Open-source News

Linux Foundation hosts a new project that aims to advance digital trust  SiliconANGLE

Component upgrades/changes for gaming VM on Linux - Virtual Machines and VM Programs  BleepingComputer

StreamVR drops Mac support “so our team can focus on Windows and Linux”  PCGamesN

In 2010, the My Little Pony franchise was rebooted with the animated show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. The combination of accessibility to children with the sophisticated themes the show tackled garnered a following that cut across ages. I was swept up in the wave and discovered there is a lot to learn about DevOps from the show.

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Video games are a big business. That's great for the industry's longevity—not to mention for all the people working in programming and graphics. But it can take a lot of work, time, and money to keep up with all the latest gaming crazes. If you feel like playing a few quick rounds of a video game without investing in a new console or game franchise, then you'll be happy to know that there are plenty of open source combat games you can download, play, share, and even modify (if you're inclined to programming) for free.

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Way back in 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article that proclaimed "data scientist" to be the sexiest job of the 21st century. Interest in data science has exploded since then. Many great open source projects, such as Python and the R language for statistical computing, have facilitated the rapid developments in how we analyze data.

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OpenVPN is an open-source, fast, popular program for creating a VPN (Virtual Private Network). It uses both the TCP and UDP transmission protocols, and VPN tunnels are secured with OpenVPN protocol with SSL/TLS authentication,...

Yesterday marked fifteen years since the very first release of the Unigine Engine, the longtime Linux-friendly game engine that over the past decade has seemingly increased focus towards industrial simulations and AR but remaining well known among PC enthusiasts for the company's very demanding tech demos...

PhotoQt is a fluid image viewer for Windows and Linux  Ghacks Technology News

Secret Project Brings “Very Usable” Microsoft Office to Ubuntu 20.04  Softpedia News

Canonical Outs New Ubuntu Linux Kernel Live Patch to Address 3 Flaws  Mobile Tech News

New Kaiji malware targets IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks  ZDNet

CompuLab Launching The Tensor-PC As A New IIOT Solution  Phoronix

The Linux-friendly folks at CompuLab are preparing to ship the Tensor-PC as their newest creation following their big successes with the likes of the Airtop 3 fan-less PC and incredibly small yet featureful Fitlet...

Back in March we reported how AMD developers were looking at GNU C Library platform optimizations for Zen and in part could be leveraging some of the capabilities currently employed by Intel for Haswell and newer. It's looking like some solid progress is being made in that direction...

AMD Working With GNU Developers To Provide More Robust Runtime Detection For Better Performance  Phoronix

Open-source Inkscape 1.0 released for Linux, Windows, and macOS — after 16 years!  BetaNews

28 antivirus programs are vulnurable to hacker hijacking. How to fix it.  Komando

When it comes to Intel's high performance Scalable Video Technology (SVT) video encoders, SVT-AV1 is the most well known for its great speed and usage by Netflix and others. But Intel SVT also consists of VP9 and HEVC/H.265 encoders too and today brought the debut of SVT-VP9 0.2...

can I use Linux of any form on a laptop that needs reprogramming? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer