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Linux Headlines episodes:

October 23, 20192019-10-23
Ubuntu's Director of Engineering for the desktop leaves Canonical, Tor has two new releases, Node.js makes news, and LibreOffice has a big problem on macOS.
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Will Cooke says "That's all folks!"
New Release: Tails 4.0
New Release: Tor Browser 9.0
Node.js 13 just landed and Node 12 is promoted to LTS
OpenJS Foundation launches new professional certification program to support the future of Node.js development
LibreOffice and macOS Catalina
Today AMD joined the Blender Foundation Development Fund at Patron level
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October 22, 20192019-10-22
The GNOME Foundation fights back in its patent battle, Firefox 70 is here, and Ghost has its biggest release yet.
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GNOME files defense against patent troll
Our previous reporting
GNOME Patent Troll Defense Fund
Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center Letting You Track the Trackers
The Baseline Interpreter: a faster JS interpreter in Firefox 70
Firefox 70 for developers
Opera for Android 54 has a new look with a splash of color and Bitcoin support
Ghost 3.0
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October 21, 20192019-10-21
New off-line features coming to Firefox, an update on exFAT support in the Linux Kernel, why Disney+ might not stream on Linux, and the trick Pop!_OS 19.10 has up its sleeve.
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Bergamot Project: Mozilla and European Union bring machine translations without cloud into Firefox
exFAT read-only driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software
Theme Updates, Offline Upgrades Headline New Additions to Pop!_OS 19.10
Using Tensorman
Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM, avoid
Free Disney+ pilot launches in the Netherlands, here’s what it’s like
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October 18, 20192019-10-18
Researchers discover a kernel bug that can crash Linux devices, Fedora 31's release date slips, Cedalo opens up its Streamsheets code, Google announces the Android NDK 21 beta, and Unix turns 50.
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Unpatched Linux bug may open devices to serious attacks over Wi-Fi
Fedora 31 Final is No-Go
Streamsheets are open-source!
Introducing NDK r21: our first Long Term Support release
50th anniversary of Unix
The Unix Game
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October 17, 20192019-10-17
OpenStack's Train release pulls into the station amidst mixed news from supporters, Ubuntu 19.10 has arrived with plenty of tempting features, NGINX's Unit application server receives a big update, IBM's financials continue to disappoint, and some welcome security improvements for Chrome on Android.
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OpenStack Train Release Extends Security and Data Protection, Adds New AI and ML Support
A look at the most exciting features in OpenStack Train - Red Hat
Ubuntu's First Release - 4.10 Warty Warthog
Ubuntu 19.10 Release Notes
Ubuntu 19.10 delivers Kubernetes at the edge, multi-cloud infrastructure economics and an integrated AI/ML developer experience
NGINX has added new capabilities to its dynamic application server
IBM's financials failed to impress, despite Red Hat's contribution
A limited site isolation feature is coming to Chrome for Android
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October 16, 20192019-10-16
WireGuard is kicked out of the Play Store, a new Docker worm is discovered, and Mozilla unveils upcoming changes to Firefox.
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Google has thrown WireGuard out of the Play Store
The project has now removed the donation feature
Palo Alto Networks' threat intelligence team has exposed a new cryptojacking Docker worm
Improved Security and Privacy Indicators in Firefox 70
Search Engine add-ons to be removed from addons.mozilla.org
ownCloud 10.3 has been released
Microsoft has called it a day after porting 120,000 APIs over to .NET Core
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October 15, 20192019-10-15
A double dose of Python, AWS credits for open source projects, a new kernel development course from the Linux Foundation, and an exciting release for KDE Plasma.
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What’s New In Python 3.8
PEP 572 – Assignment Expressions
PyPy v7.2 released
PyPy’s new JSON parser
PyPy JIT for Aarch64
Amazon is offering promotional AWS credits to the open source community
The Linux Foundation has announced a new training course for anyone looking to get into kernel development
Greg K-H has praised the course
KDE Plasma 5.17 has landed with fractional scaling support for Wayland and much more
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October 14, 20192019-10-14
Perl 6 is renamed, AWS goes metal with ARM, OnionShare just got a big upgrade, and Google has a new security dongle.
Plus IBM gives away $50k, and more.
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Perl 6 has been renamed
Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
Larry Wall endorses Raku
AWS has unveiled bare-metal ARM instances in its compute cloud
Google has announced a new USB-C Titan Security Key
Add a Titan Security Key on a Linux system
Girls Who Code wins first $50,000 IBM Open Source Community Grant
Girls Who Code
A new version of OnionShare makes it easy for anyone to publish anonymous and uncensorable websites
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October 11, 20192019-10-11
Facebook takes aim at Google's machine learning dominance, Ubuntu calls for testing of its Chromium snap package, Tails wants feedback on its upcoming 4.0 release, Puppet goes public with a beta of Project Nebula, and Microsoft re-issues yet another product under a permissive license.
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PyTorch 1.3 adds mobile, privacy, quantization, and named tensors
The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019
PyTorch Mobile
Chromium in Ubuntu – deb to snap transition
Tails - Call for testing: 4.0~rc1
Announcing public beta for Project Nebula
Introducing Project Nebula
Microsoft open sources SandDance, a visual data exploration tool
SandDance (Preview)
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October 10, 20192019-10-10
The Tor Project blacklists old relays, GitLab plans to introduce telemetry, Steam is working on a new multiplayer feature, The Matrix Project announces new funding, and AMP is getting a new home.
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Removing End-Of-Life Relays from the Network
Update on free software and telemetry
Steam will soon let you play local multiplayer games over the internet
Valve's Alden Kroll on local multiplayer over the net in Steam
$8.5M to accelerate Matrix, polish Riot and expand Modular!
AMP is joining the OpenJS Foundation incubation program
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FAQs about Linux Headlines:

How many episodes does Linux Headlines have?

The podcast currently has 193 episodes available.