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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.

News briefs for January 31, 2019.

Learn about how the cutting-edge, free software Heads project detects BIOS and kernel tampering, all with keys under your control.

The recently released Mozilla Firefox 65 web browser is now available for download from the stable software repositories of all supported Ubuntu Linux operating system series.

In this article, we will explain how to install PlayOnLinux on your Ubuntu both through the command line and the graphical user interface. More importantly, we will explain how to install a Windows application, Notepad Plus Plus in our example, by using PlayOnLinux.

BlackArch is a penetration testing distribution, similar to Kali Linux, but it’s built on top of Arch Linux. In reality, BlackArch is really a pre-configured Arch installation with an extra repository full of security tools. As a result, you can add the BlackArch repository to a regular install of Arch and gain access to all the same tools.

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After being in development for more than 2 years, MyPaint 2.0.0 alpha is available for download. MyPaint is a free, open source drawing and painting program available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The application features infinite canvas, configurable brushes, graphics tablet support, and a distraction-free fullscreen mode, on top of a simple GTK+ 3 interface.

Canonical is updating Ubuntu 18.04 to the 4.15.0-44.47 Linux kernel to fix several security bugs.

With the Firefox 55 release out the door, Mozilla will now focus their efforts on improving the open-source and cross-platform web browser for the next major release, Firefox 66, due in mid-March.

Linux distro image seeks USB drive for private liaison. Discretion assured. The Linux distro for the security-conscious has been updated with a fresh USB installation method.…

Portwell’s fanless, Linux-friendly “RICH-61D0” embedded PC is built around its “WUX-N” NUC board with an Apollo Lake SoC, SATA III, GbE, HDMI, DP, M.2-based wireless, and 4x USB ports. Portwell has launched a wireless-ready industrial mini-PC built around its WUX-N series eNUC boards. We covered the WUX-3455 model a year ago, which is equipped with […]

More open source is moving to Redmond. Microsoft's purchase of Citus Data is about more than just the software. It's also about talent.

ApostropheCMS is a free and open source content management system based on Node.js and MongoDB. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install ApostropheCMS on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server.

GNOME developer Benjamin Berg announced today that he has been working on a GNOME Screencaster app for the GNOME desktop environment to allow users to screencast over Wi?Fi.

Welcome, young initiate. Do you have what it takes to become a full-fledged mage?

There seems to be a mad rush at the beginning of every year to find ways to be more productive. New Year's resolutions, the itch to start the year off right, and of course, an "out with the old, in with the new" attitude all contribute to this. And the usual round of recommendations is heavily biased towards closed source and proprietary software. It doesn't have to be that way. Here's the 18th of my picks for 19 new (or new-to-you) open source tools to help you be more productive in 2019. read more

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ has arrived with a wider temperature range and eMMC options ranging from 8GB ($30) to 32GB ($40). When the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ arrived last March, Raspberry Pi Trading said it would be the last 40nm fabricated Raspberry Pi SBC. They did not say anything about computer-on-modules, however. […]

Crow Translate bills itself as a cross-platform, lightweight, translator supporting 117 different languages.

Linux should be spelled L-I-N-U-C-S. Linucs. To make my case for why I believe this, with every fiber of my being, let's start by understanding why "Linux" has that X in the first place. It happened back in the early 1990s, when the first snapshot of Linucs (ahem) code was first uploaded to an FTP server.