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- Linux Action News 132
Docker's surprising news, new nasty Intel vulnerabilities, and why Brave 1.0 changes the game.
Plus, our thoughts on the PinePhone BraveHeart limited edition, and Stadia's potentially rocky launch.
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- Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise — Mirantis, a prominent OpenStack and Kubernetes cloud company, has acquired Docker Enterprise product line, developers, and business.
- What We Announced Today and Why it Matters
- Docker’s Next Chapter: Advancing Developer Workflows for Modern Apps
- Docker Restructures and Secures $35 Million
- Container upstart's enterprise wing sold to Mirantis, CEO out, Swarm support faces ax
- IPAS: NOVEMBER 2019 INTEL PLATFORM UPDATE (IPU) — “67 of the 77 vulnerabilities we are addressing were internally found by Intel”
- MDS Attacks: Microarchitectural Data Sampling
- Intel Fixes a Security Flaw It Said Was Repaired 6 Months Ago
- Intel Failed to Fix a Hackable Chip Flaw Despite a Year of Warnings
- PINEPHONE – “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone For Early Adaptor — The “BraveHeart” Limited Edition PinePhones are aimed solely for developer and early adopter. More specifically, only intend for these units to find their way into the hands of users with extensive Linux experience and an interest in Linux-on-phone.
- Brave browser comes out of beta — The Brave open source browser fundamentally shifts how users, publishers, and advertisers interact online by giving users a private, safer, and 3-6x faster browsing experience, while funding the Web through a new attention-based platform of privacy-preserving advertisements and rewards.
- Installing Brave on Linux
- Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch — Among the missing: 4K on PC, Achievement UI, Google Assistant, Family Sharing
- The world is waiting for Google Stadia to flop
- Microsoft’s xCloud preview now has 50 new games
- Choose Linux 22: Finding Your Community — We talk about the best ways to get involved in open source communities, finding like-minded people, conference strategies, community hubs, and what happened to all the LUGs.
32 min - Linux Action News 131
Google steps up support for older Chromebooks, Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux, and the App Defense Alliance teams up to fight Android malware.
Plus Google Cardboard goes open source, and a neat machine-learning tool to pull songs apart.
Special Guest: Wes Payne.
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- Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support
— Seven Chromebooks from Lenovo recently had their support lifespan extended, and now Google has updated the EOL date for 135 more models from several manufacturers. Most models received another year of support, others only got another six months, and some now have two more years.- What’s new in Chrome OS: Virtual Desks, simpler printing and more
— Think of Virtual Desks as separate workspaces within your Chromebook. Use this feature to create helpful boundaries between projects or activities. If you’re working on multiple projects, you can dedicate a desk to each one. Open Overview and tap New Desk in the top right-hand corner of your screen to try out Virtual Desks.- Google Enlists Outside Help to Clean Up Android's Malware Mess
— Today Google is announcing a partnership with three antivirus firms—ESET, Lookout, and Zimperium—to create an App Defense Alliance.- Open sourcing Google Cardboard
— Today, we’re releasing the Cardboard open source project to let the developer community continue to build Cardboard experiences and add support to their apps for an ever increasing diversity of smartphone screen resolutions and configurations.- Access ESM, now free to the community, via the updated Ubuntu Advantage client
— Canonical is happy to announce that all community users are entitled to a free Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure account for access to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and Kernel Livepatch* for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) for up to three machines, and up to 50 machines for all official Ubuntu Members.- Releasing Spleeter: Deezer Research source separation engine
— We are releasing Spleeter to help the research community in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) leverage the power of a state-of-the-art source separation algorithm. It comes in the form of a Python Library based on Tensorflow, with pretrained models for 2, 4 and 5 stems separation.- Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux
— Microsoft announced at their Ignite conference in Seattle that their Edge web-browser will see a Linux release21 min - Linux Action News 131
Google steps up support for older Chromebooks, Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux, and the App Defense Alliance teams up to fight Android malware.
Plus Google Cardboard goes open source, and a neat machine-learning tool to pull songs apart.
Special Guest: Wes Payne.
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- Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support — Seven Chromebooks from Lenovo recently had their support lifespan extended, and now Google has updated the EOL date for 135 more models from several manufacturers. Most models received another year of support, others only got another six months, and some now have two more years.
- What’s new in Chrome OS: Virtual Desks, simpler printing and more — Think of Virtual Desks as separate workspaces within your Chromebook. Use this feature to create helpful boundaries between projects or activities. If you’re working on multiple projects, you can dedicate a desk to each one. Open Overview and tap New Desk in the top right-hand corner of your screen to try out Virtual Desks.
