[08:43] schestowitz[08:43] schestowitzMeet Kubuntu Focus Ir14, a 14-inch and 3-pound laptop that features a narrow-bezel WUXGA (Wide Ultra XGA) IPS display with a 19201200 pixels resolution, 16:10 aspect ratio, 450 nit brightness, and 100% sRGB color reproduction, as well as an all-aluminum chassis.
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[08:51] schestowitz[08:51] schestowitzHighlights of OBS Studio 29.1 include support for streaming AV1/HEVC over RTMP for YouTube, support for surround sound for AJA capture cards, new lossless audio recording options for FLAC, ALAC, and PCM (including 32-bit float), as well as support for multiple audio tracks in Simple output recording.
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[08:52] schestowitz[08:52] schestowitzEighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of April 29, 2023): [...]
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[09:10] schestowitz[09:10] schestowitzThere are new developments on the cybersecurity attack that has crippled internet services at Bluefield University. Weve learned through RamAlert texts sent to students, faculty and staff that the cyber attackers are now directly communicating with everyone on the alert system. They have identified themselves as AvosLocker and are demanding payment in return for not leaking stude [09:10] schestowitz nts private information. The FBI considers AvosLocker to be ransomware. In March 2022, they released an advisory on it. They said avoslocker has Targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the U.S. Including...The financial services, critical manufacturing, and government facilities sectors.
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[09:11] schestowitz[09:11] schestowitzCanonical, a leading open-source provider of cloud computing services, has announced that Ubuntu Pro is now available in a subscription-included model on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Users can now launch Ubuntu Pro on-demand instances and purchase Ubuntu Pro Compute Savings Plans from the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) console.
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[09:13] schestowitz[09:13] schestowitzGerman IT services provider Bitmarck has shut down all of its customer and internal systems, including entire datacenters in some cases, following a cyberattack.
[09:13] schestowitzThe company, one of the largest service providers for German health insurers, said no customer, patient, or insured individuals' data had been accessed in the security breach at least not according to "the current state of knowledge," according to an April 30 update posted on its temporary website.
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[09:17] schestowitz[09:17] schestowitzIn Hebron and East Jerusalem, the technology focuses almost entirely on Palestinians, according to Amnestys report, marking a new way to automate the control of interior boundaries that separate the lives of Palestinians and Israelis. Amnesty called the process automated apartheid. Israel has strongly denied that it operates an apartheid regime.
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[09:24] schestowitz[09:24] schestowitzCatherine Kiwuka, a coffee specialist at the National Agricultural Research Organization, called Liberica excelsa a neglected coffee species. She is part of an experiment to introduce it to the world.
[09:24] schestowitzIf it works, it could hold important lessons for smallholder coffee farmers elsewhere, demonstrating the importance of wild coffee varieties in a warming world. Liberica excelsa is native to tropical Central Africa. It was cultivated for a little while in the late 19th century before petering out. Then came the ravages of climate change. Growers resurrected Liberica once more.
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[10:03] schestowitz[10:03] schestowitzIn an operation coordinated by Europol and involving nine countries, law enforcement have seized the illegal dark web marketplace Monopoly Market and arrested 288 suspects involved in buying or selling drugs on the dark web. More than EUR 50.8 million (USD 53.4 million) in cash and virtual currencies, 850 kg of drugs, and 117 firearms were seized. The seized drugs include over 258 kg of amphetami [10:03] schestowitz nes, 43 kg of cocaine, 43 kg of MDMA and over 10 kg of LSD and ecstasy pills.
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