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=> ↺ Andalusia renews funds for key open source projects
- The government of the Spanish autonomous region of Andalusia will continue to fund the development of GECOS and Guadalinux, two of the region’s key free software projects. On 28 April, the region awarded a one-year EUR 70,000 contract to Solutia, a Spanish ICT service provider. The government is planning new features and improvement, and all updates will be shared publicly.
=> ↺ 7 Simple Linux Tricks that Newbies Should Know to Get Comfortable Using It
- It is normal for the Linux newbies to struggle as they use the system as it is very different from Windows. You might find yourself confused to handle even the simplest of tasks. Though the command line will actually make the Linux life easier, it could be exasperating for the beginners.
Desktop
=> ↺ App stores and Linux repositories: Maybe the worst ideas ever
- Technically, since we’re talking about Linux and free/open source software here, there’s nothing stopping someone from cloning the entire repository for a system before it goes offline and then providing that repository as a service to people who still want it. But this is a big undertaking and is something that a casual user of a platform simply isn’t going to do.
- In my case, I absolutely would have done this for my N810. I would have cloned the entire repository, including system updates, and hosted it on my server for personal use (and provided it to anyone else who needed it). Would I have ever bothered to update it? Probably not. But I would have had it there for as long as I ran that device. But, alas, I didn’t know the company was killing the entire repository (perhaps I should have expected it, but I didn’t). So, I’m plum out of luck. Plus, I’m weird. Most people would absolutely not clone a repository and self-host it. That’s just a crazy thing to do.
Kernel Space
=> ↺ Linux 4.7-rc3
- You all know the drill, so sing along now: “Another week, another rc”.
- Nothing particularly odd has been going on. As promised, rc3 has the fix for the NFS issue that was pending last rc. Not that anybody seems to have noticed (also as expected).
- The diffstat looks fairly normal and innocuous. There’s more of a filesystem component to it than usual, but that’s mostly some added new btrfs tests, and if you ignore that part it’s all the normal stuff: drivers dominate (gpu and networking drivers are the bulk, but there’s i2c, rdma, …) with some arch updates, and general networking code. And the usual random stuff all over.
- But it all is pretty small. Shortlog appended for people who like to get a quick overview of the details.
=> ↺ Linux 4.7-rc3 Kernel Has Been Released To End A Quiet Week
=> ↺ Linus Torvalds Releases Linux Kernel 4.7 RC3 with a Fix for an NFS Issue
=> ↺ Intel Currently Has No Plans For A Turbo Boost Max 3.0 Linux Driver
- Just found a nugget of news from an Intel representative in case you have been eyeing an Intel Broadwell-E processor: there are no driver plans for Linux for the new Turbo Boost Max 3.0 functionality.
=> ↺ We show up
- It’s really common for pitches to managements within companies about Linux kernel upstreaming to focus on cost savings to vendors from getting their code into the kernel, especially in the embedded space. These benefits are definitely real, especially for vendors trying to address the general market or extend the lifetime of their devices, but they are only part of the story. The other big thing that happens as a result of engaging upstream is that this is a big part of how other upstream developers become aware of what sorts of hardware and use cases there are out there.
Graphics Stack
=> ↺ NEMO-UX Goes Commercial To Focus On Futuristic, Multi-User Wayland
=> ↺ RadeonSI & Intel Both Get Patches For Boosting Compute Shader Performance
=> ↺ AMD’s Radeon RX Announcement For E3 2016
=> ↺ NVIDIA 367.27 Linux Driver Released As Stable With VDPAU Feature Set H
Benchmarks
=> ↺ AMDGPU-PRO vs. Linux 4.7 + Mesa 12.1-dev OpenGL Benchmarks
- A few days back I posted a fresh comparison of AMDGPU-PRO against NVIDIA’s binary driver on various GPUs. Those numbers didn’t include any direct AMDGPU-PRO vs. open-source Radeon/AMDGPU + RadeonSI numbers, but here they are on a couple GPUs if you are curious about the state of Linux 4.7 Git and Mesa 12.1-dev.
=> ↺ CUDA vs. OpenCL GPGPU Performance On NVIDIA’s Pascal
- Following yesterday’s Deep Learning and CUDA Benchmarks On The GeForce GTX 1080 Under Linux one of the Phoronix reader inquiries was about the OpenCL vs. CUDA performance on the GTX 1080… Is one GPGPU compute API faster than the other with NVIDIA’s proprietary driver? Here are some side-by-side benchmarks.
