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We take you to LinuxCon like never before. The container trend goes big and community leaders are taking bold stands & the quiet debate that’s brewing.

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LinuxCon’s surprise keynote speaker ​Linus Torvalds muses about open-source software | ZDNet

In a broad-ranging question and answer session, Linus Torvalds, Linux’s founder, shared his thoughts on the current state of open source and Linux.

Linus Torvalds: Security is never going to be perfect

Linus seemed as excited about containers as a fish would be about a bicycle. “I am so happy that the kernel tends to be fairly far removed from all these issues, all the buzzwords and all the new technologies,” he said. “We end up being in a situation where we only care about us working on and how people use the kernel. I am so focused on the kernel that I don’t even care very much. We see when people need technologies from us to implement all of this, obviously there is c-groups and virtualization, if you do it that way. So we see that side of it. But at the same time, I don’t get involved in politics between all the different groups and all the stuff that goes on top of the kernel. And I am really happy I don’t have to.”

Torvalds: Don’t talk to me about containers and other buzzwords

“I am a very plodding, pedestrian kind of person,” Torvalds said during a Q&A session with Linux Foundation boss Jim Zemlin at LinuxCon in Seattle on Wednesday. “I look six months ahead. I look ahead at this release and I know what’s coming up in the next one.

“I don’t think planning 10 years ahead is necessarily very sane. Because if you think about Linux ten years back and where Linux was ten years ago, trying to plan for where we are now would have been completely insane.”

Mark Shuttleworth says Snappy was born long before CoreOS and the Atomic Project | ITworld

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, made a surprise visit at LinuxCon. I sat down with him for a video interview and talked about Ubuntu on IBM’s new LinuxONE systems, Canonical’s plans for containers, open source in the enterprise space and much more.

LinuxCon: Core Infrastructure Initiative Boosts Security Efforts

The Linux Foundation announced the new badging effort in a press conference with media and analysts. She said the program is akin to the badges used on the popular Github code-development and -sharing site.

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I visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago recently and one of the exhibits was about robotics. I spotted one robot that recognizes faces and appears to be controlled by a Linux box.

I would also like to share my recent first experience with System76. I purchased a Meerkat to replace my HTPC that just died. The day after I made the purchase, the Meerkat went on sale. System76 called to notify me that because of the sale, I could either get my money back for the amount of the sale, or I could get a free memory upgrade and still get some money back!
Frankly, I’m astounded at that level of customer service. I’ve never experienced anything like it before and I thought it deserved a mention.

Desktop App Pick

FileZilla 3.13.0 released

FileZilla is a free and open source FTP client. It’s available for all major operating systems including Windows, Mac and obviously Linux. The latest version includes couple of new features and few bug fixes that make it more stable.

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There are couple of new features and bug fixes in this release.
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• Display home directory instead of root directory if the last used directory does not exist
• Larger initial size of main window if there is no stored size
• Slightly increased size of page selection box in settings dialog

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix assertion in directory listing parser
• Fix drag&drop of remote files which broke in 3.13.0-rc1

Weekly Spotlight

GitLab Mattermost, an open source on-premises Slack alternative | GitLab

We’re very excited to announce that we’ll ship GitLab Mattermost, an open source, on-premises messaging app (like Slack) along with GitLab.

GitLab Mattermost will first be included with the Omnibus packages of GitLab 7.14 (due August 22nd).
We think GitLab Mattermost will be a great addition for GitLab users that need all software on-premises.

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Super Thin Asus Zenbook

• 13.3-Inch FHD (1920×1080) anti-glare matte display with an ultra-wide 170-degree viewing angle
• Latest Intel Core M-5Y10 (turbo up to 2GHz) processor
• Fanless design that is quiet, clean, and energy efficient
• 8GB RAM
• 256GB Solid State Drive
• 10-Hours Battery Life (vendor claim)
• Dual-band 802.11AGN Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth 4.0
• 3 USB 3.0 ports
• HDMI port

ZenBook UX305 is even slimmer than the new Macbook. It's also about half the price. #Incredible pic.twitter.com/ATSENGVMIi

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Google’s Linux Router

Google and TP-Link unveiled a Gentoo Linux based “OnHub” WiFi-ac router for consumers with 13 antennas, Bluetooth, and ZigBee, controlled by a mobile app.

