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PREDICTIONS!!

• Chris’ Predictions:

• Big year for media production on Linux. Linux is damn near perfect for audio podcasting already.

• Microsoft makes a deal with Canonical to run a product on Ubuntu blessed Kernel
• A great year for Elementary OS / Solus – For different reasons, that appeal to a large and not yet discovered base.
• Plasma Desktop’s best year in ages. They’ve hit a stride and the Neon project is showing everyone the results as fast as they can ship it.

• Gnome will likely be the biggest receiver of Macs exodus.

• Dell expands its Linux line to the point that I start taking them seriously as a Linux vendor.

• Valve pulls back on Steam Machines for 2017, doubles down on Steam Link.
• Valve Brings early VR to Linux.

• By the end of 2017, OSS File Sync is mostly a finished discussion.

• Noah’s Predictions:

• IOT pisses me off more than in any year past

• USB3 available on every laptop sold
• A fall in macbook purchases
• Chris mispronounces a project name
• JB Moves to a internet based server arch
• Intensive application such as audio/video avail on linux via cloud
• Linux based self driving car as a service

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Smart Watch RUNS LINUX

• Here’s the sad thing; on my laptop, I still am running the bloated, legacy X11 display server. I had to because I was involved in maintaining an X11 desktop environment. But Asteroid OS is 100% Wayland only. And it works like a charm:

Desktop App Pick

FSlint – Duplicate file finder for linux

FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem.
I.E. unwanted or problematic cruft in your files or file names.
For example, one form of lint it finds is duplicate files.
It has both GUI and command line modes.
For more info please see the FAQ.

Thunderbird

• Thunderbird replicates the new look and feel of Mozilla Firefox in an effort to provide a similar user experience across all Mozilla software desktop or mobile and all platforms.

• Tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them. Tabs appear on the top of the menu bar providing a powerful visual experience and allowing the toolbars to be much more contextual.

• Tabbed email lets you keep multiple emails open for easy reference. Double-clicking or hitting Enter on a mail message will open that message in a new tab.

• When quitting Thunderbird, visible tabs will be saved and will be restored when you open Thunderbird the next time. There is also a Tab menu on the Tab toolbar to help you switch between tabs.

Spotlight

Commercial DAW VST Plugins on Linux

• Unleash your creativity with this collection of inspiring, contemporary DSP effects. Compatible with all major DAW’s, your signature sound is no longer limited to a single host.

• Introducing a collection of 16 contemporary FX plugins for use with any DAW. Utilizing the very latest algorithms and coding techniques, the plugins feature extraordinary sound quality in an extremely efficient package, allowing the plugins to be used liberally across a wide range of native computer systems. Empower your creativity with the DAW Essentials Collection.

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Canonical Clarifies Ubuntu Phone State: Nothing Really Until Snap-Based Image Ready

Pat shares that the Click-based Ubuntu Phone images are indeed on the way out, there will be no new Ubuntu Phone models until there is a “Snap image”, and they don’t plan to do an OTA-15 feature release. Canonical doesn’t plan to land any new features to the current stable PPA, but they will be providing security updates for important components.

• Is Ubuntu Touch Dead?

Endless introduces Linux mini desktop PCs for American market

• For the past few years Endless Computers has been making inexpensive Linux-based computers designed for use in emerging markets. Last summer the company also started working with PC makers to load its Endless OS software on some computers.

• Now Endless is launching its first products designed specifically for the United States.
  The Endless Mission One and Mission Mini are small, low power computers that sell for $249 or less. They should both be available for pre-order starting January 16th.

• Home | Endless Computers

KDE Neon Now Available as Docker Image

• I’m announcing a beta of KDE neon on Docker. Docker containers are a lightweight way to create a virtual system running on top of your normal Linux install but with its own filesystem and other rules to stop it getting in the way of your OS. They are insanely popular now for server deployment but I think they work just as well for checking out desktop and other UI setups.

• To give it a try first setup docker as you would for your distro. For Ubuntu distros that means running:

NVidia New ShieldTV

• Nvidia’s Shield set-top streaming device got an update at this year’s CES, and it was a big one: The new hardware is 40 percent smaller than the original, with a new Android 7.0 Nougat-based operating system and a redesigned UI that groups games together and just generally organizes things a bit more logically. It also handles 4K HDR content streaming, and boasts the most sources available for such content of any set-top streaming device currently available.

Pornhub 2016 – Linux up by 3%

• When it comes to porn, we usually ask if you’re more into ass or tits, though the increasingly more important question when it comes to porn consumption is Apple or Android? And Pornhub never misses a chance to report on the different behavior between different OS users. So looking back at 2016, we (of course) dug into the difference in traffic and tastes by operating systems. Let’s start with desktop. While Windows continues to dominate when it comes to which operating system users count on to watch Pornhub (about 80% of desktop users), Mac OS and Linux are on the rise, with Mac OS up 8% in traffic share and Linux up an impressive 14%.

Feedback:

Mail Bag

• Name: frodo wiz

• Subject: Solus Feedback

• Message: I tried this out a few times throughout this year and was happy with it until i found out it will never support ZFS. solus os has some bells and whistles as far as steam goes. except for data integrity. simple question for Ike: Do you expect me to amass 500 gig of games over a cell phone connection and trust that data wont get bit rot with any other file system than ZFS? wanna re-download 10 of them over cell connection? i didn’t think so. ike has done a great job with solus os but it falls short if it leaves out ZFS. kinda like building a car by hand and equipping it with bicycle tires. you can still drive it on some roads maybe, under some circumstances. handicapped

ive been entrusting my data to a 2 TB ZFS mirror for 2 years now and i cringe thinking about anything else.when you dont have the time or resources, you use the best.

if solus had zfs, it would be a no-brainer, especially for a game machine.

• Name: Jason

• Subject: Getting into a Linux Career

• Message:

I have been listening to several of the shows that Jupiter Broadcasting has, and religiously tune in to LAS and Linux Unplugged every week. You guys are doing a great job!

Would studying with Linux Academy and getting my RHCA and RHCE be enough to get into a job making a decent wage? I know there is the Catch 22 of certs are worthless without experience. However, but if I am correct, RHCA and RHCE are performance based exams. Wouldn’t that be enough to get your foot in the door?

I have taken several Linux, Windows and Cisco courses back in 2005, 2006, however I know a lot has changed since then.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for everything you guys do at Jupiter Broadcasting and I want to wish you all a belated Happy New Year!

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Noah’s new Linux PC Build

• Intel Boxed Core I7-6700 FC-LGA14C 3.40 GHz 8 M Processor Cache 4 LGA 1151 BX80662I76700
• ASUS Z170-E LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
• G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Desktop Memory Model F4-3000C15Q-16GRR
• EVGA 650 BQ 110-BQ-0650-V1 80+ BRONZE 650W Semi Modular Includes FREE Power On Self Tester Power Supply
• Rosewill RSV-L4000 – 4U Rackmount Server Case / Chassis – 8 Internal Bays, 7 Cooling Fans Included
• Samsung 850 PRO – 256GB – 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD MZ-7KE256BW

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Squirrel System POS RUNS LINUX

The Thinline series of POS terminals from Squirrel features all the performance and reliability that’s expected from our hardware in a sleek, small footprint package. The Thinline Workstation is perfect for any décor, whatever your restaurant concept.

• Smart design with a sleek silhouette
• High resolution 15″ LCD resistive touchscreen
• Creative and flexible mounting options (e.g. wall mount or custom counter inlay)
• Magnetic card reader included
• Easy access to ports and drives for simple cable management
• Windows or Linux operating systems available

Desktop App Pick

Podfox

A program for managing & catching podcasts from the terminal.

Spotlight

HomeBank

HomeBank is a free software (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) that will assist you to manage your personal accounting. It is designed to easy to use and be able to analyse your personal finance and budget in detail using powerful filtering tools and beautiful charts.
If you are looking for a completely free and easy application to manage your personal accounting, budget, finance then HomeBank should be the software of choice.