Applications
=> ↺ Gwenview: Organize and share pictures
- Gwenview is a tool for organizing pictures both on your computer and through online accounts. It also includes editing plug-ins and preview functions. Once you edit and check your images, you can upload directly to a long list of online services. In addition, it’s a great photo organizer and manager.
=> ↺ SMPlayer 16.6 Free Media Player Released with HiDPI Support, New Tablet Mode
- The SMPlayer development team was proud to announce the general availability of SMPlayer 16.6.0, a major release that brings exciting new features for all supported platforms.
- SMPlayer is an open-source, cross-platform and free media player application that works on both Linux kernel-based and Microsoft Windows operating systems, offering users a modern, stable, and powerful tool for watching movies and live streams.
- As its name suggests, SMPlayer is based on the award-winning MPlayer project, which means that it supported all the known video and audio formats available. The new release, SMPlayer 16.6 has been ported to the latest Qt5 technologies, thus finally bringing the long-anticipated support for High DPI (HiDPI) displays.
Instructionals/Technical
=> ↺ Snappy Brand New Package Manager for Ubuntu
=> ↺ Modify/Edit/Re-pack ISO Files Using Mkisofs In Linux
=> ↺ 14 Practical examples of the rsync command
=> ↺ Neofetch – Display your Linux system’s information
=> ↺ 20 Quirky Things You Didn’t Know The Linux Terminal Could Do
=> ↺ RDO Mitaka Virtual Deployment having real physical network as External
=> ↺ [Solved] Dependency Is Not satisfiable: libvpx1 Error While Installing VirtualBox In Linux Mint 18 Beta
=> ↺ Secure VSFTPD server with TLS/SSL encryption in Ubuntu 16.04
=> ↺ vlock – A Smart Way to Lock User Virtual Console or Terminal in Linux
=> ↺ A Pipboy-like terminal application in Guile: Part 3 – labels and progress bars
=> ↺ Running Docker on Crouton Fedora 24
Games
=> ↺ Want to play Morrowind natively on Linux using OpenMW? Well it’s on sale on GOG
=> ↺ Stardew Valley for Linux should be ready very soon
- Considering Ethan Lee (who wasn’t picked to port it) already had a working concept using FNA, I am glad the people who were picked to port it won’t be taking too long.
=> ↺ CorsixTH, the open source Theme Hospital engine has a major release
- CorsixTH 0.60 has been released which features user campaigns, an in-game map editor and more. Really pleased to see it progress as TH is an absolute classic.
=> ↺ Clockwork Empires developer reaffirms Linux support will come one day
- I was pretty sad to see that the new game from Gaslamp (developer of Dredmor) Clockwork Empires didn’t have a Linux version, but the developer has said again it will.
=> ↺ Cities: Skylines – Match Day, a free DLC to add a Stadium to your city
=> ↺ Ballistic Overkill adds Linux support, a pretty good looking online class-based FPS
=> ↺ Unity3D Is Prepping To Roll Out A Number Of 2D Improvements
Desktop Environments/WMs
K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt
=> ↺ Qt Automotive Suite takes Linux for a ride
- Qt announced a Linux-driven Qt Automotive Suite based on Qt for Device Creation designed for quickly developing IVI and instrument cluster GUIs.
- The Qt Company announced that it will soon ship an automotive stack for developing in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) and instrument cluster GUIs. The Qt Automotive Suite combines a new Application Manager and Qt IVI API library with a customized version of Qt Device Creation and hooks to the Qt Creator IDE. There’s also a modified version of Qt Creator with a new “GammaRay” feature.
=> ↺ Randa day 0
=> ↺ Qt 5.7 Is Bringing A New Qt Wayland Compositor API
=> ↺ Qt WebKit Looks To Be Making A Comeback
- Within the upstream Qt tool-kit, the WebKit module was dropped in favor of Qt WebEngine that’s powered by Google’s Chromium “Blink” engine. While Qt WebEngine is still working out well for new development projects, it looks like Qt WebKit is being worked on for a revival.
=> ↺ KDE neon User Edition 5.6 Screenshot Tour
GNOME Desktop/GTK
=> ↺ “Gtk 4.0 is not Gtk 4”
- In general, we feel that this approach is the best possible combination of two distinct and valid desires. Gtk users that have been asking for stability will get what they need, and the authors of Gtk will get additional freedom to improve the toolkit at a faster pace.
=> ↺ GNOME’s GTK Developers Come Up With A Plan For GTK+ 4
- At a GTK+ hackfest this week the developers have come up with a new plan for delivering major releases of the GTK+ tool-kit every two years, e.g. GTK4, GTK5, GTK6, etc.
