Microsoft is bringing Edge to Linux developers in October
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
At Ignite 2020 today, Microsoft announced that Edge for Linux will be available in the Dev preview channel starting in October. Read More.
Windows 10 May 2020 Update now available with built-in Linux kernel and Cortana updates
The Verge
MAY 27, 2020
Microsoft is releasing its Windows 10 May 2020 Update today. It’s the latest “major” update to Windows 10, and its big features include the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 and Cortana updates. The biggest change to the May 2020 Update is that it includes the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2), with a custom-built Linux kernel.
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Linux has been ported to run on Apple’s M1 Macs
The Verge
JANUARY 21, 2021
A new Linux port allows Apple’s M1 Macs to run Ubuntu for the first time. While a number of M1 components are shared with Apple’s mobile chips, the non-standard chips made it challenging to create Linux drivers to get Ubuntu running properly. Linux is now completely usable on the Mac mini M1. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.
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How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel
The Verge
APRIL 30, 2021
The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I You are not welcome here.”. Well, “anyone.”
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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020
Hacker Earth
JANUARY 22, 2020
Here are some of the hottest tech skills (a mix of programming languages, tools, and frameworks; in random order) to hire for in 2020, which will help you thrive in the workplace of tomorrow. The Stack Overflow developer survey results show that about 69.7% Full-stack web development. Information security software developers.
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The biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2020
The Verge
MAY 20, 2020
Microsoft’s annual developer conference has officially kicked off, the first yearly developer conference in the consumer tech world we’ve experienced online. Faced with the same circumstances, Microsoft chose to do something remarkable with its developer conference: it put on a developer keynote.
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Free Courses at Linux Academy- January 2020
Linux Academy
JANUARY 1, 2020
To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we encourage you to try these free courses and resources for developing and advancing your Cloud skills. Courses Free in January : Implementing Azure DevOps Development Processes. How to Get a Linux Job. Build Your Own Linux From Scratch. Free Mastery Courses.
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Free Courses at Linux Academy- February 2020
Linux Academy
JANUARY 30, 2020
To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we encourage you to try these free courses and resources for developing and advancing your Cloud skills. Courses Free in February : Implementing Azure DevOps Development Processes. How to Get a Linux Job. Build Your Own Linux From Scratch. Free Mastery Courses.
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Atari buys ‘Totally Reliable Delivery Service’ from Seattle-area publisher tinyBuild
GeekWire
APRIL 23, 2024
The game, which tinyBuild published for PC, console, and mobile in 2020, was developed by We’re Five Games in Minneapolis. For decades, Infogrames built a reputation as a publisher and developer of amazing and eclectic games, and we are excited to bring it back,” Atari CEO Wade Rosen said in a press release.
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Microsoft and OpenAI built a supercomputer with 285,000 CPU cores and 10,000 GPUs
TechSpot
MAY 20, 2020
At its virtual Build 2020 developer conference, Microsoft revealed several interesting sneak peeks into its latest efforts to unify Windows 10 app development, offer more useful tools for power users, and integrate more Linux goodies via the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
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Valve recaps a record 2020 for Steam and looks ahead to China launch this year
GeekWire
JANUARY 14, 2021
Steam’s user community broke a lot of records during the socially-quarantined year of 2020. It provides a look back on 2020, as well as a roadmap for what’s coming for Steam in 2021. Steam, like the rest of the games industry, had a banner year in 2020. Valve Software image). Bellevue, Wash.-based
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Amazon Web Services to offer macOS on-demand in the cloud, in new appeal to Apple developers
GeekWire
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Amazon Web Services will provide software developers with access to macOS on-demand in the cloud for the first time, promising to speed up the process and reduce the cost of making software for Apple’s computers and devices. “Many of our customers had to manage their own fleet of Macs for their build processes.”
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Vergecast: Microsoft Build 2020, Elon Musk’s factory play, and Joe Rogan moves to Spotify
The Verge
MAY 22, 2020
The three topics covered this week are: Microsoft’s Build developer conference. During the first part of the show, Verge senior editor Tom Warren joins Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn to discuss what was announced at Microsoft Build 2020 and what’s next for Windows software. Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10.
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CVE-2020-15359: VDALabs Uses Mayhem To Find MP3Gain Stack Overflow
ForAllSecure
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Researchers from VDA Labs used ForAllSecure Mayhem to discover a stack overflow ( CVE-2020-15359 ) in a popular open source sound utility, MP3Gain. The researchers at VDA Labs said in a blog post “a bad actor could use this bug to develop an exploit, which could result in something like the compromise of a workstation running MP3Gain.”
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CVE-2020-15359: VDALabs Uses Mayhem To Find MP3Gain Stack Overflow
ForAllSecure
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Researchers from VDA Labs used ForAllSecure Mayhem to discover a stack overflow ( CVE-2020-15359 ) in a popular open source sound utility, MP3Gain. The researchers at VDA Labs said in a blog post “a bad actor could use this bug to develop an exploit, which could result in something like the compromise of a workstation running MP3Gain.”
