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.
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Andreas Tille Is the New Debian Project Leader
After democratically held elections, Jonathan Carter stepped down as the Debian project leader, passing the role to Andreas Tille.... Read more
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India’s election overshadowed by the rise of online misinformation
As India kicks off the world’s biggest election, which starts on April 19 and runs through June 1, the electoral landscape is overshadowed by misinformation. The country — which has more than 830 million internet users and is home to the largest user base for social media platforms like Facebook... Read more
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Linux BHI Mitigation Being Tweaked Following 12% Database Performance Hit
A new set of Linux kernel patches were sent out on Friday for tweaking th Native BHI mitigation introduced earlier this month for Intel processors...... Read more
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The Complete Small Business Cybersecurity Checklist In 2024
A comprehensive cybersecurity checklist to help small businesses protect their data, systems, and operations from cyber threats, including strong passwords, encryption, backups, and employee training. The post The Complete Small Business Cybersecurity Checklist In 2024 appeared first on OSTechNix.... Read more
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MX News Week Ending April 20, 2024
4/20/2024 Monthly rollup snapshots for the KDE and Xfce 64 bit isos for April are available now. The recent vulnerability in flatpak is being patched in debian. Details here. MX Tools updates this week: MX Installer (gazelle-installer) fix live system check mxfb-accessories (fluxbox menu generator) ensure folder exists before trying... Read more
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Open-Source "Terakan" Vulkan Driver For Radeon HD 6000 Series Shown On Windows
The past year there's been an independent open-source driver developer working on "Terakan" as a Vulkan driver for old Radeon HD 6000 series GPUs. These pre-GCN GPUs never received any official Vulkan driver support from AMD but thanks to open-source and a strong desire to pull off such a feat,... Read more
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AMD Sends In More Kernel Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.10
Following last week's AMDGPU pull to DRM-Next preparing more next-gen GPU support and other updates for the upcoming Linux 6.10 merge window, another batch of feature changes were sent out on Friday ahead of this next kernel cycle...... Read more
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KDE Developers Work Through More Bug Fixes & Features For Plasma 6.1
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary to outline all of the prominent feature work and fixes that landed in the KDE space this week...... Read more
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Michael Meeks: 2024-04-20 Saturday
Wedding Anniversary; 22 years of happiness. Off to see R&A's new daughter; exciting. Caught up with blog in the car, up-loaded some slides on background save from COOL days.... Read more
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Matthew Garrett, Cambridge & Debian: female colleague was afraid
Reprinted with permission from disguised.work... Read more