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title: "Your TuxCare Newsletter Is Here! 👨‍💻 [Ed. #69]"
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From haunted dev stories to Claude Sonnet 4.5 and SBOM must-knows – this month’s newsletter is packed with October treats

| View in browser   COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER    October 2025     Hey everyone! I hope you had a great September and are now kicking off a spooky October. Can you believe we will be celebrating the New Year in a couple of months? We don't have much to report this time. Make sure you enter the Dev Nightmare contest we are running. Details below! Follow us on all the socials, and tell us your horror story. Also, make sure to use the hashtag #TuxScare so we can pick a winner at the end of October. Cheers and have a spoooooky month 🎃!   Have a great month! Chris DeMars Senior Developer Advocate devrel@tuxcare.com 📰 Latest from TuxCare 🎃 What Lurks in Your Code? 🎃   😨 “I pushed to prod on a Friday without testing.”   From October 1st to 31st, join us for our first Developer Horror Stories. 👻   Drop your scariest dev tale about haunted legacy code, secrets in public repos, or zombie dependencies that will not die. At the end, our team will choose three winners based on spookiness, engagement, and creativity.   📣 How to enter: ✅ Post your scariest dev tale as text, image, or video ✅ Use #TuxScare and mention @TuxCare\_ on socials ✅ Enter by October 31, 2025 at 11:59 pm ET   🏆 Prizes: 🥇 ASUS ZenScreen 16" OLED 🥈 COMICA VM10 PRO mic 🥉 Magnetic Phone Selfie Monitor   Let’s turn shared trauma into shared learning this Halloween season. #TuxScare TuxCare Expands Full Enterprise Support to Include Rocky Linux 9.6 Now offering extended lifecycle, rebootless security patching, compliance assistance, and 24/7 expert support. Check out our Twitter for more info! 🌎 Around the Community Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 4.5, and it is available everywhere. Check out the link above for more info. Build Your First (or Next) MCP Server with the TypeScript MCP Server Our friend Nick Taylor, Developer Advocate at Pomerium, walks us through how to build our FIRST, or next MCP server using the latest tech!  Stealit Malware Abuses Node.js Single Executable Feature via Game and VPN Installers Stealit is the new kid on the block when it comes to cybersecurity threats. It leverages the Node.js SEA feature to distribute malicious scripts. The link to The Hacker News above has more details!  🗓️ Upcoming Events   TuxCare will be at a handful of events from now until the next Newsletter gets published (November 15th). If you are in any of the areas listed below, Baruch and Chris will be delivering talks and conducting Verbose Mode interviews.    MagnoliaConf  October 21st - 23rd Jackson, MS, USA Speaker: Chris DeMars   J-Fall  October 21st - 23rd Jackson, MS, USA Speaker: Baruch Sadogursky   Midwest Tech Conference  November 8th Fulton, MO, USA Speaker: Chris DeMars   What Frontend Developers Need to Know About SBOMs in JavaScript Your JavaScript app is a black box of dependencies. Crack open node\_modules and you might find a thousand packages you never knew you had, with some as cryptic as UFOs on a radar screen. In an era of escalating supply chain attacks, that’s not just spooky – it’s dangerous. READ MORE   Customer Story: The End of Scanner Overload How Breqwatr eliminated noise, gained instant visibility, and simplified compliance audits with TuxCare Radar. Read More Exciting Opportunities to Work in Linux Security Join TuxCare Visit Our Social Networks Cloud Linux Software, Inc., PO Box 980, Estero, FL 33929, USA Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
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