- Google Enlists Outside Help to Clean Up Android's Malware Mess — Today Google is announcing a partnership with three antivirus firms—ESET, Lookout, and Zimperium—to create an App Defense Alliance.
- Open sourcing Google Cardboard — Today, we’re releasing the Cardboard open source project to let the developer community continue to build Cardboard experiences and add support to their apps for an ever increasing diversity of smartphone screen resolutions and configurations.
- Access ESM, now free to the community, via the updated Ubuntu Advantage client — Canonical is happy to announce that all community users are entitled to a free Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure account for access to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and Kernel Livepatch* for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) for up to three machines, and up to 50 machines for all official Ubuntu Members.
- Releasing Spleeter: Deezer Research source separation engine — We are releasing Spleeter to help the research community in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) leverage the power of a state-of-the-art source separation algorithm. It comes in the form of a Python Library based on Tensorflow, with pretrained models for 2, 4 and 5 stems separation.
- Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux — Microsoft announced at their Ignite conference in Seattle that their Edge web-browser will see a Linux release
21 min - Linux Action News 130
Fedora arrives from the future, the big players line up behind KernelCI, and researchers claim significant vulnerabilities in Horde.
Plus, Google's new dashboard for WordPress and ProtonMail's apps go open source.
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- Fedora 31 is officially here!
— This release features GNOME 3.34, which brings significant performance enhancements which will be especially noticeable on lower-powered hardware.Fedora Server brings the latest in cutting-edge open source server software to systems administrators in an easy-to-deploy fashion.- Fedora 31 Performance Is Still Sliding In The Wrong Direction
- Distributed Linux Testing Platform KernelCI Secures Funding and Long-Term Sustainability
— "Testing is traditionally done only on the most common hardware. But because Linux runs on more hardware than any other operating system, it's important to also test it on all that hardware. The Linux Foundation's support is enabling us to expand the great work we started five years ago and sets us up for a bright future with a growing community,"- Hackers can steal the contents of Horde webmail inboxes with one click
— Horde is one of the most popular free and open-source web email systems available. It’s built and maintained by a core team of developers, with contributions from the wider open-source community. It’s used by universities, libraries and many web hosting providers as the default email client.- Horde Webmail - XSS + CSRF to SQLi, RCE, Stealing Emails <= v5.2.22
— Horde Webmail - XSS + CSRF to SQLi, RCE, Stealing Emails <= v5.2.22- ProtonMail iOS app is open source - ProtonMail Blog
— As part of our commitment to security, we are putting all of our software through rigorous, independent third-party audits.- Android App Soon
- Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites
— Site Kit is Google’s official WordPress plugin27 min - Linux Action News 130
Fedora arrives from the future, the big players line up behind KernelCI, and researchers claim significant vulnerabilities in Horde.
Plus, Google's new dashboard for WordPress and ProtonMail's apps go open source.
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- Fedora 31 is officially here! — This release features GNOME 3.34, which brings significant performance enhancements which will be especially noticeable on lower-powered hardware.
Fedora Server brings the latest in cutting-edge open source server software to systems administrators in an easy-to-deploy fashion.- Fedora 31 Performance Is Still Sliding In The Wrong Direction
- Distributed Linux Testing Platform KernelCI Secures Funding and Long-Term Sustainability — "Testing is traditionally done only on the most common hardware. But because Linux runs on more hardware than any other operating system, it's important to also test it on all that hardware. The Linux Foundation's support is enabling us to expand the great work we started five years ago and sets us up for a bright future with a growing community,"
- Hackers can steal the contents of Horde webmail inboxes with one click — Horde is one of the most popular free and open-source web email systems available. It’s built and maintained by a core team of developers, with contributions from the wider open-source community. It’s used by universities, libraries and many web hosting providers as the default email client.
- Horde Webmail - XSS + CSRF to SQLi, RCE, Stealing Emails <= v5.2.22 — Horde Webmail - XSS + CSRF to SQLi, RCE, Stealing Emails <= v5.2.22
- ProtonMail iOS app is open source - ProtonMail Blog — As part of our commitment to security, we are putting all of our software through rigorous, independent third-party audits.
- Android App Soon
- Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites — Site Kit is Google’s official WordPress plugin
27 min - Linux Action News 129
GNOME decides to fight, Ubuntu's desktop director steps down, GitLab backs off its telemetry plans, and we've got the data on Google's Project Treble.