Google’s embedded and IoT horizons appear to be expanding beyond its own Nest subsidiary. The company, which is now technically just another company in the new Alphabet umbrella organization, has partnered with router-maker TP-Link to launch a $200 WiFi router, and potentially, a home automation router. Later this year, Google says it will announce other OnHub branded devices, including an Asus-made device.

The OnHub is available for pre-order at $200 at a variety of locations including the Google Store. Retail availability is set for Aug. 31. More information may be found in the Google OnHub announcement, the Google OnHub page, and the TP-Link OnHub page.

Specifications listed for the OnHub include:

• Processor — Qualcomm Atheros IPQ8064 (2x ARM/Krait cores @ 1.4GHz)
• Memory:
  • 1GB DDR3L RAM
  • 4GB eMMC flash
  • 8MB NOR flash
• Wireless networking:
  • 6x 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n 3×3 antennas
  • 6x 5GHz 802.11b/g/n /ac 3×3 antennas
  • AUX 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 1×1 antenna
  • Bluetooth 4.0 with Smart Ready
  • 802.15.4 (ZigBee and Thread)
  • WPA2-PSK security
• Wired networking:
  • Gigabit Ethernet LAN port
  • Gigabit Ethernet WAN port
  • QCA8337 gigabit switch
  • Other I/O — USB 3.0 port
• Other features — 3W speaker; ambient light sensor; 6x tri-color LED arrays; TPN (Infineon SLB 961); built-in diagnostics; removable outer shell; blue and black colors
• Power — <12V/3A DC in; 100~240V 50~60Hz AC in
• Operating temperature — 0 to 40°C
• Weight — 1.9 lb
• Dimensions — 10.8 x 5.0 x 5.0 in.
• Operating system — Gentoo Linux

Germany to Ditch Linux for Windows

Two influential politicians in a German city that ditched Microsoft in favour of Linux are agitating for a switch back to Windows.

The councillors from Munich’s conservative CSU party have called the custom version of Ubuntu installed on their laptops “cumbersome to use” and “of very limited use”.

The letter from the two senior members of the city’s IT committee asks mayor Dieter Reiter to consider removing the Linux-based OS and to install Windows with Microsoft Office.

The city spent years migrating about 15,000 staff to Limux, a custom-version of Ubuntu, and other open source software – a move the city said had saved it more than €10m ($11m).

GOG Now Has Nice and Friendly Linux Installer – Softpedia

The GOG distribution platform started to release Linux games less than a year ago, but it’s made great progress in the meantime. Now, the developers are working on a new installation for Linux games that should be much easier to use.

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Amazon has a new TLS implementation & the details look great, we’ll share them with you. The technology that powers the NSA’s XKEYSCORE you could have deployed yourself.

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Amazon releases s2n, a new TLS implementation

• s2n (signal2noise) is a brand new implementation of the TLS protocol in only ~6000 lines of code
• It has been fully audited, and will be re-audited once per year, paid for by Amazon
• It does not replace OpenSSL, as it only implements the TLS protocol (libssl) not the crypto primitives and algorithms (libcrypto). s2n can be built against any of the various libcrypto implementations, including: OpenSSL, LibreSSL, BoringSSL, and the Apple Common Crypto framework
• The API appears to be very easy to use, and prevent many common errors
• The client side of the library is not ready for use yet
• Features:
  • “s2n encrypts or erases plaintext data as quickly as possible. For example, decrypted data buffers are erased as they are read by the application.”
  • “s2n uses operating system features to protect data from being swapped to disk or appearing in core dumps.”
  • “s2n avoids implementing rarely used options and extensions, as well as features with a history of triggering protocol-level vulnerabilities. For example there is no support for session renegotiation or DTLS.”
  • “s2n is written in C, but makes light use of standard C library functions and wraps all memory handling, string handling, and serialization in systematic boundary-enforcing checks.”
  • “The security of TLS and its associated encryption algorithms depends upon secure random number generation. s2n provides every thread with two separate random number generators. One for “public” randomly generated data that may appear in the clear, and one for “private” data that should remain secret. This approach lessens the risk of potential predictability weaknesses in random number generation algorithms from leaking information across contexts. “
• One of the main features is that, instead of having to specify which set of crypto algorithms you want to prefer, in what order, as we have discussed doing before for OpenSSL (in apache/nginx, etc), to can either use ‘default’, which will change with the times, or a specific snapshot date, that corresponds to what was the best practise at that time
• Github Page
• Additional Coverage – ThreatPost
• It will be interesting to see how this compares with the new TLS API offered by LibreSSL, and which direction various applications choose to go.

