CurrentC has its email list hacked, but the press is having a heyday. Microsoft reveals their fitness band & we are impressed.

Plus the GCHQ loophole & the Humble Bundle win for Linux users.

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CurrentC Hacked

Here’s a bad sign for CurrentC, the fledgling mobile payment system in development by a consortium of retailers.

CurrentC is sending emails to people who signed up for the beta version of the app warning them “that unauthorized third parties obtained the e-mail addresses of some of you.”

It doesn’t sound as if it’s the worst breach in the world, but it’s definitely not good for CurrentC, which is just getting started.

CurrentC is in the news this week because of Apple Pay, Apple’s mobile payment system for the iPhone 6.

CurrentC is backed by MCX, the Merchants Consumer Exchange, which is a group of retailers trying to create a mobile payment system. It is being spearheaded by Wal-Mart.

• MCX Says QR Payments App Will Pivot To NFC If Necessary, Won’t Fine Retailers Who Break Exclusivity | TechCrunch

Davidson also detailed a hack of its email system that was revealed this morning, saying its email provider was hacked, though he wouldn’t disclose the name of the provider. He says the hack exposed dummy zip codes and “some tester email addresses.”

“The CurrentC app itself was not affected. We own this and are taking it seriously,” he said. The investigation is ongoing, and involves security experts and partners organizations. Stolen email addresses were not stored in the cloud.

Microsoft’s health revolution is here, starting with a $199 fitness tracker | The Verge

Microsoft Band, a black $199 wearable that tracks your steps, heart rate, and stride length, all while showing you text, email, and Twitter alerts. It will be available from Microsoft Stores in the US tomorrow.

Simply by virtue of being available to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone users all at once, Microsoft believes it can make inroads in an otherwise terribly siloed marketplace. Health will work with Android Wear watches, Android phones, and the iPhone 6’s motion processor, automatically collecting data from all three. Microsoft’s also been working with Jawbone, MapMyFitness, My Fitness Pal, and Runkeeper to import their data, and plans to incorporate many more.

The Band is sort of Microsoft’s take on the Google Nexus strategy, which Microsoft hopes will show others how to build great trackers. Microsoft is even licensing the ten sensor modules it has developed, so others can build new and different ways to measure your heart rate and step count.

Secret Policy Allows GCHQ Bulk Access To NSA Data

Though legal proceedings following the Snowden revelations, Liberty UK have succeeded in forcing GCHQ to reveal secret internal policies allowing Britain’s intelligence services to receive unlimited bulk intelligence from the NSA and other foreign agencies and to keep this data on a massive searchable databases, all without a warrant. Apparently, British intelligence agencies can “trawl through foreign intelligence material without meaningful restrictions”, and can keep copies of both content and metadata for up to two years. There is also mention of data obtained “through US corporate partnerships”. According to Liberty, this raises serious doubts about oversight of the UK Intelligence and Security Committee and their reassurances that in every case where GCHQ sought information from the US, a warrant for interception signed by a minister was in place.

Eric King, Deputy Director of Privacy international, said: “We now know that data from any call, internet search, or website you visited over the past two years could be stored in GCHQ’s database and analyzed at will, all without a warrant to collect it in the first place. It is outrageous that the Government thinks mass surveillance, justified by secret ‘arrangements’ that allow for vast and unrestrained receipt and analysis of foreign intelligence material is lawful. This is completely unacceptable, and makes clear how little transparency and accountability exists within the British intelligence community.”

Humble Indie Bundle 13

It’s baaaaacccckkkk! In the distance, a dog barks. A crow caws. A spider drops from the ceiling. Why the commotion? It’s the return of the Humble Indie Bundle! Pay what you want for OlliOlli, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, and Tower of Guns. Beat the average price, and you’ll also receive four copies of Risk of Rain (one for you and three shareable copies to give away*), Jazzpunk, and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. Pay more than $12, and you get all of that plus Shadowrun Returns.

But that’s not all! If your purchase is over $65, you also get a Fangamer merch box decked out in custom Humble Indie Bundle 13 art, 11 custom Humble Indie Bundle 13 collectible cards, a hoodie with custom Humble Indie Bundle 13 art, a cassette with tracks from the games in the bundle, and a Humble Indie Bundle 13 and Humble Bundle patch.