New Linux Show: User Error

• User Error | Jupiter Broadcasting

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• Ting data price drop
• Ting drops data prices to $10 GB beyond the first gig

Senators Burr & Feinstein Look To Bring Back Bill To Outlaw Real Encryption

Julian Sanchez got his hands on one of a few prospective new drafts that are being floated around and has an analysis of the update. The draft that Sanchez has seen tries to fix some of the problems, but doesn’t really fix the main problems of the bill. As Sanchez points out he sees four major changes in the draft:

Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 to Be Released on September 14, Add Numerous Improvements

The biggest attractions of the OTA-13 update will be support for Android 6.0 BSP (Board Support Packages), which opens the gate to new Ubuntu Phones and Tablets, and repowerd, a new power manager that promises major battery life improvements. There should also be copy-paste support.

AndEX Project Brings Android 7.0 Nougat with GAPPS & Linux Kernel 4.4 to Your PC

AndEX project based on Google’s recently released Android 7.0 Nougat mobile operating system.

• Android-x86_64 Nougat 7.0 with GAPPS and kernel 4.4.19-exton-android-x86_64 – Exton’s International Blog

3.0.1 Digital Painting App Arrives with New Threshold Filter, Many Changes

A new version of the Krita open-source digital painting software has been released, build 3.0.1, and it’s the first bugfix and feature release for the major Krita 3.0 series.

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Mail Bag

Name: Dumitru D
Subject: Linux guru talks about the linux desktop

Message: Hey guys, thanks so much for all the shows you do. Check out this video I found of Linux! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpDdGOKZ3dg

Name: James S
Subject: Switched to an Arch-based distro

Message: I recently made the jump to Parabola GNU/Linux (essentially Arch, but using the Linux-libre kernel and FSF supported) and I am very glad that I did. I now have the latest packages available at my fingertips and I don’t have to worry about support running out. I’m not going to lie, I was skeptical about installing an Arch-based distro (being a Debian/Ubuntu/Trisquel guy for the past… I don’t know how many years), but the experience of going through and installing an Arch-based distro from the ground up was worth it.

And one last thing… systemd… this init system is so freaking easy to use. I know what the hype is all about now. Love it. Love it. Love it.

Oh, and one final thing (I promise), I am enjoying using Gnome as my desktop environment after using i3 for a while.

Great show. Keep it up.

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• Chris’ call out for the community to help him with his background

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Project Zero lays into Symantec’s enterprise products, the botnet you’ll never find & the poor security of HTML5 video ads.

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Google’s Project Zero lays into Symantec’s Enterprise Endpoint Security products

• “Symantec is a popular vendor in the enterprise security market, their flagship product is Symantec Endpoint Protection. They sell various products using the same core engine in several markets, including a consumer version under the Norton brand.”
• “Today we’re publishing details of multiple critical vulnerabilities that we discovered, including many wormable remote code execution flaws.”
• “These vulnerabilities are as bad as it gets. They don’t require any user interaction, they affect the default configuration, and the software runs at the highest privilege levels possible. In certain cases on Windows, vulnerable code is even loaded into the kernel, resulting in remote kernel memory corruption.”
• “As Symantec use the same core engine across their entire product line, all Symantec and Norton branded antivirus products are affected by these vulnerabilities, including:”
• Norton Security, Norton 360, and other legacy Norton products (All Platforms)
• Symantec Endpoint Protection (All Versions, All Platforms)
• Symantec Email Security (All Platforms)
• Symantec Protection Engine (All Platforms)
• Symantec Protection for SharePoint Servers
• And so on.
• “Some of these products cannot be automatically updated, and administrators must take immediate action to protect their networks. Symantec has published advisories for customers, available here.”
• “Many developers will be familiar with executable packers like UPX, they’re tools intended to reduce the size of executables by compressing them. This causes a problem for antivirus products because it changes how executables look.”
• Packers can be designed to obfuscate the executable, and make it harder for virus scanners to match against their signature database, or heuristically detect bad code
• “Antivirus vendors solve this problem with two solutions. First, they write dedicated unpackers to reverse the operation of the most common packers, and then use emulation to handle less common and custom packers.”
• “The problem with both of these solutions is that they’re hugely complicated and prone to vulnerabilities; it’s extremely challenging to make code like this safe. We recommend sandboxing and a Security Development Lifecycle, but vendors will often cut corners here. Because of this, unpackers and emulators continue to be a huge source of vulnerabilities, we’ve written about examples in Comodo, ESET, Kaspersky, Fireeye and many more.”
• “Let’s look at an example from Symantec and Norton Antivirus. This vulnerability has an unusual characteristic: Symantec runs their unpackers in the Kernel!”
• “Reviewing Symantec’s unpacker, we noticed a trivial buffer overflow when a section’s SizeOfRawData field is greater than SizeOfImage. When this happens, Symantec will allocate SizeOfImage bytes and then memcpy all available data into the buffer.”
• “This was enough for me to make a testcase in NASM that reliably triggered Symantec’s ASPack unpacker. Once I verified this work with a debugger, building a PE header that mismatched SizeOfImage and SizeOfRawData would reliably trigger the vulnerability.”
• “Because Symantec uses a filter driver to intercept all system I/O, just emailing a file to a victim or sending them a link to an exploit is enough to trigger it – the victim does not need to open the file or interact with it in anyway. Because no interaction is necessary to exploit it, this is a wormable vulnerability with potentially devastating consequences to Norton and Symantec customers.”
• “An attacker could easily compromise an entire enterprise fleet using a vulnerability like this. Network administrators should keep scenarios like this in mind when deciding to deploy Antivirus, it’s a significant tradeoff in terms of increasing attack surface.”
• There is also a buffer overflow in the Power Point decomposer (used to check for macros etc)
• There is another vulnerability in “Advanced Heuristic Protection” or “Bloodhound Heuristics” mode
• “As with all software developers, antivirus vendors have to do vulnerability management. This means monitoring for new releases of third party software used, watching published vulnerability announcements, and distributing updates.”
• “Nobody enjoys doing this, but it’s an integral part of secure software development. Symantec dropped the ball here.”
• “A quick look at the decomposer library shipped by Symantec showed that they were using code derived from open source libraries like libmspack and unrarsrc, but hadn’t updated them in at least 7 years.”
• “Dozens of public vulnerabilities in these libraries affected Symantec, some with public exploits. We sent Symantec some examples, and they verified they had fallen behind on releases.”
• There is “behind” and then there is 7 years, which is pretty much “definitely didn’t bother to look at all”
• “As well as the vulnerabilities we described in detail here, we also found a collection of other stack buffer overflows, memory corruption and more.”
• Additional Coverage: Fortune.com
• Additional Coverage: Ars Technica

Botnet made up to CCTV Cameras and DVRs conducts DDoS attacks

• As we reported in TechSNAP #259 a security research found that 70 different CCTV-DVR vendors are just reselling devices from the same Chinese manufacturer, with the same firmware
• This firmware has a number of critical security flaws that the vendor was notified about, but refused to fix
• Original coverage from March
• Now criminals have exploited one or more of these known vulnerabilities to turn these devices into a large botnet
• Unlike a typical botnet made up of personal computers that are turned on and off at random, and where a user might notice sluggish performance, infected embedded devices tend to be always on, and performance issues are rarely noticed
• A botnet of over 25,000 of these CCTV systems is being used to conduct layer7 DDoS attacks against various businesses
• One of the victims, a Jewelry store, moved their site behind a WAF (Web Application Firewall), to protect it from the attack
• Unlike most attackers, instead of admitting defeat and moving on, the attacker stepped up the attack, and prolonged it for multiple days
• Most botnets lose strength the longer the attack is sustained, because infected machines are shutdown, isolated, reported, or disconnected.
• The fact that this botnet is made up of embedded CCTV devices gives it more staying power, and it is not likely to be considered the source of the problem if abuse reports do come in.

