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Fedora Classroom sessions continue with two introductory sessions, on using Fedora Silverblue (February 7), and creating Fedora badges designs (February 10). The general schedule for sessions is availble on the wiki, along with resources and recordings from previous sessions. Details on both these upcoming sessions follow.
February 2019 Security Bulletin for Android Released, New Patches Needed for Ubuntu 18.04, EU Recalls ENOX Safe-KID-One Smartwatches Due to Security Flaws, Raspberry Pi to Celebrate Its 7th Birthday w
News briefs for February 5, 2019.
Writing Secure Shell Scripts
Although a Linux desktop or server is less susceptible to viruses and malware
than a typical Windows device, there isn't a device on the internet that
isn't eventually attacked. The culprit might be the stereotypical nerd in
a bedroom testing his or her hacker chops (think Matthew Broderick in War
Games or Angelina Jolie in Hackers). Then again, it might be an
organized military, criminal, terrorist or other funded entity creating
massive botnets or stealing millions of credit cards via a dozen redirected
attack vectors.
If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source
If we pay for it, we should be able to use it. Perhaps because many free software coders have been outsiders
and rebels, less attention is paid to the use of open source in
government departments than in other contexts. It's
unfortunate that the most famous attempt to convert a government
IT system from proprietary code to open source—the city of
Munich—proved such a difficult experience. Although last year saw a
decision to move back to Windows, that seems to be more
a failure of IT management, than of the code itself.
ZaReason Debuts New Gamerbox 9400, Google Announces Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier Android Apps, Microsoft Bringing Xbox Live to Android, Kernel 5.0-rc5 Is Out and Mallard 1.1 Released
News briefs for February 4, 2019.
Don't want to watch Super Bowl LIII today? Install the Kodi 18 Leia-focused LibreELEC 9.0 Linux distro instead!
Well, folks, it is finally here. After a rather lengthy beta period, LibreELEC 9.0 is available for download. Wait, are you not familiar with this specialized Linux-based operating system? Please know it is a lightweight OS that only exists to run Kodi -- the very popular open source media center.
GNU Hurd Can Build Around 75% Of The Debian Packages, But No 64-bit Or SMP Yet
Samuel Thibault once again presented at the Free Open-Source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) about the state of the Hurd. Recently the Hurd picked up a PCI arbiter, basic ACPI support for power management, and is now able to build roughly 75% of the Debian package set.
ZaReason Gamerbox 9400: The ultimate Linux gaming PC
VIDEO: Most gamers use consoles or high-end Windows PCs, but for Linux gamers, there's now a powerhouse contender to rival these proprietary computers: The ZaReason Gamerbox 9400.
The Security Issue
the Associated Press had published a picture taken inside the Hawaii Emergency
Management Agency -- showing computer workstations where they watch for such
possible threats. This picture was spread far and wide. On one of the monitors was a sticky note. With the password written on it. (There were actually two sticky notes on the monitors in the picture. The second sticky note contained the message "SIGN OUT".
5 quick tips for Fedora Workstation users
Whether you are a new or long time Fedora Workstation user, you might be looking for some quick tips to customize, tweak or enhance your desktop experience. In this article, we’ll round up five tips to help you get more out of your Fedora Workstation.
Qt 5.12.1 Is Now Available, Tor Browser 8.0.5 and Tails 3.12 Both Released with Important Security Fixes, Virt2real Launches StereoPi and Chrome Update for Android
News briefs for February 1, 2019.
5 social media alternatives to protect your privacy
Social media isn't what it used to be—especially since we started paying attention to the privacy implications of using the major platforms.
Who killed the Quark?
Intel is phasing out its lightweight Quark processors, with final orders wrapping up this summer, and shipments ending in 2022. The Quark suffered from growing competition from high-end MCUs and low-end Cortex-A7 chips and the lack of a clear market focus. When we read in AnandTech recently that Intel was discontinuing its Quark CPUs, the […]
Open datasets demand robust privacy protections
Machine learning systems and other algorithms increasingly rely on open datasets on sites like Kaggle to run data science applications and train machine learning models.
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Is Software As A Service (SaaS) a bad thing?
Interview discussing the lead story.
Will quantum computing break security?
Over the past few years, a new type of computer has arrived on the block: the quantum computer. It's arguably the sixth type of computer: Humans: Before there were artificial computers, people used, well, people. And people with this job were called "computers." Mechanical analogue: These are devices such as the Antikythera mechanism, astrolabes, or slide rules.
4 confusing open source license scenarios and how to navigate them
As an attorney running an open source program office for a Fortune 500 corporation, I am often asked to look into a product or component where there seems to be confusion as to the licensing model. Under what terms can the code be used, and what obligations run with such use? This often happens when the code or the associated project community does not clearly indicate availability under a commonly accepted open source license.
Mozilla Raises Concerns Over Facebook's Lack of Transparency
Today Denelle Dixon, Mozilla’s Chief Operating Officer, sent a letter to the European Commission surfacing concerns about the lack of publicly available data for political advertising on the Facebook platform.
Ubuntu 18.04 Needs to Patching, Alpine 3.9 Released, Three New openSUSE Tumbleweed Snapshots, Latest Version of Red Hat Infrastructure Migration Solution Now Available and Electric Cloud Announces Ele
News briefs for January 31, 2019.
Tamper-Evident Boot with Heads
Learn about how the cutting-edge, free software Heads project detects
BIOS and kernel tampering, all with keys under your control.
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