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vulnerability

A vulnerability in Qualcomm and MediaTek allows the interception of part of the WPA2 traffic

Eset researchers have identified a new variant of the Kr00k vulnerability, which affects Qualcomm and MediaTek chips.

Kodi 19 alpha

Kodi 19 arrives in alpha version and reveals its first outstanding news, such as AV1 support

Kodi 19 has released its first alpha version. It will arrive with the code name "Matrix" and with interesting news, such as support for AV1.

elementary OS 6

The first novelties that will arrive with elementary OS 6 are revealed, such as new typography and improvements in dark mode

elementary OS 6 can now be tested and its developers have told us about the first improvements that the operating system will include.

About 20 GB of Intel internal technical documentation and source code leaked

Tillie Kottmann developer of the Swiss Android platform, a leading data breach on the Telegram channel, unveiled open access to 20GB

Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa

Canonical releases Ubuntu 20.04.1 and can now be updated directly from Bionic Beaver

Canonical has released Ubuntu 20.04.1, the first dot update with all the improvements made in the last three months.

Geoffrey Knauth, the new president of the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation announced yesterday the election of a new president, after the departure of this position by Richard Stallman

FBI warns about Windows 7

FBI warns about Windows 7 and its security risks

FBI warns about Windows 7. MIcrosoft's operating system is no longer officially supported and may become the target of criminals.

LibreOffice 7.0 banner

LibreOffice 7.0 now available, with news and without the controversial label

After a while with controversy over a label, The Document Foundation has released the stable version of LibreOffice 7.0.

Linux market share rises

Linux stalls its boom in August. Has it peaked?

After several consecutive months of climbing, Linux has reduced its market share in August. Does this mean that it has already peaked?

Vivaldi 3.2

Vivaldi 3.2 arrives greatly improving its Pop-out and with all these novelties

Vivaldi 3.2 has been officially released, with many new features, including the improvements made to its Pop-out.

Linux Kernel Logo, Tux

Propose to block drivers that provide access to GPL calls to the Linux kernel

Christoph Hellwig, has proposed tightening protections against binding proprietary drivers to Linux kernel components ....

OpenSSF

OpenSSF: The Linux Foundation Prepares to Improve the Security of Open Source Software

The Linux Foundation has announced the OpenSSF collective that it will focus on improving the security of open source software.

Play Doom on a Windows 95 emulated VM in Minecraft

VM Computer mod is based on Virtual Box, an open source virtual machine software that allows running operating systems ...

systemd

The new version of Systemd 246 has already been released and these are its news

After five months of development, the new version of Systemd 246 has been presented, in which the new version includes support for ...

Debian 10.5

Debian 10.5 arrives to fix GRUB2 vulnerabilities and some other changes

Debian 10.5 has arrived with package updates, fixes, and fixing the recently discovered GRUB2 vulnerability.

ksnip

Ksnip, the best alternative to Shutter also comes to Flathub

The probably the best alternative to Shutter, Ksnip has come to Flathub, so we can install their Flatpak package.

MacOS 8 becomes a multiplatform app

Developer transforms MacOS 8 into an app to be able to run it on Linux, Windows and macOS just like it did with Windows 95

Telegram filed a complaint against Apple with the EU antitrust authorities

Telegram filed a formal antitrust complaint with the European Union about Apple's app store practices last week.

Firefox 79

Firefox 79 now available, including the feature that this author has already criticized in the past

Mozilla has released Firefox 79, a new major update with very little news and a very unsafe one on Linux-based operating systems

Meow: an attack that destroys data in unprotected DBs from Elasticsearch and MongoDB

Meow is an attack that continues to gain momentum and is that for several days now, various news have been released in which various attacks ...

