New job website focuses on connecting technical and non-technical professionals with organizations in open source.
Linux New Media, along with FOSSlife and Linux Magazine, is pleased to announce the launch of Open Source JobHub, a job board to help people find their place in the open source ecosystem.
Aimed at developers, engineers, managers, marketers, and more, Open Source JobHub can help you find the perfect job fit. Now, more than ever, the open source tech industry is exploding, and Open Source JobHub will help you navigate the growing number of opportunities.
Windows and Mac are the dominating players in the laptop and desktop space; there is no question. But there is another player on the field that has been streamlining its game over the past few years, Linux. Having regular people use Linux has been around for years, but I think we’re finally arriving at the point that it is doable. The Kubuntu Focus M2 Linux laptop is evidence of that.
Kubuntu is just one of the many flavors of Linux available to users. This variant is based on Ubuntu and adds its operating system tweaks to the mix. The Kubuntu Focus team has announced the availability of the 4th generation M2 mobile workstation. This model enjoys substantial improvements in features like a QHD screen, 2MP webcam, better speakers, a 12th-generation i7 CPU, and unmatched Nvidia mobile GPUs.
We consistently follow the upstream release cadence to provide our users and customers with the latest improvements and fixes, together with security maintenance and enterprise support for Kubernetes on Ubuntu. This blog is a quick overview of the latest development highlights that are made available in Canonical Kubernetes 1.24 as well as a look at our favourite upstream enhancements.
Hello and welcome to the 465th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts discuss the latest long-term-support release of Ubuntu, 22.04, otherwise known as Jammy Jellyfish. Topics include installation, updates and changes, general usability, installation of ham radio-specific applications, plans for the LHS re-spin and much more. Thank you for listening and have a great week.
In this video, I am going to show how to install Ubuntu Kylin 22.04 LTS.
Using MapMagic asset for landscape and a simple first person controller to wander around.
Hi list,
I'd like to announce Mesa 22.1.0-rc4. We'll plan on either rc5 or 22.1.0 final next week.
This week we've got a ton of useful stuff, lots of zink and kopper backports, llvmpipe, util, aco, r600, virgl, panfrost, wayland, spirv, microsoft, radv, nir, and varous intel cleanups among other things.
Cheers, Dylan
Linux kernel versions 5.17 (March 21, 2022), 5.16.11 (February 23, 2022) and 5.15.35 (April 20, 2022) included a patch to fix the s0ix sleep entry issue on AMD processors, resulting in spontaneous freezes on 32- bit processors of x86 architecture. In particular, freezes are noted on Intel Pentium III, Intel Pentium M and VIA Eden (C7).
File management software maker Peer Software plans to launch Linux file server compatibility this summer, along with enhanced artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-based file access anomaly detection and storage audits.
Got some beautiful photo images? Let me show you how to set them as desktop slideshow, so it will be your Ubuntu background wallpaper and switch automatically in certain time interval.
I recently compared GEedit’s auto-save to Kate’s swap-save feature. Both features try to achieve the same goal — to protect your unsaved work from power failures and crashes — but through different means.
The new GNOME 42 release replaces GEdit with GNOME Text Editor (GTE) as the recommended default text editor. GTEd also has a feature like Kate’s swap-save, so I thought I’d revisit the topic.
GEdit has a feature to periodically auto-save your documents (off by default). The option does what it says on the tin: it automatically overwrites your saved document every couple of minutes. You can undo and restore earlier versions until you quit GEdit.
This approach is potentially destructive and can cause you to irrecoverably lose data. It’s a poor implementation mimicking Apple’s TextEdit app on Mac. TextEdit auto-saves your changes, yes, but it also keeps older versions of your documents. You can restore earlier versions of your documents in case you’ve overwritten something you didn’t intend to.
Both strace and ltrace are powerful command-line tools for debugging and troubleshooting programs on Linux: Strace captures and records all system calls made by a process as well as the signals received, while ltrace does the same for library calls.