Security of HTML5 Video Ads

• For a long time many have railed against Flash, and accused it of being the root of all evil when it comes to Malvertising
• “For the last several years, Adobe Flash has been an enemy of the online community. In general, the position is well deserved: there were more than 300 vulnerabilities found in Flash Player during 2015 alone, making it the most vulnerable PC software of the year.”
• This study provides a comparison between Flash and HTM5 based advertisements
• Flash ads tend to be smaller. HTML5 ads also on average 100kb larger, using more bandwidth, which on mobile can be a big deal
• Flash ads may be more work to create, since they are not responsive, and a different file must be created for each different ad size
• HTML5 ads do not require a plugin to run, but older browsers do not support them. This is becoming less of an issue the number of aged devices dwindles
• Flash ads tend to provide better picture quality, due to sub-pixel support
• HTML5 provides better mobile support, where Flash on mobile is rare
• There is currently a larger community of Flash developers, but this is changing
• HTML5 is not controlled by a single entity like Adobe
• Flash provides better optimization
• HTML5 provides better usability and semantic support
• This study finds that killing off Adobe Flash will not solve the security problems, HTML5 has plenty of its own security issues
• “Even if Flash is prohibited, malvertising can still be inserted in the first two stages of video ad delivery.”
• “The proponents pushing for Flash to be prohibited from use in an ad creative are saying that HTML5 is the remedy that can handle security threats in the advertising industry. It stands to reason that if the ad unit itself is clean, then the user won’t have any problems. Unfortunately, this is an inaccurate statement. Malvertising attacks using video ads were already occurring in late 2015 and early 2016.”
• A typical flash malvertising campaign, the ad calls the flash externalCall interface, and runs some malicious javascript, creating a popup, that if you user accepts, may infect their computer
• In an HTML5 based attack, the malvertising campaign payload is not in the actual advertisement, but in the VAST/VPAID metadata, as the tracking url. This silently navigates the user to an Angler exploit kit, where they are infected with no required user interaction
• “the second scenario shows how the ad unit itself is not the only piece of the malvertising pie”
• “The main root of the video ad malvertising problem is, unfortunately, fundamental. VAST/VPAID standards, developed in 2012, provide extensive abilities so that ad industry players can create a rich ad experience.”
• “Since these standards allow advertisers to receive data about the user, they allow for third-party codes to be inserted inside the ad. Once a third-party code is allowed, there is an open door for bad actors to perpetrate malicious activities, i.e. insert malicious code.”
• “Now that we have debunked the idea that malvertising would be eliminated if the industry prohibited the use of Flash in their ads, let’s discuss solutions.”
• Even if malicious ads could be eliminated by better screening, malactors can compromise the ad network, and inject the malicious ads there
• In the end, maybe we need to stop allowing advertisements to have the ability to execute code
• Does anyone remember when advertisements were just animated .gif files?

Feedback:

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• Rob

• Ray –

• TheCloudisaLie

Round Up:

• Google’s giant new trans-Pacific internet cable goes online Thursday
• Vacationing Security Researcher finds skimmer in the wild
• Resold hard drives on eBay, Craigslist are often still ripe with leftover data
• Google CEO Sundar Pichais has Quota account hacked by “OurMine”
• FBI’s use of Tor exploit is like peering through “broken blinds”
• NASCAR team pays ransomware fee of $500 to recover 2 million dollar design files
• Chrome DRM bug makes it easy to download streaming video
• Java, PHP, NodeJS, and Ruby exposed to Swagger vulnerability
• Bits, Please!: QSEE privilege escalation vulnerability and exploit (CVE-2015-6639)
• Video: Lecture 13 – How to Build an Insecure System out of Perfectly Good Cryptography
• DoJ report: less than a quarter of one percent of wiretaps encounter any crypto
• Exfiltrate data from an air-gapped computer by modulating the fan speed — Fansmitter
• Microsoft to make saying no to Windows 10 update easier
• IRS kills off doomed PIN authentication method early. Authentication with your last years adjusted gross income to remain standard
• Javascript 7th edition released
• StartEncrypt had design, get a certificate for dropbox or github by faking API calls

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Noah takes the mic to catch up on the tech news of the week. A passionate discussion about consumer drones, a Kickstarter close to the heart & more!

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• Google Play Music gets podcast support on Android and the Web | VentureBeat | Media | by Emil Protalinski
• YouTube rolls out support for 360-degree live streams and spatial audio | TechCrunch
• Amazon Ups the Ante on Streaming Video, Challenging Netflix – WSJ
• Netflix Has Twice as Many U.S. Subscribers as Comcast | AllFlicks
• DJI just released its most powerful drone yet | The Verge
• FAA confirms it’s a federal crime to shoot down a drone.
• Tech Talk Today is creating DAILY PODCASTS | Patreon
• FixIT Leeds Relocation | Indiegogo
• AFV – Intro Bob Saget – YouTube

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We share our best stories from 2016’s SCALE14x. From the highlights to the bar fights we talk about what it’s like to attend one of the largest community driven Linux events in the world.

Plus the Linux Trojan that’s snapping screenshots & recording audio, Linux Mint is building their own X-Apps, your live calls & more!

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• Linux Academy Weekly Roundup

SCALE 14x Report

Mark Shuttleworth Keynote and UbuCon

• Free Software in the age of App Stores: https://youtu.be/ybuwdpnEbZU?t=22m50s
• The case for snap packages: https://youtu.be/ybuwdpnEbZU?t=37m17s
• Demo of Snap Packages was great
• AT&T’s latest Linux choice may profoundly shape Ubuntu

AT&T has struck a deal with Canonical that could shape the future of the platform currently “owning” the cloud…

Cory Doctorow Keynote

• Why Cory Doctorow refuses to predict the future (like, seriously) | Opensource.com

SCALE 14x Floor

• Huge floor, lots of great exhibitors

LAS 400 Meetup

• Crazy big meetup, thanks everyone!

ScALE Pictures

• Expo Hall 1
• Expo Hall 2
• Expo Hall 3
• Expo Hall 4
• Ham Radio Presence at ScALE
• Facebook / OpenRack Project
• Facebook / OpenRack Project
• Facebook / OpenRack Project
• Facebook / OpenRack Project
• Anyone know what kind of car Linus Torvalds Rives?
• Indian Dinner Friday Night
• Dinner Sat Night at Mongolian Grill
• Key Signing Party
• Sat Night Ham Radio Dinner

Some Great sessions to watch

• 4 Years in the Trenches with Linux/QEMU/libvirt – YouTube
• From Sys Admin to Netflix SRE – YouTube
• Essential Linux Security – YouTube

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Runs Linux

Nintendo 64 RUNS LINUX!

Uploaded Linux kernel to N64 memory using GameShark Pro with parallel port interface in about 2 minutes. Modified kernel in approx. 1 week of work. Immediately runs out of memory, but could probably be fixed with further modifications.

• Home – mupen64plus

Desktop App Pick

My recommended GNOME Extension

• Chris’ Gnome Work Desktop

This is a listing of twenty extensions for GNOME that I personally use and recommend.
As of this post all them work flawlessly on the latest release of GNOME which is 3.18.2.

Weekly Spotlight

Yarock – Linux music player

Yarock is a modern looking music player, packed with features, that doesn’t depend on any specific desktop environment.
Yarock is designed to provide an easy and pretty music browser based on cover art.
Yarock is easy to build with a minimal set of dependancies, and offers the choose of differents audio back-end.

Lollypop

A GNOME music player.

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Snap-Happy Trojan Targets Linux Servers

Researchers at Dr.Web on Tuesday revealed details of the Trojan Linux.Ekoms.1, which takes screen shots and records audio to acquire sensitive and personal information, mostly from Linux servers.

• Trojan for Linux takes screenshots — Dr.Web – innovation anti-virus security technologies. Comprehensive protection from Internet threats.
• Linux.Ekoms.1 the Linux trojan that takes screenshotsSecurity Affairs
• Linux Trojan Takes Screenshots Every 30 Seconds | SecurityWeek.Com

The Linux Mint Monthly News – January 2016

X-Apps will be a collection of generic GTK3 applications using traditional interfaces which can be used as default desktop components in Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce.

Release OBS Multiplatform 0.13.0

This project is a rewrite of what was formerly known as “Open Broadcaster
Software”, software originally designed for recording and streaming live
video content, efficiently.

