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  • 2019-12-06

    The W3C puts forward WebAssembly as an official standard, Azure Sphere gains support for Ubuntu developers, CodeWeek reports back in with this year's results, and Manjaro has some exciting news for PinePhone backers.

    Links:

    • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) brings a new language to the Web as WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation
  • Update 19.11 for Azure Sphere SDK now available
  • Still in preview, but look! You can now develop Azure Sphere apps in Linux – if you dare
  • Azure Sphere: Set up your Linux system for app development
  • Europe and Africa code weeks: 136,000 students learn to code
  • Manjaro ARM Alpha1 for PinePhone!
    • 3 min
  • 2019-12-05

    Mozilla speeds up its open source speech-to-text engine, Disney+ is now available on Linux, and Amazon has a new AI-powered service for automated code review.

    Links:

    • DeepSpeech 0.6: Mozilla’s Speech-to-Text Engine Gets Fast, Lean, and Ubiquitous
  • Disney+ Now Works on Linux, No Workarounds Required
  • Amazon CodeGuru (Preview)
  • Launching the 2019 State of Rust Survey
  • The FSF tech team: doing more for free software
    • 3 min
  • 2019-12-04

    Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro, Netflix open sources Metaflow, and Plex has a new streaming service.

    Links:

    • Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services
  • Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science
  • Open-sourcing Polynote: an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
  • Boom. We just dinosized your movie collection – for free.
    • 3 min
  • 2019-12-03

    Mozilla launches Firefox 71, the privacy-focused distribution Tails is looking to the future, and elementary OS 5.1 is out.

    Links:

    • Firefox Release 71.0
  • Moving Firefox to a faster 4-week release cycle
  • Mozilla removes Avast and AVG extensions from add-on portal over snooping claims
  • Avast and AVG Firefox Extensions Pulled from Mozilla Addons Site
  • Avast Online Security and Avast Secure Browser are spying on you
  • Mozilla removes Avast extensions from their add-on store, what will Google do?
  • Tails: Our plans for 2020
  • Introducing elementary OS 5.1 Hera
  • Linux Unplugged #330
    • 3 min
  • 2019-12-02

    Lutris gets a shot of cash from Epic Games, Django unchains version 3, and the Qt folks have a new marketplace.

    Links:

    • Lutris is awarded the Epic MegaGrant
  • Tweet: 'EpicGames Store is now fully functional under Linux'
  • Tweet: '@LutrisGaming please consider applying'
  • Django 3.0 Released
  • The Qt Marketplace has landed!
    • 3 min
  • 2019-11-27

    Zorin OS responds to community concerns about data collection, Microsoft's terminal gets a lot more competitive, Kali Linux's clever new feature, and some good news for Mac Users.

    Links:

    • Zorin OS Responds to the Privacy Concerns
  • Windows Terminal Preview v0.7 Release
  • Terminal v1.0 Roadmap
  • Homebrew 2.2.0
  • Become a sponsor to Homebrew
  • Kali Linux 2019.4 Release
    • 3 min
  • 2019-11-26

    The RISC-V Foundation is relocating, Mozilla publishes its annual report from last year with some disappointing results, UBports has a plan to attract more developers, and Splunk urges self-hosters to patch a timestamp issue.

    Links:

    • U.S.-based chip-tech group moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears
  • State of Mozilla 2018
  • Ubuntu Touch Q&A 63
  • Splunk: Timestamp recognition of dates with two-digit years fails beginning January 1, 2020
    • 3 min
  • 2019-11-25

    The latest Linux kernel has some significant improvements, Kaspersky finds three dozen VNC flaws, Mozilla's naughty list, and Sourcetrail goes open source.

    Links:

    • Linux 5.4
  • GNU Linux-libre 5.4-gnu
  • VNC vulnerability research
  • Sourcetrail is now free and open-source software
  • Mozilla: Be Smart. Shop Safe.
  • Mozilla: Minimum Security Guidelines Explained
    • 3 min
  • 2019-11-22

    Kodi seeks help for an unexpected part of its project, Google axes yet another service, The Linux Foundation offers a new training course, and Data Viper uncovers a massive data dump.

    Links:

    • Windows Developers - Kodi Needs You!
  • Migrate from Cloud Print to native printing
  • [2010] A New Approach to Printing
  • Linux Foundation Training Announces a Free Online Course-Introduction to Hyperledger Sovereign Identity Blockchain Solutions: Indy, Aries & Ursa
  • Personal And Social Information Of 1.2 Billion People Discovered In Massive Data Leak
    • 3 min
  • 2019-11-21

    Google joins the bare-metal cloud club, Jetpack gets an important security patch, Fedora election voting begins, and Codefresh has some clarifications about its new open source fund.

    Links:

    • Bare Metal Solution: Enabling specialized workloads in Google Cloud
  • Increasing transparency with Google Cloud Explainable AI
  • AI Explanations: Service Limitations
  • Jetpack 7.9.1: Maintenance and Security Release
  • Jetpack Plugin Stats
  • Fedora 31 elections voting now open
  • Announcing the 2019 Go Developer Survey
  • Let’s get $100M Serious about Open Source
  • Codefresh to chuck 100 million reasons to develop open source at huddled dev masses
    • 3 min

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