System76 is porting CoreBoot code to AMD Ryzen platforms

Jeremy Soller, Engineering Manager for System76, has announced the transfer of CoreBoot to laptops and workstations ...

pinetab

Did you buy a PineTab? Arm yourself with patience: your shipments are delayed by a week, but for good reason

How long the wait is getting. Due to a problem with the PinePhones, PINE64 decided not to open the reservations ...

Gnome proposes to bring GNOME OS to real hardware and also suggests considering the environmental impact of development

At the GUADEC 2020 conference, a report was made on the development of the "Gnome OS" project in which a plan to develop ...

BadPower: an attack on fast charging adapters that could cause a fire

BadPower is aimed at attacking the fast charging protocol in different electronic devices, such as chargers for ...

Free Web

Ubuntu Web: but what is this that claims to rival Chrome OS running on Firefox?

Ubuntu Web is a project that has just been announced and that promises to rival Chrome OS, but is based on Firefox and Ubuntu.

Chrome OS 84

Chrome OS 84 includes new features for tablets and Linux users, among others

Chrome OS 84 has come with important news in tablet mode and with the possibility of saving videos in MP4, among other changes.

LibreOffice and money

LibreOffice 7.0 will not include any version labeled Personal Edition

End of story: LibreOffice will not include the Personal Edition label on any of its products, which will help not to confuse users.

Goodbye to Debian 9 Stretch

Debian 9.13: Stretch has reached the end of its life cycle. Time to consider making the jump to Buster

Debian 9.13 has been released and announced as the last update to receive the version that uses the codename "Stretch".

GitHub's arctic vault already preserves open source in piqlFilm rolls

GitHub announced the implementation of the project to create an open source archive hosted in the Arctic World Archive repository, which is capable ...

SUSE started with the acquisition of Kubernetes Rancher Labs

SUSE recently announced that it has agreed to acquire Rancher Labs, a startup with technology that helps organizations run software ...

vulnerability

Aurora OS developers included a memcpy fix in Glibc

The developers of the AuroraOS mobile operating system shared a fix for a vulnerability they found in memcpy ...

EndeavorOS 2020.07.15

EndeavorOS turns one year old, with a lot of energy and plans to continue growing

EndeavorOS has just completed its first year. And, from what its developers tell us, it will be the first of many and many joys.

SR Linux, Nokia's new network operating system for routers

Nokia unveiled "Service Router Linux" (SR Linux), a system focused on the use of data centers and cloud environments in network infrastructure ...

Chrome 84

Chrome 84 removes the most annoying notifications and introduces several new developer APIs

Chrome 84 has arrived for desktop and Android systems with new features such as a new API for web animations and other improvements.

The libtorrent library already has support for the WebTorrent protocol

Feross Aboukhadijeh recently disclosed that he added support for the WebTorrent protocol to the libtorrent library ...

LibreOffice 7.0

LibreOffice 7.0 Personal Edition: clearing up the controversy generated

If you follow this fantastic free office suite, you will know that LibreOffice 7.0 version will be released soon. So far everything ...

linustorvalds

Linus Torvalds wishes Intel's AVX-512 a painful death

Linus Torvalds does not mince words and speak clearly and without shortcuts. And now you have your thoughts on Intel's AVX-512 Instruction Set

Firefox Send Closed

Mozilla closes Firefox Send to investigate what is happening and improve the service

Firefox Send has been closed while Mozilla improves the service, adding a reporting mechanism and other security improvements.

Xfce Classic, a fork of Xfce but without the client-side window decoration

Shawn Anastasio, a free software enthusiast, who at some point tried to develop his own system, recently unveiled Xfce Classic ...

Linux with inclusive words

Confirmed: Linux will stop using terms like "slave" or "blacklist"

Although it is not yet known how they will do this, it has been confirmed that Linux will stop using terms such as "master", "slave" or "blacklist".

Fedora moves to btrfs

Fedora plans to use the Btrfs file system by default, leaving EXT4 behind

Fedora is testing to move to the Btrfs filesystem, leaving behind the EXT4 it currently uses.