If a program acts differently than you expect, you can use these tools to see “behind the curtain” and maybe get some clues as to what is going on.
Today in this quick tutorial we’re going to learn how to install the latest version of mesa graphic driver on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux, or upgrade your older mesa driver into the latest point release, let me first introduce;
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FreeIPA on Rocky Linux 8. For those of you who didn’t know, FreeIPA stands for Free Identity, Policy, Audit and it is an open-source identity management solution based on an LDAP directory and Kerberos with optional components such as DNS server, certification authority, and more. FreeIPA is built on top of well-known open-source components and standard protocols with a very strong focus on ease of management and automation of installation and configuration tasks.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the FreeIPA on Rocky Linux. 8.
Follow the steps of this tutorial to install the Podman container tool on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish Linux for creating virtual containers.
Podman is a container tool for virtualizing applications. It was originally developed by Red Hat and originated in the Cri-O project, which develops a lightweight container runtime environment for Kubernetes as an alternative to the Docker runtime environment.
It is compatible with Docker on the command line however doesn’t rely on the Docker daemon. Hence, we can use its Container Engine to provide containers without root access. Buildah is the Image builder used by Podman.
today we are going to cover How to Fix Zoom client crashes on Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS, I just installed Ubuntu Studio 22.04 and for some strange reason Zoom client crashes on start or maybe lot of peoples face same issue so, Im decided to make small quick guide on this issue.
In this guide, we will discuss how to select data from a table using MySQL LIKE operator and WHERE clause along with the SELECT command in a particular database using PHP in XAMPP.
GoLang (also referred to as Go) is an open-source statically typed programming language developed by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson at Google and launched in November 2009.
GoLang is known to be 3x faster than the python programming language and supports memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency.
Popular applications like Monzo (banking app), Allegro (Ecommerce app), SoundCloud (Music app), and Uber (Ridesharing app) are using GoLang in their applications. Stick with us to learn “how to install GoLang in Ubuntu Linux in 5 simple steps“.
Open Authorization 2.0 (OAuth2) is a protocol that lets an application or website use a resource that someone else controls. It enables secure delegated access to web resources by using access tokens to allow access rights.
OAuth2 is how programs can access third-party applications without requiring authentication for each resource. Many web services use OAuth2, including Google and Facebook.
To check what version of Python is installed on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer, all you have to do is run a single command. We’ll show you how to do that as well as what to do if you have multiple Python versions installed.
Automation is a hot topic right now. In my day job as a site reliability engineer (SRE), part of my remit is to automate as many repeating tasks as possible. But how many of us do that in our daily, not-work, lives? This year, I am focused on automating away the toil so that we can focus on the things that are important.
While automating everything, I ran into some difficulty with remote sites. I'm not a networking person so I started to look at my options. After researching the various virtual private networks (VPN), hardware endpoints, firewall rules, and everything that goes into supporting multiple remote sites, I was confused, grumpy, and frustrated with the complexity of it all.
Automation is a hot topic right now. In my day job as an SRE part of my remit is to automate as many repeating tasks as possible. But how many of us do that in our daily, not-work, lives? This year, I am focused on automating away the toil so that we can focus on the things that are important.
There are a lot of guides out there on Setting Up Home Assistant, but what if you have multiple Home Assistant installations (like I do), and want to display and control them all from a single, central Home Assistant?
There is an amazing add-on called Remote Home Assistant (https://github.com/custom-components/remote_homeassistant) that makes this an absolute breeze. And it really helps me manage and automate things without having to set up any complex software (although I have done this with MQTT in the past — it was a challenge).
Recently, I started my own blog, and as Google Analytics seems to miss a good part of visitors, I wanted to analyze my web server logs myself. I use syslog-ng to read Apache logs, process them, and store them to Elasticsearch. Along the way, I resolve the IP address using a Python parser, analyze the Agent field of the logs, and also use GeoIP to locate the user on the map.
