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Intel last night made public two more data leakage disclosures, which tie back to Zombieload and November's TAA issue...

Kubuntu Focus Linux laptop from $1800  Geeky Gadgets

The EFI kernel code has seen a variety of clean-ups and low-level improvements to it for the Linux 5.6 cycle...

Yii is an open-source, high-performance, flexible, efficient and secure PHP framework for rapidly building modern Web applications. It is a generic and full-stack web programming framework for writing code in an object-oriented fashion and...

Rocket League shutting down on Mac and Linux, reasons explained and refunds issued  Pocket-lint

Rocket League shutting down on Mac and Linux, reasons explained and refunds issued  Pocket-lint

Global DSP Software Market And Top Key Players Are Windows , Linux  openPR

Like its Windows-noob-stabilisers OS, Zorin's cloudy Grid tool is Linux desktop management for idiots  The Register

Rocket League support ending on Mac and Linux, offers refunds  GamesIndustry.biz

Rocket League Recalls Support to MacOS and Linux, Offers Refund  Tech Times

Another alternative to slow initramfs generation could be distributing pre-built initramfs images to users. An additional benefit of that is possibly better security with measured boot capabilities, a matter currently being discussed by Fedora stakeholders...

How to install Virtualbox guest additions Windows or Linux  H2S Media

Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.

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StreetComplete is an Android app that makes it fun and easy to contribute to open data by completing quests.

Quests are used to fill in incomplete or inaccurate information on OpenStreetMap, an open data project dedicated to mapping the world through crowdsourcing. Anyone can contribute to the map and, thanks to free culture and open source licenses, that data can then be used by anyone for anything, from video games to custom map applications and artwork.

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The nice aspect of being a physicist and a researcher is the openness of our community. There is a lot of collaboration and sharing of ideas (especially during coffee breaks). We also tend to share the software we write. Since we are very picky about algorithms, we want to modify other people’s code to fix the obvious errors that we find. It feels frustrating when I have to use proprietary tools since I cannot understand their inner workings. Having grown up professionally in such an environment, open source has been my go-to solution for all the software I use.

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The Surface Duo SDK is now available for macOS and Linux  Neowin

Multiple books in the Open Organization series discuss the many ways new communication technologies are changing the nature of both work and management. I've seen these changes firsthand during my nearly three decades working for Japanese corporations. Over time, I've been able to classify and characterize some of the impacts these technologies—particularly new telecommunication technologies and social media—are having on daily life in many organizations.

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Linux Operating System Market Sets the Table for Continued Growth  openPR

Linux 5.5 “Kleptomaniac Octopus” Officially Launched  Softpedia News

AppStream was started in 2011 as a means of drawing up cross-distribution (XML-based) standards for describing software components/packages metadata and for repositories to describe software collections. Now nearly a decade later, AppStream 1.0 should be coming in the next few months...