Security, Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub), and Microsoft FUD


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Intel Makes ControlFlag Open-Source For Helping To Detect Bugs In Code - Phoronix
Last year Intel announced ControlFlag as a machine learning tool for helping to uncover bugs within code. ControlFlag promised impressive results after being trained on more than one billion lines of code and at the end of 2020 was already being used internally on Intel's code-bases from firmware to software applications. We hadn't heard anything more about ControlFlag this year... Until today. Intel has now made ControlFlag open-source for helping to autonomously detect more programming bugs.
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Developers: Intel's automated debugging tool ControlFlag is now open source [Ed: Intel has once again outsourced a project, this time ControlFlag, to Microsoft's proprietary software]
Now available via GitHub, ControlFlag taps machine learning to automatically identify bugs in software and firmware code, saving developers the time-consuming task of manually debugging the programs they write.
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Newly Found npm Malware Mines Cryptocurrency on Windows, Linux, macOS Devices [Ed: Microsoft is shipping malware and a Microsoft partner, Sonatype, blames the recipients]
Sonatype’s automated malware detection system has caught multiple malicious packages on the npm registry this month. These packages disguise themselves as legitimate JavaScript libraries but were caught launching cryptominers on Windows, macOS and Linux machines.
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These hackers dodge Windows and target Linux as they look to steal phone data [Ed: ZDNet has resorted to shamelessly quoting and relaying talking points from Microsoft-connected operatives, basically painting Windows with back doors as "OK" and Linux guilty for things that have nothing to do with Linux]
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