From this blog, you can learn how I built my configuration. Note that once I was ready, I realized that my configuration is not GDPR compliant, so I also show you which parts to remove from the final configuration :-).
Since the late 90s, Valve has been a force to be reckoned with in game development, as well as being the dominant global superpower in the PC storefront market. With the company's Aperture Desk Job game continuing to tease future projects, it's clear that Gabe Newell and the team at Valve still have a lot up their metaphorical sleeves. On top of that, the Steam Deck has been impressing a lot of people in both the industry and the community at large, and it's possible that this may have led to an increase in gamers using alternative operating systems.
According to official Steam statistics from April, there has been a rise in the number of people using Linux on home PC, going up to 1.14%. A recent report from TechRadar says that while this is only a small increase, with previous stats showing Linux accounted for exactly 1%, this is quite significant, especially with the Steam Deck having been released just a couple of months ago. It's therefore possible that it may have had a direct influence on this rise in gamers opting for the open-source OS.
Two minority Linux desktop environments were updated this week. Coincidentally named Unity and Trinity, both are forks that continue projects long ago abandoned by their creators.
With public testing announced, 7.6, which is the first update to Unity in six years, starts the process of modernizing Ubuntu's former desktop.
When it was still part of the Ubuntu distro, there were three separate branches of the Unity desktop. The original Unity desktop derived from Ubuntu's special launcher for netbooks, and was implemented as a plug-in for the Compiz compositing window manager – itself now discontinued.
The new version comes from Ubuntu remix prodigy Rudra Saraswat. Saraswat has plans for the development of a new Unity-like desktop, codenamed UnityX.
In the meantime, though, he and collaborator Khurshid Alam are working on fixing some of the issues with the old Unity7 codebase.
Calamares serves the needs of several dozen Linux distributions, large and small. It’s been around for 2892 days, give-or-take, nearly eight years. So what have we got for this anniversary?
It is week 18 of 2022 when I write this. We’ve had 8 releases in 2022 (3.2.50 through 3.2.57), which is roughly every two weeks. This regular short-cycle pattern has been going for two or three years now. I’ve described the development workflow before. I still think it’s quite effective at getting things out to users, although I can also say that getting fixes for annoying, hard-to-reach bugs out is very slow going. Often branches get interrupted by small things that do fit in a short-cycle.
 No doubt, Linux Lite is a very simple, free, and minimalist distro. It is highly recommended for new users, basic users, and users with old specifications PC. This lightweight distro is indeed powerful enough to handle your general everyday task. Besides, it can offer you sufficient apps and a very user-friendly interface. That’s why it should always be your must-try if you are not a power user.
Hopefully, you have got enough idea about this lightweight Linux distro from this article. If this is helpful, you can share it with your friends. And also, if you plan to give Linux Lite a try, don’t forget to inform us how it works on your system. Thank you in advance.
Enterprise software developer Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH (henceforth "Proxmox") has today released Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.2. The new version of the server virtualization management platform is based on Debian 11.3 (Bullseye), but using a newer Linux kernel 5.15.30, and includes updates to the latest versions of leading open-source technologies for virtual environments, like QEMU 6.2.0, LXC 4.0.12, and ZFS 2.1.4. Proxmox VE supports Ceph Pacific 16.2.7, in addition to offering continued support for Ceph Octopus 15.2.16 (until mid 2022).
After a long development phase i am happy to announce the release of openmediavault 6 (Shaitan).
A big thank you goes to all translators, forum moderators and bug reporters for their contributions and support.
At 30.06.2022 openmediavault 5.x will become EOL. This means no security/bugfix updates will be released anymore. Please upgrade to 6.x to be up-to-date.