Plus, the latest Firefox has a new dashboard, and it looks like Disney+ won't work on Linux.
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- GNOME files defense against patent troll
— Agreeing to this would leave this patent live, and allow this to be used as a weapon against countless others. We will stand firm against this baseless attack, not just for GNOME and Shotwell, but for all free and open source software projects.- Will Cooke, the Director of Engineering for the Ubuntu desktop, has left Canonical
— That's all folks! Eoan was my last #Ubuntu release and I am handing over the reigns to the ever awesome @m_wimpress. Expect 20.04 LTS to be amazingly amazing! Excited for my new gig @InfluxDB- Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center Letting You Track the Trackers
— Today we’re introducing a new feature that offers you a free report outlining the number of third-party and social media trackers blocked automatically by the Firefox browser with Enhanced Tracking Protection.- GitLab telemetry debacle
— To make GitLab better faster, we need more data on how users are using GitLab.- Announcing $268 million in Series E funding
- Google shows just how much Project Treble has improved OS Android adoption
— Project Treble modularizes Android to make it easier for OEMs to update devices.- It looks like Disney Plus won’t work on Linux
— Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM, avoid43 min - Linux Action News 129
GNOME decides to fight, Ubuntu's desktop director steps down, GitLab backs off its telemetry plans, and we've got the data on Google's Project Treble.
Plus, the latest Firefox has a new dashboard, and it looks like Disney+ won't work on Linux.
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- GNOME files defense against patent troll — Agreeing to this would leave this patent live, and allow this to be used as a weapon against countless others. We will stand firm against this baseless attack, not just for GNOME and Shotwell, but for all free and open source software projects.
- Will Cooke, the Director of Engineering for the Ubuntu desktop, has left Canonical — That's all folks! Eoan was my last #Ubuntu release and I am handing over the reigns to the ever awesome @m_wimpress. Expect 20.04 LTS to be amazingly amazing! Excited for my new gig @InfluxDB
- Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center Letting You Track the Trackers — Today we’re introducing a new feature that offers you a free report outlining the number of third-party and social media trackers blocked automatically by the Firefox browser with Enhanced Tracking Protection.
- GitLab telemetry debacle — To make GitLab better faster, we need more data on how users are using GitLab.
- Announcing $268 million in Series E funding
- Google shows just how much Project Treble has improved OS Android adoption — Project Treble modularizes Android to make it easier for OEMs to update devices.
- It looks like Disney Plus won’t work on Linux — Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM, avoid
43 min - Linux Action News 128
A new Ubuntu has promise, Linux on Dex is dead, and our strong reaction to Google pulling two open-source apps from the Play Store.
Plus a big boost for ARM on Linux, and our thoughts on recent Red Hat news.
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- Ubuntu 19.10 Released
— Ubuntu 19.10 “Eoan Ermine” boasts an upgraded Linux kernel along with faster boot times, updated themes, and experimental ZFS file system support. Whether or not you upgrade, Ermine shows what to expect from Ubuntu’s next LTS release, due April 2020.- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Codenamed The Focal Fossa, Arriving On 23 April
- Canonical Pulled In $99M While Still Operating At A Loss
- Ubuntu 19.10 Flavours Released
- Ubuntu 19.10's Kernel Ships With A DoS / Arbitrary Code Execution Bug In The IPv6 Code
- TechSNAP 414: Rooting for ZFS
- IBM Misses Estimates as Red Hat Fails to Offset Declines
— Red Hat included in results for first time since 2018 purchase.- Samsung ends Linux on DeX beta with Android 10
— Samsung will no longer provide support on future OS and device releases. The company also notes that users will not be able to perform a version rollback to Android 9 Pie once they have upgraded to Android 10.- Bare Metal Arm-Based EC2 Instances
— Just like for existing bare metal instances (M5, M5d, R5, R5d, z1d, and so forth), your operating system runs directly on the underlying hardware with direct access to the processor.- Graboid: First-Ever Cryptojacking Worm Found in Images on Docker Hub
— Unit 42 researchers identified a new cryptojacking worm we’ve named Graboid that’s spread to more than 2,000 unsecured Docker hosts.- Docker Containers Riddled with Graboid Crypto-Worm
- andOTP removed from Google Play Store
— andOTP was recently removed from the Google Play Store for violating their payment terms.This is most likely due to the fact that we offer in-app donation links that DO NOT use Googles In-App billing, which is against their terms.- andOTP - Android OTP Authenticator
- WireGuard removed from Google Play Store
— They said it was because we're in violation of their "Payments Policy", presumably because we have a link inside the app that opens the user's web browser to wireguard.com/donations/.- WireGuard commit reversed dev comments interesting
- WireGuard - Apps on Google Play
- WireGuard Restored In Android's Google Play Store
27 min - Linux Action News 128
A new Ubuntu has promise, Linux on Dex is dead, and our strong reaction to Google pulling two open-source apps from the Play Store.