=> ↺ Third week at GSoC
- After that, I needed to implement the gnome client too. I followed the tutorial on QT so I thought I can just learn GTK+ by reading the code. Finally, I just lost a lot of time by doing that and I didn’t learn a lot. In response to that problem I finally use an GTK+ tutorial.
=> ↺ Minutes of the Board Meeting of June, 06th, 2016
Distributions
New Releases
=> ↺ 4MParted 18.0 Disk Partitioning Live CD Uses GParted 0.25.0, Based on 4MLinux
- 4MLinux developer Zbigniew Konojacki informs Softpedia today, June 12, 2016, about the general availability of the Beta release of his upcoming 4MParted 18.0 disk partitioning Live CD.
- Based on the Beta version of 4MLinux 18.0 Core, the main edition of the 4MLinux independent operating system on which all the other flavors are based, including 4MRescueKit, 4MRecover, Antivirus Live CD, and BakAndImgCD, 4MParted 18.0 has entered Beta stages of development and ships with GParted 0.25.0.
=> ↺ ExLight Linux Is a Gorgeous Distro Based on Enlightenment 0.21 and Kernel 4.6.2
- GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton informs Softpedia today, June 13, 2016, about the immediate availability of a new build of his ExLight Linux Live DVD distribution.
=> ↺ Black Lab Linux 8.0 “Onyx” Alpha 4 Ready for Testing, Based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Today, June 13, 2016, Black Lab Software CEO Roberto J. Dohnert informs Softpedia about the general availability of the fourth Alpha build of the upcoming Black Lab Linux 8.0 “Onyx” operating system.
Arch Family
=> ↺ Manjaro Gnome Edition 16.06
- The Manjaro Community is proud to announce the release of Manjaro Gnome 16.06, following the new official theming Vertex-Maia. A variety of software for everyday use is included aswell as all the typical manjaro utilities. Additionally some useful extension have been pre-installed and enabled.
=> ↺ Manjaro Linux 16.06.1 released
- We are happy to announce our first point release of Daniella. Since most of you with AMD/ATI hardware were not able to install Manjaro with our original Daniella install media, we took another week of development time to fix the reported issues by you guys.
=> ↺ Antergos Linux Users Are Getting the Latest Cinnamon 3.0 and MATE 1.14 Desktops
- Today, June 12, 2016, Dustin Falgout from Antergos, a rolling and elegant Arch Linux-based operating system, had the pleasure of announcing the availability of the latest Cinnamon 3.0 and MATE 1.14 desktop environments in the official repos.
- Both MATE 1.14 and Cinnamon 3.0 desktops were released back in April, but it looks like it takes a while for the maintainers of various GNU/Linux operating systems to update them in their distros, that including Ubuntu MATE, which just brought the MATE 1.14 packages for their new Xenial Xerus (16.04) release, and now Antergos.
Red Hat Family
=> ↺ Huawei Announces Collaboration with Red Hat to Offer Carrier-grade SDN Solutions
- Huawei announces completion of SDN Agile Controller certification with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 7 at Huawei’s Beijing SDN Open Lab. This marks the first time Huawei’s SDN controller has been certified for interoperability with a mainstream cloud platform. It is an important step for Huawei’s SDN Integration service in building a multi-vendor certification, construct open, cooperative SDN ecosystem.
=> ↺ Red Hat releases Open Decision Framework
- Red Hat has announced the release of a community version of the Open Decision Framework, the company’s collection of its own best practices for making decisions and leading projects.
- The framework, according to the vendor, can help decision-makers communicate transparently, seek out diverse perspectives, collaborate more effectively across distributed teams, and limit unanticipated impacts of business projects and decisions.
Finance
=> ↺ Stock To Watch: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)
=> ↺ Are Analysts Bearish Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT) After Last Week?
=> ↺ Buy, Sell Or Hold Rating For Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)?
=> ↺ Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) Projections For Share Price Is $88.50
=> ↺ Traders Attention Alert: ServiceSource International, Inc. (NASDAQ:SREV) , Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)
=> ↺ Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT): Sell-Side Estimates for Earnings
=> ↺ Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) Stock Declines, Analysts: Buy Rating
=> ↺ Earnings Trend per share for Investors: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. (NYSE:HOV)
=> ↺ Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT) Stock Price Will Hit 88.50:Analyst
Debian Family
=> ↺ Mourning Hans-Jürgen Koch
- Thomas Gleixner wrote the following to us: The Linux Kernel community is mourning the passing of Hans-Jürgen Koch. Hans was a free-software enthusiast and an active contributor. He worked on Radio Data System support both in kernel and user space and was the main author and maintainer of the UIO subsystem and contributed in various ways to the Linux kernel as a professional and hobbyist. He authored a UIO book, gave countless talks at various open-source conferences, and served as a member of the Linuxtag program committee.