Semaphor to Give Team Collaboration Privacy

Semaphor helps teams improve their productivity by keeping members focused, informed, and connected. Teams can join group conversations, private message team members, share files, and install trusted third-party integrations knowing their privacy is protected at every step. Following the same privacy-centric design as all SpiderOak solutions, Semaphor uses a Zero Knowledge architecture that ensures nothing leaves a computer or mobile device until after it is encrypted and is never decrypted until it is unlocked with keys only located on individuals’ devices.

KDE neon Website Now Live

@jriddell and friends at @fosdem launching Neon ! pic.twitter.com/ILsoJ4qve2

— Rohan Garg (@rohangarg) January 30, 2016

Serving the freshest packages of KDE software. Developers’ archive with packages built from KDE Git available now, stable archive with packages built from released tars coming soon.

• Kubuntu founder Jonathan Riddell to announce project Neon at FOSDEM | CIO

The @kdecommunity at the @KdeNeon launch party tonight pic.twitter.com/TDVBRoCacu

— jriddell (@jriddell) January 30, 2016

• This initial release of KDE neon is based on the current standard release of Ubuntu 15.10 to better prepare this new project for the upcoming 16.04 long-term release.
• Currently we only have packages built for the developer edition of KDE neon from the KDE Git archives. Packages and installation media for the user edition of KDE neon will be proudly offered shortly.
• KDE neon (@KdeNeon) | Twitter

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• Chris’ call out for the community to help him with his background for the Linux Action

Were you around for today’s (10 January 2016) live show? If not, you should seriously consider taking some time with us on Sunday and watch the live show. Not only will you get more content, but you’ll be able to interact with Chris and Noah.
One of the things that came up today was Chris talking about his background in today’s episode.

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Some of our very favorite moments from 2015. Witness as Chris attempts to slam a whole bunch of big show into one big show.

Our favorite interview, our biggest rant & our most popular howto. Plus a look back at classic on-location moments from the year.

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Looking back at 2015

• Greg KH: The Interview | LAS 346
  • Interview with Greg KH
• Rockin 2015 LinuxFest NW | LAS 362
  • Rockin LFNW Debian/MS Interview

• Experience LinuxCon 2015 | LAS 379

• Windows 10 vs Linux | LAS 376
  • LAS brings the hype cure to the Windows 10 launch rash
  • Not on YouTube, thanks Google

• SSH Authentication with YubiKey | LAS 373

• Live From System76 | LAS 391

• The Linux WiFI Tower | LAS 389

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Mozilla wants to spin off Thunderbird & launch an iOS ad blocker that only works with Safari. Is there a master plan at work, or has the Mozilla foundation lost their way? Our virtual LUG debates.

Then our best solutions for syncing your Podcasts from your mobile to your Linux desktop & SpiderOak ditches Google.

Plus we review the new CrossOver 15 & discuss how this Linux desktop app works like no other. What nice features it offers over PlayOnLinux & standard WINE, why it’s not quite like other commercial software for Linux & more!

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• “Yeah, we ditched Google.”

For the past five years, we had been using Google Analytics for monitoring our web traffic. Innocent enough decision, right? Then we asked ourselves, “are we contributing to the mass surveillance of the web by using a feature-rich, yet free service that tracks web visitors?” Sadly. we didn’t like the answer to that question. “Yes, by using Google Analytics, we are furthering the erosion of privacy on the web.”

Follow Up / Catch Up

• Looking for Solution to Sync Podcasts Between Android and Linux Desktop

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What’s Happening with Thunderbird and Mozilla?

Ideas for the integration of Thunderbird with LibreOffice

Concrete ideas of further integration of LibreOffice and Thunderbird

Changes in LibreOffice:

• Access to multiple Thunderbird address books (tdf#57873).

Changes/extensions for Thunderbird:

• Provide a theme for Thunderbird to make look and feel more similar to LibreOffice.
• Thunderbird currently does not provide a preview of documents (except for .txt and .html). A preview of ODF (and all other supported file types) could be possible via the integration of LibreOffice Kit into Thunderbird. This could be a joint Thunderbird & LibreOffice project for GSOC 2016.
• Possibility to use LibreOffice Writer as email editor in Thunderbird.
• Enable Contact Notes to supports complex formatting and pictures. Notes for a Contact in an Address Book could use LibreOffice Writer/Kit. Notes could be saved in OpenDocument format

Libreoffice Does Not Want Thunderbird

One of the reasons behind the success of the LibreOffice project is the

sharp focus on a single application, which is not going to change

anytime soon. We are already working on the Android and the Cloud

versions of LibreOffice, and this is more than enough – in term of

global effort – for a community based project. So, please avoid any

speculation based on rumors, as they might be intentionally created by

our competitors.

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Firefox OS Comes to an End.. Where is Mozilla going?

Goodbye most popular desktop email client, Thunderbird. Hello IOS ad blocker. Uh, okay. https://t.co/L4Vbp3Dxqd https://t.co/7nxGBdofEx

— Alan Pope (@popey) December 8, 2015

Mozilla Will Stop Developing And Selling Firefox OS Smartphones | TechCrunch

Farewell Firefox OS smartphones. Mozilla today announced an end to its smartphone experiment, and said that it would stop developing and selling Firefox OS smartphones. It will continue to experiment on how it might work on other connected devices and Internet of Things networks.

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CrossOver 15 Review

• CrossOver 15 Released

• Linux Improvements:

• CrossOver now uses PulseAudio for sound if it is available on
  the system.

• CrossOver has a completely redone User Interface on
  Linux.

  • Application Support:
• Quicken 2016 now runs in CrossOver.
  • General Improvements:

• Wine 1.8 brings thousands of updates to CrossOver’s core
  compatibility with Windows applications.

• Dual screen Linux setups will run Microsoft Office
  better than before.

• CodeWeavers Blogs – Jana Schmid – Having Ourselves a Merry Little Release | CodeWeavers

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After the last straw Noah dumps Gmail, shares his battle and solution & Chris runs down five great open source Gmail alternatives.

Plus why Dell stopped shipping the XPS 13 in Europe, a big update to a Linux video editor, the news of the week & more!

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Open source webmail clients for browser-based email

Gmail has enjoyed phenomenal success, and regardless of which study you choose to look at for exact numbers, there’s no doubt that Gmail is towards the top of the pack when it comes to market share. For certain circles, Gmail has become synonymous with email, or at least with webmail. Many appreciate its clean interface and the simple ability to access their inbox from anywhere.

But Gmail is far from the only name in the game when it comes to web-based email clients. In fact, there are a number of open source alternatives available for those who want more freedom, and occasionally, a completely different approach to managing their email without relying on a desktop client.

Let’s take a look at just a few of the free, open source webmail clients out there available for you to choose from.

FastMail: Fast, reliable email

FastMail is the choice of over 100,000 individuals, families and businesses. We deliver the highest standards of security, privacy and reliability for your email, calendars and contacts, backed up by our exemplary 15-year track record.

• How to set up a photo gallery | FastMail

• How to set up chat (instant messaging) | FastMail

KolabNow

With over 108 billion business emails sent daily, email is the backbone of professional communication. Kolab provides the email, contact and file sharing functionality that empowers enterprise communication.

Looking for a fully featured collaboration and communication platform? Seeking the convenience of the cloud, without having to worry about who else might have access? Want to ensure that your data is stored only in a single legislation, with highest barriers to data disclosure? Kolab Now is that service.

Safeguard your professional and personal data with Kolab Now. Enjoy the world’s world’s best privacy legislation and terms of service that put you first. All of this with a feature set that is complete to allow you to run your entire business collaboration.

DarkMail

Silent Circle and Lavabit are developing a new way to do email with end-to-end encryption. We welcome like-minded organizations to join our alliance.

To bring the world our unique end-to-end encrypted protocol and architecture that is the ‘next-generation’ of private and secure email. As founding partners of The Dark Mail Technical Alliance, both Silent Circle and Lavabit will work to bring other members into the alliance, assist them in implementing the new protocol and jointly work to proliferate the world’s first end-to-end encrypted ‘Email 3.0’ throughout the world’s email providers. Our goal is to open source the protocol and architecture and help others implement this new technology to address privacy concerns against surveillance and back door threats of any kind.

