineered source code for the PC versions of Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City is back online today, months after it was originally posted and then quickly taken down via […]

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Hackers backdoor PHP source code after breaching internal git server

Enlarge (credit: BeeBright / Getty Images / iStockphoto) A hacker compromised the server used to distribute the PHP programming language and added a backdoor to source code that would have made websites vulnerable to complete takeover, members of the open source project said. Two updates pushed to the PHP Git server over the weekend added […]

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GitHub regrets firing Jewish employee who called Trump-incited mob “Nazis”

Enlarge / Trump-incited mob tries to breach the US Capitol building in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) GitHub Inc. yesterday apologized for firing a Jewish employee who had urged colleagues to “stay safe” and avoid “Nazis” on the day a mob incited by President Trump stormed the US […]

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GitHub CEO: We Are nuking all Monitoring’cookies’ and you Ought to Also

Our assignment to generate business better would be fueled by viewers just like you. Last month the group in GitHub, the program code-sharing site, revealed its chief executive order, Nat Friedman, a few fresh layout strategies. They’re so all those bothersome electronic pop-ups that ask people to take that the use of”cookies,” a pervading monitoring […]