These last few weeks have been very intensive days in the YaST team. Significant changes are coming to the SUSE and openSUSE worlds. Have you heard about SUSE ALP (Adaptable Linux Platform)? We are quite active in some discussions, research and workgroups about that topic. But, of course, we are continuing to work hard on YaST and on our D-Installer side project. So, let’s go with a summary of the most interesting features and fixes.
One-click Migration
Since openSUSE Leap 15.3, binary RPMs are shared between SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 and openSUSE Leap. Closing the gap between openSUSE and SUSE makes feasible the migration from openSUSE Leap to SLE without reinstalling the system completely. Migrating the system takes some steps, and sometimes manual intervention is required when the process goes wrong. Now, YaST offers a new client that simplifies the migration from openSUSE Leap to SLE, allowing to rollback the system in case that something fails.
My involvement with GNOME started in my teens and has continued over the years where it influenced my studies, career, and even the place I chose to live. One of my desires in my journey has been to help the GNOME project achieve its goals and fulfill its vision of building an open source desktop environment that is accessible and easy to use to a general audience. Sitting on the Board has enabled me to contribute to these efforts more directly and has also taught me plenty about community governance and nonprofit sustainability.
My Board term is ending now and will not run for reelection for a few reasons: firstly, I believe that a rotation of board members can help increase community engagement and transparency. The current model our Board has of renewing parts of its members every year IMO does a great job at ensuring continuity of board programs while allowing for new voices and perspectives to onboard and maximize the impact.
In April, we published 19 posts. The site had 13,824 visits from 9,035 unique viewers. Both of these numbers are the highest in a long time. 3,555 visits came from search engines, while 2,308 came from the WordPress Android app and 441 came from Twitter.
We are pleased to announce that Red Hat Satellite 6.10.5 is generally available as of March 29, 2022.
In this article, you'll learn about user and group authorization through LDAP to an Apache Kafka cluster. For a Kafka broker, user- and group-based authorization are handled by Access Control Lists (ACLs). More fine-grained approaches to user and group authorization on Kafka cluster resources also use single sign-on (SSO). This article combines LDAP with Red Hat's single sign-on technology, which can write Kafka ACL rules.
Remember when IT leaders and tech pundits endlessly debated the meaning of the word “cloud”?
IBM has outlined a major update to the "I" operating system it offers for its Power servers.
i 7.5, which will debut on May 10, supersedes the version 7.4 that appeared in April 2019. If that feels like a long time between updates, remember that servers packing IBM's POWER CPUs can also run IBM's own AIX or Linux – a variant of which IBM also packages thanks to its ownership of Red Hat and its Linux distros.
The i OS update – which should not be confused with Apple's iOS or Cisco's IOS – runs only on Power 10 or Power 9 hardware. IBM will happily talk to users of earlier Power servers about an upgrade – proprietary hardware and associated software are massive contributors to the company's revenue and profit.
Tails 5.0 Most Secure Linux Released, The release of a specialized distribution kit Tails 5.0 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base and designed to provide anonymous access to the network, has been formed. Anonymous exit to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by default by the packet filter. Encryption is used to store user data in the save user data between runs mode. Prepared for download iso image has been, capable of working in live mode, 1 GB in size.
Most of us are intimately familiar with how great apt is at installing software on Ubuntu from the command line.
But chances are there are some apps you wish you could apt install, but you can’t.
Google Chrome is my main one (hey, I like it, let me be). Every time I do a fresh install of Ubuntu or a derivative like Pop!_OS or Linux Mint, I usually have to go out of my way to go get it from an official source.
Now, it’s already simple to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu: go to the Chrome website, download the latest .deb installer, then sudo dpkg -i install it (though I could double-click the deb and install it using a GUI, like a regular Joe might, but hey.
