Linux Action News 122

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 19:45:00 -0700

Android 10 has a lot we like while the PinePhone is real and closer than we thought.

Plus Red Hat's new desktop strategy, and what we think Mozilla is getting right.

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Welcoming Android 10! — Today we're releasing the Android 10 source code to Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and making it available to the broader ecosystem. We’re also starting the official Android 10 rollout to all three generations of Pixel devices worldwide.
Google Releases Android 10 With "Vulkan Everywhere", Privacy Improvements
The Verge Android 10 Review
Android 10 adds warnings for USB port contamination and overheating
The PinePhone is real & shipping soon — I am hereby happy to announce that the first PinePhones have now entered production and will start shipping to developers this month.
Firefox 69 released — As of today, Enhanced Tracking Protection will be turned on by default
Tor Blog: Browser Fingerprinting - An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead
Introducing Red Hat CodeReady Containers — CodeReady Containers brings a minimal, preconfigured OpenShift 4.1 or newer cluster to your local laptop or desktop computer for development and testing purposes.

Linux Action News 101

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 18:45:00 -0700

Google's important news this week, why Linux is fueling PowerShell Growth, and the Matrix breach that might be worse than it sounds.

Plus more good work by Mozilla, and the Chinese crackdown on Bitcoin mining.

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The 6 most important announcements from Google Cloud Next 2019 — Anthos is the new name of the Google Cloud Services Platform, Google’s managed service for allowing enterprises to run applications in their private data center and in Google’s cloud.
PowerShell growth fueled by Linux use — PowerShell Core usage has grown significantly in the last two years. In particular, the bulk of our growth has come from Linux usage
Teaching machines to triage Firefox bugs
Mozilla still on track to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in Firefox
Protections Against Fingerprinting and Cryptocurrency Mining Available in Firefox Nightly and Beta
Matrix suffers security breach — An attacker gained access to the servers hosting Matrix.org. The intruder had access to the production databases, potentially giving them access to unencrypted message data, password hashes and access tokens.
Archive of deleted GitHub Issues lodged by the hacker
Chinese government proposes ban on bitcoin mining — A Chinese ban on cryptocurrency mining would be a huge deal for the global bitcoin community.