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=> ↺ From Russia with MIPS: an SoC, COM, and all-in-one PC

• T-Platforms unveiled a “SF-BT1” module and “Tavolga Terminal” all-in-one PC based on it, which run Linux on a dual-core, MIPS P5600-based Baikal-T1 SoC.

• Imagination Technologies announced the Debian Linux ready, 21.5-inch Tavolga Terminal TB-T22BT all-in-one, as well as a SMARC-based “SF-BT1” COM that powers it. Both devices are built by Russia-based T-Platforms. The COM runs Linux on a Baikal Electronics Baikal-T1 system-on-chip, the first commercial SoC to use Imagination’s 32-bit MIPS Series5 Warrior-P P5600 processor.

Desktop

=> ↺ Linux Laptops for Small Business

• A Linux laptop makes sense for a small business. Not only is Linux the most secure computing platform, it’s highly efficient, which means that computing power goes toward actual work instead of powering a bloated operating system.

• It’s also very customizable without requiring a computer science degree. You can install and remove software with the click of a button, and Linux vendors don’t lard down their systems with junkware which, as we learned last year in Lenovo’s SuperFish Security Gaffe delivers little value and big troubles.

Server

=> ↺ In Acquiring Conductant, Docker Eyes a New Type of Operations Stack

=> ↺ Mellanox Adds Cumulus Linux Support for Ethernet Switches

Kernel Space

=> ↺ Linux 4.5-rc7

• So things have finally calmed down this past week, and I think we’ll end up with a normal release where rc7 is the last rc.

• Of course, I reserve the right to change my mind in case we find something worrisome, but on the whole it looks good. We did have some changes that were larger than I’d like at this stage, but they were mostly to individual drivers. Most of the commits here are trivial one- and few-liner, with perhaps just the block layer standing out as having a couple of bigger changes (and those are “bigger” only in relation to the rest, not particularly big in any absolute sense).

=> ↺ Linux Kernel 4.5 to Land Next Week as Linus Torvalds Announces the Last RC Build

=> ↺ Linux 4.5-rc7 Released: Linux 4.5 Final Likely Next Week

=> ↺ Thunderbolt 3 Connector Technology Now Linux Compatible

=> ↺ Linux Kernel 3.10.99 LTS Released with MIPS, x86, and Btrfs Improvements, More

• Immediately after announcing the release of Linux kernel 3.14.63 LTS, kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman published details about the ninety-ninth maintenance build of the long-term supported Linux 3.10 kernel series.

=> ↺ Linux Kernel 3.14.63 LTS Updates Radeon GPU Drivers, Fixes MIPS KVM Support

• The sixty-third maintenance release of the long-term supported Linux 3.14 kernel series has been announced by renowned kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman.

=> ↺ Freedreno MSM Driver Lands New Support For Linux 4.6

• Besides the exciting Intel DRM-Next improvements talked about this weekend, Freedreno’s MSM DRM driver for Qualcomm SoCs has gained some new capabilities for the upcoming Linux 4.6 cycle.

Graphics Stack

=> ↺ Wayland Protocols 1.2 Adds Presentation Time Support For Better Video Playback

• Wayland-Protocols 1.2 was released this morning as the newest version of this official Wayland protocol collection.

• The Wayland-Protocols 1.2 release adds “presentation time” to the protocol. Presentation-time is based off the protocol originally found in Weston 1.10 and is now considered a stable protocol with no changes since December 2014.

=> ↺ Mesa 11.2-RC3 Now Available, Mesa 11.2 Hopefully Coming This Week

Benchmarks

=> ↺ Benchmarking The Lightweight, Musl-Based Alpine Linux

• Following the KaOS and Void Linux benchmarking as part of our next big Linux distribution comparison was firing up Alpine Linux for some benchmarking.

• Alpine Linux was included since it’s been getting a lot of attention lately due to interest from the Docker community with some Docker images now opting for Alpine Linux rather than Ubuntu. Alpine Linux is a lightweight distribution relying upon musl libc and BusyBox. Alpine Linux in its x86_64 flavor weighs in at an 82MB ISO but via its apk package manager is a wealth of possible packages.

Applications

=> ↺ Graphical SSH Clients group test

• The options offered to you for connecting to an SSH client are extremely basic, only allowing you to put in an IP or hostname, along with a port. You’ll need to manually add a user once you hit Connect, although at least it won’t assume you’re trying to use your current Linux username. The details can also be saved for another time.

=> ↺ Rblpapi ‘Release Candidate’ 0.3.2.5

=> ↺ mksh R52c, paxmirabilis 20160306 released; PA4 paper size PDF manpages

• The MirBSD Korn Shell R52c was published today as bugfix-accumulating release of low upto medium importance. Thanks to everyone who helped squashing all those bugs; this includes our bug reporters who always include reproducer testcases; you’re wonderful!

=> ↺ Live preview of Markdown documentation

• At work, to simplify build dependencies of DB-All.e we decided to port the documentation from LaTeX to Markdown.

• Shortly after starting with the porting I resented not having a live preview of my work. I guess I got addicted to it with staticsite.

• Actually, staticsite does preview interlinked Markdown files. I wonder if GitHub supports cross-linking between Markdown files in the same repo? It does, and incidentally it uses the same syntax as staticfile.

=> ↺ Blender 2.77 Is Bringing 3D Textures For GPU Rendering & Other Improvements

• Blender 2.77 is set to be released soon as the next feature release of this open-source 3D modeling program while 2.77 RC2 is the current development release.

• Exciting us about Blender 2.77 is that there are some CUDA GPU rendering improvements for its Cycles code. In particular, 3D textures for smoke/fire and point density are now supported. There is also optimized performance and memory use of subsurface scattering on the GPU to the point it’s up to three times faster. There is also GK210 GPU support for the CUDA kernels and more.

=> ↺ VirtualBox 5.0.16 Brings Support for PC Speaker Passthrough on Linux

• VirtualBox, a virtualization application that allows users to run and install operating systems inside other OSes, has been upgraded to version 5.0.16 and is now ready for download.

• VirtualBox is updated very often by the Oral developers, and lots of maintenance releases are offered during a support cycle. This is a very powerful application, but it’s also very complex, so developers need to keep it updated.

Proprietary

=> ↺ Microsoft Opens Its Corporate Data Software to Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft is bringing SQL Server to Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft takes on Oracle, opening up database software to Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft to Offer a Version of SQL Server to Linux Users

=> ↺ Cloud economics pushed Microsoft SQL Server onto Linux

=> ↺ Why Microsoft needs SQL Server on Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft is bringing its crown jewel, SQL Server, to Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft Bringing SQL Server to Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft takes on Oracle and IBM by bringing SQL Server to Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft takes on Oracle, opening up database software to Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft Plans Linux Database in Bid to Win Sales From Oracle

=> ↺ Microsoft is porting SQL Server to Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft takes step to move beyond Windows operating system

=> ↺ One of Microsoft’s most lucrative products is coming to an operating system Steve Ballmer likened to ‘cancer’

=> ↺ Microsoft will make SQL Server available for Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft has made SQL Server for Linux. Repeat, Microsoft has made SQL Server 2016 for Linux

=> ↺ SQL Server for Linux coming in mid-2017

=> ↺ Instant Analysis: Microsoft Announces SQL Server on Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft Taking SQL Server to Linux, Launches 2016 Release Candidate and Stretch Database Preview

=> ↺ Microsoft ports SQL Server to Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft to release SQL Server for Linux in another big open-source move

=> ↺ Microsoft’s relationship with open sources strengthens as it announces SQL Server on Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft brings SQL Server to Linux

=> ↺ SQL Server Will Love Linux in 2017

=> ↺ Microsoft announces that it will be releasing SQL Server 2016 on Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft Extends SQL Server to Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft (MSFT) Announces Availability of SQL Server 2016 Release Candidate 0

=> ↺ Introduction to Protecting SQL Server with Azure Site Recovery

=> ↺ Vivaldi 1.0 Web Browser Is Just Around the Corner, Third Beta Seeded to Testers

• The Vivaldi team has informed Softpedia about the immediate availability of download and testing of the third and most probably the last Beta build of the upcoming Vivaldi 1.0 web browser.

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ Install and configure SaltStack server in Ubuntu x64

=> ↺ [Pulp] How to Safely Test Your Data for 2.8 Upgradability

=> ↺ SaltStack examples

=> ↺ How To Make A Media Player In C Language In Less Than 1000 Lines Using ffmpeg

=> ↺ Install Sentora on CentOS 7

=> ↺ Installing KDE Plasma 5

Wine or Emulation

=> ↺ Wine 1.9.5 Gets Support for Far Cry 4, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, and More

• The Wine developers have announced a new update for the 1.9 branch of Wine, which is now ready for download and testing.

Games

=> ↺ Stardew Valley coming to Linux and Mac depends on Sales

• Stardew Valley is the latest indie hit from Steam that has been getting praises from fans everywhere. The game can be roughly described as a mix of Harvest Moon, Rune Factory and Animal Crossing.

• Stardew Valley is currently on available on Steam for Windows but could come to both Mac and Linux soon if the game continues selling as well as it has.