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Shanghai Subway Runs Linux

Hi guys, For 5 years I’m living in Shanghai and I suddenly discover that ubuntu is running the streaming tv in the Shanghai’s subway ! Here’s few links for the pictures

https://i.imgur.com/DFynJVU.jpg

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a link to the incredible expansion of the shanghai’s subway
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/SHM_evolution_mid.gif/400px-SHM_evolution_mid.gif

Sent in by Dasti

Desktop App Pick

Lighttable

• Connects you to your creation with instant feedback and showing data values flow through your code.

• Easily customizable from keybinds to extensions to be completely tailored to your specific project.

• Try new ideas quickly and easily. Ask questions about your software, to give you a more profound understanding of your code.

• Embed anything you want, from graphs to games to running visualizations.

• Everything from eval and debugging to a fuzzy finder for files and commands to fit seamlessly into your workflow.

• An elegant, lightweight, beautifully designed layout so your IDE is no longer cluttered.

LightTable in Action

Weekly Spotlight

Flowblade 1.2

Flowblade 1.2 is the ninth release of Flowblade.

• Flowblade has now been ported to GTK3.

• The process was not as straight forward as one might think but eventually everything worked out. There always seemed to be just one more little change in API that required all instances to be fixed by hand. Luckily there was a conversion script available that did most of the grunt work to get things going.

• We did get something in return. A small but percipteble responsiveness improvement was gained probably because GTK3 provides a Cairo widget for creating custom widgets that is now used instead of the project specific Cairo widget that was used before. GTK3 also seems to render widgets a bit crispier.

• I really hope that major API breaking version jumps for widget toolkits are avoided as much as possible. Projects with large interface and small man power can really suffer here.

• There were some other major developments during the cycle too:

• All rendering was moved out of process as the in-process rendering was found to not work correctly in same cases.

• Dark theme support was improved. It is now possible to use a dark theme just by setting a preference if the GTK3 theme used has a dark variant available.
• Small screen support has been upgraded. The application now works better on 768px height screens.

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— NEWS —

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition No Longer Available for Sale in Europe

“Unfortunately Europe has already run through their forecasted inventory (they sold better than we expected). The US still has inventory on hand. Because there will be a next gen coming out we won’t be getting any more of this model. Thanks for the support!” wrote Dell’s Barton George on his website. He’s the same guy who announced that the XPS 13 was brought back to the shop a while back.

Mozilla: data stolen from hacked bug database was used to attack Firefox

Mozilla added that the attacker accessed 185 non-public Firefox bugs, of which 53 involved “severe vulnerabilities.” Ten of the vulnerabilities were unpatched at the time, while the remainder had been fixed in the most recent version of Firefox at the time.

Attack code exploiting Android’s critical Stagefright bugs is now public

The critical flaws, which reside in an Android media library known as libstagefright, give attackers a variety of ways to surreptitiously execute malicious code on unsuspecting owners’ devices. The vulnerabilities were privately reported in April and May and were publicly disclosed only in late July. Google has spent the past four months preparing fixes and distributing them to partners, but those efforts have faced a series of setbacks and limitations.

We Did It!! (Mycroft was successfully funded!) – YouTube

We have successfully funded our Kickstarter campaign! Let us thank you and learn about whats in store for they Mycroft team! Remember to check out our Kickstarter at: https://mycroft.ai/kickstarter

• Mycroft: An Open Source Artificial Intelligence For Everyone by Joshua Montgomery

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Will Pinos bring to Linux Video What PulseAudio did for audio? We discuss this major development that breaks during the show.

Also, a great discussion about the new Linux Mint release that leads to a heated debate about the long-term usefulness of boring distributions & why we Linux advocates might think they are more useful than they truly are.

Plus some big follow up, the Mumble room gets unplugged & much more!

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• The Pale Moon Project homepage

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The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” Cinnamon.

Cisco To Buy Cloud Security Company OpenDNS for $635M In Cash

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Valve says ‘get it early’ pre-orders for Steam Machine hardware, controller are sold out

Early allocations of Valve’s Steam Machine hardware — including the Steam Machine controller and Steam Link streaming hub — are sold out via pre-order, Valve said in a release today. If you wanted a Steam Machine a few weeks early, the time has passed, the company says.

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• Distance Is The Racing Game I Never Knew I Wanted On Linux, Some Thoughts & Video | GamingOnLinux

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“PulseVideo” Coming To Complement PulseAudio?

Prolific open-source contributor at Red Hat, Christian Schaller, who has worked on GStreamer as well as the Transmageddon GNOME video transcoding app and other multimedia projects, seems poised to announce PulseVideo.

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Find out about the best software and hardware to make and take amazingly good sounding calls. From the best open source solutions, to turnkey solutions today’s episode has something from the beginner to the expert.

Plus Google removes “always listening” code from Chromium, The Linux Foundation invests some serious cash, why Red Hat’s CEO thinks Linux has “won” the datacenter & more!

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Calling for Free with SIP and Linux

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• Avaya Partner ACS

The PARTNER® Advanced Communications System processor module supports five incoming lines and nine extensions with a maximum configuration of 21 lines and 44 extensions, or 31 lines and eight extensions. The processor module can operate on its own or can be used with a 2- or 5-slot carrier and additional expansion modules. Expansion modules can be used to add lines and extensions to the system, or additional capabilities such as voice messaging and fractional T1 support.

• Asterisk IP based PBX

Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a communications server. Asterisk powers IP PBX systems, VoIP gateways, conference servers and is used by small businesses, large businesses, call centers, carriers and governments worldwide.

• Cisco SPA303

The Cisco SPA 303 can be used with such productivity-enhancing features as VoiceView Express and Cisco XML applications when used with the Cisco Unified Communications 500 Series in SPCP mode. Cisco VoiceView Express allows users to interact with their Cisco Unity Express voicemail box using the phone’s LCD and soft keys. This makes it much easier to manage personal mailbox options and notifications as well as send, listen to, record, and manage voicemail messages. Managing voice calls and communications more quickly and effectively makes employees more productive and frees up time to strengthen customer relationships.

• SIP ATA

• Grandstream IP Phone

• Nortel 6812

For doing SIP on a real budget take a look at the Nortel 6812. They are available on Ebay for as low as $15.00. You can even buy them in sets if you need to do an entire office building.

• CSip

CSip is a basic SIP client for Android, but with enough features to make is usable for business.

• GetOnSip

Integrate SIP-based voice and video into your applications for powerful HD communications on any device with our developer services. Best of all, it’s all built on a robust, industry-leading SIP platform that handles all the scaling for you

• RingCentral

RingCentral delivers the high quality, reliability, and value expected by enterprise
businesses with RingCentral Office—an all-inclusive cloud phone system featuring
HD video meetings, unified voice, fax, text, and audio conferencing. Plans & Pricing

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• Tiny Mikrotik Router Runs Linux

The MikroTik mAP 2n is a tiny, featureful WiFi router.

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Desktop App Pick

• Ring

Ring (formerly SFLphone) is an open-source SIP/IAX2 compatible softphone for Linux. Ring is free software released under the GNU General Public License. Packages are available for all major distributions including Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva and the latest Ubuntu releases.

Ring is one of the few softphones under Linux to support PulseAudio out of the box. The Ubuntu documentation recommends it for enterprise use because of features like conferencing and attended call transfer. It has been named by CIO magazine among the 5 open source VoIP softphones to watch.

Weekly Spotlight

• Librem 13″ Laptop Announced

Introducing the Librem 13 by Purism, a 13.3” laptop computer, built chip-by-chip to respect and protect your privacy, security, and freedom. Right now you are vulnerable to adversaries stealing your personal data for their gain. Thieves stealing your identity, credit cards, and banking logins, scammers taking over your email, criminals watching you through your web cam, marketers profiling your personal data from websites, and, ISPs wholesale gathering of all your insecure communication. You can stop them all.

— NEWS —

Google removes “always listening” code from Chromium

The code in question will no longer be included, starting with Chromium build r335874. Prior builds automatically downloaded an extension that could tap a microphone for the purpose of hearing voice commands.

On the surface that doesn’t sound nefarious when you consider that Google’s Chrome browser — which includes proprietary Google code — has had a similar function for months.

