The Banana Pi R4 is an open-source smart router. You can use it for networking jobs, as you will tell from the specs on the hardware. Keep in mind that this Single Board Computer (SBC) may be small, but it is powerful, especially when dealing with networking over any type of connection. Banana Pi R4 Specs The main specs are: MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880) quad-core Arm Cortex-A73, 1.8GHz processor 4 GB/8 GB DDR4 8 GB eMMC flash 128MB SPI-NAND Flash Micro SD... https://www.linux.org/threads/banana-pi-r4-bpi-r4.60066/
Version 1.94.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include array windows (an iterator for slices), some Cargo enhancements, and a number of newly stabilized APIs.
The grith.ai blog reports on an LLM prompt-injection vulnerability that led to 4,000 installations of a compromised version of the Cline utility. For the next eight hours, every developer who installed or updated Cline got OpenClaw - a separate AI agent with full system access - installed globally on their machine without consent. Approximately 4,000 downloads occurred before the package was pulled. The interesting part is not the payload. It is how the attacker got the npm token in the first place: by injecting a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot read, interpreted as an instruction, and executed.
Chardet is a Python module that attempts to determine which character set was used to encode a text string. It was originally written by Mark Pilgrim, who is also the author of a number of Python books; the 1.0 release happened in 2006. For many years, this module has been under the maintainership of Dan Blanchard. Chardet has always been licensed under the LGPL, but, with the 7.0.0 release, Blanchard changed the terms to the permissive MIT license. That has led to an extensive (and ongoing) discussion on when code can be relicensed against the wishes of its original author, and whether using a large language model to rewrite code is a legitimate way to strip copyleft requirements from code.
Peter Korsgaard has announced version 2026.02 of Buildroot, a tool for generating embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation. Notable changes include added support for HPPA, use of the 6.19.x kernel headers by default, better SBOM generation, and more. Again a very active cycle with more than 1500 changes from 97 unique contributors. I'm once again very happy to see so many "new" people next to the "oldtimers". See the changelog for full details. Thanks to Julien Olivain for pointing us to the announcement.
This article is part of a continuing series about data collection today. Following the information gluttony of retailers in the previous article, financial institutions seem quite restrained. None of the resources I found suggested that they had any interest in ... Read more The post What Everybody Knows About You: Banks appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
System76 published a statement today regarding the recent laws coming about in California and likely Colorado and New York too around requiring age verification on operating system accounts and ultimately exposing the information (or at least age brackets) to apps and websites. System76's position is interesting given that they sell Linux-loaded desktops, workstations and laptops plus being an operating system vendor with their in-house Pop!_OS distribution and COSMIC desktop environment...
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