=> ↺ Microsoft wants to lock everyone into its store via universal Windows apps, says game kingpin

• The founder of Epic Games says that Microsoft is trying to lock Windows developers into using its app store for all their products.

=> ↺ Balrum, a beautiful 2D RPG released for Linux, here’s some thoughts on it

• I’ve been looking forward to trying out Balrum since seeing it on a crowdfunding site some time ago, and now it has had a day-1 release on Linux I got a chance to play with it.

=> ↺ Alexander Naumov: Battleship – Sinclair ZX Spectrum

• I thought about this until evening and at the same evening found this game in net. I found a lot of different information about this game, the most important of which was the fact that this game can be installed on any PC running GNU/Linux. Yaaay… I can’t remember what I planed to do on this night, but until I went to sleep I installed spectrum’s Battleship on my x86_64 openSUSE and plunged into childhood for few hours

=> ↺ Doom 2016 Alpha running on Linux with Wine

• The WINE developers and community have typically been hard at work to fix issues, particularly with big AAA games. Usually with a bit of a wait before we see enough supported libraries for the title to function properly. Now it appears a Linux user has already managed to get the latest Doom Alpha running on WINE.

=> ↺ Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II and expansions look like they are coming to Linux & SteamOS

• Wow this I did not expect. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II and the expansions are showing signs that they will come over to Linux & SteamOS!

=> ↺ Superhot: A Linux Review

• Almost two weeks ago the Superhot Team put out their independently developed, Kickstarter-funded, 3D FPS. What began as an online demo grew into a full game, albeit a short one, thanks to Kickstarter, and publisher IMGN.PRO.

• So what is Superhot? Superhot is a minimalistic first person shooter where time slows down when the player slows down. If the character is moving at full speed, then so is everyone else. If the character stops moving completely, time slows down to less than a snail’s pace– though it doesn’t stop entirely.

=> ↺ A chat with AtomicTorch Studio about their Linux sales with Dinocide & VoidExpanse

• I had the pleasure of speaking with another developer today about their Linux sales, and this time it was Lurler from AtomicTorch Studio.

=> ↺ Life Is Strange looks like it will come to SteamOS & Linux

=> ↺ DiRT Rally also looks like it’s coming to SteamOS & Linux

=> ↺ Want to make an RPG game? Looks like RPG Maker MV may be coming to Linux

=> ↺ CrossCode, an epic looking 16-bit SNES-style RPG is now on Linux & SteamOS

=> ↺ StarDrive 2, the pretty good 4X strategy game to get a big expansion

• I personally think the game gets too much hate directed at it in reviews, as I found it to be really quite fun. Not perfect for sure, a few bugs but still a good 4X game to have on Linux.

Desktop Environments/WMs

K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

=> ↺ KDE Plasma 5.6 Beta Review: New Features and Improvements

• The beta version of KDE Plasma 5.6 was released on March 2, 2016 and contain many bug fixes, new features and reworked applications. The renew components – the activities, KRunner, task manager, Breeze theme and many others. Wayland support is also better with decoration and input fixes.

=> ↺ Plasma 5.5.5 now available

• The 5th and final update for KDE’s Plasma 5.5.x series is now available to all Chakra users, in anticipation of 5.6 which is expected to be released in a couple of weeks.

• Plasma 5.5.5 as usually includes a month’s translations and bugfixes, with the authors highlighting the improvements for the lockscreen and user switching.

• It should be safe to answer yes to any replacement question by Pacman. If in doubt or if you face another issue in relation to this update, please ask or report it on the related forum section.

=> ↺ KaOS Offers A Nice KDE Linux Experience

• One of the lesser known distributions requested for testing as part of our upcoming 10+ Linux distribution performance comparison was KaOS. KaOS is a Linux distribution built from scratch but does make use of Arch’s Pacman.

=> ↺ KDE has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2016 mentor organization

• The KDE GSOC guide is a good place for students to start before beginning to create their proposals. The KDE community creates software in teams; students should find a team working on software they want to help with, get to know team members, familiarize themselves with the code-base, and start fixing bugs.

=> ↺ KDE Plasma 5.5.5 Desktop Environment Just Landed for Chakra GNU/Linux Users

• Neofytos Kolokotronis of the Chakra GNU/Linux operating system has just informed users on the project’s official Twitter account that the recently released KDE Plasma 5.5.5 desktop environment arrived in the default software repositories.

=> ↺ KDE Plasma 5.6 Is Now Available To Fedora Users

• While Ubuntu-based distributions have Project Neon and OpenSUSE have launched their own initiative for providing a bleeding-edge KDE stack, Fedora users through the use of Copr repositories are able to access newer KDE software.

=> ↺ Plasma 5.6 beta available on Fedora

• Plasma 5.6 will be out in two weeks but the Plasma team has just released Plasma 5.6 beta which already features all the new yummy things and improvements as well as bunch of bug fixes that will be available in the 5.6 release.

GNOME Desktop/GTK

=> ↺ Age Ratings in GNOME Software: Introducing OARS?

• In GNOME Software we show lots of applications ranging from games aimed at pre-schoolers to applications explicitly designed to download, well, porn. A concept that is fairly well understood by parents is age ratings, and there are well known and trusted ratings bodies such as the ESRB and PEGI, as well as other country-specific schemes. Parents can use the ratings to control what kind of content is available to install, and vendors can use the ratings as a legal (or common-sense) control who gets to purchase what.

=> ↺ News about GNOME News

• Aye, folks! Some time ago, we had some movement regarding the News app. It was so. freaking. cool! Finally a good alternative of the now-dead Google Reader. Time has passed and, with my heart bleeding in sadness, we saw no further development of it.

=> ↺ GNOME Nibbles 3.20

• GNOME Nibbles is probably my favorite GNOME game. This Snake game has been around for a while, and unfortunately the current version is showing its age:

Distributions

New Releases

=> ↺ Sonar GNU/Linux OS for People with Impairments Gets Its First Release in 2016

• The Sonar GNU/Linux team was proud to announce the release and immediate availability for download of the first release of the open-source operating system in 2016.

• We’ve introduced you guys to the Sonar OS back in 2014, but no other news have been published on Softpedia about the accessible GNU/Linux distribution targeted at people with impairments and focused on assistive technology, despite the fact that it received a couple of updates last year.

=> ↺ Void Linux Continues Rolling Along & Remains Systemd-Free

• It’s been a while since last reporting on Void Linux, an original, rolling-release Linux distribution while this weekend I fired it up for some testing. This is one of the few Linux distributions that has dropped systemd and OpenSSL.

Arch Family

=> ↺ Manjaro Linux 15.12 Updated to KDE Plasma 5.5.5 and Linux Kernel 4.4.4 LTS

• Philip Müller, the leader of the Manjaro Project, and the Manjaro Development Team were proud to announce this past weekend the release and general availability of the eleventh update for Manjaro Linux 15.12 (Capella).

=> ↺ Manjaro Linux 16.06 Preview Released

• After announcing the general availability of the eleventh update pack for the current stable release of the Arch Linux-based operating system, Manjaro leader Philip Müller informed the media about the release of Manjaro Linux 16.06 Pre1.

=> ↺ Manjaro 16.06 – first preview released

• The Xfce edition remains our flagship offering and has received the attention it deserves. Few can claim to offer such a polished, integrated and leading-edge Xfce experience. We ship Xfce 4.12 with this release of Manjaro. We mainly focused on polishing the user experience on the desktop and window manager, and on updating some components to take advantage of newly available technologies such as switching to a new theme called Maia, we already using for our KDE edition.

=> ↺ Manjaro Linux 16.06 Will Be Dubbed “Daniella,” to Ship With a Polished Xfce UI

• After announcing the general availability of the eleventh update pack for the current stable release of the Arch Linux-based operating system, Manjaro leader Philip Müller informed the media about the release of Manjaro Linux 16.06 Pre1.

Ballnux/SUSE

=> ↺ SUSE targets simplification with OpenStack Cloud 6 release

• German open source vendor SUSE claims its new OpenStack Cloud 6 is designed to overcome the fear of commitment that is putting IT buyers off engagement with the cloud. SUSE claims its new private cloud offering is a solution to the buying objections that potential customers have outlined.

Red Hat Family

=> ↺ Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) – Morning Large Cap Report

=> ↺ Are Analysts Bearish Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT) After Last Week?

• Out of 30 analysts covering Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), 25 rate it “Buy”, 1 “Sell”, while 6 “Hold”. This means 78% are positive. Red Hat was the topic in 27 analyst reports since August 25, 2015 according to StockzIntelligence Inc. Below is a list of Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT) latest ratings and price target changes.

Fedora

=> ↺ Why I love WiCHacks

• There was overlap with some ideas I’ve had while working with the Fedora CommOps team towards boosting #WomenInComputing in Fedora’s community. I was anticipating hearing out their idea and seeing what they would come up with!

Debian Family

=> ↺ Montréal to Be the Host City for DebConf17, the 18th Annual Debian Conference

• Debian developer Didier Raboud announced this week that the 18th annual Debian conference, DebConf17, would take place next year (2017) in Montréal, Canada.