• Google Chrome Listening In To Your Room Shows The Importance Of Privacy Defense In Depth

Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft, Amazon And Others Come Together To Develop Common Container Standard

Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft and Amazon are now working on a new standard for software containers with the help of the Linux Foundation. Other members of this coalition include Apcera, Cisco, EMC, Fujitsu Limited, Goldman Sachs, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Mesosphere, Pivotal, Rancher Labs, Red Hat and VMware — that is, virtually everybody who has a stake in building a thriving container ecosystem.

The Open Container Project (OCP), which will be housed under the Linux Foundation.

Linux Foundation Invests $452,000 in Open-Source Security Projects

Red Hat: ‘Linux Has Won The Data Center’

“Linux has won in the data center — [it is] one of two in the data center. Think about that,” Cormier said to an applauding crowd.

• Video

The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) today announced that it is investing $452,000 in new grants for three open-source projects, as part of CII’s continuing mission to improve open-source code security.

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Oculus VR gets a ship date and we discuss the devices about to hit market. Reddit gets into creating its own content & the NSA brags about transcribing your phone calls.

Plus replacing Plex with Kodi, the burdens of a hand model & much more!

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Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will ship in early 2016 | Technology | The Guardian

The first commercial model of Facebook’s much anticipated Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will go on sale in the first quarter of 2016, the company confirmed today.

The announcement ends months of speculation that the release, which had been anticipated to happen by the end of 2015, would slip beyond Christmas. The most high profile device in the virtual reality market, Oculus Rift has been developed primarily for gaming but the technology is also being explored for occupational therapy, education and by film makers.

Reddit launches a video division to create original content | The Verge

Recently it has begun to venture into original content with a podcast and newsletter. Today it is going even further with the launch of its own video division. “Reddit’s mission is to connect people across the world through authentic conversations, collaboration, and community — video is an amazing storytelling medium and there’s no better wellspring of original stories than Reddit,” said co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

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How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text – The Intercept

Top-secret documents from the archive of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.

The documents show NSA analysts celebrating the development of what they called “Google for Voice” nearly a decade ago.

Kodi | Open Source Home Theatre Software

Kodi(tm) (formerly known as XBMC(tm)) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. Kodi runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet. Our forums and Wiki are bursting with knowledge and help for the new user right up to the application developer. We also have helpful Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Youtube pages.

Open Source Kollaboration | LUP 91 | Jupiter Broadcasting

Aaron Seigo joins us to discuss the Kolab project, open source’s genuine answer to Microsoft Exchange and other groupware solutions. We also discuss the Roundcube project’s fundraiser & possible integration with Kolab.

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Apple is reportedly attempting to kill free streaming music but the story stinks of a hit piece. GOG launches their steam competitor to the public & CoreOS ups the container game.

Plus Chris reviews Hello’s Sense sleep tracking device. Can it unlock the secrets of a good sleep?

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Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations

A presumed pirate with an unusually large appetite for activating Windows 7 has incurred the wrath of Microsoft. In a lawsuit filed in a Washington court, Microsoft said that it logged hundreds of suspicious product activations from a single Verizon IP address and is now seeking damages. Who he, she or they are behind address 74.111.202.30 is unknown at this point, but according to Microsoft they’re responsible for some serious Windows pirating. “As part of its cyberforensic methods, Microsoft analyzes product key activation data voluntarily provided by users when they activate Microsoft software, including the IP address from which a given product key is activated,” the lawsuit reads. The company says that its forensic tools allow the company to analyze billions of activations of software and identify patterns “that make it more likely than not” that an IP address associated with activations is one through which pirated software is being activated.

GOG’s Take On Steam Goes Live Today

GOG Galaxy, which you can download here, is now in open beta. Like Steam, Origin, and other PC gaming clients, it’s a stand-alone program with its own achievements, friend lists, and massively restrictive DRM. Just kidding. Anyone who follows the people behind GOG—a subsidiary of _Witcher 3 _developer CD Projekt Red—knows they’re as anti-DRM as it gets.

CoreOS Gives Up Control of Non-Docker Linux Container Standard | Data Center Knowledge

Taking a major step forward in its quest to drive a Linux container standard that’s not created and controlled by Docker or any other company, CoreOS spun off management of its App Container project into a stand-alone foundation. Google, VMware, Red Hat, and Apcera have announced support for the standard.

Becoming a more formalized open source project, the App Container (appc) community now has a governance policy and has added a trio of top software engineers that work on infrastructure at Google, Twitter, and Red Hat as “community maintainers.

Apple pushing music labels to kill free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch

The Verge has learned that Apple has been pushing major music labels to force streaming services like Spotify to abandon their free tiers, which will dramatically reduce the competition for Apple’s upcoming offering. DOJ officials have already interviewed high-ranking music industry executives about Apple’s business habits, but it appears the FTC has taken the lead in recent weeks.

Hello Sense Reveiw

Sense is a simple system that tracks your sleep, monitors the environment in your bedroom and reinvents the alarm, so you can sleep better.

Sense tracks the environmental data in your bedroom and disturbances such as noise and sound. Sense combines this data with your sleep cycle information to give you a complete picture of your night.

With all this information clearly presented to you, over time you will know how to set yourself up for the best night’s sleep, every night.

• Sleep as Android – Android Apps on Google Play

Smart alarm clock with sleep cycle tracking.

• LG G Watch R – Was $299, now $249 – Google Store

The stunning full-circle P-OLED display fills the entire round 1.3″ watch face and delivers clear visibility in bright sunlight and at acute angles.¹

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Over the past few weeks we’ve been doubling down on production on Linux. We go over the tips, tricks & hardware we use to make the show now with more Linux.

Plus the really big news for Linux gaming & the big new feature for Linux 4.0…

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Media Production Under Linux

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Software:

• ocenaudio

ocenaudio is a cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is the ideal software for people who need to edit and analyze audio files without complications. ocenaudio also has powerful features that will please more advanced users.

• FFmpeg

A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

• ownCloud.org

Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify.

• Best VOIP Clients for Linux (That Aren’t Skype) | Linux.com

So if you’re looking to connect with other SIP users, give any one of these apps a try and see if they can’t serve as a perfect drop-in replacement for Skype.

Hardware:

• Wild Dog Performance – System76

• Amazon.com: PreSonus AudioBox USB 2×2 USB Recording Interface

• Amazon.com: M-Audio 2-Channel Portable USB Audio and MIDI Interface: Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: Magewell XI100DUSB-HDMI HDMI to USB 3.0 Video Capture Dongle: Electronics

• Atomos Ninja-2 camera-mounted recorder, monitor & deck for HDMI cameras and DSLRs : Camera And Photography Products

• BeachTek

Microphones

• Amazon.com: Electro Voice RE320 Dynamic Microphone – (New): Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: Electro Voice RE20 Dynamic Microphone – (New): Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: AKG Perception 220 Professional Studio Microphone

• Amazon.com: Audio-Technica AT2020 Cardioid Condenser Studio Microphone: Musical Instruments

• Amazon.com: ART Pro-VLA II Two Channel Vactrol-based Compressor: Musical Instruments

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This programmable, six screen, water proof cube called the Cuberox, runs Linux

• Linux-powered programmable cube gets touchy-feely · LinuxGizmos.com

The Cuberox runs Arch Linux on an ARM9-based Freescale iMX233 SoC, backed up with 64MB RAM. There’s an SD slot with a 4GB data card capable of holding 8,000 of the device’s minimalist apps. A separate Qi wireless charging station includes surround sound speakers.

Specifications listed for the Cuberox include:

• Processor — Freescale iMX233 (1x ARM926J @ 454MHz)
• Memory — 64MB RAM, SD slot with 4GB data card
• Display — 6x 256-pixel sides with accelerometer-based touch input and backlighting
• Wireless — WiFi; Bluetooth
• Sensors — Accelerometers; gyroscope; vibration feedback
• Other features — dustproof, waterproof, polycarbonate construction
• Battery — 7800mAh with wireless charging
• Charging station:
  • Qi wireless charging
  • Micro-USB port for power (DC 5V 2A)
  • Speakers with surround sound
  • Bottom backlight
• Dimensions — 100 x 100 x 100mm (3.94 x 3.94 x 3.94 in.) .
• Operating system — Arch Linux ARM (3.16 kernel); Node.js with Cuberox API

Desktop App Pick

Save 80% on Torchlight II on Steam

The award-winning action RPG is back, bigger and better than ever! Torchlight II takes you back into the quirky, fast-paced world of bloodthirsty monsters, bountiful treasures, and sinister secrets – and, once again, the fate of the world is in your hands!