How the NSA’s XKEYSCORE works

• “The NSA’s XKEYSCORE program, first revealed by The Guardian, sweeps up countless people’s Internet searches, emails, documents, usernames and passwords, and other private communications. XKEYSCORE is fed a constant flow of Internet traffic from fiber optic cables that make up the backbone of the world’s communication network, among other sources, for processing. As of 2008, the surveillance system boasted approximately 150 field sites in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain, Russia, Nigeria, Somalia, Pakistan, Japan, Australia, as well as many other countries, consisting of over 700 servers.”
• “XKEYSCORE allows for incredibly broad surveillance of people based on perceived patterns of suspicious behavior. It is possible, for instance, to query the system to show the activities of people based on their location, nationality and websites visited. For instance, one slide displays the search “germansinpakistn,” showing an analyst querying XKEYSCORE for all individuals in Pakistan visiting specific German language message boards.”
• “The sheer quantity of communications that XKEYSCORE processes, filters and queries is stunning. Around the world, when a person gets online to do anything — write an email, post to a social network, browse the web or play a video game — there’s a decent chance that the Internet traffic her device sends and receives is getting collected and processed by one of XKEYSCORE’s hundreds of servers scattered across the globe.”
• “In order to make sense of such a massive and steady flow of information, analysts working for the National Security Agency, as well as partner spy agencies, have written thousands of snippets of code to detect different types of traffic and extract useful information from each type, according to documents dating up to 2013. For example, the system automatically detects if a given piece of traffic is an email. If it is, the system tags if it’s from Yahoo or Gmail, if it contains an airline itinerary, if it’s encrypted with PGP, or if the sender’s language is set to Arabic, along with myriad other details.”
• You might expect some kind of highly specialized system to be required to do all of this, but that is not the case:
• “XKEYSCORE is a piece of Linux software that is typically deployed on Red Hat servers. It uses the Apache web server and stores collected data in MySQL databases. File systems in a cluster are handled by the NFS distributed file system and the autofs service, and scheduled tasks are handled by the cron scheduling service. Systems administrators who maintain XKEYSCORE servers use SSH to connect to them, and they use tools such as rsync and vim, as well as a comprehensive command-line tool, to manage the software.”
• The security of the system is also not as good as than you might imagine:
• “Analysts connect to XKEYSCORE over HTTPS using standard web browsers such as Firefox. Internet Explorer is not supported. Analysts can log into the system with either a user ID and password or by using public key authentication.”
• “When systems administrators log into XKEYSCORE servers to configure them, they appear to use a shared account, under the name “oper.” Adams notes, “That means that changes made by an administrator cannot be logged.” If one administrator does something malicious on an XKEYSCORE server using the “oper” user, it’s possible that the digital trail of what was done wouldn’t lead back to the administrator, since multiple operators use the account.”
• “There appears to be another way an ill-intentioned systems administrator may be able to cover their tracks. Analysts wishing to query XKEYSCORE sign in via a web browser, and their searches are logged. This creates an audit trail, on which the system relies to assure that users aren’t doing overly broad searches that would pull up U.S. citizens’ web traffic. Systems administrators, however, are able to run MySQL queries. The documents indicate that administrators have the ability to directly query the MySQL databases, where the collected data is stored, apparently bypassing the audit trail.”
• The system is not well designed, and could likely have been done better with existing open source tools, or commercial software designed to classify web traffic
• “When data is collected at an XKEYSCORE field site, it is processed locally and ultimately stored in MySQL databases at that site. XKEYSCORE supports a federated query system, which means that an analyst can conduct a single query from the central XKEYSCORE website, and it will communicate over the Internet to all of the field sites, running the query everywhere at once.”
• Your traffic is analyzed and will probably match a number of classifiers. The most specific classifier is added as a tag to your traffic. Eventually (3-5 days), your actual traffic is deleted to make room for newer traffic, but the metadata (those tags) are kept for 30-45 days
• “This is done by using dictionaries of rules called appIDs, fingerprints and microplugins that are written in a custom programming language called GENESIS. Each of these can be identified by a unique name that resembles a directory tree, such as “mail/webmail/gmail,” “chat/yahoo,” or “botnet/blackenergybot/command/flood.””
• “One document detailing XKEYSCORE appIDs and fingerprints lists several revealing examples. Windows Update requests appear to fall under the “update_service/windows” appID, and normal web requests fall under the “http/get” appID. XKEYSCORE can automatically detect Airblue travel itineraries with the “travel/airblue” fingerprint, and iPhone web browser traffic with the “browser/cellphone/iphone” fingerprint.”
• “To tie it all together, when an Arabic speaker logs into a Yahoo email address, XKEYSCORE will store “mail/yahoo/login” as the associated appID. This stream of traffic will match the “mail/arabic” fingerprint (denoting language settings), as well as the “mail/yahoo/ymbm” fingerprint (which detects Yahoo browser cookies).”
• “Sometimes the GENESIS programming language, which largely relies on Boolean logic, regular expressions and a set of simple functions, isn’t powerful enough to do the complex pattern-matching required to detect certain types of traffic. In these cases, as one slide puts it, “Power users can drop in to C++ to express themselves.” AppIDs or fingerprints that are written in C++ are called microplugins.”
• All of this information is based on the Snowden leaks, and is from any years ago
• “If XKEYSCORE development has continued at a similar pace over the last six years, it’s likely considerably more powerful today.”
• Part 2 of Article

