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New Kenna Security Research Validates Efficacy of Automated Patching, Provides a Playbook for CISOs  GlobeNewswire

Over 2 billion Google Chrome users warned of security risk on Windows, macOS and Linux  Digit

Wireguard, the next-generation VPN: simple, safe encryption and quick  TechHQ

NixOS 20.03 "Markhor" Released: A Purely Functional Linux Distribution  Fossbytes

Into the Breach gets support for nine more languages, Linux and touch  htxt.africa

People love Markdown text with good reason—it is easy to write, easy to read, easy to edit, and it can be converted to a wide range of other text mark up formats. While Markdown text is very good for content creation and manipulation, it imposes limitations on the options for content display.

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Using Python and some graphing libraries, you can project the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, and also display the total number of deaths for a country (this article uses India as an example) on a given date. Humans sometimes need help interpreting and processing the meaning of data, so this article also demonstrates how to create an animated horizontal bar graph for five countries, showing the variation of cases by date.

Projecting confirmed cases and deaths for India

This is done in three steps.

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Intel Working On Slim Bootloader Integration Improvements For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

The spread of disease is a real concern for a world in which global travel is commonplace. A few organizations track significant epidemics (and any pandemic), and fortunately, they publish their work as open data. The raw data can be difficult for humans to process, though, and that's why data science is so vital. For instance, it could be useful to visualize the worldwide spread of COVID-19 with Python and Pandas.

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Gaming On Linux: Over 6,000 Windows Games Work Perfectly, Thanks To Proton  Fossbytes

Added back in Linux 5.4 was the VirtIO-FS file-system driver as a a FUSE-framework-based file-system implementation designed for guest to/from host file-system sharing for VirtIO para-virtualized devices. Now with QEMU 5.0 VirtIO-FS is supported on its side...

VirtIO-FS Support Is In QEMU 5.0 For Better File/Folder Sharing Between Hosts And VMs  Phoronix

iPhone 7 Becomes a Linux Phone Thanks to postmarketOS Hack  Softpedia News

How to take advantage of Linux's extensive vocabulary  Network World

Varnish Cache (commonly referred to as Varnish) is an open-source, powerful and fast reverse-proxy HTTP accelerator with modern architecture and flexible configuration language. Being a reverse proxy simply means it is a software that...

Google Releases Much-Awaited Chrome Update; Alerts 2 Billion Users About Security Flaws Across Windows, Mac  LatestLY

Proton has brought about 6000 games to Linux so far  OS News

Slim Bootloader is the open-source initiative Intel announced in Q3'2018 for providing a very bare bones BSD-licensed open-source firmware implementation. We're now seeing new Linux patches for improving the integration with the Slim Bootloader...

Intel Working On Slim Bootloader Integration Improvements For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Landing today in Mesa 20.1-devel were some of the OpenGL/Vulkan-side driver changes needed as part of Intel's road to bringing up discrete Xe GPU support under Linux...