• Snowmix

Snowmix is a video mixer tool for mixing live and recorded video and audio feeds. It supports clipping, scaling and transparent overlay of video, png graphics and text. It supports animation of video, images and texts through native commands changing scale, placement, transparency and rotation. Animation and actions can also be controlled through native scripting and an embedded Tcl interpreter. Snowmix is designed for control over low bandwidth links and can work as a standalone CLI based program. Control over both CLI and a TCP connections. Live and recorded video feeds can be fed to the mixer via GStreamer pipelines. Output can be accessed through GStreamer pipelines.

• Rtorrent

rTorrent is a quick and efficient BitTorrent client that uses, and is in development alongside, the libTorrent (not to be confused with libtorrent-rasterbar) library. It is written in C++ and uses the ncurses programming library, which means it uses a text user interface. When combined with a terminal multiplexer (e.g. GNU Screen or Tmux) and Secure Shell, it becomes a convenient remote BitTorrent client.

Weekly Spotlight

Imcomptech

The cost for me to share music is low, and the benefits are high. There are a lot of schools with no money, and plenty of film makers who want to have music – but can’t afford to clear copyrights from the existing systems that are set up. I believe that copyright is badly broken , so I chose a license that allows me to to give away the rights I wish to surrender.

Linux Action Show at LFNW | Offical LAS 2015 Shirt

We are releasing another set of LAS shirts in preparation for LinuxFest Northwest which is at the end of April 2015! We hope to color Bellingham Technical College with LAS supporters donning their favorite Linux podcast!

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PC gaming is expanding, Valve’s GDC 2015 announcements recap

Valve attended GDC in full force this year and talked about a lot of stuff. Here’s everything they talked about it in one post.

• Gabe Newell talks Steam Machines, Free Source 2.0 Engine, the growth of PCs and Steam Controller – YouTube

• Steam launches massive Linux game sale to celebrate Steam Machine unveiling

More than 50 titles are highlighted, including three of PCWorld’s favorite games of 2014—The Talos Principle, Transistor, _and our Game of the Year, _Wasteland 2—and a slew of other spectacular titles like Metro Redux, The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Civilization: Beyond Earth, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, _and _Goat Simulator, among many others.

• Reported Steam Linux Usage Battles To Stay Above 1.0% – Phoronix

This drop to just over 1.0% is the lowest numbers we’ve seen for Linux’s representation on Steam in quite a number of months. However, it’s not a huge surprise.

• Valve Developed An Intel Linux Vulkan GPU Driver – Phoronix

With the Vulkan API still in flux and not finalized until later this year, Valve has been developing their own Intel GPU reference driver for Vulkan to help early adopters boot-strap their code. Valve said during their presentation today at GDC2015 that this Intel Linux driver will be open-sourced, but they haven’t provided a time-frame for doing so.

VMware alleged to have violated Linux’s open source license for years

Linux kernel developer Christoph Hellwig filed the suit in the district court of Hamburg, Germany with funding from the nonprofit Software Freedom Conservancy, which works to “promote, improve, develop, and defend” free and open source software. The case centers on “a combined work that VMware allegedly created by combining their own code (‘vmkernel’) with portions of Linux’s code, which was licensed only under GPLv2,” _the group said in an FAQ describing the lawsuit._

• Conservancy Announces Funding for GPL Lawsuit

Software Freedom Conservancy announces today Christoph Hellwig’s lawsuit against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. This is the regretful but necessary next step in both Hellwig and Conservancy’s ongoing effort to convince VMware to comply properly with the terms of the GPLv2, the license of Linux and many other Open Source and Free Software included in VMware’s ESXi products.

​No reboot patching comes to Linux 4.0

At the Linux Plumbers Conference in October 2014, the two groups got together and started work on a way to _patch Linux without rebooting that combines the best of both programs. Essentially, what they ended up doing was putting both kpatch and kGraft in the 4.0 Linux kernel._

New App Brings Android Notifications to The GNOME Desktop

The new project is called ‘Nuntius’ and lets notifications received on an Android phone appear on the GNOME desktop.

• holylobster/nuntius-linux · GitHub

Nuntius delivers notifications from your phone or tablet to your computer over Bluetooth.

Nuntius is an Open Source project from HolyLobster.

To use Nuntius you will need to install a companion tool on your phone or table and pair it via Bluetooth.

• HolyLobster · GitHub

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Microsoft begins to open up the Xbox to developers but the devil is in the details. The VR wars begin at GDC this year, with a clear split between desktop VR & mobile VR. We debate which might be the better approach.

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Microsoft launches Xbox One SDK to let any developer build apps for its console

While the software maker has had a private SDK since the console’s launch, that will start to go a lot more public today. At the Games Developer Conference (GDC) today, Xbox chief Phil Spencer revealed that Microsoft is launching its Xbox One SDK today to select testers, with plans to let any developer access the SDK in the coming months.

Oculus VR Will Go “Full Consumer” With Samsung by Year’s End | Re/code

Oculus VR’s mobile virtual reality headset, the Samsung Gear VR, will get a full-on consumer push by the end of the year, CTO John Carmack said today at the Game Developers Conference.

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Exclusive interviews from the Southern California Linux Expo. We chat with elementary OS, VLC, Firefox, System76 & many more.

Plus the big news for Ubuntu MATE, XFCE, Gnome & others.

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• SCALE 13x

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SCALE13x: Linux Action Show LIVE from the Floor

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Runescape, Runs Linux

Jagex, makers of the smash hit Runescape, deployed AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000e to speed up its big data analytics platform and improve gamers’ experience.

Desktop App Pick

Brasero

Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.

Weekly Spotlight

Krita 2.9: The Kickstarter Release

The culmination of over eight months of work, Krita 2.9, is the biggest Krita release until now!

• Krita Feedback

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Ubuntu MATE Is Now An Official Ubuntu Flavor

The Ubuntu MATE Linux distribution is now an official Ubuntu flavor, joining the likes of Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Ubuntu Kylin.

Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft — Backchannel — Medium

Dan Gillmor

Meanwhile, I’ll keep encouraging as many people as possible to find ways to take control for themselves. Liberty takes some work, but it’s worth the effort. I hope you’ll consider embarking on this journey with me.

Xfce 4.12 released

Today, after 2 years and 10 months of work, we are pleased to announce
the release of the Xfce desktop 4.12, a new stable version that
supersedes Xfce 4.10.

• Xfce 4.12 tour – Xfce

GNOME 3.16 Might Just Be The Best Version Yet

Next month’s GNOME 3.16 release due March 25, shows no sign of being any different. GNOME developer Matthias Clasen recently shared GNOME 3.16screenshots on his blog to show off some of the progress made this cycle.

• GNOME 3.16 sightings

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The bombing of Syria is underway, lead by the US and backed by our Arab partners. But the situation stinks worse than ever, from funding to new propaganda videos.

Today the US and its partners struck modular oil refineries in Syria, and we’ll dig into the details.

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ISIS Update

Syria Becomes the 7th Predominantly Muslim Country Bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate – The Intercept

The U.S. today began bombing targets inside Syria, in concert with its lovely and inspiring group of five allied regimes: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Jordan.

That means that Syria becomes the 7th predominantly Muslim country bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama—after Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and Iraq.

Six weeks of bombing hasn’t budged ISIS in Iraq, but it has caused ISIS recruitment to soar. That’s all predictable: the U.S. has known for years that what fuels and strengthens anti-American sentiment (and thus anti-American extremism) is exactly what they keep doing: aggression in that region. If you know that, then they know that. At this point, it’s more rational to say they do all of this not despite triggering those outcomes, but because of it. Continuously creating and strengthening enemies is a feature, not a bug. It is what justifies the ongoing greasing of the profitable and power-vesting machine of Endless War.