=> ↺ APT 1.3 Development Advances, APT 1.2.13 Now Available for Debian and Ubuntu
- The APT developers are hard at work these days to add as many new features and improvements to the upcoming major APT (Advance Package Tool) 1.3 release.
- Exactly one month ago, we reported on the availability of the first experimental build of APT 1.3, which brough many changes and bug fixes, at least when compared with the latest APT 1.2 series which now lies in the unstable repository for Debian GNU/Linux.
=> ↺ Maru OS Brings Debian to Your Phone
- Have you ever had the suspicion that your smartphone wasn’t quite pulling its weight? New Android phones ship with more processing power than a laptop had a few years ago, but the most taxing thing we use them for is Candy Crush.
- Maybe these phones are so smart because they avoid doing real work? Well, that’s about to change.
- Maru OS, a hybrid operating system combining Linux and Android, has just come out of private beta. You can download it and take it for a spin today—if you have a Nexus 5.
=> ↺ Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, May 2016
=> ↺ Week 1 – Report
=> ↺ Installing reSIProcate with apt-get source package
=> ↺ A beginner’s guide to Debian Source Packages
Derivatives
=> ↺ HandyLinux 3 to Be Based on Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch”, HandyLinux 2.5 Out Now
- Arpinux, the developer of HandyLinux, informs Softpedia about the immediate availability for download of HandyLinux 2.5, a new maintenance update in the 2.x stable series of the Debian-based computer operating system.
Canonical/Ubuntu
=> ↺ New ubuntuBSD Release Is Coming Soon, Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and FreeBSD 10.3
- The upcoming ubuntuBSD distro has been in development since March 2016, and it is now time for it to enter the spotlight. The final release is due soon according to the latest tweet from the project’s official Twitter page.
=> ↺ New ubuntuBSD Based On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS And FreeBSD 10.3 Releasing Soon
Flavours and Variants
=> ↺ Linux Mint 18: Hands on with the Cinnammon and MATE betas
- The Linux Mint 18 betas for Cinnamon and MATE desktops were announced on Thursday, so allowing time for release candidates, and with a bit of luck, the final release could be out by the end of the month. I have installed each of the betas on a couple of different computers, and so far everything has looked very good. Here are a few of my experiences, comments and opinions.
=> ↺ Linux Mint 18 Beta Now Available With Extended Support Until 2021
- Ahead of the impending launch of the new Linux Mint 18 operating system next month, its developers have this week released a Linux Mint 18 Beta version for those interested to download and install.
=> ↺ Linux Mint 18 ‘Sarah’ is now in beta, with a final release expected soon
- Linux Mint’s 17.x series focused on polish and refinement atop a stable Ubuntu 14.04 LTS base. With Linux Mint 18, the project is upgrading to an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS base. This means a much more modern Linux kernel, newer drivers, and improved hardware support. More hardware should work better, and the software available in the repositories will be much newer.
=> ↺ Linux Mint 18 beta released with new apps, theme, and more
- The latest version of Linux Mint is coming soon, but if you want to take it for a spin a bit early, there are now beta version of Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon and Linux Mint 18 MATE available for download.
Devices/Embedded
=> ↺ Open source hypervisor exploits hardware virtualization in MIPS CPUs
=> ↺ Small footprint open source hypervisor makes highly efficient use of hardware virtualization technology in Imagination’s MIPS CPUs
=> ↺ A Raspberry Pi Zero in a Handy Tech Active Star 40 Braille Display
- Braille displays come in various sizes. There are models tailored for desktop use (with 60 cells or more), models tailored for portable use with a laptop (usually with 40 cells), and, nowadays, there are even models tailored for on-the-go use with a smartphone or similar (with something like 14 or 18 cells).
Phones
Tizen
=> ↺ Samsung considers using Tizen in all products
- Samsung Electronics is considering expanding the use of its Tizen software in all company devices to cut its heavy reliance on the Google Android platform, a senior Samsung Electronics executive said Monday.
=> ↺ Reports Are Circulating That Samsung Wants To Switch More Devices Over To Tizen
- Reports are once again circulating that Samsung is looking at easing its reliance on Google’s Android by switching more of their devices over to running on their Linux-based Tizen project.
