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  • 2019-10-23

    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.

    Links:

    • 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
    • 3 min
  • 2019-10-22

    The GNOME Foundation fights back in its patent battle, Firefox 70 is here, and Ghost has its biggest release yet.

    Links:

    • 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
    • 3 min
  • 2019-10-21

    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.

    Links:

    • 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
    • 3 min
  • 2019-10-18

    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.

    Links:

    • 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
    • 3 min
  • 2019-10-17

    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.

    Links:

    • 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
    • 3 min
  • 2019-10-16

    WireGuard is kicked out of the Play Store, a new Docker worm is discovered, and Mozilla unveils upcoming changes to Firefox.

    Links:

    • 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
    • 3 min
  • 2019-10-15

    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.

    Links:

    • 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
    • 3 min
  • 2019-10-14

    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.

    Links:

    • 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
    • 3 min
  • 2019-10-11

    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.

    Links:

    • 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)
    3 min
  • 2019-10-10

    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.

    Links:

    • 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
    3 min

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