Linus Torvalds, ARM and Apple Silicon

Linus Torvalds rejoices and welcomes you to Apple Silicon with ARM architecture

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is pleased with the arrival of Apple Silicon because he believes that it will help improve the ARM architecture.

LibreOffice and money

After the hype, LibreOffice could delay or rename the tag that suggests it will offer paid services

It seems clear that LibreOffice prepares a payment option, but has not given many details about it. It is now known that he will postpone or modify his name.

Google Open Usage Commons logo

Open Usage Commons: Trademark Management for Open Source

Google has created the Open Usage Commons platform, to manage the trademarks of open source projects

Flutter on Linux

Canonical and Google partner to bring Flutter apps to Linux

A new partnership between Google and Canonical will allow Flutter-based applications to run on Linux.

Linux with inclusive words

Linux, the kernel, also prepares to use politically correct language

Like GitHub, Linux is also considering using politically correct terminology, changing the way it refers to some components.

Shutter in Snapcraft

Did you miss installing Shutter easily? Now you have it available as Snap

Shutter, the famous screenshot tool that Canonical removed from its official repositories, is now available as Snap.

WINE 5.12

WINE 5.12 adds support for the WebSocket API and introduces more than 300 changes

WINE 5.12 has arrived with support for the WebSocket API and with more than 300 changes that will improve the compatibility and reliability of the software.

elementary OS 5.1.6

elementary OS 5.1.6 introduces new changes to AppCenter and Files, among other less important new features

elementary OS 5.1.6, still codenamed Hera, has again made improvements to Files and its AppCenter, among other changes.

LibreOffice 6.4.5

LibreOffice 6.4.5 arrives correcting more than 100 bugs and becomes the recommended version for production teams

The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 6.4.5 and, after 5 revisions, it becomes the new recommended version for production teams.

Linux market share rises

Linux market share continues to rise, confirming trend

Linux has been increasing its market share for several months now. The question is: has it become the trend? How far will it go?

Red Hat on supercomputers

Red Hat on supercomputers. 4 of the 10 most powerful use it

Red Hat on supercomputers. 4 of the 10 most powerful in the world use Red Hat enterprise Linux as their operating system.

Manjaro says goodbye to 32-bit

Manjaro permanently abandons support for 32-bit

They have done it before, but it seems that Manjaro will definitely abandon 32-bit support and focus on 64-bit

Declare Chinese companies as security risks

Chinese companies declared as risks to the security of the United States

They declare Chinese companies as risks to the security of the United States. The action of the Federal Communications Commission was taken against Huawei and ZTE.

At LLVM they also plan to join the initiative to remove the words "slave and master"

Developers of the LLVM project expressed their desire to follow the example of other projects and stop using the word "teacher" ...

Julian Assange

The charges against Julian Assange have escalated

New evidence against him was released, as it indicates that he recruited hackers to gain access to various systems, including that of ...

CERN LHC, Linux and AMD

CERN: AMD and Linux will boost LHC expansion

The large European CERN LHC particle accelerator will have an update with EPYC microprocessors from AMD and Linux will continue as the operating system

US Senators want to force tech companies to give "legal access" encrypted information

Little information was released about a movement by a group of Republican senators who ...

GitHub and other projects removed the terminology "master" and "slave"

Many of our readers will know, have heard or will be aware of the great social problem that exists mainly in ...

TOP500

In the 55th edition of the top 500, Japan is the leader and uses ARM

The 55th edition of the ranking of the 500 most powerful computers in the world was recently published and in this new edition compared ...

Venus and Earth, RISC-V

RISC-V: extreme technology and open source to explore Venus

RISC-V and open source will again be protagonists for the exploration missions of the crust of the planet Venus

Nearby Sharing on Linux

Nearby Sharing, the «Google AirDrop», will be compatible with Linux and any other desktop operating system, or that is the intention

Google intends to bring Nearby Sharing, a kind of version of Apple's AirDrop, to Linux and other operating systems.

