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WireGuard 0.0.20190905 was released on Thursday by lead developer Jason Donenfeld...

WireGuard Releases New Snapshot While Not Expected For Linux 5.4 Mainline  Phoronix

WireGuard 0.0.20190905 was released on Thursday by lead developer Jason Donenfeld. WireGuard 0.0.20190905 is the newest snapshot for this secure VPN ...

Firefox 69 / 70 Beta Against Chrome 76 On Ubuntu Linux  Phoronix

With Firefox 69 released and Firefox 70 entering beta, here are some *fresh* web browser benchmarks between Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome from Ubuntu ...

With Firefox 69 released and Firefox 70 entering beta, here are some fresh web browser benchmarks between Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome from Ubuntu Linux. On the Firefox size, Firefox 68, 69, and 70 Beta were tested with and without WebRender being enabled and compared to Google's current Chrome 76 stable release.

Linux-based AI Camera Announced By Microsoft  Fossbytes

A Linux-based AI camera using the Microsoft Azure *service* has been officially announced. Microsoft made the announcement of the $249 "Vision AI Developer ...

GNU Wget2 is a from scratch rewrite of the popular wget downloading utility. GNU Wget2 wraps around the libwget library while now being multi-threaded and supporting other features to provide better performance over the current wget releases...

Since June Intel's open-source developers have begun volleying the initial open-source graphics driver code for Tigerlake "Gen12" hardware. To date the Gen12 changes haven't been too invasive even with this being the first generation with the "Xe Graphics" engine branding. But that's now changed with a new patch series showing major changes to the graphics instruction set...

PinePhone Linux phone prototypes to ship to developers this month  SlashGear

It seems that the dreams of an open source Linux phone are starting to pick up steam again. Purism has just announced its batched schedule of Librem 5 ...

Thousands of servers infected with new Lilocked (Lilu) ransomware  ZDNet

Researchers spot new ransomware targeting Linux-based servers.

The Turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for reporting various power/frequency metrics on x86_64 processors saw some late updates merged last weekend for the upcoming Linux 5.3 kernel...

Exim marks the spot… of remote code execution: Patch due out today for 'give me root' flaw in mail server  The Register

The widely used Exim email server software is due to be patched today to close a critical security flaw that can be exploited to potentially gain root-level access ...

Here's How To Easily Use Apple Music From Any Linux Distribution  Forbes

People who use Apple Music on Linux exist, and now using Apple's streaming *service* doesn't require any workarounds.

For those excited by the prospects of running Linux on Arm-based laptops, with the upcoming Linux 5.4 kernel will be better mainline support for the Lenovo Yoga C630 laptop...

You can add color to your Linux terminal using special ANSI encoding settings, either dynamically in a terminal command or in configuration files, or you can use ready-made themes in your terminal emulator. Either way, the nostalgic green or amber text on a black screen is wholly optional. This article demonstrates how you can make Linux as colorful (or as monochromatic) as you want.

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Academic work fits nicely into the open source ethos: The higher the value of what you give away, the greater your academic prestige and earnings. Professors accomplish this by sharing their best ideas for free in journal articles in peer-reviewed literature. This is our currency, without a strong publishing record not only would our ability to progress in our careers degrade, but even our jobs could be lost (and the ability to get any other job).

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New ransomware strain appears to target Linux web servers  IT World Canada

Dubbed Lilocked, after the extension it places on encrypted files, the strain has surfaced in the past two months.

Pandora Flexible Monitoring Solution (FMS) is all-purpose monitoring software, which means it can control network equipment, servers (Linux and Windows), virtual environments, applications, databases, and a lot more. It can do both remote monitoring and monitoring based on agents installed on the servers. You can get collected data in reports and graphs and raise alerts if something goes wrong.

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First released in 2003, WordPress has grown to become one of the leading CMS systems in the internet, accounting for over 30% of the market share. WordPress is a free and opensource CMS that...

Landing Thursday within Mesa 19.3 Git but marked for back-porting to the stable 19.1 and 19.2 series is an Intel driver fix to address an issue with KDE's KWin sometimes crashing...

Roman Gushchin of Facebook's Linux kernel engineering team has proposed a new slab memory controller for the Linux kernel...