Regulatory compliance and data privacy requirements require financial institutions (FIs) to consider carefully where their applications are running and where the customer data is stored. The data protection and data sovereignty laws in most countries require an enterprise to keep data in certain geographic locations. PCI Data Security Standard, for example, regulates the way the customer and financial transactions data is stored and transmitted. While various regulatory compliance and security standards do not prevent the data from being stored in the public cloud, the process of remaining compliant is simplified by storing sensitive customer and financial data in the private cloud. A private cloud is thus a key component of hybrid multi-cloud strategy adopted by various financial institutions.
Security researchers have uncovered a critical vulnerability that could lead to DNS spoofing attacks in two popular C standard libraries that provide functions for common DNS operations.
Nozomi Networks Labs found the vulnerability in the Uclibc and uClibc-ng libraries, which provide functions to make common DNS operations such as lookups or translating domain names to IP addresses.
Tachyum™ Inc. today announced that it has progressed to running applications in Linux interactive mode on Prodigy FPGA hardware with SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing) Linux and the floating-point unit enabled on the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) prototype of its Prodigy Universal Processor. This latest key milestone showcases Prodigy's advanced level of maturity spanning its advanced CPU core, powerful software environment, and new third party hardware IP, bringing the company closer to product launch, and fulfilling its mission to transform data centers into greener Universal Computing Centers capable of enabling human brain-scale AI.
To measure the weight, Load Cell with HX711 can measure up to 10g accuracy. Depending on the strength of the load, weight increases.
In this tutorial, the Load cell connects with HX711 to interface with Arduino Uno including code, connection diagram, and component list.
The 128Ãâ64 I2C/SPI OLED display is often included in a myriad of projects that need some way to show data, including text, shapes, or basic graphs. YouTuber ‘upir’ was able to take this concept one step further by turning his graphic OLED screen into a virtual circular dial that can respond in real-time to an external potentiometer connected to an Arduino Uno using the U8glib library.
His very thorough video steps through the entire process of creating this setup, as everything from wiring to advanced graphics programming is covered. He started by flashing some demo code that takes continuous readings from a potentiometer via an ADC pin and showing the numeric value as text. After knowing that the values can be read correctly, upir then began work on the dial itself, which works by placing a series of tick marks at predetermined distances from each other. Lastly, value labels were included below every increment of 10 for improved readability.
Hokey religions and ancient weapons might not be a match for a good blaster, but Arduino Star Wars projects certainly are. To celebrate May the 4th (also known as Star Wars Day), we’ve put together a list of inspired builds from a galaxy far, far away that you can make yourself.
Matrix is an innovative, open-source alternative to chat services such as Discord and Slack that is both feature-rich and easy to use. It fully supports end-to-end encryption and is available for almost all operating systems. You can also host it on your own server, making it a fully secure and private way to chat on the internet.
Here we will show you how you can install Matrix on your server.
ASCIIFlow is a client-side only web based application for drawing ASCII diagrams. You can use it at asciiflow.com.
Stackedit is a free, open-source web-based Markdown editor that comes with many useful features for web writers.
Early this year, the Commission proposed a draft for an EU Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles that aims to guide the digital transformation in the EU. Now the European Parliament has agreed on a text and Free Software makes part of it.
The European Commission has presented its proposal for the EU Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles which will serve as reference point in the future and as a common vision of our digital rights in Europe. After receiving the contributions to the text from different committees and finding a compromise, the European Parliament has now agreed on a common text. The FSFE welcomes that the text by the European Parliament now includes Free Software as a way to ensure transparency in the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence. It further highlights the importance of promoting "trustworthy standards and, wherever possible, open source standards".
As a consequence of my doing Debian development but running Debian stable everywhere, I accumulate a number of tweaks like this one over the course of each Debian stable release. In the past I’ve gone through and deleted them all when it’s time to upgrade to the next release, but then I’ve had to add properties to undo changes made for the last stable release, and write comments saying why those are there and when they can be safely removed, which is tedious and verbose. This new combinator is cleaner.
I am now starting to think about a little GUI wrapper and a menu entry.
