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The Oculus Go’s operating system is being unlocked, John Carmack announces

The Verge

This opens up the ability to repurpose the hardware for more things today, and means that a randomly discovered shrink wrapped headset twenty years from now will be able to update to the final software version, long after over-the-air update servers have been shut down. The Go was officially discontinued in 2020.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

Automakers want to standardize on a Linux-based OS that would make vehicle infotainment systems act more like smartphones. Automakers are working to standardize on a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that would make it easier for cars to act more like smartphones.

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Technology Short Take 173

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware Alex Ellis provides some details on his workflow for booting Raspberry Pi 5 from NVMe. Tom Hummel finds himself veering back into a hardware-based home lab (instead of a cloud-based lab). A set of vulnerabilities in the open source reference implementation of the UEFI specification has been uncovered.

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

After all, entry-level pricing for mainframes in the z15 family running IBM Z operating systems is $250,000. IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000. The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source.

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Google is still making its mysterious Fuchsia OS, and now it wants your help

The Verge

It’s been over four years since we first found out that Google is developing a new operating system called Fuchsia. It’s also unique because, despite being developed “in the open” on publicly browsable repositories, nobody really understands what the OS is for, and Google executives have been remarkably coy about it all.

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows. Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. TL;DR: It’s not as easy as it might seem.) Falco has graduated within the CNCF.

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Unlocking the Secrets of Software-based DRM: A Comprehensive Guide

Kitaboo

Whether you’re a curious tech enthusiast, a software developer, or an industry professional, this article is packed with valuable insights and knowledge to satisfy your thirst for understanding software-based DRM. Gone are the days of clunky hardware-based DRM solutions that relied on physical tokens or specialized hardware components.