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Proposal Raised For GNOME Software Labeling Its Carbon Cost / Environmental Impact

Phoronix - Fri, 07/24/2020 - 06:08
While GNOME software may be free as in beer, at today's GUADEC 2020 annual GNOME developers conference there was a call that GNOME software should label their "embodied carbon cost" as part of collecting more data on the environmental impact of creating said software and working to reduce said impact...

Chrome 85 Beta Brings WebHID API For Better Gamepad Support, AVIF Image Decode

Phoronix - Fri, 07/24/2020 - 03:27
Following the recent Chrome 84 stable release, Google has now promoted Chrome 85 to beta as their latest feature update to this cross-platform web browser...

FGKASLR Revved For Improving Linux Kernel Security

Phoronix - Fri, 07/24/2020 - 01:34
Intel open-source developer Kristen Carlson Accardi continues work on Function Granular Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (FGKASLR) as a big improvement over traditional KASLR address space layout randomization...

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