[SoHo Routers full of fail]

Home Routers that still support RIPv1 used in DDoS reflection attacks

• RIPv1 is a routing protocol released in 1988 that was deprecated in 1996
• It uses UDP and so an attacker can send a message to a home router with RIP enabled from a spoofed IP address, and that router will send the response to the victim, flooding their internet connection
• ““Since a majority of these sources sent packets predominantly of the 504-byte size, it’s pretty clear as to why they were leveraged for attack purposes. As attackers discover more sourc­es, it is possible that this vector has the potential to create much larger attacks than what we’ve observed thus far,” the advisory cautions, pointing out that the unused devices could be put to work in larger and more distributed attacks.”
• “Researchers at Akamai’s Prolexic Security Engineering and Research Team (PLXsert) today put out an advisory about an attack spotted May 16 that peaked at 12.9 Gbps. Akamai said that of the 53,693 devices that responded to RIPv1 queries in a scan it conducted, only 500 unique sources were identified in the DDoS attack. None of them use authentication, making them easy pickings.”
• Akamai identified Netopia 2000 and 3000 series routers as the biggest culprits still running the vulnerable and ancient RIPv1 protocol on devices. Close to 19,000 Netopia routers responded in scans conducted by Akamai, which also noted that more than 5,000 ZET ZXv10 and TP-Link TD-8000 series routers collectively responded as well. Most of the Netopia routers, Akamai said, are issued by AT&T to customers in the U.S. BellSouth and MegaPath also distribute the routers, but to a much lesser extent.

Home Routers used to host Malware

• Home routers were found to be hosting the Dyre malware
• Symantec Research Paper of Dyre
• Affected routers include MikroTik and Ubiquiti’s AirOS, which are higher end routers geared towards “power user” and small businesses
• “We have seen literally hundreds of wireless access points, and routers connected in relation to this botnet, usually AirOS,” said Bryan Campbell, lead threat intelligence analyst at Fujitsu. “The consistency in which the botnet is communicating with compromised routers in relation to both distribution and communication leads us to believe known vulnerabilities are being exploited in the firmware which allows this to occur.”
• “Campbell said it’s not clear why so many routers appear to be implicated in the botnet. Perhaps the attackers are merely exploiting routers with default credentials (e.g., “ubnt” for both username and password on most Ubiquiti AirOS routers). Fujitsu also found a disturbing number of the systems in the botnet had the port for telnet connections wide open.”