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The majority of systemd hate appears to be coming from just two sources. At least that’s what we suspect & call them out.

Plus a review of OpenMediaVault and how it compares to FreeNAS, a quick look at Tox & what the heck is Fedora’s DNF?

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• Humble Indie Bundle 12 (pay what you want and help charity)
  • IDW is beaming up comics in the Star Trek Bundle | Humble Mumble

FU:

• Herp Derp Chrome extension

• RE: My First Linux Server

• Proud poppa

• uTox

OpenMediaVault – The open network attached storage solution

• My Open Media Vault experience

• OpenMediaVault on Debian | Flexion.Org

• OpenMediaVault • View topic – [Howto] Setup ZFS on OMV Step by Step for ZFS Fans.

• Latest updates… – omv-extras.org

systemd – the topic that just keeps driving the clicks

• kremlinware unlimited – systembsd.git/summary

• You have your Windows in my Linux | Data Center — InfoWorld

Ultimately, the schism over systemd could lead to a separation of desktop and server distros, or Linux server admins moving to FreeBSD

• Systemd rampages through the Linux community like Godzilla through Tokyo | ITworld

Systemd has turned into the Godzilla of Linux controversies. Everywhere you look it’s stomping through blogs, rampaging through online discussion threads, and causing white-hot flames that resemble Godzilla’s own breath of death. TechNewsWorld has a roundup of the systemd hostilities in case you missed any of it and want to savor some of the drama.

• It’s time to split Linux in two | Data Center — InfoWorld

Maybe it’s time Linux is split in two. I suggested this possibility last week when discussing systemd (or that FreeBSD could see higher server adoption), but it’s more than systemd coming into play here. It’s from the bootloader all the way up. The more we see Linux distributions trying to offer chimera-like operating systems that can be a server or a desktop at a whim, the more we tend to see the dilution of both. You can run stock Debian Jessie on your laptop or on a 64-way server. Does it not make sense to concentrate all efforts on one or the other?

DNF – The Next Generation Package Management Utility for RPM Based Distributions

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Ryan C. Gordon aka Icculus joins us to discuss past, present and future of Linux gaming. Plus the fundamental technology challenges facing Linux gaming, the hope for SteamOS, and much more.

Then – Red Hat’s internal politics burst out into the spotlight, John C. Dvorak trolls Linux users….

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Evergreen State Fair, Runs Linux

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• An Introduction to SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) | DigitalOcean

Desktop App Pick

Braid

Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess.

• Braid (video game) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Braid is a platform and puzzle video game developed by Number None, Inc. The game was released on August 6, 2008 for the Xbox 360‘s Xbox Live Arcade service. A Microsoft Windows version was released on April 10, 2009. Hothead Games ported and released the game to Mac OS X on May 20, 2009 and the PlayStation Network on November 12, 2009. A Linux port, created by Ryan C. Gordon, was released December 14, 2010 as part of the second Humble Indie Bundle.

• Get Braid on the Humble Store.

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• Get LIMBO on the Humble Store.

Weekly Spotlight

GParted — Turns 10

The first public release of GParted was version 0.0.3 on August 26th, 2004. Over the past 10 years, much
has happened. Following are some statistics:

• Over 300 people have contributed to GParted
• Many GNU/Linux distributions now include GParted
• Translators have worked to make GParted available in over 50
  different languages
• GParted is used in over 220 countries around the world
• There have been over 17 million downloads from Sourceforge
  alone

Ting App Pick

• App of the Week: Yo!
• Yo – It’s that simple.
• Yo | FauxShow 182

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Red Hat CTO unexpectedly quits, amid rumors of executive ‘friction’

No-one among the rank and file at Red Hat seem to have seen this coming. In a move the Linux giant’s staffers said was “shocking” and a “punch in the gut,” long-time Red Hat chief technology officer Brian Stevens has resigned.

Sean Michael Kerner at eWeek says Red Hat CTO Resigns for New Opportunity – not friction.

I’ve heard from my own sources that Stevens is not leaving due to any internal wrangling or politics at Red Hat, but rather to pursue a new opportunity that he simply could not turn down.

