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.

• Kanguru Defender Bio-Elite30 is a fingerprint hardware encrypted USB flash drive for Windows, Mac, and Linux
  Hardware encrypted USB flash drives are fairly common, but usually, they leverage keypads for unlocking. Biometrics -- such a fingerprint reader -- are far more convenient, however. Today, Kanguru launches a ... read more
  BetaNewsDecember 5, 2019 1:55 pm
  10 hours ago
• Links 5/12/2019: qBittorrent 4.2.0, Expensive Librem 5 and OpenBSD Bugs
  

  Contents GNU/Linux Distributions Devices/Embedded Free Software/Open Source Leftovers GNU/Linux Disney+ Now Works on Linux, No Workarounds Required ... read more
  TechrightsDecember 5, 2019 1:52 pm
  10 hours ago
• Colorado Appeals Court: Three Months Of Surveillance Via Pole-Mounted Camera Is Unconstitutional
  How much warrantless surveillance is too much surveillance? It depends on which court you ask. Public areas, which include people's front doors and unfenced yards, have very ... read more
  TechdirtDecember 5, 2019 1:49 pm
  10 hours ago
• Leftovers: BSD Now, TLLTS, Canonical, Snapcraft, LibreOffice and More
  ZFS Rename Repo | BSD Now 327 We read FreeBSD’s third quarterly status report, OpenBSD on Sparc64, ZoL repo move to OpenZFS, GEOM NOP, keeping NetBSD up-to-date, and ... read more
  Tux MachinesDecember 5, 2019 1:46 pm
  10 hours ago
• Daily Deal: The Ultimate AWS Data Master Class Bundle
  

  The Ultimate AWS Data Master Class Bundle has 9 courses to get you up to speed on Amazon Web Services. The courses cover AWS, DevOPs, Kubernetes Mesosphere DC/OS, AWS ... read more
  TechdirtDecember 5, 2019 1:44 pm
  10 hours ago
• Amazon Suit Claims Trump Bias Cost Company Cloud Bid, Judge Says
  

  Federal Claims Court Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith said during a court proceeding last week that Amazon’s lawsuit argues that the Pentagon didn’t award the cloud deal to Microsoft Corp. on the ... read more
  ITPro TodayDecember 5, 2019 1:35 pm
  11 hours ago
• today’s howtos
  How to Install Wine on Linux How To Install Kali Undercover Mode On Any Xfce Linux Distribution Module hotfixes in Copr Injecting ... read more
  Tux MachinesDecember 5, 2019 1:33 pm
  11 hours ago
• Events: KVM Forum 2019 and “Bar Charts for Diversity”
  A recap of KVM Forum 2019 The 13th KVM Forum virtualization conference took place in Lyon, France in October 2019. One might think that development may have finished ... read more
  Tux MachinesDecember 5, 2019 1:20 pm
  11 hours ago
• [$] Debian votes on init systems
  In November, the topic of init systems and, in particular, support for systems other than systemd reappeared on the Debian mailing lists. After one month of sometimes fraught discussion, this ... read more
  Linux World NewsDecember 5, 2019 1:18 pm
  11 hours ago
• Protecting Your Company From Social Engineering Attacks
  

  Prepare for inevitable social engineering attacks by taking a multipronged approach that includes bringing in an ethical hacker. ... read more
  ITPro TodayDecember 5, 2019 1:16 pm
  11 hours ago