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• Hacked OPM and Background Check Contractors Lacked Logs, DHS Says
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• Windows 10 will share all of your WiFi passwords with your Outlook (and optionally Facebook) Contacts. Access points can opt out by adding ‘_optout’ to the SSID
• Cisco to buy security firm OpenDNS for $635 million
• Your F5 BIG-IP load balancer is not affected by the Redhat 4.x/5.x bug that might make it reboot during the leap second We are sorry your BIG-IP rebooted during the leap second
• DYN reports possible routing hiccup caused by leap second Turns out it was just someone accidently routing all traffic to Amazon AWS via their AS
• Someone is cutting fiber optic cables in California
• IKEA presents how they patched 3500 RHEL servers for the shellshock vulnerability in only 2.5 hours
• Scaling the Address Resolution Protocol for Large Data Centers (SARP)
• SSLv3 now officially deprecated
• Cisco UCDM (Unified Communications Domain Manager) has a default static password for a root account

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We’re joined by a classroom full of special guests, we talk with the students from Penn Manor School District, where they’ve given every high school student a Linux laptop & integrated the students into the help desk. We get the inside scope on the challenges, roadblocks & successes of this large desktop Linux deployment.

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Mike shares his experience moving from GitHub to a self hosted GitLab installation and the benefits his team realized after making the move.

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday proposed shrinking the Army to its smallest size in 74 years, closing bases and reshaping forces to confront future threats like cyberwarfare. Old special interests are digging in and fighting back with everything they’ve got. But how deep are the cuts? And is there really any reduction in spending? We’ll dig in.

Plus: The NSA doubles down in Germany, an update on the Ukraine, and much much more.

On this week’s episode of, Unfilter.

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NSA is Crazy

• Obama Administration Seeks to Hold NSA Phone Records Longer – WSJ.com

The Obama administration has asked a special court for approval to hold onto National Security Agency phone records for a longer period–an unintended consequence of lawsuits seeking to stop the phone-surveillance program.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Justice Department was considering such a move, which would end up expanding the controversial phone records database by not deleting older call records.

Under the current system, the database is purged of phone records more than five years old. The Justice Department, in a filing made public Wednesday, said it needs to hold onto the older records as evidence in lawsuits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and others.

Under the proposal made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the older data would continue to be held, but NSA analysts would not be allowed to search it.

After having stopped spying on Merkel, the NSA is now focusing on German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière and other confidants (google translate)

• How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations – The Intercept

These agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself.

Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.

Other tactics aimed at individuals are listed here, under the revealing title “discredit a target”:

Then there are the tactics used to destroy companies the agency targets:

GCHQ describes the purpose of JTRIG in starkly clear terms: “using online techniques to make something happen in the real or cyber world,” including “information ops (influence or disruption).”

• Reddit Censors Big Story About Government Manipulation and Disruption of the Internet Washington’s Blog

The moderators at the giant r/news reddit (with over 2 million subscribed readers) repeatedly killed the Greenwald/Snowden story on government manipulation and disruption of the Internet … widely acknowledged to be one of the most important stories ever leaked by Snowden.

Similarly, the moderators at the even bigger r/worldnews reddit (over 5 million subscribers) repeatedly deleted the story, so that each new post had to start over at zero.

• Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying

Under current plans, a joint venture between Brazilian telecoms provider Telebras and Spain’s IslaLink Submarine Cables would lay the communications link. Telebras would have a 35 percent stake, IslaLink would have a 45 percent interest and European and Brazilian pension funds could put up the remainder.

• Brazil, EU to circumvent NSA spying with undersea cable – YouTube

Brazil and the European Union are joining forces against the National Security Agency and spying by the United States. Brazil and the EU announced they will build an undersea communications cable to connect the two areas and to reduce the reliance on cables going through the US. The proposed $185 million cable would stretch from Fortaleza, Brazil to Lisbon, Portugal.

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Shrinking the Beast

• Hagel says US military must shrink to face new era – The Washington Post

In a speech at the one-year mark of his tenure as Pentagon chief, Hagel revealed many details of the defense spending plan that will be part of the 2015 budget that President Barack Obama will submit to Congress next week. Hagel described it as the first Pentagon budget to fully reflect the nation’s transition from 13 years of wa

• Defense.gov News Article: Hagel Outlines Budget Reducing Troop Strength, Force Structure

Some of that risk, Hagel said, is associated with a sharp drawdown in the size of the Army, which the proposed budget calls for reducing to as low as 440,000 active duty soldiers from the current size of 520,000, while ensuring the force remains well trained and equipped.