Plus a big boost for ARM on Linux, and our thoughts on recent Red Hat news.
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- Ubuntu 19.10 Released — Ubuntu 19.10 “Eoan Ermine” boasts an upgraded Linux kernel along with faster boot times, updated themes, and experimental ZFS file system support. Whether or not you upgrade, Ermine shows what to expect from Ubuntu’s next LTS release, due April 2020.
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Codenamed The Focal Fossa, Arriving On 23 April
- Canonical Pulled In $99M While Still Operating At A Loss
- Ubuntu 19.10 Flavours Released
- Ubuntu 19.10's Kernel Ships With A DoS / Arbitrary Code Execution Bug In The IPv6 Code
- TechSNAP 414: Rooting for ZFS
- IBM Misses Estimates as Red Hat Fails to Offset Declines — Red Hat included in results for first time since 2018 purchase.
- Samsung ends Linux on DeX beta with Android 10 — Samsung will no longer provide support on future OS and device releases. The company also notes that users will not be able to perform a version rollback to Android 9 Pie once they have upgraded to Android 10.
- Bare Metal Arm-Based EC2 Instances — Just like for existing bare metal instances (M5, M5d, R5, R5d, z1d, and so forth), your operating system runs directly on the underlying hardware with direct access to the processor.
- Graboid: First-Ever Cryptojacking Worm Found in Images on Docker Hub — Unit 42 researchers identified a new cryptojacking worm we’ve named Graboid that’s spread to more than 2,000 unsecured Docker hosts.
- Docker Containers Riddled with Graboid Crypto-Worm
- andOTP removed from Google Play Store — andOTP was recently removed from the Google Play Store for violating their payment terms.
This is most likely due to the fact that we offer in-app donation links that DO NOT use Googles In-App billing, which is against their terms.- andOTP - Android OTP Authenticator
- WireGuard removed from Google Play Store — They said it was because we're in violation of their "Payments Policy", presumably because we have a link inside the app that opens the user's web browser to wireguard.com/donations/.
- WireGuard commit reversed dev comments interesting
- WireGuard - Apps on Google Play
- WireGuard Restored In Android's Google Play Store
27 min - Linux Action News 127
Richard Stallman's GNU leadership is challenged by an influential group of maintainers, SUSE drops OpenStack "for the customer," and Google claims Stadia will be faster than a gaming PC.
Plus OpenLibra aims to save us from Facebook but already has a miss, lousy news for Telegram, and enormous changes for AMP.
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- FSF and GNU
— GNU decision-making has largely been in the hands of GNU leadership. Since RMS resigned as president of the FSF, but not as head of GNU ("Chief GNUisance"), the FSF is now working with GNU leadership on a shared understanding of the relationship for the future.- Joint statement on the GNU Project
— Yet, we must also acknowledge that Stallman’s behavior over the years has undermined a core value of the GNU project: the empowerment of all computer users. GNU is not fulfilling its mission when the behavior of its leader alienates a large part of those we want to reach out to.- No radical changes in GNU Project
— As Chief GNUisance, I'd like to reassure the communitythat there won't be any radical changes in the GNU Project's goals, principles and policies.- SUSE is dropping OpenStack and embracing Kubernetes
— As we make these bold customer-driven investments and in order to maximize these opportunities, SUSE has carefully reviewed its business and has decided to cease production of new versions of SUSE OpenStack Cloud and to discontinue sales of SUSE OpenStack Cloud.- AMP is joining the OpenJS Foundation incubation program
— After considering many options for a foundation that meets all of AMP’s needs, the OpenJS Foundation stood out as an ideal home for AMP.- Google Stadia will be “faster and more responsive” than local gaming hardware
— Thanks to some precog trickery, Google believes its streaming system will be faster than the gaming systems of the near-future, no matter how powerful they may become.- Atari VCS architect quits project, claims he hasn’t been paid for six months
— Retro console a mess, may never launch, sources allege- Atari disputes reports that its retro-inspired console is doomed
- Open Libra
— An open platform for financial inclusion. Not run by Facebook.- 'Members' of OpenLibra Disavow Project Days After Its Devcon Unveiling
- Facebook’s Libra Association crumbling
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