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CVE-2020-15359: VDALabs Uses Mayhem To Find MP3Gain Stack Overflow
ForAllSecure
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Researchers from VDA Labs used ForAllSecure Mayhem to discover a stack overflow ( CVE-2020-15359 ) in a popular open source sound utility, MP3Gain. The researchers at VDA Labs said in a blog post “a bad actor could use this bug to develop an exploit, which could result in something like the compromise of a workstation running MP3Gain.”
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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 24, 2022
According to IDC, IBM sold more than 4,300 IBM Z systems in 2020, for approximately $3.5 IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000. We have seen the largest growth where clients augment [core] systems with open source — Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift,” Baker says.
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Google is delaying the shutdown of Chrome apps, but you probably weren’t using them anyway
The Verge
AUGUST 10, 2020
But they aren’t widely adopted — Google said that “approximately 1 percent of users on Windows, Mac, and Linux actively use Chrome packaged apps” all the way back in August 2016 when it first announced plans to wind down support for the platform. Chrome apps will work on Windows, Mac, and Linux until June 2021.
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Dell announces new XPS 13 and XPS 13 2-in-1 with Tiger Lake processors
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
The new Dell XPS 13, the best laptop of 2020 so far, is getting a refresh. The 2-in-1 has also gotten a similar redesign to one that the early-2020 XPS received. Dell also announced a “developer edition” of the XPS 13. It’s a Linux-based device and the first laptop to come preloaded with Ubuntu 20.04
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Salesforce IT injects generative AI to ease its massive datacenter migration
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 6, 2023
That’s why SaaS giant Salesforce, in migrating its entire data center from CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has turned to generative AI — not only to help with the migration but to drive the real-time automation of this new infrastructure.
CVE-2020-10029: Buffer overflow in GNU libc trigonometry functions?!?
ForAllSecure
AUGUST 18, 2020
Earlier this year we uncovered bugs in the GNU libc functions cosl, sinl, sincosl, and tanl due to assumptions in an underlying common function, leading to CVE-2020-10029. The GNU C Library (glibc) is the most common open source C library and is used on most Linux systems. Finding CVE-2020-10029 in glibc.
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CVE-2020-10029: Buffer overflow in GNU libc trigonometry functions?!?
ForAllSecure
AUGUST 18, 2020
Earlier this year we uncovered bugs in the glibc functions cosl, sinl, sincosl, and tanl due to assumptions in an underlying common function, leading to CVE-2020-10029. The GNU C Library (glibc) is the most common open source C library and is used on most Linux systems. Finding CVE-2020-10029 in glibc. Floating Point Arithmetic.
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CVE-2020-10029: Buffer overflow in GNU libc trigonometry functions?!?
ForAllSecure
AUGUST 18, 2020
Earlier this year we uncovered bugs in the glibc functions cosl, sinl, sincosl, and tanl due to assumptions in an underlying common function, leading to CVE-2020-10029. The GNU C Library (glibc) is the most common open source C library and is used on most Linux systems. Finding CVE-2020-10029 in glibc. Floating Point Arithmetic.
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Rescheduling the Playdate: Portland startup sets 2021 release for unique handheld game device
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
Panic has announced new plans for the debut of its retro-styled, Pacific Northwest-developed portable gaming device, the Playdate, after COVID-related shutdowns forced the company to abandon its original 2020 release date. — Playdate (@playdate) October 30, 2020. (Source: Playdate press kit). in May of last year.
Playdate, the tiny handheld with a crank, is delayed to early 2021
The Verge
OCTOBER 30, 2020
You’ll have to wait a bit longer for Panic’s odd little handheld: In an update published today , the company announced that Playdate will slip from its original 2020 window and now ship in early 2021. Panic also announced Windows and Linux versions of the Playdate Simulator, a software for designing games and tinkering with the device.
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Technology Short Take 135
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 11, 2020
This will likely be the last Technology Short Take of 2020, so it’s a tad longer than usual. It’s not unusual to see “networking professionals need to learn developer tools,” but how often do you see “developers need to learn these networking tools”? Welcome to Technology Short Take #135!
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Panic’s Playdate handheld will be ready for streamers when it launches sometime this year
The Verge
MARCH 24, 2021
Plug in your Playdate, launch this app, and it will mirror your Playdate screen to your PC/Mac/Linux in real-time. The Playdate was first revealed in 2019, with games in development from Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi, Good Sudoku developer Zach Gage, and more. Perfect for streamers, YouTubers, and better accessibility.
