05.03.2023 - By Jupiter Broadcasting
The results from the recent HDR Hackfest, Mozilla's new acquisition, and the concerning crack down on free software encryption. Sponsored By:Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action News Links:HDR hackfest wrap-up — People from various organizations were on-site: Red Hat, KDE, System76, AMD, Igalia, Collabora, Canonical, etc. Some more people from NVIDIA, Intel and Google joined us remotely (some of them waking up at 2 AM due to their timezone!).Fakespot is acquired by Mozilla — I have exciting news to share, Fakespot has been acquired by Mozilla! We are joining a company that develops one of the most popular browsers in the world in Firefox with a lineage that dates back to the origins of the internet.Apple removes Fakespot from App Store after Amazon complainsMore Rust Code Readied For Linux 6.4 — New Rust code for Linux 6.4 includes the introduction of the pin-init API, which is for dealing with safe pinned initialization and allows reducing the amount of "unsafe" Rust code within the kernel.<a href="https://twitter.com/LinaAsahi/status/1652957123779919872?cxt=HHwWgIDU_eHvvfAtAAAA" title="Asahi Lina on Twitter: My Rust contributions for Linux 6.4 are finally merged upstream!