Reasons for Red Hat CTO departure still a mystery

The only additional statement from Red Hat is a remark that Stevens was “leaving to pursue another opportunity.” While Stevens did not reply to inquires, sources stated that he’d been biding his time waiting for the right opportunity.

JOHN C. DVORAK: Linux Has Run Out of Time

Time has run out for there to be a must-have killer software package on Linux. Anyone writing such an application writes it for Mac or Windows, because that’s where the customers are. All the super applications for Linux are on the server side and that ends the discussion. Yes, this could change someday. But that someday is not on the horizon.

Right now Linux on the desktop remains a cheap curiosity, that is kind of fun to play with when you are bored.

Screencheat Out OCT 3rd

Screencheat is a split-screen multiplayer FPS where everyone is invisible and you have to cheat to win. Remember when looking at your friends’ screen in Goldeneye was frowned upon? Well those days are gone and in Screencheat, we encourage it!

Hand of Fate on Steam

Deckbuilding comes to life in Hand of Fate! An infinitely replayable series of quests – earn new cards, build your deck, then try to defeat it! In a cabin at the end of the world, the game of life and death is played. Draw your cards, play your hand, and discover your fate.

Ryan C. Gordon (aka icculus)

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Gentoo’s leader of the x86 Team, and jack of all trades Jeff Horelick joins us to discuss all things Gentoo. We’ve got a batch of questions you’ve submitted, and Jeff’s the man to answer them!

Plus: Facebook buys Oculus VR, Red Hat’s CentOS plans, a first look at Gnome 3.12…

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Gento Interview: Jeff Horelick

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Jeff Horelick is the Leader of the x86 Team for Gentoo, a member of Gentoo’s Mozilla Team and a maintainer for many various packages.

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Disney’s Frozen, Runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

NCurses Disk Usage

ncdu: A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface,aimed to be run on a remote server where you don’t have an entire graphical setup, but have to do with a simple SSH connection.
ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.

Weekly Spotlight

Race The Sun – An Infinite Speed Experience

• Race The Sun on the Humble Store.

• Race The Sun on Steam

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GNOME 3.12 Released

Automatic rating of applications indicate their quality and help you select the best ones.
Packages containing software repositories can be installed, and you can now review and remove third party repositories that are in use.

GNOME 3.12 includes a reimagined Videos application. Modern in style, the new version allows you to browse videos that are on your computer, as well as online video channels. Channels in this release include Rai.tv, The Guardian Videos channel, Blip.tv and Apple Movie Trailers. Developers can easily add their own video channels, and we expect the list of channels to grow in the future. Additionally, integration with the popular Pocket service provides an easy way to watch videos that you have saved for later.

The gedit text editor has had a major update for this release. The new design incorporates all of gedit’s previous features into a more compact interface, which gives more space for your work. Use of popovers for selecting the document format and tab width is more efficient than the previous use of dialogs and menus, and consolidated sidebar controls also give more space for content while retaining the original functionality.

High-resolution display support was first introduced in 3.10. This provided high-resolution display support for much of GNOME 3. Since then, this feature has been extended to include all the key aspects of the core GNOME 3 experience, including the Activities Overview, top bar, lock screen and system dialogs.

• GNOME 3.12: Pixel perfect … but homeless

If you dismissed GNOME 3 when it arrived, I can’t blame you, but I suggest taking another look. GNOME 3 has finally arrived, with the newly released 3.12. The only problem with GNOME 3.12? It’s a desktop in search of a Linux distro.

• GNOME 3.12 Puts The X.Org Log In The Systemd Journal

A useful tip shared by X.Org input expert Peter Hutterer is that with today’s GNOME 3.12 release the GNOME Display Manager is no longer writing X.Org Server logs to the file but is being stored within systemd’s journal.

• A GNOME Logs Utility Comes in GNOME 3.12

Logs is a utility for viewing detailed event logs for the system, scheduled for GNOME 3.12. What it basically does is to read logs from Systemd-Journal and categorize them.

• GNOME 3.12 Live CD is Now Available!