Derivatives

Canonical/Ubuntu

=> ↺ Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ship Without Python 2, Windows Printers Detection Affected

• There’s a little over a month until we will finally be able to upgrade our Ubuntu-powered computers to the feature-rich, long-term supported Xenial Xerus (Ubuntu 16.04) operating system, but it looks like the Ubuntu devs are still planning on some significant changes.

=> ↺ Is Canonical about to violate the GNU GPLv2?

• Canonical’s decision to offer the ZFS filesystem as default in the forthcoming April release of its Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution has put others in the free software and open source community offside.

• The company is being accused of violating the GNU General Public Licence version 2, the licence under which the Linux kernel is released.

• This is not the first time that Canonical and its founder Mark Shuttleworth have ended up on other side of the table as others in the community. This has been going on regularly since Ubuntu was first released in 2004.

=> ↺ Not just for geeks, Linux user-friendly version is Windows alternative

• For most consumers, it’s not. This is Ubuntu, a user-friendly version of the Linux operating system. Marshall pronounces it “oo-boon-tu” but also acceptable are “you-bunt-tu” or “oo-bunt-tu.”

• Marshall typically helps customers who have gotten past the belief that Linux is for geeks. This version of Linux ( there are hundreds) was built by United Kingdom’s Canonical and is meant to appeal to everyone — even Windows users.

=> ↺ Artist Creates Astonishing Ubuntu Wallpapers for Phones and Tablets

• Deviantart artist Sylvia Ritter has recently started a new project to create wallpapers for Ubuntu phone and tablet devices, inspired by all the Ubuntu Linux releases.

=> ↺ Ex-Kubuntu Leader Accuses Canonical Again of Distributing Linux Illegally

• In a recent blog post entitled “GPL Fun,” ex-Kubuntu release manager and leader Jonathan Riddell talks about a few recent cases of GPL license violations and the continuity of free software ecosystem.

=> ↺ Logic Supply to Unveil Ultra-Compact Mini-PC Powered by Ubuntu Linux and Windows

• Logic Supply has informed Softpedia about the upcoming availability of a new member of the ever-growing family of the company’s industrial PCs, the CL100, which is set to be unveiled during the Digital Signage Expo 2016.

• Delivered in a new, small form factor, the CL100 industrial computer is fanless and ventless, just like most of the industrial PCs manufactured by Logic Supply, thus preventing ingress from various airborne debris like dust. It contains no moving parts, and it is mostly targeted at digital signage applications, offering users the possibility of installing either the popular Ubuntu Linux or Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Flavours and Variants

=> ↺ elementary OS: A Distro that Dreams of Disrupting the Linux Desktop

• elementary OS has been making waves for quite some time, and the distro has already created a loyal fan following that’s helping it become a self-sustaining product. I am not an elementary OS user; I am more of an Arch Linux or openSUSE guy, but I do run it in a VM, to keep an eye on what’s going on with this promising distribution.

Devices/Embedded

=> ↺ This Is How Much Hotter The Raspberry Pi 3 Gets Than The Raspberry Pi 2

• As part of the numerous Raspberry Pi 3 benchmarks published this weekend, I had an article devoted to how the Raspberry Pi 3 gets rather warm under load. For those interested, here are some follow-up tests showing just how warm the RPi3 gets in comparison to the Raspberry Pi 2.

=> ↺ For A Few Dollars More Than The Raspberry Pi 3 You Can Have A Much Faster Board

• Yesterday’s Raspberry Pi 3 Benchmarks vs. Eight Other ARM Linux Boards was quite interesting while today I have a complementary data point: the Raspberry Pi 3 compared to the ODROID-C2. The ODROID-C2 costs just a few dollars more ($40 USD) while having a faster SoC and other advantages.

=> ↺ The Raspberry Pi 3 Does Get Rather Warm Under Load

• In continuation of yesterday’s Raspberry Pi 3 Benchmarks vs. Eight Other ARM Linux Boards, here are a few more details about the Raspberry Pi 3′s thermal performance.

• As pointed out in that Raspberry Pi 3 benchmarking article yesterday and has been pointed out elsewhere, this quad-core Cortex-A53 ARM development board does get rather warm under load. However, there is no heatsink at all by default with the RPi3.

Phones

Tizen

=> ↺ Bollywood Indian backgrounds / wallpapers for Tizen Smartphones Samsung Z1 / Z3 / TM1 – Vol 3

Android

=> ↺ Android Co-Founder Rich Miner Joins Board at Dialpad, The Former Switch.co

• Rich Miner, a co-founder of the mobile operating system Android, the company that gave birth to Google’s mobile operating system, has joined the board of Dialpad, a cloud-based office phone and communications company that until today had been known as Switch.co.

=> ↺ ’3D Touch’ reportedly on its way to plenty more Android phones

• From VR headsets to 3D Touch, when one phone maker happens upon an innovative new idea, it’s usually the case that everyone else then rushes to keep up with a version of their own.

• The pressure-sensitive displays are one of the key new features on this year’s iPhones, allowing you to press harder on the screen to access extra functions, and we’ve already seen the tech mimicked on the likes of the Huawei Mate S.

=> ↺ The challenges of porting Final Fantasy IX to Android and iOS

=> ↺ 5 Android apps you shouldn’t miss this week – Android Apps Weekly

=> ↺ Has Google Failed with Android One?

=> ↺ Android 6.0 Marshmallow OTA Released For Galaxy Note 5, HTC One M8 Owners On Verizon

=> ↺ Best Android Smartphones 2016: LG G5, Galaxy S7/S7 Edge, Nexus 6P, Galaxy Note 5 And More

=> ↺ Android N: Mockups give a glimpse of the revamped system settings

=> ↺ Samsung Galaxy S7 International Giveaway!

=> ↺ WhatsApp Enjoys the Distinction of Least-Uninstalled Android App

=> ↺ Accessibility Clickjacking Threatens Bitcoin Users On Android

=> ↺ Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Gets Android 6.0 Marshmallow: Changelog

=> ↺ WhatsApp 2.12.505 Download Available for Android – Latest Features

=> ↺ Best Smart TV OS: Android TV vs Firefox TV vs Tizen vs WebOS

• Before purchasing a new Smart TV, make sure that its operating system suits your everyday needs. To help you choose wisely, here’s our handy guide to what each one looks like, and what features it packs.

=> ↺ Shashlik lets you run Android apps in Linux desktop environments

• There are nearly two million apps available for Google’s Android operating system, and most are designed to run on smartphones or tablets. But operating systems like Remix OS and Phoenix OS make the case that you could run those apps in a desktop-like environment.

Free Software/Open Source

=> ↺ Lessons Learned from 30 Years of MINIX

• While Linux is well known, its direct ancestor, MINIX, is now 30 and still quite spry for such aged software. Its story and how it and Linux got started is not well known, and there are perhaps some lessons to be learned from MINIX’s development. Some of these lessons are specific to operating systems, some to software engineering, and some to other areas (such as project management). Neither MINIX nor Linux was developed in a vacuum. There was quite a bit of relevant history before either got started, so a brief introduction may put this material in perspective.

=> ↺ Best Open Source Software for Windows 10

• I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a huge Windows fan. That said, I work with many folks who are. Which gets me thinking about open source applications that would be a best fit for their Windows 10 installations. In this article, I’ll share my top picks for Windows 10 open source software.

• Hey, just because someone is using Windows doesn’t mean they can’t still enjoy the benefits of great open source software! Right?

=> ↺ Node.js Foundation Update: A Few of Our Current Goals for 2016

=> ↺ Fostering Cross-Industry NFV Collaboration

• The networking industry is currently undergoing a huge transformation as demand for network bandwidth increases exponentially. Both the technology itself (e.g., evolution across software, cloud, SDN, NFV, containers, virtualization, and orchestration) and the way in which service providers, operators, and vendors structure their business is evolving at record pace. The entire industry is becoming more nimble and agile to keep up with demand.

=> ↺ Rootstock Contests Ethereum for Smart Contracts Domain

• Ethereum and Rootstock are two different open source blockchain based protocols that can be used for creating smart contracts. Which one of them will see widespread adoption?

=> ↺ MAME is now officially an open source project after 10 months

=> ↺ MAME emulation goes open-source

=> ↺ MAME goes fully FOSS

• Retro-gamers rejoice! Cautiously. The multi arcade machine emulator (MAME) is now open source.

• MAME makes it possible to emulate the hardware found in early arcade game cabinets. If one can also find ROMs of the games that ran on those cabinets, one can play classic arcade games.

=> ↺ Open Source Parse Dashboard Now Available

=> ↺ NYU Wireless releases open source 5G channel simulation software

=> ↺ Biometric test platform goes open source

=> ↺ BEAT experimental biometric e-infrastructure platform open sourced

=> ↺ The BEAT platform goes Open Source

• After four years of development, the BEAT platform is now available for download as an open-source project, under the Affero GNU GPL version 3.

Events

=> ↺ Interview with Bermon Painter: On design and shutting down BlendConf

• I’d say some designer do, some designers don’t, and it can feel like a black box for some. Garth Braithwaite speaks about how Designers Can Open Source (YouTube) and Jina Bolton has a great article on Why You Should Design for Open Source. I recommend you check these out. It might help contributing feel less intimidating and more exciting.