WSL GUI Apps

WSL already shows applications with GUI and is now easier to install

The latest version for insiders of Windows 10 includes a new version of WSL that supports GUI apps and is easier to install.

Kubermatic, formerly Loodse, opens the source code for its core technology

Loodse GmbH, a Kubernetes startup with a notable role in the open source ecosystem, changed its name to Kubermatic.

chrome

Google Chrome revives the project to hide URLs in the browser

Several developers noticed that several options appeared within the browser's configuration page, where functions are shown ...

Germany released the code of Corona-Warn-App, an app for tracking coronavirus infections

The government of Germany recently announced to the public the release of the source code of its application "Corona-Warn-App", which was created with ...

Chrome OS and Windows

Chrome OS will be able to run Windows applications, albeit through virtualization

Thanks to an agreement between Google and Parallels, Chrome OS will be able to run Windows applications in the near future.

Mobian: a Debian porting project for mobile devices

They announced the creation of a version of Debian GNU / Linux for mobile devices, in which compilations use the package base ...

Linux Kernel Logo, Tux

Linux 5.8: the biggest version of all time

Linux 5.8 will be, according to Linus Torvalds, the largest version of this book kernel of all time. Therefore, you will be fat with many new features

Introducing the PinePhone with postmarketOS

PinePhone postmarketOS Community Edition will be available for pre-order in early July

PINE64 and postmarketOS have advanced that the PinePhone with the operating system based on KDE Mobile will be available for pre-order in early July.

pinetab

The PineTab was a bestseller, according to this and other news provided by PINE64

PINE64 ensures that the PineTab has been a bestseller and that stocks were sold out soon. They also told us when they will start arriving.

Vivaldi 3.1 Note Manager

Vivaldi 3.1 introduces a new note manager and configurable menus

Vivaldi 3.1 has arrived with few but important new features, such as its new version of a full integrated note manager.

Android 11

Android 11 Beta now available, arrives with improvements in communication, screen recording and other news

Google has released Android 11 Beta 1, and its new features will include performance improvements, screen recording and file sharing improvements.

pinetab

PineTab now available for reservation for € 88.53. Should you buy one?

Pine64 has opened reservations for its PineTab, a tablet that uses the Ubuntu Touch operating system from UBports with the Lomiri graphical environment.

intel bug

CROSSTalk a data leak vulnerability what if… it affects Intel

A team of researchers from the Free University of Amsterdam has identified a new vulnerability in Intel processors, which is ...

manjaro 20.0.3

Manjaro 20.0.3, the second update in a week that, combined, includes many new features

Manjaro 20.0.3 has arrived a week after the previous version to introduce few changes, but with Linux 5.7 as the system core.

WINE 5.10

WINE 5.10 begins work to add Unix library for NTDLL and introduces almost 400 changes

WINE 5.10 is out now and comes with a new separate Unix library for NTDLL and many changes that will improve the reliability of the emulator.

Linux 5.4 and 4.19 supported for 6 years

Kernel versions 4.19 and 5.4 will be supported for 6 years instead of 2

As reported by one of the most popular maintainers, new LTS versions of the Linux kernel will be supported for 6 years.

Blender 2.83

Blender 2.83, the first LTS version of the software that comes with outstanding news

Blender 2.83 has arrived as a very important version, more than for the functions, because it is the first LTS release of the software.

elementary OS 5.1.5

elementary OS 5.1.5 arrives with improvements in AppCenter, Files and general fixes

elementary OS 5.1.5, which is still codenamed Hera, has arrived with improvements to AppCenter, Files, and minor fixes.

AMD Ryzen-C7

What if you could have an AMD Ryzen and a Ray Tracing GPU on your Android device?