Once upon a time, now was the future. For me, now started on my eleventh birthday in 1983. That day I got an 8-bit 64 Kb Japanese computer called the Sharp MZ-700, an obscure home computer even when it was new.
The most visible difference from most other home computers, was that my computer was modular and could be customized with various built-in gizmos. My version had a cassette player built-in, but you could install a printer-plotter too. Not only did the latter print and draw stuff; it even gave you the mind-boggling option to use the plotter as a display unit instead of a screen. As for graphics, that too was something you could add. Without it, the MZ-700 was a text-only experience. It was for me.
In a way, the modular thinking behind the MZ-700 series extended to its software too. Virtually every other home computer imaginable had BASIC in ROM and booted directly into it (a notable exception was the Jupiter Ace, which had FORTH instead). On them, BASIC were not only a programming language. Here, BASIC served as a combination of operating system, UI and shell.
When you get to build a newsletter with hundreds of issues, it’s often hard to choose just one you might call your “favorite,” but the story of KarTrak is perhaps my absolute favorite. It is the story of a technology that everyone uses (the barcode), developed by an inventor who played a key role in popularizing it, but in a primitive form that was a not-so-great fit. The reason I’m revisiting this piece is because this inventor, David Jarrett Collins, died back in March at the age of 86, and he deserves his flowers. Collins is one of those unsung inventors who made everyone’s life a little easier—well, at least he did when people bought into the system. In the case of the railroad industry, it did not buy into KarTrak, alas. Today’s Tedium talks about KarTrak, the unsuccessful idea that laid the tracks for a far-more-successful idea
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) met with airline and telecom officials yesterday to present its latest solution to the instrument interference problem presented by C-band 5G: replace the affected equipment.
A letter from the FAA's head of aviation safety, Chris Rocheleau, proposed the meeting to establish a timeline for retrofitting or replacing radar altimeters in US airliners that are affected by 5G C-band signals, Reuters reported.
5G C-band was expected to roll out in the beginning of 2022, but was put on hold until July while the FAA, airlines, and jet manufacturers seek a resolution. A number of different planes were affected, including most of the Boeing 737 family, due to their use of radio altimeters, which use radio signals to determine the plane's distance from the ground.
Samsung has dished up a new variety of SD card that can, it claims, sustain 16 years of continual writes.
The Korean giant's calculations for the longevity of the PRO Endurance Memory Card – for that is the new tech's name – assume their use to record 1920Ãâ1080 video content at 26Mbit/sec (3.25MB/sec).
At that rate, the 256GB model is rated to endure 140,160 hours of use. Smaller capacity models won't last as long because they'll be overwritten more often, so the 128GB, 64GB and 32GB each halve their larger sibling's lifetime.
Samsung suggests the cards will be most at home in devices such as CCTV, dashcams, or body cameras.
Volkwagen Group’s automotive software subsidiary CARIAD has picked Qualcomm to provide system-on-chip modules (SOCs) for its automated driving software platform.
The company has chosen Snapdragon Ride Platform portfolio as its hardware, projected to be available as of “the middle of the decade” according to CARIAD.
Peripheral maker Logitech is ending its fiscal 2022 on something of a low point, with the pandemic-induced sales growth extravaganza coming to an abrupt end, and forecasts for business this year lowered due to the conflict in Ukraine.
The Swiss-based organization was in the right place at the right time when citizens across swathes of the world were forced to work, study and play at home: demand for mice, keyboards, headsets, etc went through the roof.
Growth rates Logitech achieved during those lockdown years, when the PC became the centre of most people’s universe, were impressive but seemingly impossible to sustain. For its Q4 ended 31 March [PDF], company revenues plunged by a fifth year-on-year to $1.23 billion and operating profit dived 52 percent to $108.2 million.