=> ↺ Hostel or hotel? Where to stay during the openSUSE Conference

• Nuremberg offers several places to stay during the openSUSE Conference, but don’t wait too long to book a hotel room or a hostel because there will be a race car event in Nuremberg June 24 – 26.

=> ↺ Open-Source Software: Riding the Innovation Wave

• Once considered only a hobby, open-source software development now takes center stage in the world of enterprise innovation. This represents a fundamental shift that is slowly but surely affecting every area of functionality.

=> ↺ KVM Forum

=> ↺ Embedded Linux Conference

• The Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) has been the premier vendor-neutral technical conference for the past 10 years for companies and developers using Linux in embedded products.

• After a decade of collaboration, the conference is extending its scope to include user-space developers, the people building applications on embedded Linux, and will be the preeminent space for product vendors and kernel and systems developers to collaborate with these influential technologists.

Web Browsers

Mozilla

=> ↺ Mozilla Eyes IoT Devices in Plans for Linux-Based Open Source OS

=> ↺ Mozilla Looks Beyond Firefox OS to the Internet of Things

=> ↺ Mozilla Reveals Firefox OS IoT Projects

=> ↺ Mozilla developing smart home personal assistant alongside new IoT projects

=> ↺ Mozilla’s New Projects May Lead to Smart Home Virtual Assistant

=> ↺ Mozilla to let Firefox OS loose in mutiple IoT projects

=> ↺ International Women’s Day; Time to Take Action

• Tuesday March 8 2016 is International Women’s Day (IWD). While Mozilla celebrates the progress to date we also realize there is a great deal of critical work still needed. The Internet can play an enormous role in improving the lives and opportunities of women, girls and their families. This is why I am honored to participate in the United Nations’ first High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, which was launched this January. I am eager to emphasize the positive effects of technology and the Open Internet as part of the Panel’s work. I am also intent on representing voices from around the globe in this discussion, and have begun collecting input to do this.

=> ↺ No Flash 0.5.1

SaaS/Big Data

=> ↺ Syncsort Delivers Native Mainframe Hadoop, Spark Data

• Syncsort simplifies mainframe big data access for enterprises seeking governance and compliance in Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark data.

• Syncsort, a provider of big data and mainframe software, has upgraded its DMX-h data integration software to enable enterprise organizations to work with mainframe data in Hadoop or Spark in its native format.

=> ↺ Python 3 status, a cloud architect’s best friend, and more OpenStack news

=> ↺ 15X Spark Speed-ups Coming to the Open Source Community, Say HPE and Hortonworks

• Hortonworks and HPE this week announced a collaboration to enable enterprise-wide Apache Spark implementation, an effort based on work done to the Spark kernel by HPE Labs that the companies say could improve shuffle engine performance by 15x and memory efficiency by 50 percent. The collaboration will center on big data analytics workloads that benefit from large pools of shared memory.

=> ↺ Hortonworks Makes Waves, BI Benchmark Breakthrough: Big Data Roundup

• Hortonworks updates its platforms and teams up with HPE for Spark, LinkedIn contributes more to the Apache Software Foundation, Business Intelligence software talks to Hadoop, and more in this edition of the Big Data Roundup.

=> ↺ Hortonworks Climbs 2.01%

Oracle/Java/LibreOffice

=> ↺ Collabora Office 5.0 Is Out and Based on LibreOffice 5.0

• Collabora Office 5.0 has been released, and it incorporates most of the features and changes that landed in LibreOffice 5.0 and 5.1.

• Collabora is not all that known by regular Linux users since they mostly do work that involves enterprise settings. It’s important to know that even if they use LibreOffice for Collabora Office, they are also contributing upstream. In fact, Collabora is one of the biggest contributors, if not the biggest, for LibreOffice.

Education

=> ↺ Open source math software competes in the classroom

• To solve the problem, I created SageMathCloud, a web-based and collaborative way for people to use SageMath and other open source software solutions, like: LaTeX, Jupyter Notebooks, command line terminals, the full scientific Python stack, Java, Julia, Fortran and more. I based it’s structure on two decades of experience I have using math software in the classroom and online at Harvard, UC San Diego, and University of Washington. It’s commercial grade, hosted on Google’s cloud, and backs up all user files every few minutes, recording a complete history of file editing. Large classes use it extensively today. Plus, there’s no installation required. Just open your web browser and start using SageMathCloud.

Pseudo-/Semi-Open Source (Openwashing)

=> ↺ LinkedIn Open Sources Promising WhereHows Data Technology

=> ↺ Nexenta and Cisco Partner on Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage Solutions at ‘Cisco on the Road’ Show

Public Services/Government

=> ↺ Source code of European Data Portal now available

• The long awaited open source code of the European Data Portal version 1 is now available on GitLab. The accompanying documentation provides a comprehensive overview of all the different components of the portal, guidelines and installation manuals.

Openness/Sharing

=> ↺ Open Source Dogs

• Are we in a post-capitalism world? Is IP a katalyst for change? What does that even mean? According to a recent article on Scottish microbrewery BrewDog’s open-source approach, post-capitalism is here. London housing prices would suggest otherwise, but the rejection of capitalism in favour of open-source, commons approaches sparks some interesting debates.

• Capitalism is an economic system based primarily on private ownership. People own things. IP is a capitalist hyperbole as ownership is not merely of physical things, but intangible things. This is in contrast to communism, which is government ownership, and socialism, which is collective ownership. My favourite means to explain these systems are cows.

=> ↺ Open collaboration, CERN’s particles, ownCloud, and petabytes

Open Data

=> ↺ Google Joins Effort to Stop Zika Virus Spread

Leftovers

=> ↺ Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript

• I’m having a really weird browser issue, where scripts on some pages just won’t run until about 20 seconds have passed.

• Whatever you’re about to suggest, yes, I’ve thought of it, and no, it’s not the problem. I mention this not in the hope that someone will help me debug it, but because it’s made me acutely aware of a few… quirks… of frontend Web development.

• (No, really, do not try to diagnose this problem from one sentence, I have heard and tried almost everything you could imagine.)

Science

=> ↺ Remains of Anglo-Saxon island discovered in Lincolnshire village

• The remains of an Anglo-Saxon island have been uncovered in Lincolnshire in a significant find that has yielded an unusually wide array of artefacts.

• The island, once home to a Middle Saxon settlement, was found at Little Carlton near Louth, Lincolnshire, by archaeologists from the University of Sheffield after a discovery by a metal detectorist.

=> ↺ E-mail inventor Ray Tomlinson, who popularized @ symbol, dies at 74

• If you’ve ever sent an e-mail, you can thank Raymond Samuel Tomlinson for putting the @ symbol there.

• On Friday, Tomlinson died of suspected heart failure. He was 74.

• Tomlinson was born in Amsterdam, New York in 1941, and he earned a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1967, he joined Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), a company that played a key role in the development of the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet.

• In 1971, according to the Internet Hall of Fame, he wrote the first ARPANET mail client, combining the existing SNDMSG and CPYNET programs. Tomlinson himself came up with the idea of using the @ symbol as a way to separate local e-mails from those that could be sent to external networks through the user@host syntax.

=> ↺ The Founder of Email, Ray Tomlinson, Dies

• Ray Tomlinson, the man credited with founding email, has passed away at the age of 74, according to a report from the Sydney Morning Herald. According to the report, Tomlinson died of a heart attack.

=> ↺ Email inventor Ray Tomlinson dies at 74

• Internet pioneer Ray Tomlinson, who is credited with the invention of email, has died at the age of 74.

• The US computer programmer came up with the idea of electronic messages that could be sent from one network to another in 1971.

• His invention included the ground-breaking use of the @ symbol in email addresses, which is now standard.

Hardware

=> ↺ An AMD ARM 64-bit Dev Board Is Launching For $299 USD

• Since last year we have been waiting for AMD to launch their “HuskyBoard” ARM development board built around their Opteron A1100 ARM 64-bit SoC. That board was originally supposed to ship in Q4’15 while now available for pre-order is a new A1100 development board that looks like it may be taking its place.

• AMD had been teasing their ARM development board for nearly one year and talked of it being a low-cost ARM development board that would be in compliance with the 96Boards’ Enterprise Edition specification.

Health/Nutrition

=> ↺ Post-Flint, Half Of Americans Are Worried About Their Tap Water Too

• Ahead of the Democratic debate in lead-poisoned Flint, Michigan on Sunday, a new poll shows that many Americans don’t trust the public water system.

• Only half the country is “very confident” that tap water is safe to drink. A third of respondents said they were “moderately confident,” while nearly one in five said they aren’t confident at all.

• More than half the respondents said that the water crisis in Flint — in which city water was contaminated with lead for 18 months, potentially causing longterm damage to thousands of children — was a sign of a widespread infrastructure problem in America.

=> ↺ ‘Raise The Wage, Clean Our Water’: Flint Residents Demand $15 Minimum Wage

• Tyrone Stitt has worked as a maintenance technician at Taco Bell for 18 years. He started at $3.25 an hour when he was 25 years old and today, despite the skyrocketing cost of living in Flint, he makes just $8.50 an hour. He says that amount is not enough to support himself and his family, let alone afford bottled water.

• “I’m breaking out in rashes and paying for water,” he told ThinkProgress as he marched across the University of Michigan campus in Flint among a group of protesters. “Increasing the minimum wage would help tremendously. It would make a tremendous difference in my life because I’d be able to pay my bills and provide for my family.”