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Microsoft hid lots of secret nerdy messages to devs in its Build stream
The Verge
MAY 20, 2020
If you tuned into Microsoft’s Build developer keynote yesterday, one of the things you may have seen was a mysterious “RGV2cw” 3D-printed object on the shelf behind CEO Satya Nadella. Kinda in love with how @shanselman 's room lights match his wallpaper <3 #MSBuild pic.twitter.com/oARZAbXaQy — Jen Gentleman (@JenMsft) May 19, 2020.
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Seattle investors back Battlesnake, makers of a growing game that turns coding into competition
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Liquid 2, Ascend, 200 OK, and angel investors including Jason Warner (former CTO of GitHub) and Chris Aniszczyk (CTO of Linux Foundation) also participated. We’re specifically serving mid-career and further-along developers that are looking for ways to engage with new technologies. It’s mostly for fun.”
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How the pandemic is accelerating enterprise open source adoption
Venture Beast
JANUARY 26, 2021
Enterprise IT teams increasingly shifted to open source software solutions in 2020 as they adapted to the pandemic's disruptions. Read More.
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Technology Short Take 134
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Here’s number 43 , from 9 November 2020. Niko Virtala shares some information on making AWS developer tools work with AWS SSO. You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself). Good stuff here! Good stuff! See the previous bullet!)
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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020
Hacker Earth
JANUARY 22, 2020
Here are some of the hottest tech skills (a mix of programming languages, tools, and frameworks; in random order) to hire for in 2020, which will help you thrive in the workplace of tomorrow. The Stack Overflow developer survey results show that about 69.7% Full-stack web development. Information security software developers.
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The FuzzCon 2021 Real Talks Panel
ForAllSecure
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Listed below are the top 3 takeaways from Ransome’s panel: The bottleneck of software security is getting developers to respond to findings. The bottleneck is getting developers to actually do something about the findings,” shares Maccherone. The key to getting developers invested in security.
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Technology Short Take 129
Scott Lowe
JULY 17, 2020
Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Since Apple’s announcement at WWDC 2020 about the transition to ARM-based CPUs, there’s been a lot of analysis and discussion of what this means. ” Great quote! Servers/Hardware.
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Acer Chromebook Spin 713: the Chromebook to buy
The Verge
AUGUST 6, 2020
This is the best Chromebook of 2020 so far Several Chromebooks came out this year vying to become the best “premium” Chromebook of 2020. By unveiling the Galaxy and the C436 at CES 2020, the companies essentially posed the question: can a Chromebook be worth $1,000? The first is its 3:2 display.
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Best EPUB Maker: Edit and Publish Interactive eBooks to Engage Audiences at First Glance
Kitaboo
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Digital Publishing / January 30, 2020. Best Practices in Developing Comprehensive eTextbooks. Using KITABOO, you can make eBooks that allow your readers to highlight text, annotate, search for text, and bookmark pages. Your readers can also sync the content across multiple devices. .
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Apple stumbled into a war with the gaming industry, and the future of iOS is at stake
The Verge
AUGUST 15, 2020
But Epic’s dramatic public performance — an unprecedented bit of corporate trolling the likes of which we’ve never seen — sets up the feud with Apple as a fight bordering on good versus evil, with Apple the corporate bad guy aggressively taxing and restricting developers. Join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming ‘1984.’”.
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Geek of the Week: Zipwhip?s teen developer Avery Wagar generates buzz with his work on coffee robot
GeekWire
MAY 18, 2020
Avery Wagar of Zipwhip with the Textspresso IV robotic coffee machine that he helped develop for the company’s Seattle office. He’s the teenage software developer who helped build a text-enabled coffee robot that will get you a coffee. Mac, Windows or Linux? Linux for work. Zipwhip photo). Windows for gaming.
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IBM, UN and Linux Foundation tackle climate crisis in 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge
Tech Republic Cloud
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
The move comes as 77% of developers and first responders say climate change is the single most pressing issue facing their generation, according to an IBM global survey.
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Apple WWDC 2020: the 18 biggest announcements
The Verge
JUNE 22, 2020
Apple’s WWDC 2020 was unique before it even began. It’s the first time Apple’s developer conference has been streamed exclusively online with no in-person event. But if you just want the skinny on what you need to know about from WWDC 2020, here are the biggest announcements. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.
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Geek of the Week: Vulcan’s W. Andre Perkins uses machine learning to help predict climate change
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
At Vulcan he is developing cutting-edge solutions using machine learning to decrease uncertainty about future climate. If we can develop methods to decrease our uncertainty about how to plan for people and the environment by even minute amounts it could have a huge impact. Mac, Windows or Linux? This is my way of contributing.
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Ready…Set…Start Your Containers
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 11, 2022
Many developers faced difficulties porting applications developed for a particular computing environment decades ago. Containerization originated in 2001 as a project that allowed several general-purpose Linux servers to run on a single box with autonomy and security. Advantages.
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Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 23, 2020
” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Servers/Hardware. This Docker blog post has more details.
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Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 11, 2023
Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.
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