The cuts assume the United States no longer becomes involved in large, prolonged stability operations overseas on the scale of Iraq and Afghanistan. “An Army of this size is larger than required to meet the demands of our defense strategy,” Hagel said. “It is also larger than we can afford to modernize and keep ready.”

• Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in Feb 2011: Defending US defense spending Cuts

“It is my judgment that the Department of Defense needs an appropriation of at least $540 billion for FY2011 for US military to properly carry out its mission, maintain readiness and prepare for the future,” said Gates, who also discussed cuts he’s made to the military budget, on programs no longer needed.
However, what is not widely known is that most of the $78 billion he’s cut would not take place until 2014 and 2015, when there will be a new secretary of defense and possibly a new president.

• Pentagon proposes to shrink US Army to pre-WWII level – YouTube

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recommended Monday that U.S. troops be reduced levels not seen since prior to World War II. In a news conference at the Pentago.

• Proposed defense budget cuts would ground A–10 fleet – YouTube

The future of the A–10s is up in the air again after Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel outlined Monday massive proposed cuts to the military.

• Cheney Bashes Food Stamps In Pro-Military Rant, Forgetting Military Families Rely On Them

In the first half of fiscal 2013, however, those eligible to shop in military commissaries – which include disabled veterans and others with military identification – cashed in nearly $53 million in food stamps, according to data provided to The Huffington Post by the Defense Commissary Agency. In 2011, more than 5,000 “active duty military” relied on the government aid.

A September report by nonprofit think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that at least 900,000 veterans received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program assistance, or food stamps, each month.

• President Obama Is Fighting Cuts to the Military, Not Demanding Them

You might disagree with Obama’s priorities, but Cheney’s claim is based entirely on the notion that Hagel and Obama are proposing military cuts. But they aren’t. Hagel proposed a change in force structure that would lead to a smaller Army, but his overall budget proposal is $115 billion more than the current sequester levels demanded by Republicans

• Army Gives Out $500,000 Armored Trucks for Free – YouTube

The U.S. Army is giving away 13,000 armored trucks, worth about $500,000 each. The 20-ton MRAPs, or Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected trucks, were built specifically to save U.S. soldiers from roadside bombs in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Now the trucks are patrolling U.S. city streets. U.S. law enforcement agencies have received the lion’s share of this high-powered military surplus. (Source: Bloomberg)

• Obama assessing four alternatives to NSA phone data collection: WSJ | The Verge

One proposal would be to put phone metadata collection under the purview of US telecommunications companies. Under this option, the NSA would inform the companies of when it needs to search their databases for terrorism-related investigations, and the phone companies would return only the results of those searches, rather than data on consumers unrelated to the investigations.

A second proposal would see a different federal agency hold the data — the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), for instance — and a third would place them under the control of a third entity that’s neither a federal agency nor a telecom company.

The final proposal would abolish the data collection program altogether, an option that Obama in January said would require more work “to determine exactly how this system might work.”

• List of countries by military expenditures – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is a list of countries by military expenditure, the amount spent by a nation on its military in a given year.

• U.S. defense spending compared to other countries | pgpf.org

We currently spend more on defense than the next 10 countries combined. Defense spending accounts for about 20 percent of all federal spending — nearly as much as Social Security, or the combined spending for Medicare and Medicaid.

• Video: The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight

Mike Lofgren, a former GOP congressional staff member with the powerful House and Senate Budget Committees, joins Bill to talk about what he calls the Deep State, a hybrid of corporate America and the national security state, which is “out of control” and “unconstrained.” In it, Lofgren says, elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests.

Ukraine mayhem

• BBC News – Ukraine crisis: Yatsenyuk is PM-designate, Kiev Maidan told

The Maidan council named Arseniy Yatsenyuk to become prime minister. The cabinet – to be voted on by MPs on Thursday – includes leading activists.

The US has offered Ukraine’s struggling economy – which faces default – loan guarantees of up to $1bn (£600m).

Meanwhile, Mr Yanukovych has been put on the international wanted list.

The fugitive president – whose whereabouts are unclear – is accused of being behind last week’s deaths of more than 100 protesters at the hands of riot police in and around the Maidan.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington planned to offer Ukraine the loan guarantees to help stabilise the country’s economy.

Mr Kerry also warned Russia it would be a “grave mistake” to embark on any military intervention in Ukraine.