=> ↺ Five Years After Fukushima, ‘No End in Sight’ to Ecological Fallout

• And U.S. nuclear regulatory agency comes under fire for ‘half-baked’ reforms that fail to improve public safety

Security

=> ↺ Five Minutes to a More Secure SSH

• Here is a quick way to drastically improve the security of your OpenSSH server installations. Apart from past flaws in the OpenSSH daemon itself that have allowed remote compromise (very rare), most break-ins result from successful brute-force attacks. You can see them in your firewall, system or auth logs, they are an extremely common form of attack. Here is an excerpt from the /var/log/messages file on a CentOS Linux box (the attacking hostname has been obfuscated). You can see multiple attempts to login as users root and ftp. Also note the time between repeated attempts – one second or less, much too quick to be a human. This is an automated attack.

=> ↺ The interesting things from RSA are what didn’t happen, and containers are sandwiches

• The RSA conference is done. It was a very long and busy show, there were plenty of interesting people there and lots of clever ideas and things to do.

• I think the best part is what didn’t happen though. We love talking about the exciting things from the show, I’m going to talk about the unexciting non events I was waiting to happen (but thankfully they did not).

=> ↺ BitTorrent Client Transmission Infected With World’s First Mac Ransomware KeRanger — How To Protect Yourself

=> ↺ First Mac-targeting ransomware hits Transmission users, researchers say

• A security research firm announced Sunday its discovery of what is believed to be the world’s first ransomware that specifically goes after OS X machines.

• “This is the first one in the wild that is definitely functional, encrypts your files and seeks a ransom,” Ryan Olson, of Palo Alto Networks, told Reuters.

• In an interview Sunday afternoon, Olson told Ars that he expected more Mac ransomware to proliferate.

=> ↺ This devastating type of malware has basically ignored Mac users. Until now.

=> ↺ The horror! Mac users must beware of ransomware (like everyone else) video – CNET

=> ↺ After Years of Success in Windows, Ransomware Makes Its Debut in Apple Computers

=> ↺ First Mac ransomware had sights on encrypting backups, too

=> ↺ Ransomware Strikes Mac OS X. It’s Not the First Time, but It Is the Worst Yet.

=> ↺ Mac Ransomware Caught Before Large Number Of Computers Infected

Defence/Police/Secrecy/Aggression

=> ↺ Killing Someone Else’s Beloved

• Yet Trump’s pledge to murder the civilian relatives of terrorists could be considered quite modest — and, in its bluntness, refreshingly candid — when compared to President Obama’s ongoing policy of loosing drones and U.S. Special Operations forces in the Greater Middle East. Those policies, the assassinations that go with them, and the “collateral damage” they regularly cause are based on one premise when it comes to the American public: that we will permanently suspend our capacity for grief and empathy when it comes to the dead (and the living) in distant countries.

=> ↺ ‘Obama could have stopped Syria’s suffering. And he didn’t do it’

• Michael Hayden, a former head of both the CIA and the NSA, tells Toby Harnden about righteous violence in the war on terror and the deep moral scar left by the president’s inaction over Assad

=> ↺ Bill Clinton neglect left NSA ‘brain dead’ as al Qaeda plotted 9/11 attacks

• Retired Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the NSA director at the time, describes the decline in a memoir, writing an insider’s view of an agency that the government at one time refused to acknowledge even existed.

=> ↺ You Will Obey Me — Trump to Military

• General Michael Hayden, former Central Intelligence Agency director, NSA director, and other experts have said that when you asked the US military to carry out some of your campaign promises, specifically targeting terrorists’ families, and also the use of interrogation methods more extreme than waterboarding, the military will refuse, because they’ve been trained to turn down and refuse illegal orders.

=> ↺ High-tech ‘bazooka’ fires a net to take down drones

• Could this bazooka-style device become a crucial weapon in law enforcement’s battle with drones?

• The brainchild of U.K.-based OpenWorks Engineering, SkyWall 100 uses a compressed air launcher to fire smart projectiles at targeted drones.

=> ↺ Syria: Phantom “Rebels” Return from the Dead

• The French colonial green, white, and black banner of Syria adapted by the West’s proxy “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) had long been forgotten in the sea of black banners held aloft by Washington and Riyadh’s more extreme ploy to gain leverage upon and more direct access to the battlefield.

• However, as Syrian forces backed by its regional allies and Russian airpower overwhelm these forces while building alliances with other factions, including the Kurds, the West’s entire regime change enterprise faces ignominious collapse.

• It appears that – having exhausted all other options – the West has decided to change as many of those black banners back to the “rebel” green, white, and black as possible, before the conflict draws to a close, giving the West the most favorable position achievable ahead of “peace talks.”

=> ↺ State Dept Staffs Syria Ceasefire Violations Hotline — With Non-Arabic Speakers

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• Is there a better way to ensure no troublesome violations of John Kerry’s signature ceasefire in Syria get reported than by staffing the hotline where violations are to be reported by Syrians with non-Arabic speakers?

• Gotta love those clever gals and guys over at the State Department. The Department is all a twitter, high-fiving each other and sending congratulatory emails to Secretary of State John Kerry over his negotiating a ceasefire in Syria. And, in order to monitor compliance with the terms of the ceasefire, State set up a hotline. Ordinary Syrians, out there on the ground, could call in to report violations.

Transparency Reporting

=> ↺ Defense Department Tells MuckRock It Will Need To Come Up With $660 Million To Cover FOIA Request Fees

• Nothing quite tells the public to mind its own business like attaching a ridiculous fee demand to an FOIA response. It’s pretty easy to price the public out of the transparency market, seeing as it doesn’t have access to the monetary resources its tax dollars are paying for.

Environment/Energy/Wildlife

=> ↺ Meet Lucy Gavaghan, The Teen Who’s Trying To Make Tesco Stop Selling Eggs From Caged Hens

• A 14-year-old who is campaigning to stop Tesco from selling eggs from caged hens has rallied more than 88,000 people to support the cause, yet the supermarket giant has failed to change their policy.

• Lucy Gavaghan, from Sheffield, started a Change.org petition after writing letters to stores was not successful.

• “I thought that a petition may be able to create the impact needed to make a company like Tesco change their ways,” she told HuffPost UK. “I think that animal welfare and commercial treatment is a really important issue and I know that many others share this view.”

Finance

=> ↺ Another Phony Jobs Report

• The monthly payroll jobs reports have become a bad joke. No growth in real retail sales, but 55,000 retail trade new jobs in February. No growth in real consumer income, but 40,000 more waitresses and bartenders. 86,000 new jobs in Education, health services, and social assistance. February is a strange month to be hiring new teachers. If February brought a quarter million new jobs, how come a big hike in social assistance jobs? Manufacturing lost 16,000 jobs.

=> ↺ The seven sins of the EU investment court

• European trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem and Canadian minister for trade Chrystia Freeland have confirmed that the EU-Canada CETA agreement will include far-reaching investor privileges.

• The investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clause in the deal is set to be based on EU proposals for an Investment Court System (ICS) that were announced last autumn following unprecedented public outcry. However, ICS is no new departure. Indeed, it is the same special rights for foreign investors come back from the dead.

• Plans for ISDS were among the most contentious parts of the proposed TTIP deal between the EU and US. Debate has been focused on the rights that corporations will acquire to challenge democratic decisions when they consider them a threat to their profits.

=> ↺ How Hillary Turned Her Support for Welfare for Banks into an Auto Bailout Attack

• For a campaign that has spent days insisting Bernie Sanders should not launch attacks against her, the Hillary Clinton campaign sure engaged in some dishonest hackery last night.

• During the debate in Flint, Hillary attacked Bernie for “vot[ing] against the money that ended up saving the auto industry.” She was talking about a January 15, 2009 attempt to withhold the second $350 billion of TARP funding that failed (here’s the resolution); Bernie voted not to release those funds. But the vote was not directly about auto bailout funding. It was about bailing out the banks and funding what turned out to be completely ineffective efforts to forestall foreclosures.

PR/AstroTurf/Lobbying

=> ↺ Explaining Donald Trump’s Dick

• Why did Donald Trump inexplicably defend the size of his penis in Thursday’s debate? Because he’s unnaturally sensitive about it? Because, as Jeet Heer suggests, it’s part of a venerable history of monarchs and presidents? Because Hillary Clinton would be the first penis-free president, so it’s a good way of contrasting himself?

=> ↺ Michael Bloomberg Will Not Enter Presidential Race

• Michael R. Bloomberg, who for months quietly laid the groundwork to run for president as an independent, will not enter the 2016 campaign, he said Monday, citing his fear that a three-way race could lead to the election of a candidate he thinks would endanger the country: Donald J. Trump.

• In a forceful condemnation of his fellow New Yorker, Mr. Bloomberg said Mr. Trump has run “the most divisive and demagogic presidential campaign I can remember, preying on people’s prejudices and fears.” He said he was alarmed by Mr. Trump’s threats to bar Muslim immigrants from entering the country and to initiate trade wars against China and Japan, and he was disturbed by Mr. Trump’s “feigning ignorance of white supremacists,” alluding to Mr. Trump’s initial refusal to disavow an endorsement from David Duke.

