Microsoft employees protest over ties with US immigration agency as controversy grows over families torn apart at border

More than 100 Microsoft employees have protested against the company's work with US immigration, following a "zero tolerance" policy that resulted in children being separated from their parents.   The controversy surrounds a $19.4 million contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the use of Microsoft's cloud computing software by the US border agency. "We believe that Microsoft must take an ethical stand, and put children and families above profits," states the letter, which is addressed to company CEO Satya Nadella.

Rugged NVR system for buses has 10x GbE ports for IP cameras

Lanner’s Linux-friendly “V6S” vehicle surveillance NVR computer runs on a Core i7-7600U CPU, and offers 10x PoE-ready GbE ports, 2x mini-PCIe slots, 2x swappable SATA bays, -20 to 60°C support, and shock/vibration resistance. We’re a little leery of surveillance systems with video analytics that focus on interior public spaces, such as the buses where Lanner’s V6S will store and process video feeds from Ethernet-connected IP cameras. Yet, we can also see the potential for devices like the V6S to save lives, and we’re always suckers for cool technology running Linux.

Why Android No Longer Needs a Cache Partition

Android Messages For Web Is Officially Released: Now Send Messages From Your Desktop

Android Messages for Desktop Now Rolling Out Worldide as a Web-Based Service

It would appear that Google's long-anticipated Android Messages for Desktops feature that let you text from the web on your personal computer is finally rolling out to users worldwide.

Google’s AI-Powered ‘Podcasts’ App Is Here For Android UsersDead

Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 33 Released

We've just released Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 33.

Solaris 11.3 SRU 33 Better Deals With ZFS Sending Of Compressed Data & More

Oracle Solaris 11.4 is still being prepared for release but in the meantime there is now the thirty-third stable release update for Solaris 11.3.

Apple fined $9m for misleading Australian customers with faulty iPhones and iPads

 

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission launched legal action in April 2017, claiming Apple had misled consumers about their warranty rights by routinely refusing to inspect or fix faulty devices without charge if they had been repaired by a third party.

Apple hauled into US Supreme Court over, no, not ebooks, patents, staff wages, keyboards... but its App Store

The US Supreme Court will scrutinize an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, opening the door for the computing giant to escape censure over its app store policies and potentially millions of dollars in claims. The lawsuit claims that Apple – which has had its fair share of legal challenges from alleged wage fixing to defective keyboards – has a monopoly on the app market, partly demonstrated by the fact it is able to claim a 30 per cent commission on all sold applications. That monopoly is used to kill off competition, the suit claims, by only allowing apps that are approved by Apple onto the App Store, with Apple insisting on exclusive distribution through its store as a condition of approval.

Where in the DevOps cycle do you do security?

LibreOffice Picks Up A Native "KDE 5" File Picker

Several months back LibreOffice developers began working on better integration with KDE Plasma 5 and that has advanced again today with now having a native file picker.

Going In-Depth With Flatpak For Sandboxed Application Packaging

Red Hat / GNOME developer veteran Matthias Clasen has recently begun a series of blog posts going in-depth with Flatpaks for those wondering how this application deployment technology is taking over the Linux desktop. Last week Clasen penned the initial piece for explaining bundles, runtimes, and extensions in the Flatpak realm.

Epiphany 3.29.3 Picks Up A Reader Mode, Finally Disables NPAPI Plugins

Epiphany 3.29.3 is now available as the latest version of this GNOME Web Browser. Being in the middle of the GNOME 3.30 development cycle, the Epiphany 3.29.3 release is made up of many changes. First up, Epiphany now has an experimental reader mode that is inspired by Mozilla's Firefox reader mode. When viewing page sources in Epiphany, it will also now display within the web browser itself rather than the text editor.

Linux Gets Experimental Support For In-Kernel Hibernation Encryption

Intel's Chen Yu has sent out a set of patches providing experimental support for in-kernel encryption support for hibernation. In particular, this encryption support is about encrypting the hibernation image that is saved to the disk for the hibernation process. There are third-party ways to encrypt the hibernation image with an encrypted SWAP while this new code thanks to Intel is integrated within the kernel. Besides the kernel bits are also user-space code needed for generating the encryption key.

Coreboot Now Supports Directly Booting To A Linux Kernel FIT Image

Coreboot's latest development code now supports parsing and booting of FIT payloads. FIT in this context is a Flattened Image Tree that leverages DeviceTree. As of Tuesday in Coreboot Git is handling for booting of FIT payloads, which in turn basically means a Linux kernel image as a payload for Coreboot to boot directly upon hardware initialization.

Open Source Skills Soar In Demand According to 2018 Jobs Report

New 2018 Open Source Technology Jobs Report Released Today: Rapid Growth in Demand for Open Source Tech Talent

Another stepping stone forward (SysV 2.90)

Today I uploaded a new minor release of SysV init - version 2.90. This snapshot mostly fixes typos (in the source and Makefile), cleans up some old files and variables we were not using anymore, and adds some documentation. Basically, this is a house-keeping update.

SysVinit 2.90 Released With Fixes & Better Support For Newer Compilers

It's been a while since last having anything to report on the SysVinit init system for those wishing to live in a systemd-free world, but a new release is now available.

Fedora IoT and Home Assistant

How to change the hostname on Ubuntu 18.04

Troubleshooting Open vSwitch DPDK PMD Thread Core Affinity

Systemd Services: Monitoring Files and Directories

Wget Command Examples

Getting started with React Native animations

Anatomy of a perfect pull request