• Russia flexes military muscle as tensions rise in Ukraine’s Crimea

Russia ordered surprise military exercises on Ukraine’s doorstep Wednesday as tensions in that country’s southern Crimea region simmered, with pro-Russian demonstrators facing off against rival protesters in the city of Simferopol.

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Florian Motlik from Codeship joins us to discuss automated unit testing, a practical approach to rethinking how to get started with your own testing, and how Codeship’s hosted continuous integration and continuous deployment platform is bringing much needed relief to some of developments most tedious tasks.

Plus getting started with simple approach, when to take the money, your emails, and more!

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• Yasp – Web-based emulator, assembler for students learning assembly language

Florian Motlik

• Hosted Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. The Codeship.

• Packer

Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
https://www.packer.io

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A new version of Docker was just released, we bring on the CTO and Founder of Docker to chat about the big features all Linux users can look forward to.

Plus building the perfect Linux workstation, your feedback, and much more!

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FU

• The reasons that I believe are blocking linux adoption on the desktop.

• Linux conversion

• linux v windows for moms and dads

• Dear Linux, please break

Go Dock Yourself

• Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions – and 6 other major features

Docker 0.7 is finally here! We hope you\’ll like it. On top of countless bug fixes and small usability improvements, it introduces 7 major features since 0.6.0

• Disadvantages from moving away from AUFS?

  • Is there a slight performance overhead with lvm?
  • btrfs? Add btrfs driver by alexlarsson · Pull Request #65 · shykes/docker

• What people have already built using Docker

Docker is a powerful tool for many different use cases. Here are some great early use cases for Docker, as described by members of our community.

• Getting Started Docker Tutorial

This hands-on tutorial is 100% online, so you don\’t need to install a thing. In about 10-15 minutes you\’ll be familiar with the basic
Docker commands.

Mail Sack:

• Linux back in my day

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A recent snafu has left Mike in a bit of a bind with a client, and technical glitches nearly threatened to toss Chris out on the side of the road.

After digging through a batch of really great emails, the guys air some dirty laundry. This week we crack open a cold one, and chug some haterade.

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• Why I Believe the Java Hate is Strong

• System adminis

• docker life cycle + P.S. Java

• IBM Is Still Strong

• Ben’s Email

Dev World Hoopla

• Mike’s dirty laundry: TestFlight impacting Mike’s projects

• TestFlight » Beta Testing On The Fly

A free testing service for mobile developers, managers and testers.

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After discussing recent hardware gadget purchases, the guys jump into the defense of Java. Mike’s ready to justify his love, for Java. At least for some usecases.

Plus a little dev world hoopla, your feedback, and more!

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• Brandon\’s Email: Young programmers and old languages

• Haliphax\’s Email: Red Hat OpenShift (Heroku alternative)?

• Docker love!

• Nexus 5 Talk

• You all hate the iPad Air

• AnandTech | The iPad Air Review

Since the iPad Air uses the same A7 silicon as the iPhone 5s, it also uses the same on-die GPU as the 5s: IMG’s PowerVR G6430. This is a 4-cluster configuration of IMG’s latest graphics hardware, running at some relatively high frequency.

Dev World Hoopla

• Are the emus turning from the cliff?
• Mike comes out of the Pro 2 closet… again

Justifying Java

• criticism – What would you change about Java if you have a chance? –

• Why does Mike like Java?

• Why is Java taught in schools?
• Does Java the language have a future?
• Isn\’t it all about the JVM now?

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From backups to deployment, we go back to the backend! The new solutions giving us the opportunity to reconsider the infrastructure around our projects.

Plus gearing up for 64bit development, and much more.

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• Danny’s email: What direction is Michael going for server side technology?
• Mat’s Email: GoLang
• Egon hates us: Coder Radio is dead for me
• Mike’s Email: Online Education?
• By popular demand…
• The RMS Rap

Announcement Recap

• Apple announcement reaction

• Apple Announces Thinner, Lighter iPad Air With 64-Bit A7 Processor – Mac Rumors

With the A7 chip, the iPad Air offers twice the CPU and graphics performance of the previous iPad. The 64-bit architecture supports Open GL ES version 3.0, for \”game console-like visual effects.\”

• The real reasons Apple\’s 64-bit A7 chip makes sense | Mobile – CNET News

A nearer-term reason the Apple A7 might appeal to programmers has nothing to do with its 64-bit nature: the ARMv8 architecture itself brings some real advantages.