Censorship

=> ↺ Tax Exemptions as a Rationale for Censorship in Academe

• What struck me the most about the stories they told to the subcommittee is the proactive roles of the college administrations in imposing obstacles to free expression, in ways and to extents unfamiliar to me from my undergraduate and postgraduate days of the 1970s and 1980s decades.

=> ↺ CJN backs social media censorship bill

• The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed Monday threw his weight behind the Frivolous petition bill 2015 (SB. 143), saying the bill when passed would protect the interest of all.

• Speaking during a public hearing organised by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, he said the bill was not out to gag the media.

=> ↺ TV anime censorship goes to a crazy new extreme with 30th anniversary Iczer One broadcast

• We’ve seen some heavy-handed anime censorship in Japan before, but is on a whole other level. Rather than using the clumsily added shadows or steam that are the go-to workarounds for toning down anime for TV broadcast these days, the TV Kanagawa version of Iczer One just decided to throw up all-obscuring black bars, for an effect as subtle as if the viewer’s optic nerve had suddenly decided it couldn’t be bothered to handle its full workload.

=> ↺ Congressional Dems dismiss concerns about censorship on campus

• At a congressional hearing last week, Rep. Peter Roskam condemned the “out of control” politically correct culture used to justify censorship at tax-exempt colleges and universities.

• “Every single year, American taxpayers give colleges and universities billions of dollars’ worth of tax breaks,” Roskam observed in his opening remarks Wednesday at the House Way & Means Subcommittee on Oversight hearing on Protecting the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses. “But is this bargain truly benefiting the American taxpayers—or the students—when colleges suppress speech on campus?”

=> ↺ Can a Turkey sliding into despotism and censorship still join the EU? The answer must be no

• It is waging war on an ethnic minority, its riot police just stormed the offices of a major newspaper, its secret service faces allegations of arming Isis, its military shot down a Russian bomber – and yet Turkey wants to join the European Union. The country’s swift descent into despotism poses yet another existential problem for the west.

• The sight of Europe’s leaders kowtowing to Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in the hope he would switch off the flood of refugees to Greece, was sickening. After the Turkish courts authorised police to seize the Zaman newspaper, tear-gassing its employees and sacking the editors, the new bosses immediately placed Erdoğan’s smiling picture on the front page. He has a lot to smile about.

=> ↺ Turkey cracks down on Zaman, an opposition newspaper

=> ↺ Steamrolling toward autocracy

=> ↺ Turkey’s Zaman vows to continue as opposition newspaper in German exile

=> ↺ Zaman: The murder of a newspaper

=> ↺ Turkey Appoints Trustees to Opposition-Linked News Agency

=> ↺ ‘Turkey moves further away from meeting European standards’

=> ↺ Turkey’s most-read newspaper begins publishing pro-Erdogan articles after government seizure

=> ↺ In Turkey, press freedom has now hit an all-time low thanks to Erdogan

=> ↺ Germany concerned about press freedom in Turkey

=> ↺ Turkish seizure of daily raises concern: Germany

=> ↺ German government concerned about press freedom in Turkey

=> ↺ Germany says Merkel discussed press freedom with Turkish PM

=> ↺ France says seizure of Zaman newspaper by Turkish authorities ‘unacceptable’

=> ↺ France’s Hollande says vigilant on Turkey press freedom

=> ↺ Turkey’s Boydak rejects allegations against jailed executives

=> ↺ Critics no more, Turkey’s Zaman newspaper now fawning over President Tayyip Erdogan

=> ↺ Turkish opposition newspaper turns pro-government after state takeover

=> ↺ Seized anti-Erdogan paper toes Turkish government line

=> ↺ Seized anti-Erdogan paper toes govt line

=> ↺ Seized anti-Erdogan paper toes government line in new edition

=> ↺ Istanbul prosecutor: Trustees’ access to Zaman HQ blocked

=> ↺ Reports say Turkey moving to seize the opposition Zaman Media Group

=> ↺ Istanbul court appoints trustees for Cihan News Agency

=> ↺ Renzi Said to Demand Reference to Press Freedom in Turkey Deal

=> ↺ Government Seizes Turkey’s Largest Newspaper

=> ↺ Istanbul court decides to appoint trustees to Gülen-linked Cihan News Agency

=> ↺ Turkish seizure of daily raises concern: Berlin

=> ↺ Police set up barricades after seizing opposition paper

=> ↺ Turkey: Anti-Erdogan Newspaper Praises Government After Takeover

=> ↺ Germany stuck between Turkish assault on press freedom and refugee crisis

=> ↺ The Turkish People Have a Right to Know What Is Happening in Their Country

=> ↺ Comment: In Turkey, press freedom has now hit an all-time low thanks to Erdogan

=> ↺ Turkey’s Crackdown on Free Press Makes it Barely a Democracy Anymore

=> ↺ Turkey wants more billions for taking back all rejected refugees

=> ↺ Turkey faces criticism on press freedom at EU summit

=> ↺ Turkish Authorities Seize Zaman, Country’s Largest Newspaper

=> ↺ Turkish police fire tear gas for second day after seizing newspaper

=> ↺ Turkey’s Zaman newspaper prints its rebellious last edition

=> ↺ White House says Turkey’s takeover of Zaman daily is ‘troubling’

=> ↺ How to respond to Turkey’s press crackdown

=> ↺ Malaysian Internet Censorship is Going from Bad to Worse

• Following our previous articles about increasing political censorship of the Internet in Malaysia, things have quickly gone from bad to worse. In fact since July 2015, the Malaysian government has blocked at least ten websites, including online news portals and private blogs, for reporting about the scandal surrounding Malaysian Prime Minister Najib tun Razak over his mysterious private dealings with $700 million in funds.

• Among the latest developments include the state’s blocking of online news portal, The Malaysian Insider, due to their reporting on the scandal—a blatant act of press censorship which drew official comment from the U.S. Department of State. Local activist Fahmi Reza has also come under investigation for his parody clown images depicting the Prime Minister posted to his Twitter account.

• And the Malaysian government still clamors for more censorship authority, adding to its existing broad powers under the Penal Code and the Sedition Act. Currently, the government is planning to table the amendments to both the Official Secret Act (OSA) and the Communication & Multimedia Act (CMA) during its upcoming March or May Parliamentary sessions, to strengthen its control over content providers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and end users.

=> ↺ Music in Exile: Smockey playlist

• Serge Bambara, aka Smockey, is a hip-hop artist, producer and activist within Le Balai Citoyen, or the Citizen’s Broom, a grassroots political movement seeking change in Burkina Faso. His music fuses hip-hop with traditional Burkinabe music, to critique and satirise government corruption, the lack of democracy, poverty and prejudice against women within the country.

=> ↺ Council votes on censorship

• Monday saw some controversy during a Calgary City Council meeting after a motion came forward regarding censoring letters written that include racist language.

• In one case, Ward 7 Cllr. Druh Farrell said, one such letter read, “If I wanted to live in a community of savages, I would move to a third world country.”

• Some councillors argued censoring the writing would set a bad precedent.

=> ↺ Am I The Only One… Or Should Film Censorship Be Abolished?

• Stanley Kubrick once said “a filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper”. A very optimistic opinion, especially considering the large number of films banned and given an X rating during the ’70s by the BBFC (thus making them unmarketable for widespread release). Even Kubrick’s masterpiece A Clockwork Orange was voluntarily removed from UK theatrical release for fear of copycat criminals. Other titles that received limited or nonexistent UK release are Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left and Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Privacy

=> ↺ EFF Urges Sixth Circuit to Revisit Case Finding No Warrant Needed for Ten Weeks of Covert 24/7 Video Surveillance

• EFF joined NYU Law School’s Brennan Center for Justice, ACLU, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Libertarian National Committee, and former Congressman Bob Barr in urging the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to revisit a recent opinion finding no reasonable expectation of privacy in 10 weeks of continuous, surreptitious video surveillance. The opinion sets a dangerous precedent that law enforcement officers in Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, and Tennessee don’t need a warrant to film your every move in front of your house.

=> ↺ They Are Watching. Are You?

• Encouraged by millions of dollars in federal grants, local law enforcement agencies across the country are acquiring surveillance technologies at an alarmingly rapid rate. As more and more invasive technologies are created for the military and intelligence agencies, they trickle down to our increasingly militarized police forces. Often, local lawmakers and the public are not familiar with these systems and their dangers to civil liberties, and so public policy in response to surveillance lags behind.

=> ↺ French Parents Face Fines, Lawsuits And Prison For Posting Pictures Of Their Own Children Online

• As Techdirt reported recently, the controversial “right to be forgotten” — actually more of a right to be de-linked in search engines — is starting to spread around the world. But its spiritual home is definitely in Europe, where privacy concerns tend to outweigh other considerations, like freedom of speech, that are regarded as paramount elsewhere — in the US, for example. Leading the charge in the EU is France, which has been pushing Google to de-link items even more widely.