If there is anyone who actually believes that the point of all of this is a moral crusade to vanquish the evil-doers of ISIS (as the U.S. fights alongside its close Saudi friends), please read Professor As’ad AbuKhalil’s explanation today of how Syria is a multi-tiered proxy war.

• Blowback! U.S. trained Islamists who joined ISIS

Syrian rebels who would later join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, were trained in 2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according to informed Jordanian officials.

The officials said dozens of future ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The officials said the training was not meant to be used for any future campaign in Iraq.

The Jordanian officials said all ISIS members who received U.S. training to fight in Syria were first vetted for any links to extremist groups like al-Qaida.

In February 2012, WND was first to report the U.S., Turkey and Jordan were running a training base for the Syrian rebels in the Jordanian town of Safawi in the country’s northern desert region.

That report has since been corroborated by numerous other media accounts.

Last March, the German weekly Der Spiegel reported Americans were training Syrian rebels in Jordan.

U.S., coalition forces hit IS oil refineries in Syria

U.S. aircraft and those from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates struck Islamic State targets in Syria Wednesday, including 12 “modular oil refineries,” the U.S. Central Command said.

The 13 airstrikes used a combination of fighter aircraft and drones, according to Central Command. The targets were in the remote eastern part of Syria near the towns of Al Mayadin, Al Hasakah, and Abu Kamal. Another strike hit an IS vehicle near Dayr az Zawr, also in eastern Syria.

John Cantlie – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Cantlie is a British war photographer and correspondent who was kidnapped in Syria with James Foley in November 2012.[2] Cantlie was previously kidnapped in Syria in July 2012 and was rescued a week later.

Home Work: Syrian wars of proxy

F. William Engdahl – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frederick William Engdahl (born August 9, 1944) is an American German freelance journalist, historian and economic researcher

CIA ramping up covert training program for moderate Syrian rebels – The Washington Post

The CIA is expanding a clandestine effort to train opposition fighters in Syria amid concern that moderate, U.S.-backed militias are rapidly losing ground in the country’s civil war, U.S. officials said.

Feds Name 12 Backers of Terrorism in Syria and Beyond – NBC News.com

Among those named Wednesday were two alleged ISIS officials: Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili, also known as Omar al-Shishani, described by the U.S. as a Syrian-based Georgia national who has held numerous top military positions within ISIS and has led a number of attacks, and Tariq Bin-Al-Tahar Bin al Falih al-‘Awni Al-Harzi, who allegedly has worked to raise funds and recruit fighters for the Islamic terror group.

Six others were identified as acting for or on behalf of al Qaeda, its Syrian affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, or other affiliated groups. They are: ‘Abd al-Aziz Aday Zimin al-Fadhil, a Kuwaiti; Ashraf Muhammad Yusuf ‘Uthman ‘Abd al-Salam; ‘Abd al-Malik Muhammad Yusuf ‘Uthman ‘Abd al-Salam, a Jordanian; Fatih Hasar, a resident of Turkey; Hamad Awad Dahi Sarhan al-Shammari; and Ibrahim ‘Isa Hajji Muhammad al-Bakr, who is believed to be living in tribal areas in Pakistan.

High Note

Prosecutor to drop all Seattle marijuana tickets | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News

Seattle’s elected prosecutor says he’s dropping all tickets issued for the public use of marijuana through the first seven months of this year, because most of them were issued by a single police officer who disagrees with the legal pot law.

KTVA reporter quits on-air, reveals herself as owner of Alaska Cannabis Club | Alaska Dispatch

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And with that, she walked off camera.

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Apple outlines the immediate improvements to iCloud security they’ll be making but the core issues are still rotting. Facebook is killing your cell & why we can’t wait to buy our NSA Nanny Cam!

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Tim Cook: Apple to Add Security Alerts for iCloud Users, Broaden Two-Factor Authentication – Mac Rumors

Apple will add security alerts for iCloud users, broaden two-factor authentication and make a more aggressive effort to alert users about protecting their accounts, Apple CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal in his first interview since the recent hacking incident involving celebrities’ iCloud accounts.

To make such leaks less likely, Mr. Cook said Apple will alert users via email and push notifications when someone tries to change an account password, restore iCloud data to a new device, or when a device logs into an account for the first time. Until now, users got an email when someone tried to change a password or log in for the first time from an unknown Apple device; there were no notifications for or restoring iCloud data.

Cook said the new notifications will begin in two weeks and will allow users to take action on potential hacking immediately, allowing them to either change the password to retake the account or alerting Apple’s security team. Cook echoed Apple’s previous press release on the hackings, stressing that the best prevention for future incidents are more human than technological.

Exclusive aerial footage of Apple’s mysterious white box next to ‘iPhone 6’ event site

The large white structure is being erected next to the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, Calif.

The included photos and video were captured by a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ drone, offering a unique perspective on the mystery building.

Apple hasn’t used the Cupertino Flint Center venue for introducing new products since the late 1990s. The space is notable in Apple’s history for serving as the first public introduction of the Macintosh in 1984.

[DARPA Develops Implants that Treat Diseases and Depression Without Medication

](https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188908-darpas-tiny-implants-will-hook-directly-into-your-nervous-system-treat-diseases-and-depression-without-medication)

DARPA, on the back of the US government’s BRAIN program, has begun the development of tiny electronic implants that interface directly with your nervous system and can directly control and regulate many different diseases and chronic conditions, such as arthritis, PTSD, inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn’s disease), and depression. The program, called ElectRx (pronounced ‘electrics’), ultimately aims to replace medication with “closed-loop” neural implants, which constantly assess the state of your health, and then provide the necessary nerve stimulation to keep your various organs and biological systems functioning properly.

The ElectRx program will focus on a fairly new area of medical therapies called neuromodulation. As the name implies, neuromodulation is all about modulating your nervous system, to improve or fix an underlying problem. Notable examples of neuromodulation are cochlear implants, which restore hearing by directly modulating your brain’s auditory nerve system, and deep brain stimulation (DBS), which appears to be capable of curing/regulating various conditions (depression, Parkinson’s) by overriding erroneous neural spikes with regulated, healthy stimulation.

Facebook’s autoplay video feature is destroying cell phone bills – Sep. 3, 2014

Smartphone users could be at risk of maxing out their data plans if they don’t change this default setting in the Facebook app, which otherwise will automatically start streaming videos in the News Feed window.

The issue was flagged by consumer finance site MoneySavingExpert.com, which said it had “seen many complaints from people who have been stung with data bills after exceeding their monthly allowance and who believe it to be because of Facebook autoplaying videos.”

A Smart Nanny Cam With Facial Recognition and Air Pollution Sensors

It’s a nanny cam with upgraded intelligence: Not only can it send images to your phone via an app, it can also serve as a autonomous sentry, alerting you to strange activity in the house thanks to facial recognition and air-quality sensors.

It supplies users with a live, high-definition video feed of their house. The white-and-wood device—it almost looks like a little candle for your mantel—has a 135-degree viewing angle on the room it’s in, night vision, and two-way audio.

Likewise, for audio, Withings has programmed the device to discern between, say, a baby crying and a motorcycle engine. Whenever something is a awry, users get a push notification on their phone. If the user chooses to view the notification later, it gets saved in a timeline. (How far back the timeline goes will be based on a pay-for-space subscription model.)

These clever systems for detecting abnormalities also work with the Home’s air quality sensors. These pick up on volatile organic compounds, or harmful gases often released by cleaning products or building materials. When the Home alerts users about harmful chemicals, it also points out the likely culprit.

This allows you to isolate a problem area of the house.

Borderlands 2 Also Looks Like It’s Coming To Linux, UPDATE: Confirmed | GamingOnLinux

Michael Blair, Aspyr Media: Yes! BL2 Linux is absolutely real! We’ve been working hard on it for months and will talk about a release date as soon as possible.

• Borderlands 2 · AppID: 49520 · Steam Database

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Angela and Chris battle each other while play Race The Sun and even try out play submitted levels!

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Race The Sun

• Race The Sun – An Infinite Speed Experience – Flippfly
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