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Details are still coming in but INTEL-SA-00320, a.k.a. "CrossTalk", is the newest Intel side-channel CPU vulnerability...

Microsoft Teams for Linux Review: Worth the Wait  UC Today

The open-source Nouveau kernel driver has supported Volta GPUs for some time and since Linux 5.6 also supported open-source initialization of Turing GPUs for hardware acceleration. But missing for Volta and Turing has been the Mesa-side support for enabling 3D (OpenGL) and compute (OpenCL) functionality on these newer GPUs. That is finally changing with pending Mesa patches...

Open-Source 3D/Compute Finally Materializing For NVIDIA Volta / Turing GPUs  Phoronix

Dynatrace Delivers AI-Powered Observability for the ARM Platform  Odessa American

Consulting firm Igalia that has been working under contract with the Raspberry Pi Foundation on developing a Raspberry Pi Vulkan driver for the Raspberry Pi 4 and future SBCs has provided a status update on their development efforts...

'The world is really changing': Why Linux on desktop is taking a sudden leap forward  TechRepublic

Why Linux’s systemd Is Still Divisive After All These Years  How-To Geek

The KDE community has released Plasma 5.19 on schedule this morning...

There are some urgent fixes pending for the x86/x86_64 speculative execution handling for the Linux kernel following a Google security engineer discovering these issues, including one of the fixes address a situation that unfairly impacted AMD CPUs...

Google Engineer Uncovers Holes In Linux's Speculative Execution Mitigations  Phoronix

Merged back in Linux 5.7 was the new exFAT file-system driver backed by Samsung and replacing the prior "staging" exFAT driver that had been around for the prior few kernel releases. Samsung has now sent their queued up exFAT improvements for the Linux 5.8 kernel...

Samsung Sends In Improvements To The exFAT File-System Driver For Linux 5.8  Phoronix

SpaceX: Each Batch Of 60 Starlink Satellites Has 4,000+ Linux Computers  Fossbytes

Meet The Software That Does For Linux Gaming What AMD Won’t  Forbes

Linux-based Set Top Box Market 2020 Industry Size, Share, Growth, Segments, Regional Demand, Application and Forecast Research 2025  3rd Watch News

Python is full of libraries that can visualize data. One of the more interactive options comes from Pygal, which I consider the library for people who like things to look good. It generates beautiful SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files that users can interact with. SVG is a standard format for interactive graphics, and it can lead to rich user experiences with only a few lines of Python.

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I recently started learning Rust after many years of Java development. The five points that keep coming to mind are:

1. Rust feels familiar
2. References make sense
3. Ownership will make sense
4. Cargo is helpful
5. The compiler is amazing

I absolutely stand by all of these, but I've got a little more to say because I now feel like a Rustacean1 in that:

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Best Linux Foundation classes in 2020: Intro to Linux, Cloud Engineer Bootcamp, and more  ZDNet

Linux Foundation Offers Discount-Priced Cloud Engineer Bootcamp  LinuxInsider.com