One of them is a larger number of registers — tiny on-chip storage areas where the processor stores data for very fast access. ARMv8 roughly doubles general-purpose registers from 16 to 31, which means the chip needn\’t fritter away as many cycles swapping things into and out of memory.

• They finally get it… sort of

Backing up

• When do I need a backend
• Continuous integration?
• Testing?

• Deployment

• Docker All The Things | Coder Radio 66

We\’re joined by two gentlemen from dotCloud, the folks behind Docker. We chat about what Docker is best at, how far out the 1.0 release is, the projects use of Go, the future of Docker, and much more.

• Homepage – Docker: the Linux container engine

Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application.

The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare metal

• About Docker – Docker: the Linux container engine

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable,
self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere.

Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same
container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop will run at scale, in production*, on VMs,
bare-metal servers, OpenStack clusters, public instances, or combinations of the above.

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Mike discusses the culture clash between the ASP.Net framework diehards, and the recent converts. ASP.Net and Azure services have been at the core of project Mike and his team have had underway for a couple months and they’ve gotten a good feeling of it’s strengths and weakness.

Plus our live reaction to SteamOS, ending the platform/tool wars that even your benevolent hosts find themselves falling into, your feedback, and much more!

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• Can you go more into depth about kernel/system development?
• Solution to the Android update problem
• Does it really matter what tools you use?

Hoopla:

• Valve announces SteamOS, a living room operating system for games | The Verge

Valve is done teasing. Today, Valve has revealed SteamOS, its own operating system based on Linux, designed for living room gaming PCs. It\’s the first step towards Valve\’s Steam Box, its vision for an open video game console. It combines Steam\’s preeminent video game digital distribution platform with a user interface designed for televisions, all on top of the Linux platform. It will also be free.

\”It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines,\” according to the company.

• SteamOS

As we\’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we\’ve come to the conclusion that the environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself. SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen. It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.

• Why we moved away from AWS

This does not mean that we will never ever move back to AWS, but right now this is the best fit for us.

• Continuous delivery for cloud services with TFS in Windows Azure

The process described in this article shows you how to set up continuous delivery for Windows Azure cloud apps

• Known Issues in Windows Azure

This document contains a list the known issues for Windows Azure

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We’re joined by two gentlemen from dotCloud, the folks behind Docker. We chat about what Docker is best at, how far out the 1.0 release is, the projects use of Go, the future of Docker, and much more.

Plus is the commoditization of software development a bad thing? Your emails, and more.

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• BeagleBoard.org – BeagleBone Black

• TechCrunch stirs outrage with misogynistic presentations | Fox News

A blatantly misogynist presentation by a pair of smirking Australian programmers at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 show has drawn cries of outrage from the Internet.

Docker:

• Homepage – Docker, The linux container engine

Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare metal, OpenStack clusters, public clouds and more.

• Getting Started – Docker, The linux container engine

The best way to learn how Docker works is to use it!
This hands-on tutorial is 100% online, so you don\’t need to install a thing. In about 10-15 minutes you\’ll be familiar with the basic Docker commands.
+ dotcloud/docker · GitHub

• Docker: Linux Containers Made Easy | The Linux Action Show

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The Play Framework has been on Mike’s mind a lot recently. Also known as JavaPlay, an easy way to build web applications with Java and Scala. This week Mike shares what started out as a grand idea, but developed into a major reboot and overhaul of the project.

And why in the end, no matter what platform, software stack, or store you choose or avoid is always a risky choice.

Plus: How to bounce back from burnout, find new motivation, and get started.

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• Getting started

• Check out Code School for guided projects

• In Sweden with Questions

• binpress.com Good or BAD?

• Lacking Motivation to Code

Dev Hoopla

• Play Framework – Build Modern & Scalable Web Apps with Java and Scala

• java – Play Framework: Real-world production experiences?

• Heroku | Play! on Heroku

• Getting Started with Play! on Heroku | Heroku Dev Center
• Heroku Play Framework Support | Heroku Dev Center
• Heroku Java
• heroku/template-java-play · GitHub

• Windows Azure Pricing Calculator

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• edufii.com – Athletes are Made

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