=> ↺ Verizon Strikes $1.35 Million Settlement With FCC Over Its Use Of Stealth ‘Zombie Cookies’

• Last year you’ll recall Verizon Wireless found itself in hot water after being caught modifying user packets to insert stealth tracking technology. By embedding each packet with a unique identifier traffic header, or X-UIDH. Verizon and its marketing partners were not only able to ignore user browser preferences and track their behavior around the Internet, they were then able to use this technology to build detailed user profiles. Verizon Wireless launched and operated the technology for two years before security researchers even noticed the program, and it required another six months of public pressure for Verizon to even offer an opt-out option.

• According to the FCC’s full press announcement (pdf), the fairly measly $1.35 million settlement doesn’t stop the program, which likely won’t please many privacy advocates. Verizon Wireless will however need to transparently notify users of the system and get their explicit opt-in (a rare dinosaur in online tracking rules) consent before sharing any of this data with third parties. The FCC is quick to highlight how Verizon previously proclaimed the technology couldn’t be abused by third parties to build detailed profiles of users — right before it was.

=> ↺ French Parliament Votes For Law That Would Put Tech Execs In Jail If They Don’t Decrypt Data

• Of course, this comes at the same time that basically the entire tech industry is rallying in support of Apple’s stance of refusing to hack into its own systems to remove security features and make it easier to decrypt data. And it’s coming right as the world was ridiculing Brazil for arresting (and then releasing) a Facebook exec for refusing to hand over data from subsidiary Whatsapp.

• This kind of move is so stupid on so many levels that it defies any kind of logic. It’s bad for security, because weak encryption puts us all at much greater risk than the threat of terrorists or criminals using encryption (in part, because this kind of thing won’t stop them from using secure encryption, and in part because those threats are very low probability risks). It’s also bad for the economy, because you’ve just given a ton of important tech companies every reason in the world to no longer operate in France due to such a ridiculous law that may put execs in jail. It’s bad for the public in that it will mean less secure services and devices that put them at risk, while also potentially cutting off more innovative and useful products and services.

• This is the kind of kneejerk reaction from people who are too ignorant and too scared to understand the actual technology and the actual issues at stake. Why do citizens in these countries continue to allow ignorant scared people to make such blatantly bad rules?

=> ↺ Book ‘Dark Territory’ chronicles how NSA hacked DoD command-control systems in four days

• In what was the first-ever high-level exercise testing the U.S. military’s ability to defend itself against a cyberattack, the NSA in 1997 hacked into the DoD’s entire network in just four days, using nothing but commercially available equipment and soft­ware, according to a new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan.

=> ↺ GHCQ head calls for cooler heads amid Apple and FBI encryption feud

=> ↺ GCHQ boss calls for new relationship with tech firms over encryption

=> ↺ GCHQ boss: Tech firms should co-operate over encryption

=> ↺ GCHQ chief offers olive branch to technology firms in online privacy row

=> ↺ GCHQ losing cyberwar despite £860mn extra funding – spy chief

• Despite being handed hundreds of millions in taxpayers’ cash, British spooks are losing the cyberwar, a top GCHQ director has acknowledged.

• Alex Dewdney, who is head of the Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) branch of GCHQ, told an audience in the US that UK intelligence is lagging behind.

=> ↺ GCHQ admits £1bn spend on cyber security ‘hasn’t worked’

• GCHQ is losing the cyber security war, according to director of cyber security at CESG (Communications-Electronics Security Group) Alex Dewedney, who admitted that, despite a £1bn spend over the past five years, “the bottom line is it hasn’t worked”.

• Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco late last week, Dewedney also suggested a “more interventionist policy” may now be needed.

=> ↺ The Privacy Shield is Riddled with Surveillance Holes

• The European Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce have finally announced the details of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, an agreement designed to ensure that personal data can flow between Europe and the U.S. for commercial purposes while maintaining the privacy rights Europeans have come to love and expect. Lawmakers in the U.S. and abroad were under intense pressure to produce some sort of agreement after the European Court of Justice (CJEU) dissolved the safe harbor agreement related to transatlantic data flows last October, leaving countless international tech firms in a lurch about how to handle data. The court decision and subsequent negotiation could have been a powerful motivator for the U.S. to clean up its surveillance policies. Instead, the patchwork of concessions in the Privacy Shield leaves the door open for the digital surveillance of hundreds of millions of Europeans.

• It’s unclear what, if anything, the new Privacy Shield is supposed to be shielding people from— except perhaps shielding U.S. companies from the inevitable consequences of their country’s mass surveillance program.

=> ↺ EFF and 46 Technology Experts Ask Court To Throw Out Unconstitutional Apple Order

• The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and 46 technology industry experts, including inventors of modern cryptography, told a federal court today that forcing Apple to write and sign computer code disabling crucial iPhone security features that protect millions of users violates the company’s free speech rights.

• The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) should not be allowed to, in effect, stand over the shoulders of Apple programmers and force them to create and sign off on code that would decimate the iPhone’s security, EFF said. The signed code would send a clear message that it’s OK to undermine encryption that users rely on—a view the government endorses but Apple fiercely opposes. EFF made its arguments in a friend-of-the-court brief filed today in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The brief was signed by 46 technologists, security researchers, and cryptographers, including digital signature pioneers Martin Hellman and Ronald Rivest.

=> ↺ Inside “Eligible Receiver”

• The task turned out to be appallingly easy. Many defense computers, it turned out, weren’t protected by passwords. Others were protected by the lamest passwords, like “password” or “ABCDE” or “12345.” In some cases, the Red Team snipped all of an office’s links except for a fax line, then flooded that line with call after call after call, shutting it down. In a few instances, NSA attachés—one inside the Pentagon, the other at a Pacific Com­mand facility in Hawaii—went dumpster diving, riffling through trash cans and dumpsters, looking for passwords. This trick, too, bore fruit.

=> ↺ IoT subscriber growth surpasses smartphone users’ in January

• The number of users subscribing to Internet-of-Things (IoT) services grew at a faster pace than those subscribing to smartphones in Korea on-month in January, data showed Sunday, on the back of the rising sales of wearable smart devices.

• According to data compiled by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, the number of Koreans subscribing to IoT-related services shot up 83,577 in January from a month earlier, compared to the 70,097 new smartphone subscribers over the cited period.

=> ↺ Amazon Flip-Flop Lands Fire OS Back in Encryption Camp

=> ↺ After Backlash, Amazon Promises To Bring Back Encryption On Fire OS

• Just to close the loop on this one: just after the firestorm last week when Amazon was called out for removing device encryption from Fire OS 5 (at the very same time as its CTO was saying encryption is “mandatory” and the company signed on to a brief supporting Apple in the encryption fight, the company has admitted that it will restore encryption to Fire OS 5 “sometime in the spring.”

=> ↺ Amazon douses flames, vows to restore Fire OS fondleslab encryption

• Amazon has U-turned on its decision to remove filesystem encryption from Fire OS, which powers its Fire and Kindle slabs.

• We’ve been told that a version due out within the next month or two will return support for encrypting documents stored on the devices. This decision to restore the feature comes just days after it emerged that Amazon had axed the encryption from the latest build of its tablet operating system: Fire OS 5.

• Removing the crypto sparked outcry from furious Fire and Kindle owners as well as the wider tech world. Amazon appears to have taken notice.

=> ↺ How the FBI will lose its iPhone fight, thanks to ‘West Coast Law’

• The vast majority of it has centered on the rights and the wrongs, about the loss of privacy, and of the precedent that breaking one iPhone would create.

=> ↺ US to renegotiate rules on exporting “intrusion software”

• After nearly a year of protests from the information security industry, security researchers, and others, US officials have announced that they plan to re-negotiate regulations on the trade of tools related to “intrusion software.” While it’s potentially good news for information security, just how good the news is will depend largely on how much the Obama administration is willing to push back on the other 41 countries that are part of the agreement—especially after the US was key in getting regulations on intrusion software onto the table in the first place.

• The rules were negotiated through the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies, an agreement governing the trade of weapons and technology that could be used for military purposes. Originally intended to prevent proliferation and build-up of weapons, the US and other Western nations pushed for operating system, software, and network exploits to be included in the Wassenaar protocol to prevent the use of commercial malware and hacking tools by repressive regimes against their own people for surveillance.

=> ↺ GCHQ: Spy chief admits UK agency losing cyberwar despite £860m funding boost

• A top director at UK spy agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has admitted he was fighting a losing battle when it comes to cybersecurity – despite an £860m boost in government funding over the past five years.

• Alex Dewdney, director of cybersecurity at CESG which is the information security arm of GCHQ, was speaking during the recent RSA conference in San Francisco where he outlined some major problems encountered by cyber-experts tasked with protecting the UK from attack.

=> ↺ Eric Schmidt gets a job at the Pentagon

• Secretary of Defense Ashton Carton on Wednesday appointed Schmidt the head of a new Defense Innovation Advisory Board, which will help the Pentagon keep up with the latest Silicon Valley ideas and apply them at the Department of Defense.

=> ↺ Military hits snag in Silicon Valley recruitment

• The fight between the FBI and Apple over a locked iPhone is threatening to undermine the Pentagon’s attempt to recruit talent from Silicon Valley.

• Defense Secretary Ash Carter spent this week out West, meeting with tech executives and launching new cybersecurity initiatives that will rely on help from the Bay Area.

