La holding du milliardaire américain va racheter la majorité des journaux du groupe Media General pour un total de 587 millions de dollars.

La ministre déléguée de la justice  a "résilié le bail" de l'appartement de la Régie immobilière de la Ville de Paris qu'elle occupait.

Une usine de conditionnement de viande a été entièrement détruite dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi, à Montchanin.

Le Front national a investi Catherine Blein dans la circonscription de Guingamp (Côtes d'Armor). Une proche de Philippe Millau qui a toujours été très hostile à Marine Le Pen.

L'ancien conseiller de Nicolas Sarkozy estime que l'échec du président battu "aura été de créer du stress dans le pays".

Cette demande d'économies, de 5 % à 15 % en fonction des régions, concerne la période de pic estival, quand les fortes chaleurs entraînent habituellement une surconsommation électrique liée à l'utilisation généralisée des climatiseurs.

En 1975, mimant l'amour physique sur une trame d'accords funk, Donna Summer ouvrait les années disco dans un râle de plaisir.

Jeudi 17 mai, le ministre de l'éducation, Vincent Peillon, avait annoncé le retour à la semaine de cinq jours dès la rentrée 2013.

Le dernier film du réalisateur autrichien, "Paradis : Amour", est projeté vendredi à Cannes.

Hewlett-Packard, qui emploie plus de 300 000 personnes dans le monde, pourrait annoncer ces réductions d'effectifs dès la semaine prochaine.

Over at the Guardian, Cory Doctorow writes about two problems that govern the relationship between politics and technically oriented folks ("nerds" in Doctorow-speak): "nerd determinism" and "nerd fatalism". "But, while it's true that geeks can get around this sort of thing – and other bad network policies, such as network-level censorship, or vendor locks on our tablets, phones, consoles, and computers – this isn't enough to protect us, let alone the world. It doesn't matter how good your email provider is, or how secure your messages are, if 95% of the people you correspond with use a free webmail service with a lawful interception backdoor, and if none of those people can figure out how to use crypto, then nearly all your email will be within reach of spooks and control-freaks and cops on fishing expeditions."

Debian has updated openoffice.org (code execution) and ikiwiki (cross-site scripting). Mandriva has updated imagemagick (2010.1, ES 5.0; 2011.: multiple vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated openssl (SLE 11: two vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated sudo (privilege escalation).

The H reports on a vulnerability in sudo when it is configured for IP-based restrictions on users (typically only for centrally managed sudoers files). "When the developers added IPv6 support, they inadvertently made the matching routine used for IPv4 networks call the IPv6 matching routines when no IPv4 match was found. Because the IPv6 fields would be uninitialised, it was possible for the system to think it had found a match where there wasn't one. Finding a match would, in turn, mean permission would be granted for whatever command the rule was controlling, even when the system was on a different network."

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 17, 2012 is available.

IBM has announced that the paperwork has been signed and that the contribution of the Lotus Symphony code to OpenOffice will happen shortly.
"The successful delivery of Apache OpenOffice 3.4 has enabled us to finalize our grant with the the Apache Software Foundation and initiate this new phase of effort within the community. This is about envisioning a future for Apache OpenOffice that builds on the best code we can offer together with the best developers who have mastered it." For those wondering about what this code offers, there is a Symphony Contribution wiki page describing the most interesting features.