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Rolling out fwupd 2.0.20 to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS revealed a bug in the upstream code, and a bug in our downstream code; so the update is currently paused.

This shows that the Ubuntu error tracker is quite a useful thing.

Thanks to Mario and @hughsie for a quick likely fix for the upstream bug (https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/10482)!

Crash in `fwupd (11) FU_FIRMWARE_GET_CLASS → fu_firmware_parse_stream → fu_mtd_device_read_firmware → fu_plugin_device_read_firmware → fu_plugin_runner_verify` · Issue #10482 · fwupd/fwupd

Describe the bug This was reported by the automatic error detection at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/58b7e9ea17510b077d6375f2154b75404259994a particularly: in fu_mtd_device_read_firmware (devic...

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Jeremiah C. Foster 🇸🇪🇺🇸🍥2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vinland_technology/116731426258578884

Vinland Technology AB is the company I’ve started in Sweden.

Jeremiah C. Foster 🇸🇪🇺🇸🍥2d ago

FOSS North conference 🇸🇪2d ago

This is a great conference: https://www.sfscon.it/call-4-speakers/

Jeremiah C. Foster 🇸🇪🇺🇸🍥2d ago

FOSS North conference 🇸🇪2d ago

This is pretty big news!

https://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde/

Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development

Big Tech’s disregard for privacy laws and individuals’ personal data has become a matter of national security. As news of willful mismanagement fill the headlines on an almost daily basis, the world is beginning to turn away from expensive and insecure spyware-riddled software imposed by the likes of Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple, et al.

Jeremiah C. Foster 🇸🇪🇺🇸🍥3d ago

NGI Zero open source funding 3d ago

The 2026 Free Silicon Conference will be held July 6-8 in Ljubljana. It brings together experts and enthusiasts who want to build a complete free and open-source CAD ecosystem for designing analog and digital integrated circuits.
To join you'll need to register and registration closes June 22.
It is also still possible to submit talks to present your project to the community.

https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2026

#NGI #NGI0 #openhardware

Jeremiah C. Foster 🇸🇪🇺🇸🍥Jun 5

Thomas Fricke (he/his)Jun 5

[2606.03811] AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03811

Forget all previous threats. Forget Mythos.

Given the current state of the infrastructure and all the bugs in firewalls, perimeter security doesn't protect you seriously.

If you can't turn off the computer because it controls your critical infrastructure you have a hard problem now.

#kritis #security #ai #llm #worm

AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms

A computer worm is malware that spreads on a network by replicating itself from one machine to another. Traditional worms, like WannaCry, exploited predetermined vulnerabilities, and their spread can be halted by patching those vulnerabilities. Here we show that artificial intelligence (AI) agents enable a fundamentally new threat: a worm that generates tailored attack strategies to each target it encounters. The worm parasitically uses compromised machines to run open-weight large language models (LLMs) to sustain its reasoning, or extend its reach for further attacks. Deployed on a network of machines spanning Linux, Windows, and IoT (Internet of Things) devices, the worm propagated by exploiting common, real-world corporate network vulnerabilities. Since the worm is powered by stolen compute, the attacker's marginal cost per new infection is zero. This creates a destabilizing economic asymmetry between attackers and defenders. Moreover, because the worm requires no commercial AI platform, centralized safety controls, such as service refusals or rate limiting, are structurally irrelevant. Our results demonstrate that self-sustaining AI-driven cyber-threats are no longer theoretical. We must prepare for autonomous generative adversaries: malware systems that propagate without human operators and are defined not by fixed exploit code, but by the capacity to reason about targets, adapt to observations, and synthesize attack logic in real time.

arXiv.org

Jeremiah C. Foster 🇸🇪🇺🇸🍥Jun 5

Software Heritage Jun 5

🇪🇸 Hiring: The IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid seeks a Sys Admin/ DevOps Engineer to lead installation & maintenance of a local mirror of the Software Heritage Archive.
Details: https://software.imdea.org/careers/2026-06-other-sysadmin-swh/
#TechJobs #Spain

SysAdmin Software Heritage - The IMDEA Software Institute

Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Software Development Technologies

Jeremiah C. Foster 🇸🇪🇺🇸🍥Jun 2

Jan Wildeboer 😷

Jun 2

For no specific reason I'd like to share the coffee you get served when you visit me at home. It's either Café Minga [1] from the CENCOIC cooperative [2] or Café Libertad [3], the coffee for the daily riot ;) Both come from indigenous cooperatives that identify with the Zapatistas :)

[1] https://www.aroma-zapatista.de/einkaufen/filterkaffee/filterkaffee-minga-bohne-500g-cauca
[2] https://cencoic.com.co
[3] https://www.cafe-libertad.de/libertad/biokaffee-libertad-bohne