IBM: Kubernetes/OpenShift, OpenPOWER, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Developers

• Red Hat Integration delivers new Kubernetes Operators and expands data integration capabilities with latest release

  We are pleased to announce the Q3 release of Red Hat Integration, which brings us further in our alignment around Red Hat OpenShift as the platform of choice for developing and deploying cloud-native applications across hybrid cloud environments, as well as helping customers get their integrations up and running easier and faster. As modern IT continues its rapid evolution, it becomes important that the cloud-native solutions supporting this transformation keep pace, enabling IT organizations to truly benefit from this constant innovation. To help customers take full advantage of this, we've updated, tested and certified every single component in Red Hat Integration with the latest version of OpenShift: Red Hat OpenShift 4.

• The Linux Foundation Announces New Open Hardware Technologies and Collaboration

  The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced that the OpenPOWER Foundation will become a project hosted at The Linux Foundation. The project includes IBM’s open POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and contributed Source Design Implementations required to support data-driven hardware for intensive workloads like Artificial Intelligence (AI). OpenPOWER is the open steward for the Power Architecture and has the support of 350 members, including IBM, Google, Inspur Power Systems, Yadro, Hitachi, Wistron, Mellanox, NVIDIA, and Red Hat. The governance model within the Linux Foundation gives software developers assurance of compatibility while developing AI and hybrid cloud native applications that take advantage of POWER’s rich feature set and open compute hardware and software ecosystems. As the demand rises for more and more compute-intensive workloads like AI and in-memory analytics, commodity systems vendors have struggled with the looming predictions of the end of Moore’s Law. Central processing units (CPUs) may no longer handle the rising demands alone, and data-centric systems are built to maximize the flow of data between CPUs and attached devices for specialized workloads. By hosting OpenPOWER at The Linux Foundation, a cross-project, cross-community collaboration, it will accelerate development of hardware and software to support data-centric systems, by making it available to a growing global audience. “The OpenPOWER community has been doing critical work to support the increasing demands of enterprises that are using big data for AI and machine learning workloads. The move to bring these efforts together with the worldwide ecosystem of open source developers across projects at The Linux Foundation will unleash a new level of innovation by giving developers everywhere more access to the tools and technologies that will define the next generation of POWER architecture,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation.

• Raptor Computing Systems Planning To Launch New ATX POWER9 Board With OpenCAPI

  In addition to the news out of the OpenPOWER Summit in San Diego that the POWER ISA is going open-source and the OpenPOWER Foundation becoming part of the Linux Foundation, Raptor Computing Systems shared they plan to launch a new standard ATX motherboard next year that will feature OpenCAPI connectivity. Built off the successes of their Talos II high-end server motherboard and lower-cost Blackbird desktop motherboard designs, there is apparently a new motherboard design for POWER9 being worked on that could launch in early 2020.

• Why you should be developing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  With a $0 Red Hat Developer membership, you get access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) at no cost. We have downloads available for RHEL versions starting as far back as 7.2, and as current as RHEL 8.1 Beta. The subscription costs nothing, and there are no additional costs for any of the software or content we make available through the program.

Android Leftovers

• LineageOS 16 Pie arrives on the Zenfone 6, Razer Phone, and other devices

• HarmonyOS: What's with Huawei's Android-replacement operating system?

• Huawei P Smart Pro accidentally listed on Android Enterprise Directory before official launch

• Mobile Game Protection brings Denuvo DRM to mobile games on Android

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• Best free music apps: free music on Android and iPhone

• Samsung DeX brings Android apps to your Mac and PC

• Google stops sharing Android user data with wireless carriers over privacy concerns

• Singular releases tool for stopping ad fraud on Android

• Grammarly Keyboard Gets Synonym Suggestions With Update on Android and iOS

• Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Android offers 4K and HDR, more for $250 (Reg. $450)

• Mi A3 Unboxing And First Look - Meet Xiaomi's New Android One Phone In India

• Android Q with MIUI: System-wide dark mode, Finally! [VIDEO]

• Android will soon support the Xbox Elite Controller, at least over USB

Proprietary Browsers Released: Opera 63 and Vivaldi 2.7

• Opera 63 initial release

  Today, we are releasing the first browser from the 63 line. Opera 63 comes with an improved private browsing mode.

• Opera 63 Released with Improved Private Mode

  Opera web browser 63 was released a day ago with improved private browsing mode.

• Vivaldi Web Browser 2.7 Released with Better Sound Control

  Vivaldi web browser 2.7 was released today. The new version features better sound controls, smoother navigation and overall improvements.

• Vivaldi 2.7 : Bring more productivity to your day

  We’re happy to be back in the saddle after the summer break! We want Vivaldi to be the perfect tool for you to control and enjoy the digital aspect of your lives. And that’s why we are working on the things that count – the things that make you more productive and organised on the Web. The new update has little gems that will give you a better control of sound behavior in Vivaldi. In addition, you have new options to access user profiles quicker, an enhanced status bar as well as overall improvements and security related fixes.