My previous post looked at Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi 4. This time I’m going to try installing Manjaro Linux, with two different desktops on two different Pi models.

In my previous post, I walked through Installing Ubuntu Linux 20.10 on a Raspberry Pi 4. That went pretty well, with both the standard Gnome desktop and the MATE desktop. This time, because I am not much of an Ubuntu fan, I want to try a Linux distribution, which I prefer and have been using on my various laptop and desktop systems: Manjaro.

These are the tech products and innovations that most impressed Jason and Jason this year.

Backdoors and ‘bugdoors’ might be hard to spot but they put open-source security at risk.

Microsoft-owned GitHub, the world’s largest platform for open-source software, has found that 17% of all vulnerabilities in software were planted for malicious purposes.

GitHub reported that almost a fifth of all software bugs were intentionally placed in code by malicious actors in its 2020 Octoverse report, released yesterday.

Two weeks after Google disclosed a security flaw in GitHub, the Microsoft-owned site has fixed the issue.

GitHub has finally fixed a high severity security flaw reported to it by Google Project Zero more than three months ago.

The bug affected GitHub’s Actions feature – a developer workflow automation tool – that Google Project Zero researcher Felix Wilhelm said was “highly vulnerable to injection attacks”. GitHub’s Actions support a feature called workflow commands as a communication channel between the Action runner and the executed action.

This marks the first time a major Windows ransomware strain has been ported to Linux to aid hackers in their targeted intrusions.

Security firm Kaspersky said today that it discovered a Linux version of the RansomEXX ransomware, marking the first time a major Windows ransomware strain has been ported to Linux to aid in targeted intrusions.

Here’s what we expect Apple to announce and how to watch the company’s third special event in as many months.