Total War: WARHAMMER

• It’s Official: Total War: WARHAMMER II is Coming to Linux

  Good news for any merciless warmongers amongst you: you’ll soon be able to play ‘Total War: WARHAMMER II’ on Linux. Games porting powerhouse™ Feral Interactive has announced that is is bringing the acclaimed strategy title to Linux and macOS later this year.

• Total War: WARHAMMER II confirmed for Linux, to release later this year

  Many of you I'm sure will be extremely happy about this, as today Feral Interactive confirmed Total War: WARHAMMER II is heading to Linux.

• Feral Is Bringing Total War: WARHAMMER 2 To Linux

  Feral Interactive has announced this morning that they will be bringing Total War: WARHAMMER 2 to Linux this year as the latest Total War game seeing a native Linux port

Red Hat changes its open-source licensing rules

From outside programming circles, software licensing may not seem important. In open-source, though, licensing is all important. So, when leading Linux company Red Hat announces that -- from here on out -- all new Red Hat-initiated open-source projects that use the GNU General Public License(GPLv2) or GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)v2.1 licenses will be expected to supplement the license with GPL version 3 (GPLv3)'s cure commitment language, it's a big deal.

Android Leftovers

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• There's no excuse: All Android phones (even Samsung's) should run stock Android

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• New Telegram-abusing Android RAT discovered in the wild

• Uber booking has been removed from Google Maps for Android

• Google Maps for Android no longer books Uber rides

• LG Q7 may arrive in the US soon w/ an Android One variant on T-Mobile

• Action Launcher v37 adds new 'Desktop shortcuts' based on Android P, performance & battery improvements, more

• World Cup schedule: How to use your iPhone or Android handset so you can watch every live game

• Google launches #IMakeApps to promote Android developers around the world

• Xiaomi Mi A2, the company's second Android One phone, leaks out on retailer site ahead of August launch

• Android-x86 Project releases first Oreo build (release candidate 1)

• Android Messages for web begins rolling out, starting with web client

Gentoo-Based Porteus Kiosk 4.7 Brings More Mitigations Against Spectre Flaws

Powered by the long-term supported Linux 4.14.50 kernel, Porteus Kiosk 4.7.0 is the second release of the operating system in 2018 and comes five months after version 4.6 to introduce more mitigations against the Spectre security vulnerabilities, though the next-gen Spectre flaws require microcode firmware updates for Intel CPUs. "Newly discovered "Spectre Next Generation" vulnerabilities require updated microcode from Intel which is not available yet. Please consider enabling automatic updates service for your kiosks to receive latest fixes and patches as soon as they become available," reads today's announcement.