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Because so much of our personal and professional data is available online today, it is important for everyone—from professionals to general internet users—to learn the basics of security and privacy. As a student, I've been able to gain experience in this area through my school's CyberPatriot initiative, where I've had the opportunity to interact with industry experts to learn about cyber breaches and the basic steps to establish a system's security.

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Many years ago, there was encryption software called TrueCrypt. Its source code was available, although there were no major claims that anyone had ever audited or contributed to it. Its author was (and remains to this day) anonymous. Still, it was cross-platform, easy to use, and really, really useful.

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A Linux Safari to Classify the Genus of This Penguin  TechNewsWorld

Linux 5.12 release date may be delayed  Techradar

The free software movement famously got started because of a poorly designed printer. Decades later, printer and scanner manufacturers continue to reinvent the wheel, ignoring established and universal protocols. As a result, every now and again, you'll stumble onto a printer or scanner that just doesn't seem to work with your operating system.

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Create and Edit EPUB Files on Linux With Sigil  It's FOSS

In February 2020 Red Hat proudly announced that we had earned a place on Fortune’s list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. At the time, achieving such a distinction seemed guaranteed to be one of the most memorable moments of the year. 2020 had other ideas, though.

In less than three years Proton and Steam Play have changed the world of Linux gaming by running more than 14 thousand games  Asap Land

The Linux 5.12 stable kernel release is quickly approaching but may be challenged by an extra release candidate...

Linux 5.12-rc7 Kernel Released - It's Big And Causing Some Concern  Phoronix

Global Linux Software Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report 2021-2027 – The Courier  The Courier

CopyQ 4.0  Neowin

Following the PLATYPUS discovery last year that CPU energy information could be used for possible side channel attacks, the Intel RAPL counters were not only restricted to root but the "amd_energy" driver for exposing CPU energy information on supported Zen series CPUs was also dialed back to root-only in the name of security. Linux 5.13 is introducing a new mechanism so AMD CPUs will be able to still read the energy counters even if not operating as root...

Linux could run on Apple M1 chips in just a few months  BetaNews

How to Install TeamSpeak Client on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Getting Started With System Logging in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Latest Arch Linux ISO Release Comes with the ArchInstall CLI Guided Installer  LXer

How to upgrade Linux Mint 19.3 (Tricia) to Mint 20.1 (Ulyssa) - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Announced in March by Dynatron was their A38 CPU cooler for AMD Ryzen Threadripper and EPYC processors. This heatsink fan is rated for cooling up to 280 Watt SP3/sTRX4/TR4 processors making it capable of cooling even the newest high-end EPYC "Milan" processors with the EPYC 75F3 and 7763 processors. Here are some initial benchmarks of this cooler with the AMD EPYC 7763 server processor.

Arguably the most interesting RISC-V board announced to date is SiFive's HiFive Unmatched with the FU740 RISC-V SoC that features four U74-MC cores and one S7 embedded core. The HiFive Unmatched also has 16GB of RAM, USB 3.2 Gen 1, one PCI Express x16 slot (operating at x8 speeds), an NVMe slot, and Gigabit Ethernet. The upstream kernel support for the HiFive Unmatched and the FU740 SoC continues...