FOSS Force News Wire

The FOSS Force News Wire pulls mostly FOSS related news stories from a variety of sources and is updated every 30 minutes. The News Wire is also available as an RSS feed at http://fossforce.com/newswire.

• Android Leftovers
  Xiaomi's New Android One Mi A3 Phone Looks Awesome at €249 Xiaomi's latest pure Android One phone has a 48MP AI-powered camera Don't throw it ... read more
  Tux MachinesJuly 19, 2019 3:33 am
  14 mins ago
• Slack resets hundreds of thousands of passwords following data breach
  

  Slack has just been made aware of additional information about a security breach that took place back in 2015, forcing the company to reset the passwords of around 1 percent ... read more
  BetaNewsJuly 19, 2019 3:25 am
  22 mins ago
• Destination Linux EP130 – Linux 5.2, Debian 10, AMD, System76’s Thelio, Valve’s Steam Labs & more
  

  Debian 10, Linux Kernel 5.2, Pi 4 more Flaws, AMD News, System 76 Thelio and AMD, Nvidia Responds, Ubuntu Snaps, Red Hat & IBM Merge, Valve Rolls Out Steam Labs, ... read more
  LXerJuly 19, 2019 3:14 am
  33 mins ago
• What you need to know to be a sysadmin
  

  The system administrator of yesteryear jockeyed users and wrangled servers all day, in between mornings and evenings spent running hundreds of meters of hundreds of cables. This is still true ... read more
  LXerJuly 19, 2019 3:14 am
  33 mins ago
• Redirect a GitHub Pages site with this HTTP hack
  

  I run a few static websites for my private projects on GitHub Pages. I[he]#039[/he]m absolutely happy with the service, as it supports custom domains, automatically redirects to HTTPS, and transparently ... read more
  LXerJuly 19, 2019 3:14 am
  33 mins ago
• Google is closing a Chrome API loophole to make Incognito Mode more secure and private
  

  Following increasing awareness that using Incognito Mode in Chrome can be detected, and it is still possible for sites to track your online behavior when you're using it, Google has ... read more
  BetaNewsJuly 19, 2019 3:02 am
  45 mins ago
• Today in Techrights
  Why Does Jim Zemlin Publicly Congratulate Microsoft? 2 Days Later (Case in Progress) and Still Media Silence About G 2/19 The ‘Linux’ Foundation is Acting Like a Microsoft ISV Now, ... read more
  Tux MachinesJuly 19, 2019 2:50 am
  57 mins ago
• Links 19/7/2019: Oracle Linux 8.0, Latte Dock 0.9 Beta and PCLinuxOS KDE Darkstar 2019.07
  

  Contents GNU/Linux Distributions Devices/Embedded Free Software/Open Source Leftovers GNU/Linux How the Open Source Operating System Has Silently Won Over the World The ... read more
  TechrightsJuly 19, 2019 2:26 am
  1 hour ago
• Kernel: NVMe and VirtIO-IOMMU
  NVMe Patches to Allow macOS-Linux Dual Boot Under Review NVMe is a protocol used by Apple for PCIe solid state drives. It replaces the older Advanced Host Controller Interface ... read more
  Tux MachinesJuly 19, 2019 2:00 am
  2 hours ago
• Ubuntu/Debian: Comparison of Memory Usages, Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) End of Life and More
  Comparison of Memory Usages of Ubuntu 19.04 and Flavors in 2019 Continuing my previous Mem. Comparison 2018, here's my 2019 comparison with all editions of Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo". ... read more
  Tux MachinesJuly 19, 2019 1:57 am
  2 hours ago