The Linux Foundation has announced that Microsoft has joined the Open 3D Foundation (O3DF), which was established to continue the co-development of the Open 3D Engine (O3DE) after it was discovered by Amazon. Microsoft was among the top contributors, along with Adobe, AWS, Huawei, Intel, and Niantic. A Microsoft representative will serve on the Governing Board of the O3DF. The total number of members of the Open 3D Foundation has reached 25.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-17), Fedora (chromium and suricata), Oracle (mariadb:10.5), SUSE (amazon-ssm-agent, containerd, docker, java-11-openjdk, libcaca, libwmf, pcp, ruby2.5, rubygem-puma, webkit2gtk3, and xen), and Ubuntu (linux-raspi).
An attacker could exploit CVE-2022-1388 to take control of an affected system.
Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox and Firefox ESR. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.
Android's May security update is out, and that means the Pixel 6 is finally getting a patch for the Dirty Pipe vulnerability. The update comes one month after Samsung shipped Google's patch to the Galaxy S22, but at least it's finally arriving.
Recently disclosed by Max Kellermann as vulnerability CVE-2022-0847, “Dirty Pipe” is a security exploit in select recent versions of the Linux kernel. (The kernel is the core of an operating system, often acting as the go-between from applications to your actual hardware.) In short, any application that can read files on your phone/computer — a permission many Android apps ask for — can potentially mess with your files or run malicious code. On desktop/laptop versions of Linux, this has already been shown to be easily able to get admin privileges.
The nonfree app Along, developed by a company controlled by Zuckerberg, leads students to reveal to their teacher personal information about themselves and their families. Conversations are recorded and the collected data sent to the company, which grants itself the right to sell it.
The nonfree “education” app Along, developed by a company controlled by Zuckerberg, encourages students to use it for private conversations with their teachers. Some of the personal data it collects is very sensitive. The company grants itself the power to sell “anonymized” data from which, in spite of “anonymization,” it will be possible to identify many of the students, perhaps most. In fact, research shows that in most cases anonymization can be easily undone and data tracked back to identify individuals uniquely.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has authorized retaliatory sanctions against individuals and organizations that have taken action over the illegal invasion of Ukraine.
An executive order issued on Tuesday explains that Russia will implement reprisals against states and international organizations that have acted against Russian interests in the wake of the invasion.
As many of Russia's likely targets have walked away from the nation, one element of the counter-sanctions – annulment of commercial agreements – won’t trouble some of those that feel Putin's ire.
But the sanctions will also include "a ban on exporting products or raw materials manufactured or extracted in Russia when they are delivered to individuals under sanctions, or by individuals under sanctions to other individuals."
Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Global is under a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation regarding its $4.4 billion June 2021 initial public offering (IPO) in the United States.
Details of the investigation were revealed in the company’s annual SEC filings on Monday. The document showed Didi Global had been named as a defendant in several putative securities class action cases in both federal and New York state courts. The alleged offense was material misstatements and omissions in IPO-related registration statements and prospectus that were in violation of various laws.
Didi Global has asked for a stay in state court action pending the outcome of a dismissal motion in federal court that is still pending. Both actions are in preliminary stages, said the company, which also intends to "vigorously defend [itself] against these claims."
The lies of the American system of government exposed by the Supreme Court’s abortion draft ruling.
I’m not in favor of unrestricted abortion, but the way the US Supreme Court operates is the most terrifying thing about living in America today.
A location tracking company is selling “smartphone” location tracking data on people who visit abortion clinics.
For now, it could be used for all sorts of nasty reasons, but after Roe v. Wade is officially struck down, states such as Texas could, and probably will, buy the data to collect evidence to criminally prosecute women who go to another state for an abortion.
Previously, something like this would have been difficult to prove, but in the age of iPhones and Android phones, all the government has to do in order to short circuit the Fourth Amendment is buy the data like any other parasite or criminal would.
Eventually, people will know that the states are using geolocation data to prosecute abortion seekers, but it will be too late for the first hundreds of women that Republican prosecutors turn into political prisoners.