It is based on Fedora 20 using GNOME 3.12 from Copr

Facebook To Trial Btrfs Deployments

A few months ago the Linux kernel block maintainer joined Facebook along with the lead Btrfs file-system developers. Chris Mason and the other developers are continuing to work on the upstream Btrfs file-system support while at Facebook.

Chris Mason said this morning during a storage/file-system talk at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit from Napa Valley that Facebook will indeed be trying out Btrfs in some deployments at his new employer. At some time going forward, they will first be trying out the Btrfs file-system within their “web tier” at Facebook, which is the tier that’s easiest to recover from in case of any issues with their initial roll-out.

Facebook buys Oculus VR

Facebook has acquired Oculus VR, the company building the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, for $2 billion. Oculus will keep its headquarters in Irvine, California.

“We are excited to work with Mark and the Facebook team to deliver the very best virtual reality platform in the world,” Oculus co-founder and CEO Brendan Iribe said in a press release. “We believe virtual reality will be heavily defined by social experiences that connect people in magical, new ways. It is a transformative and disruptive technology, that enables the world to experience the impossible, and it’s only just the beginning.”

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said that he views the Oculus Rift as a new communication platform. Posting on Facebook:

Oculus will continue operating independently within Facebook to achieve this. But this is just the start. After games, we’re going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a courtside seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face – just by putting on goggles in your home."

“We’re going to focus on helping Oculus build out their product and develop partnerships to support more games. Oculus team lists its reasons for entering into this seemingly odd partnership: "At first glance, it might not seem obvious why Oculus is partnering with Facebook, a company focused on connecting people, investing in internet access for the world and pushing an open computing platform. But when you consider it more carefully, we’re culturally aligned with a focus on innovating and hiring the best and brightest; we believe communication drives new platforms; we want to contribute to a more open, connected world; and we both see virtual reality as the next step.

• Valve’s VR Expert Michael Abrash Joins Oculus As Chief Scientis

Michael Abrash — the man largely responsible for leading Valve’s recent charge into Virtual Reality — has just joined Oculus as its Chief Scientist.

Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus means that VR is going to happen in all its glory. The resources and long-term commitment that Facebook brings gives Oculus the runway it needs to solve the hard problems of VR – and some of them are hard indeed. I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can.

Intel Pushes XenGT For GPU Access To Virtual Machines

XenGT is a full GPU virtualization solution with mediated pass-through and on the VM side runs the system’s native graphics driver for the targeted hardware. When it comes to Intel hardware, Haswell’s Iris Graphics is their main focus along with next-generation Broadwell processors.

XenGT is designed just not for 3D graphics acceleration within guest instances but also for media acceleration and GPGPU compute acceleration.

There is sharing support – multiple VMs can access the same graphics processor due to its full virtualization.

XenGT: PDF

Red Hat reveals CentOS plans

So what the newly united Red Hat and CentOS is planning on are multiple CentOS releases. This will be something like Fedora Spins. Instead of Spins, these will be called Special Interest Group (SIG) releases.

First, there will be the CentOS Core SIG. This will be the closest to the CentOS that many of you are using now on your own servers, Web hosting site. or data center. The other official SIGS are CentOS Storage, CentOS Cloud, and CentOS Virtualization.

All these start with the CentOS Core distribution. This will be built using the most recent RHEL release. However, there’s a firewall between RHEL and CentOS developers. The net effect is that CentOS will continue to lag a bit behind RHEL in releases. Even so, CentOS releases will be coming out on RHEL heels rather than weeks or months behind.

On top of that RHEL base, each CentOS SIG will decide what cutting edge software it will use.
For example, CentOS Cloud will probably include the latest OpenStack build. CentOS Virtualization will offer a variety of hypervisors, not just KVM.

There’s more than a dozen SIGs in progress. Under consideration are desktop, Web hosting, and a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) servers. Other SIGs will be considered depending on the amount of developer interest.

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Georgi Karavasilev from the Numix project joins us to discuss their vision for pushing the look of the Linux desktop to the next level, and the efforts they’re willing to take to make that vision happen.

Plus: Ubuntu Touch gets two hardware partners, Microsoft is up to it;s old tricks again…

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• Numix – Not just yet another theme suite

Numix is all about making a difference in theming. We aim to prove that “difference” and “usability” are two words combined, that can make sense. You get a modern and stylish desktop, spiced up with a pinch of warmth just enough to make you feel like laying in your favourite comfy armchair, with a beverage of your choice in hand.

