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March 13, 20202020-03-13
The Django project moves to a new governance structure, Tor Browser's latest release includes a JavaScript execution bug, GitLab finally paywalls its build and test pipeline for external repositories, and WhiteSource issues a report on the increase in open source code vulnerabilities.
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New governance model for the Django project
New Release: Tor Browser 9.0.6
The free period of CI/CD for GitHub is ending soon
[Old] GitLab 10.6 released with CI/CD for GitHub and deeper Kubernetes integration
The State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities
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March 12, 20202020-03-12
Mozilla and KaiOS join forces to bring a modern browser engine to the feature phone platform, GCC 9.3 has arrived with mitigations for Intel's LVI vulnerability, and Nextcloud's latest numbers show healthy growth and continued profitability.
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KaiOS Technologies and Mozilla partner to enable a healthy mobile internet for everyone
Twitter thread: KaiOS announcement
Reviewing vulnerabilities in 2019: The annual Red Hat Product Security Risk Report
GCC 9.3 Released
GNU Assembler Adds New Options For Mitigating Load Value Injection Attack
Nextcloud doubles order intake and customer base, remains profitable and independent
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March 11, 20202020-03-11
Docker, VMware, and Amazon all have big announcements, a new organization is launched to shepherd the open source microservices ecosystem, and more.
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The TARS Foundation: The Formation of a Microservices Ecosystem
[Old] TARS and TSeer Form Open Source Project Communities Under The Linux
[Video] TARS Foundation, established on March 10th 2020
Helping You and Your Development Team Build and Ship Faster
VMware Announces Expanded Portfolio of Products and Services to Help Customers Modernize Applications and Infrastructure
Announcing Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers
Bottlerocket OS
The FSFE is looking for an executive assistant
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March 10, 20202020-03-10
Mozilla removes support for older versions of TLS in Firefox 74, Google launches a facility for managing machine images on Compute Engine, IBM's Elyra brings new tools to Jupyter Notebooks, and Palo Alto Networks issues a dire report on the state of IoT security.
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Firefox 74 release notes
Firefox 74 for developers
Security means more with Firefox 74
Firefox 74: Support for extension sideloading has ended
Generate multilocale Firefox flatpak: Status update
Compute Engine instance creation made easy with machine images
IBM announces Elyra AI Toolkit, a set of AI-centric extensions to Jupyter Notebooks
2020 Unit 42 IoT Threat Report
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March 09, 20202020-03-09
Jellyfin has its biggest release yet, and Memcached sees a significant update. Plus the Debian Project Leadership contest has begun, and the report spreading misleading information about the distro.
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Jellyfin Release - v10.5.0
Memcached 1.6.0 Release Notes
Debian Project Leader Elections 2020: Call for nominations
TheBestVPN: Vulnerability Alerts
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March 06, 20202020-03-06
A 16-year-old critical vulnerability has been discovered in PPP, iXsystems is merging FreeNAS and TrueNAS, GCompris moves to Patreon for funding, and Samba makes big changes to its cryptography implementation.
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pppd vulnerable to buffer overflow due to a flaw in EAP packet processing
Critical PPP Daemon Flaw Opens Most Linux Systems to Remote Hackers
FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying
GCompris
GCompris is now Free to install everywhere
Patreon: Timothée Giet is creating GCompris, Educational Free Software for Children
Samba 4.12.0 Available for Download
Samba 4.12 Features added/changed
Samba and GnuTLS
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March 05, 20202020-03-05
Debian Project Leader Sam Hartman has announced he won't be running again, Let's Encrypt scrambles to deal with millions of improperly issued certificates, and openSUSE is again looking to fill a board seat after recent resignations.
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Hartman: Opposite of a Platform for DPL 2020
[Old] DPL elections 2019, congratulations Sam Hartman!
[Old] Bits from the DPL For December 2019
[Thread] Let's Encrypt: 2020.02.29 CAA Rechecking Bug
[Thread] Revoking certain certificates on March 4
[opensuse-project] Upcoming election to backfill a board seat
LWN: openSUSE's board turmoil
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March 04, 20202020-03-04
Canonical releases a new version of Multipass, PowerShell 7 becomes generally available, and how the Linux Foundation is still all in on blockchain.
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The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Brooklyn v1.0
[2015] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Brooklyn as a Top-Level Project
Chrome OS 80 improves tablet mode, adds APK sideloading, and updates Linux environment (Update: Rollout resumed)
Linux Foundation Training Announces a New Certification - Developer Certification for Hyperledger Fabric
Linux Foundation Training Announces a Free Online Course - Developing Blockchain-Based Identity Applications
Multipass version 1.1.0
What's New in PowerShell 7.0
Announcing .NET Core 3.1
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March 03, 20202020-03-03
Kubeflow reaches 1.0, the Fedora Project seeks help naming its IoT Edition, Google's rollout of Chrome OS 80 is off to a rough start, and Ampere launches its Altra processor.
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Kubeflow 1.0: Cloud-Native ML for Everyone
Ubuntu: Kubeflow 1.0 launches
IBM: Kubeflow 1.0: An open source journey towards end-to-end enterprise machine learning
Google: With Kubeflow 1.0, run ML workflows on Anthos across environments
Help us name the Fedora IoT Edition
Chrome OS 80 improves tablet mode, adds APK sideloading, and updates Linux environment
Ampere Altra - Industry’s First 80-Core Server Processor Unveiled
Ampere says its new 80-core server processor is twice as fast as Intel silicon
Is that a typo? Oh, it's not a typo. Ampere really is touting an 80-core 64-bit 7nm Arm server processor dubbed Altra
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March 02, 20202020-03-02
Why the Brave browser is worth another look, the brand new IRC client that's getting attention, and the position that opened up at the EFF.
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Srain - Modern IRC Client written in GTK
Help Us Save the Internet: EFF Seeks a Tech Projects Director
OSI: Board Elections
6 questions for the OSI board of directors candidates
OSI: 2020 Board of Directors Election Candidates
Twitter: responses to Luis Villa's questions
[PDF] Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When They Phone Home?
Professor Douglas Leith, Chair of Computer Systems, Trinity College, Dublin
Android-x86: Release Note 9.0-r1
Android N FreeForm Window Mode for Multitasking
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FAQs about Linux Headlines:

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The podcast currently has 193 episodes available.