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The Kotlin programming language on Android has become very popular and Google announced today nearly 60% of the top 1,000 Android applications are using Kotlin code in some capacity. Beyond their announcement earlier this year of Android development being Kotlin-first, as they look forward to 2020 will be more Kotlin + Android action...

Disney+ Adds Support For Chromebooks & Linux Computers  Cord Cutters News, LLC

Canonical makes Ubuntu for Windows SubSystem for Linux a priority  ZDNet

While lossy compression audio formats like MP3 are not recommended for use within professional audio tasks, for those using the open-source Ardour digital audio workstation (DAW) software as of today there is finally native MP3 import support...

New Linux vulnerability puts VPN connections at risk of hijacking  HackRead

Linux Flaw Allows VPN Hijacking | Decipher  Decipher

Still in preview, but look! You can now develop Azure Sphere apps in Linux – if you dare  The Register

Announced back in September at the All Systems Go event in Berlin was systemd-homed as a new effort to improve home directory handling. Systemd-homed wants to make it easier to migrate home directories, ensure all user data is self-contained, unify user-password and encryption handling, and provide other modern takes on home/user directory functionality. That code is expected to soon land in systemd...

American-Made Librem 5 Phone Costs $1,999  PCMag

Linux security flaw could let VPN connections be hacked  ITProPortal

Purism Librem 5 USA Linux phone costs as much as a Galaxy Fold  SlashGear

With AMD last week having enabled OpenGL 4.6 for their RadeonSI OpenGL Linux driver when enabling the NIR intermediate representation support, you may be wondering how using NIR is stacking up these days compared to the default TGSI route. Here are some benchmarks on Polaris, Vega, and Navi for comparing this driver option that ultimately allows OpenGL 4.6 to be flipped on.

Red Hat has been working on a "general notification queue" that is built off the Linux kernel's pipe code and will notify the user-space of events like key/keyring changes, block layer events like disk errors, USB attach/remove events, and other notifications without user-space having to continually poll kernel interfaces. This general notification queue was proposed for Linux 5.5 but has been pushed back to at least 5.6...

A General Notification Queue Was Pushed Back From Linux 5.5 Introduction  Phoronix

A General Notification Queue Was Pushed Back From Linux 5.5 Introduction  Phoronix

Attackers using Linux Vulnerability to Hijack VPN Connections  TechDator

Linux VPN connections can be hacked  Fudzilla

Nvidia Is Preparing An Unexpected Surprise For Linux Users In 2020  Forbes

Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE) provides a means of encrypting wireless data transfers without having any secret/key. Opportunistic Wireless Encryption is advertised as Wi-Fi Certified Enhanced Open...

Hackers Can Hijack VPN Connections Using A New Linux Vulnerability  Fossbytes