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Georgi Karavasilev

Works on the icon themes and is the unofficial PR guy.

Georgi is the guy behind the design of Kazam, Unity Tweak Tool, Smuxi, XNoise, Athena and a bundle of more community and third party apps. He is also an Ubuntu member. He writes on omgubuntu.co.uk and his personal blog mechoslav.wordpress.com.

• Numix Project – Google+ – So, in case you haven’t watched the Linux Action Show here…

Yeah, we’re doing a custom desktop shell built on top of Gnome-Shell.
More details are to come tomorrow.
For now just have this little teaser.

Desktop Shots

• https://i.imgur.com/TwTQl21.png
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• Project Tango, Runs Linux!

Project Tango is a phone which uses complex array of sensors that track motion in closed environments, and can build a visual 3D of rooms and other indoor areas. The goal of Project Tango is to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion.

Runs Linux Moment: https://youtu.be/pQzOikz63jA?t=2m2s

• Google’s Project Tango Struts Into the Spotlight

Desktop App Pick

• Stikked · GitHub

Weekly Spotlight

• Humble Indie Bundle 11

• The Reason Some Games Are Delayed For Linux In Humble Indie Bundles

• The LAS 300 Shirt

• New Logo

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• Ubuntu phones to ship this year from two manufacturers
• BQ-Products-S50
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• Ubuntu Phone Handsets from Bq and Meizu Coming This Year

The Meizu handset is strongly rumoured to be a re-purposed version of company’s latest Android device, the Meizu MX3. This 5.1-inch mobile is powered by an 8-core ARM Cortex 15 CPU, paired with a 3-core GPU and 2GB of RAM.

• Sailfish hits 1.0, to be released for Android devices

• Microsoft cries out to UK government against open source

• Government open standards consultation will likely impact all of us. Make sure your voice is heard by 26th February – The Microsoft Partner Network UK Blog

• Pitivi: bringing open source video editing to the next level

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Chromecast has been called the gadget of the year, but are the better options? Or is a simple, low cost, Linux powered gadget the ultimate living room solution? We’ll debate where it stacks up compared to XMBC, Plex, and others.

Plus: Some insights into why Canonical might be looking to License their Binary repos to the Mint projects, your feedback, and more!

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• Top 10 Gadgets of 2013 | Top 10 Everything of 2013 – Technology | TIME.com

Instead of trying to do everything — like Google\’s famously ambitious and unsuccessful Google TV — this thumb-sized gizmo does one thing, does it as simply as possible and does it for the impulse-purchase price of $35. Plug it into one of your TV\’s HDMI ports, and you can fling videos and other content from your laptop, tablet or phone to the big screen, no wires involved. Lots of companies have built devices to do this; Chromecast is the first one that gets it right.

• Chromecast Apps

• Chromecast gadget beams media from Chrome to TVs · LinuxGizmos.com

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• Comic Collection software
• Comix – GTK Comic Book Viewer
• calibre – E-book management

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Do you run without swap? This week we reach into the topic grab bag and debate to swap or not to swap, the reasons long timer Linux users are switching to BSD, and what’s wrong with our Sailfish OS coverage.

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It’s our favorite indie games from the last couple years. Plus the big shake up the Steam Box could bring to the market, if Valve is crushing the Ouya, and why Microsoft and Sony will be forced to adapt.

Plus realistic funding for Indie devs, the new idea of success, and much more!

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• Indie Game Dev in 2012

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• Why Xbox failed in Japan

• The Xmas Bundle 2.0 – Indie Royale

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• Wolfram von Funck (wol_lay) on Twitter

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• Cube World: Gameplay Summary
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• LIMBO on Steam
• Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest by Phil Hassey — Kickstarter
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Our tips and tweaks to get the most performance and battery life out of your Linux box, and we’ll blast though a few audience submitted favorites!

Plus: Our thoughts on Ubuntu 12.10 shipping with Amazon shopping links in the dash, the good news for Optimus users, Humble Bundles not so humble sales, the Steam is nigh, and so much more!

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