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Google's AI team has announced "Lyra" as a very low bit-rate codec for speech compression designed for use-cses like WebRTC and other video chats... With a bit rate so low that when combined with the likes of the AV1 video codec could potentially allow video chats over 56kbps Internet connections...

What is the GNOME Editor in Linux?  Technotification

Mageia 8 is out today as a significant and long overdue update to this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva/Mandrake lineage...

Mageia 8 Linux distro ready for download  BetaNews

Security News in Review: Google Funding Security Development for Linux Kernel  Security Boulevard

How to Activate Incognito Mode for Private Browsing on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Wine 6.3 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot of this free software solution for running Windows games and applications under Linux and macOS...

Google to Underwrite Contributors to Linux Security  Security Boulevard

How to install and use Virt-Manager on Windows 10 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Linus Torvalds just merged a set of patches that includes KFence. Short for the Kernel Electric Fence, KFence is a low-overhead memory safety error detector/validator that is suitable for use in production kernel builds...

Kernel Electric-Fence: Linux 5.12 Merges KFence For Low-Overhead Memory Safety Feature  Phoronix

Google Funding For Linux Security  iProgrammer

The Linux 5.12 merge window is drawing to a close this weekend while being sent in this morning were the RISC-V updates that tend to excite the free software enthusiasts...

How to Copy a Folder in Linux With cp  MUO - MakeUseOf

Get Better Remote Sessions on Linux With Mosh and Tmux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Watch Out For Possible Data Loss On Early Linux 5.12 Kernels  Phoronix

As a quick PSA for those that may be eager to test out early Git builds of the Linux 5.12 kernel, I've been hitting a very nasty issue on multiple systems leading to corruption / data loss...

Best Linux distros 2021  IT PRO

Red Hat introduces free RHEL for open-source, non-profit organizations  ZDNet

Last week saw the main set of ACPI and power management updates for Linux 5.12 while for the second week of the merge window has been the follow-up work with Intel Simple Firmware Interface removal and also an additional ACPI update...