• But under the looming shadow of the FBI’s request that Apple help bypass the iPhone’s security measures, Carter also made a noticeable effort to send a signal to techies: We get you.

=> ↺ Ronald Reagan’s Viewing of 80’s Movie Classic ‘Wargames’ Set Basis for NSA Spying

• When Ronald Reagan saw it in a Joint Chiefs meeting, he asked chairman John Vessey to investigate whether it was Hollywood magic, or if American military systems could really be compromised by an industrious kid or a Soviet initiative. Vessey relayed his findings to President Reagan a week later: Not only was it possible, it was, in fact, becoming increasingly probable.

=> ↺ Please Write To MPs To Call For More Time To Debate Investigatory Powers Bill

• Last week, the UK government published a revised Investigatory Powers Bill, aka the Snooper’s Charter. Surprisingly, it took no notice of the the serious criticisms made by no less than three Parliamentary committees; indeed, in some respects, it has made the Bill even worse.

Civil Rights

=> ↺ Stop the global crackdown on academic freedom! Act now!

• A call for the global community of teachers and students to protest against this most dangerous trend by signing, translating and circulating this statement, and organising protest meetings in all universities.

=> ↺ The Fight to Keep Abortion Safe & Legal: A Special Report from Outside the U.S. Supreme Court

• The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the most significant abortion case in a generation. Abortion providers in Texas, led by Whole Woman’s Health, have challenged provisions of a sweeping anti-choice law passed by the Texas state Legislature in 2013 despite a people’s filibuster and an 11-hour stand by Texas state Senator Wendy Davis. The provisions at stake force abortion clinics to meet the standards of hospital-style surgery centers and require providers to obtain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital—a task many can’t achieve, in part due to anti-choice sentiment. Similar restrictions have been passed in multiple states. As the case was being argued inside the court, a few thousand people rallied outside in support of Whole Woman’s Health, including fellow abortion providers and women who have had abortions. Democracy Now!’s Amy Littlefield was at the rally and also spoke with the anti-choice protesters, who held a competing demonstration.

=> ↺ Don’t Say ‘Opposing Gay Rights’ When You Mean Discriminating Against Gays

• What you aren’t allowed to do—in some situations—is discriminate against LGBT people, and these bills are an effort to make it OK to do so. Discrimination has not generally been seen as a First Amendment–protected activity; if it had been, the civil rights movement would have been effectively stymied. But the organized homophobia movement is trying to rebrand discrimination as a kind of speech—hence the marketing of these pro-discrimination bills as “First Amendment Defense Acts.”

=> ↺ The Genesis of #HateHurts

• It is seemingly everywhere nowadays. It’s at the center of the conversation during this perpetual election season. It’s a focal point of the anti-refugee sentiment that is stretching across the Western world. It hangs over the interactions of everyday people, those Muslim and those perceived to be Muslim.

=> ↺ Louis C.K. Compares Donald Trump to Hitler: ‘He’s an Insane Bigot’

• Louis C.K. is the latest public figure to criticize Donald Trump, calling him an “insane bigot” and comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

• In a Saturday morning email blast announcing the sixth episode of his web series “Horace and Pete,” C.K. included a lengthy postscript urging readers not to vote for Trump.

• “Please stop it with voting for Trump,” C.K. writes. “It was funny for a little while. But the guy is Hitler. And by that I mean that we are being Germany in the ’30s. Do you think they saw the sh-t coming? Hitler was just some hilarious and refreshing dude with a weird comb over who would say anything at all.”

=> ↺ Abuse Of Power: Laws Should Be Designed As If The People We Distrust The Most Are In Power

• There have been a few stories lately that have all combined to make a few key points crystallize in my mind, concerning various legal powers and the way that some people view them. It starts with an excellent article from Trevor Timm in which the title lays out the issue: Imagine Obama’s national security policies in Trump’s hands. After all, this is the guy who hasn’t been shy in promising to settle scores if he’s elected.

=> ↺ New Film Delves Into FBI Arrests of Youths for Terrorism Crimes They Might Commit

• IN AN EARLY SCENE from the HBO documentary Homegrown, an FBI agent describes his angst while tracking a teenager’s engagement in the online jihadi world. “You almost want to pick up the phone and say, ‘Son, don’t do this,’” the agent reflects. The teenager in question was Shifa Sadequee, a 19-year-old who was arrested on terrorism charges in 2006. Following a 2009 trial in which Sadequee represented himself, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison plus an additional 30 years of supervision.

• The ethical issues involved in preventive counterterrorism cases like Sadequee’s are the theme behind much of Homegrown. Following 9/11, law enforcement agencies were given a mandate to halt terrorist acts before they occurred, rather than investigate crimes after the fact. This directive inevitably gave rise to some disturbing ethical questions. When is it acceptable to arrest someone for a crime they haven’t actually committed, but you think they might commit in the future? At what point do a teenager’s online postings turn into a terrorism offense?

=> ↺ Donald Trump, America’s Own Silvio Berlusconi

• AS A WRITER who has covered Silvio Berlusconi since he became Italy’s prime minister in 1994, it has been difficult not to be overcome with a powerful sense of déjà vu all over again watching the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.

=> ↺ Texas’ Annual Roundup of the Working Poor

• The Great Texas Warrant Roundup is an annual statewide collaboration of courts and law enforcement agencies. Their goal is to collect payment of overdue fines and fees from Texans who have outstanding warrants for unpaid traffic tickets and to arrest and jail those who can’t pay. What little press is dedicated to the Roundup focuses on praising cities for the so-called “amnesty” period that precedes it.

DRM

=> ↺ DRM Is Evil, Part 8,492: Nook Pulls Out Of UK, Exploring Options To Let People Retain Access To At Least Some Books

• Yet another story of how badly DRM screws over legitimate buyers, with no actual benefit for copyright holders. This time, it’s about the total failure of Barnes & Noble’s Nook ebook reader, which is struggling globally, and shutting down entirely in the UK. Nate Hoffelder has a great article explaining why the Nook has been such an abject failure, but a key point highlighted by the Register is that the company is still working to see if there are ways that legitimate buyers can keep access to at least some of the books they purchased.

=> ↺ Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Apple’s Appeal In eBook Price Fixing Case

• This isn’t a huge surprise, but this morning the Supreme Court refused to hear Apple’s appeal of its loss in the case brought by the Justice Department for engaging in price fixing on ebooks with the big book publishers. During the course of the case and appeals, Apple worked out a settlement, agreeing to pay $450 million — but only after the appeals process was exhausted. And, that’s now happened. As with basically all appeals rejected by the Supreme Court, the court gave no reason. It just denied cert.

Intellectual Monopolies

=> ↺ Findings of EU Project On Conservation Of Genetic Resources Due Out In June

• The findings, conclusions and preliminary recommendations of a European Commission initiative on the conservation and sustainable use of genetic diversity are to be presented in June, the Commission has announced.

• The “Preparatory action on EU [European Union] plant and animal genetic resources in agriculture” followed an initiative tabled by the European Parliament, and was launched in July 2014 for a period of two years, according to the commission.

• The EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 [pdf] includes an action to conserve Europe’s agricultural genetic diversity. The preparatory action is meant to support the EU “in recognizing the potentials for added value in the field of conservation and sustainable use of agricultural genetic resources,” according to the preparatory action webpage.

Copyrights

=> ↺ The Donald Sends Cease And Desist Threat To Band Over The Use Of His Name In Music And Video

• So, the political season is really starting to ramp up now, which means the insanity ramps up along with it. This particular go around in presidential politics has been particularly absurd, causing even those of us that try to view it all through the prism of entertainment to be more than a little frightened. Still, there can be no doubt that there has been an uptick in the engagement level of the American people, including from musical artists looking to provide commentary on American politics. Take this song and video released by music duo Fight Clvb, for instance. It’s called Donald Trump and it is massively NSFW.

=> ↺ Foreign Copyright Holders Could More Actively Protect IP In Russia

• Russia is continuing to strengthen its national legislation in the field of intellectual property, through the provision of means for foreign copyright holders to more actively protect their intellectual property in Russia and the elimination of bureaucratic hurdles, according to official sources.

• This is taking place as part of the ongoing reform of the national IP policy.

• On 15 February, the scope of the Russian anti-piracy law was significantly expanded, through the inclusion of all copyrighted works (music, books, inventions) and related rights in the subject of protection. This provided an opportunity to foreign rights holders to better protect their IP in Russia.

=> ↺ “Kanye Bay” — Kanye West Now Gets His Own Pirate Bay Proxy

• Responding to the latest screenshot that suggested that Kanye West was pirating some music software, the Pirate Bay offered him a dedicated “Kanye Bay” proxy.

=> ↺ Apple is Running BitTorrent Trackers in Cupertino

• Apple is not known for being friendly towards BitTorrent software in its App Store but it appears the technology giant isn’t averse to using the technology itself. In fact, according to data provided by “Internet of things” search engine Shodan, Apple is running BitTorrent trackers from dozens of IP addresses in Cupertino.

=> ↺ BitTorrent Hater Apple Is Running BitTorrent Trackers At Its Headquarters

• Shodan, the IoT Search engine, has come up with proof that Apple was running BitTorrent trackers in their Cupertino office.

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