The latest rumor that has emerged could indicate that AMD could have a chip for Android mobile devices with Ryzen and GPU with Ray Tracing

Linux Lite 5.0

Linux Lite 5.0 arrives with support for UEFI and new update notifier, among others

Linux Lite 5.0 has arrived as the richest and most complete version to date, with support for UEFI, update notifier and other new features.

AudioMass

AudioMass: a free "Audacity" that we can use directly from the browser

AudioMass is an audio wave editor with which we can make all kinds of tweaks from the browser and without installing extra software.

Octopus Scanner: a malware that affects NetBeans and allows backdoors to be placed

Recently, the notification was released that various malware infection projects have been detected on GitHub that are aimed at the popular ...

Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB

Raspberry Pi 4 goes up to 8GB of RAM, but maintains the rest of the specifications

The famous SBC company has updated the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B to increase its RAM to 8GB, but does anything else change?

Burst Buffers, will be one of the new features of Reiser5

Several months ago we talked here on the blog about Reiser5, which is a file system maintained by Edward Shishkin and which stands out ...

RangeAmp - A series of CDN attacks that manipulate the Range HTTP header

A team of researchers unveiled a new class of DoS attacks which they named "RangeAmp" and which are based on the use ...

linustorvalds

Linus Torvalds switches to AMD to compile faster!

Linus Torvalds switches to AMD chips, in order to compile his kernel faster. A news that is not surprising due to the good performance of the green company

Ardor 6.0

Ardor 6.0 arrives after months of development with a new virtual MIDI keyboard and many internal improvements

Ardor 6.0 has arrived as the latest version of this audio creation and editing software with many interesting new features.

WINE 5.9

WINE 5.9 arrives to introduce more than 300 changes to improve the «no emulator»

WINE 5.9 has arrived as the latest "no emulation" software update to introduce nearly 400 changes, including dozens of fixes.

google-stadia-cover

Google Stadia Pro: free for 2 months

If you like video games and want to try Google's streaming service, now you will have 2 months free to enjoy Steadia Pro

A digital gold standard based on cryptocurrencies

A digital gold standard. Trump's Candidate's Proposal to the Federal Reserve

A digital gold standard. Donald Trump's proposed candidate to the Federal Reserve is a critical currency backed dollar.

Windows, the best Linux distribution

Windows, the best Linux distribution of 2020 thanks to WSL 2

Windows will be the best Linux distribution of 2020 thanks to WSL 2. We tell you the announcements that Microsoft made at its last developer conference.

Shotwell, GNOME and Open Source

Good news for open source: GNOME resolves its dispute with Rothschild Patent Imaging

GNOME and Roothchild Patent Imaging have reached an agreement that the latter will not sue any open source project that uses its patents.

Red Hat Logo

Red Hat vs SARS-CoV-2: to the rescue of businesses and the community

Red Hat is another of the companies that is fighting to help companies and the community itself in times of a pandemic

AMD Radeon Ray

AMD Radeon Rays 4.0: it's official and will be open source

Ray tracing is a technique now implemented in the latest graphics cards from NVIDIA and AMD that improves graphics. Now comes Radeon Rays 4.0

Audacity-2.4.0 not available

Audacity 2.3.3 is once again the most up-to-date version. The project backs down due to a serious bug

The project that is in charge of one of the most popular audio editors has backtracked: Audacity 2.4.0 has a bug and they have returned to v2.3.3.

PineLoader

PineLoader appears in a video demonstrating that multiple systems can be run on the same Linux terminal

PineLoader has appeared on video demonstrating that multiple mobile Linux operating systems can be run on the same terminal.

Red Hat released the source code for Red Hat Bugzilla, its bug tracking tool

Red Hat released the source code for its review of the Red Hat Bugzilla system, which is an internal fork of Red Hat.

pinetab

The PineTab can be reserved later this month for about $ 100

At the end of May we will be able to reserve the PineTab, a tablet with a very attractive price that invites you to buy a device with Ubuntu Touch.

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