- While we’ve been covering Tizen for years, to date not many devices are relying upon this Linux platform with a long history in the mobile space. Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatches have been using Tizen along with some smartphones mainly within India, but now reports are coming out that Samsung is wanting to put Tizen on more smartphones — perhaps even all of their future smartphones and other Internet-enabled devices — as a replacement to Android.
Android
=> ↺ Verizon Rolls Out Android Security Patch for Galaxy S7
=> ↺ Secrets Of Android N: The Top Features From Google’s Future
=> ↺ Android Wear 2.0 is not for everyone
=> ↺ HTC and Huawei Linked With Google’s Nexus 2016 Phones: Android N & Daydream VR As Standard?
=> ↺ Best new icon packs for Android (June 2016)
=> ↺ Best new Android and iPhone apps (June 7th – June 13th)
=> ↺ Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow Update: Use Custom ROM For Samsung Galaxy S6 Global Variant
=> ↺ Samsung said to prep a powerful flip Android, codenamed Veyron
- Remember that thin and elegant clamshell that is supposedly the successor of Galaxy Folder which popped up in an import database last week? Well, that’s not the only flipper heir that Samsung has in store for us.
- Rumor has it that it is also working on a high-end one, coded SM-W2017, and by high-end we mean something with Exynos 8890 chipset, and a 12 MP camera main, as well as 5 MP front cameras, possibly the same that are on the Galaxy S7. It will likely be a successor to the SM-2016 that Samsung unveiled last year, which, too, had an Exynos processor, and top-shelf internals for the time, such as 3 GB RAM and a 16 MP camera.
=> ↺ Google doesn’t care who makes Android phones. Or who it pisses off
- Google could use defeat in the Oracle case to take Android proprietary, reckons analyst Richard Windsor, who thinks development for this watershed event is already well underway, as we reported last week.
- Google would then be able to bring the ecosystem up to date much more quickly than it does today.
=> ↺ Google and Android: here comes the lockdown
- We all know what Android’s supposed to be about. It’s about individuality, and freedom. It’s about customization, and a wide choice of hardware. It’s about free as in speech, and free as in beer. And it’s about to be locked down so tight that it might lose everything we’ve just mentioned. It won’t happen this year, but at least one industry analyst reckons the open source Android’s days are numbered. To quote The Clash, we’re waiting for the clampdown.
=> ↺ The Panasonic Toughpad FZ-A2 is a 10.1-inch Android rugged powerhouse aimed at enterprises
- Panasonic has unveiled the Toughpad FZ-A2, a rugged 10.1-inch Android tablet aimed at the enterprise sector.
- The Panasonic Toughpad FZ-A2, which was unveiled at the Panasonic Automotive Innovation Summit in Barcelona, is not designed with the regular tablet user in mind. Instead, Panasonic markets the slab as being ideal for mobile workers and as a showroom tablet.
=> ↺ Android: How to enable one-handed mode in Google Keyboard
=> ↺ WhatsApp Quote and Reply Feature Available on Both Android and iOS Platform
=> ↺ Android Marshmallow Fixed Memory Leak In A Future Update
=> ↺ Android Marshmallow memory leak fixed but ETA unknown
=> ↺ Android Automation Showdown: IFTTT vs. Tasker
=> ↺ Moto 360 Won’t Get Android Wear 2.0 Update
=> ↺ Motorola’s OneCompute brings Continuum to Android, but Microsoft does not need to worry (yet)
=> ↺ Older Android Wear watches will miss out on the 2.0 update
=> ↺ Must read: top 10 Android stories
=> ↺ 5 of the best Bluetooth keyboards for iPhone and Android (2016)
Free Software/Open Source
=> ↺ 3 Trending Networking Skills Employers Look for in Open Source Pros
- Today, open source development is an integral part of the tech industry, as more and more companies are looking for greater collaboration, flexibility and efficiency within their organizations. With what’s trending in tech constantly changing, the open source model provides companies with the ability to accommodate new technologies and at a rapid speed.
=> ↺ IT Trends: Business Efficiency With Open Source
=> ↺ Do You Need An Army of Committers to Succeed in Open Source?
- How many contributors represent critical mass in terms of ensuring the success of an open source project? Not as many as you may think, according to Donnie Berkholz, a former RedMonk analyst. Berkholz did a deep dive on some data from Ohloh, which tracks a vast set of open-source software projects, to investigate some of the effects related to community size.
