For more than two decades the US government has funded the CVE Program, which tracks and publicly discloses cybersecurity vulnerabilities in a uniform manner. But this week it looked like the federal contract that funds the organization could be set to expire, which could have had a pretty serious impact on global cybersecurity efforts.
That didn’t happen – the US has extended funding for at least 11 more months. But a new foundation hopes to reduce the CVE Program’s reliance on a single source of funding to ensure the organization’s independence and long-term sustainability.
In other recent tech news from around the web, a developer contest in China has revealed a bunch of new or upcoming single-board computers powered by Qualcomm’s Dragonwing platform (which pairs ARM-based chips with NPUs for hardware-accelerated AI features), the Windows Snipping Tools is getting the ability to extract text, and Fedora Asahi Remix is now available, bringing microphone support for MacBooks with Apple Silicon when running this GNU/Linux distribution.
Radxa Dragon Q6A is a Raspberry Pi-sized single-board PC with a Qualcomm QCS6490 processor featuring a 12 TOPS AI accelerator and support for up to 16GB of RAM. www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/16/r…
— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) April 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The Meig Pi dev kit is a 5.1″ x 4″ single-board PC with Qualcomm Dragonwing chips that combine a Kryo CPU with Adreno graphics and a Hexagon NPU for up to 48 TOPS of AI performance. WiFi 7, BT 5.3 and Gigabit Ethernet also included. www.linkedin.com/posts/meigsm…
— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) April 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Windows Snipping Tool is getting a text extractor feature that uses OCR (optical character recognition) to let you copy and paste text from a screenshot. Options include “Copy all text,” and “remove line breaks.” blogs.windows.com/windows-insi…
— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) April 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It appeared the US government would let funding expire for the CVE program that tracks cybersecurity vulnerabilities, but the contract has been extended by 11 months. Meanwhile a new non-profit could reduce the reliance on govt funding long-term. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit…
— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) April 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Fedora Asahi Remix 42 is now available, bringing microphone support to supported MacBooks with Apple Silicon as well as KDE Plasma 6.3 (or GNOME 48), and other updates. fedoramagazine.org/fedora-asahi…
— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) April 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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