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Mozilla has released Firefox 70, introducing new security indicators for HTTP and HTTPS sites, and a new privacy report that shows how many times its Enhanced Tracking Protection has blocked third-party tracking cookies, fingerprinting, and browser-based cryptominers.

GNU developers unhappy with Richard Stallman sticking around as head of the GNU Project and not planning to make any "radical" changes are now expressing their desire for the GNU to be restructured as a "bottom-up" organization whereby those active developers and volunteers involved could potentially have more say.

This brief describes how to install missing Man pages of commands on Ubuntu and other Deb-based systems.

Open Source is like a broken record, and it is a broken promise. If you want to fail, follow them — they will show you the way.

Capabilities essentially divide the power of the root user into separate privileges, which improves security by limiting the access an attacker would gain by exploiting or abusing a service.

CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. In this article, we will describe how you can install CMake to your Ubuntu both through the UI and the command line.

htop is a process monitoring utility in Ubuntu which is based on the top tool. It shows the usage per CPU in a nice graphical interface along with the memory and swap usages. You will be able to easily and quickly identify and kill high-resource-usage tasks.

Bash is a powerful programming language, one perfectly designed for use on the command line and in shell scripts. This three-part series (which is based on my three-volume Linux self-study course) explores using Bash as a programming language on the command-line interface (CLI). read more

Using the APT package management utility in Ubuntu or some other Linux distros is straightforward for most users. It helps to install, remove and update packages. Sometimes however, when third party dependencies are involved, the apt-get command might fail with the error: "The following packages have unmet dependencies" and the package installation suddenly comes to a halt.

Terminology is a best Linux Terminal because it comes with a whole bunch of cool features by default. It is based on EFL(Enlightenment Foundation Libraries),

The Tails project released today the final version of the Tails 4.0 operating system, a major release that introduces numerous enhancements and updated components.

Users will be able to buy own licences and administrators cannot prevent it. Microsoft will allow "self-service purchase and license management capabilities" for Office 365 users, initially for its Power Platform low-code services, PowerApps, PowerBI and Flow.…

IEI unveiled an “AFL-3” series of Apollo Lake based panel PCs with PoE support, M.2 storage and wireless, and 7-, 10.1-, 12.1-, or 15.6-inch HD capacitive touchscreens. IEI announced a series of “light industrial” interactive panel PCs with Power-over-Ethernet support. The fanless, PCAP AFL-3 series run on an Apollo Lake SoC. As with IEI’s Intel […]

Rather than settle and make pain just go away, project wants to send a message instead. After being hit with a patent-infringement lawsuit last month, the GNOME Foundation has fired back with a counterclaim – and urged the courts to dismiss the case.…

Canonical released today a new Linux kernel security update for the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system series to address several security vulnerabilities.

Sometimes you may not need to set up a full FTP server with authenticated users with upload and download privileges. If you are simply looking for a quick way to allow users to grab a few files, an anonymous FTP server can fit the bill. This article shows you show to set it up.

The script command creates a typescript of everything you do in the Terminal. It doesn’t matter whether you install an application, create a directory/file, remove a folder. Everything will be recorded, including the commands and the respective outputs.

Learn how to display, format and set the date / time on the Linux command line. Also learn about epoch (UNIX time), hardware clocks and other interesting tidbits about time.

2DayGeek: This one-line script will alert you whenever a user logs in through SSH.

Our push this year has been building privacy-centric features in our products that are on by default. With this move, we’re taking the guesswork out of how to give yourself … Read more The post Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center Letting You Track the Trackers appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.