News briefs for March 5, 2019.
LibreSignage, "a FOSS digital signage solution for managing a network of digital signage clients...anything from small advertisement displays to larger commercial billboards", is looking for beta testers for LibreSignage v1.0.0[1]: "If you'd like to try out the latest and greatest of LibreSignage development, you can pull the LibreSignage Docker image by pulling libresignage:v1.0.0-beta-1 from Docker Hub. The readme in the GIT repository contains further instructions on setting up and starting a container. Alternatively you can pull the v1.0.0-beta-1 tag from the GIT repository at https://github.com/eerotal/LibreSignage[2] and build LibreSignage yourself."
OpenNebula[3] recently released version 5.8 "Edge"[4]. This version is the fifth major release of the open-source cloud management software. New major features include support for LXD, automatic NIC selection, distributed data centers and scalability improvements. See the release notes[5] for more information, and go here[6] to download.
New "SPOILER" attack discovered affecting Intel's CPUs. Phoronix reports[7] that researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and University of Lubeck discovered the speculative attack and that "Intel was notified of this issue a few months ago but no software/hardware fix appears ready yet, while the researchers claim there might not be an effective software solution available at least anytime soon—and any mitigation would likely come at a performance cost, as we've seen with Spectre and Meltdown over the past year. AMD and ARM CPUs aren't believed to be impacted by SPOILER." See also "SPOILER: Speculative Load Hazards Boost Rowhammer and Cache Attacks"[8].
A bug in the Android TV OS has been found that could expose personal photos to others who own the same Android TV. According to Appuals[9], when Twitter user @wothadei "tried to access his Vu Android TV through the Google Home app, he could see the linked accounts