=> ↺ Using Pirate Metrics to measure success of open source contributions
- As a community manager of a relatively young open source project, I want to share some of our experiences and methodologies we use for measuring the success of our project. These ideas and techniques are a work in progress. Hopefully you can pick up some ideas from hearing what we do, and better yet, share some of your new ideas with us.
=> ↺ Candy or Swag: A game for teaching open source principles to kids
- This sounds like a recipe for disaster, but as it turns out, these were the ingredients for a wonderful lesson on two of the principles of open source: collaboration and transparency.
- Recently, I was asked to talk about my career and open source by Christina Councill, a teacher at Envision Science Academy, a STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts & Mathematics) Charter School in Raleigh, NC. I wasn’t worried at all about talking about my career, and because my role at Red Hat involves building interest in open source at the university level, I am used to explaining the principles of open source to college students. However, having once been a teacher myself, I know that teaching middle school (ages 10-13) is a whole different ball game. Show, don’t tell. Granted that’s not a bad plan for any age, but it’s especially important when you’re talking about students whose hormones are working just as hard as their brains!
Events
=> ↺ A 5 step plan for making sure new contributors have a positive experience
- In his OSCON presentation, Optimizing your project for contribution, Joshua Matthews, a platform developer at Mozilla, gave a five-step plan for making sure that new contributors have a positive experience when joining a new open source development project.
Web Browsers
Mozilla
=> ↺ Bringing Mozilla to the IoT era
- Rabimba has been involved in open source since the summer of 2014, when he was connected to Mozilla for the first time through the company’s investments into Firefox OS in India. In this interview, I ask him how he got involved in open source, what he’s currently working on, and how get got involved in contributing to Mozilla.
=> ↺ Bringing Mozilla to the IoT era
- Open Source Bridge is an annual conference focused on building open source community and citizenship through four days of technical talks, hacking sessions, and collaboration opportunities. Prior to the event, I caught up with one of the speakers, Rabimba Karanjai, who will give a talk titled Turning sensors into signals: Humanizing IoT with old smartphones and the Web.
SaaS/Back End
=> ↺ Cloud Foundry stages a comeback
- Practically no developers in their right mind want to write an application from scratch and run it on single server anymore. Instead, they want to tap existing services, keep the original coding to a minimum, and test/deploy the finished application in as automated a fashion as possible on scalable infrastructure.
=> ↺ Running Cassandra on Apache Mesos Across Multiple Datacenters at Uber
=> ↺ How We Built a Chargeback System for Twitter’s Compute Platform (Mesos/Aurora)
=> ↺ Efficient Usage of Apache Mesos using Container Hibernation – Kamalakannan Muralidharan, Paypal
=> ↺ 4 Unique Ways Uber, Twitter, PayPal, and Hubspot Use Apache Mesos
- You know the saying: fast, cheap, or good, pick two. Uber, Twitter, PayPal, and Hubspot show that you can have all three with Apache Mesos.
- Apache Mesos is a cluster manager; it sits between the application layer and the operating system, and deploys and manages applications in large-scale clustered environments. But this dry description doesn’t convey its vast scope for creative and ingenious solutions to large-scale problems.
=> ↺ Migrating 200+ Load Balancers into Apache Mesos – Stephen Salinas, HubSpot
=> ↺ Open source, dark web and edge data centres: 5 major talking points at Datacloud Europe 2016
- From the IoT data boom, to the rise of cloud and security concerns, the conference brought to Monaco around 1,500 experts from over 100 countries.
=> ↺ What you missed in Big Data: Open-source momentum
- Following a series of contributions to the machine learning community from its fellow web giants, LinkedIn Inc. decided to join the fray too last week and open-source one of its algorithm development tools. Dubbed Photon ML, the framework is used by the social networking giant’s engineers to personalize members’ news feeds.
- The ability to customize content based on the individual preferences of users can come handy in a wide variety of fields ranging from advertising to e-commerce, all of which stand to benefit from LinkedIn’s contribution. However, not every organization that wishes to take advantage of machine learning has the means to build its own algorithms from scratch. In fact, the majority don’t, which is why vendors are increasingly offering the technology as part of turnkey products already optimized for the desired use case.
=> ↺ Review tracking improvements, beginning adoption, and more OpenStack news
CMS
=> ↺ Well wordpress, Its been fun…
- I got tired of wordpress updates, its huge infrastructure hogging code. and I think wordpress has lost site of what is really important. Writing content.
Pseudo-Open Source (Openwashing)
=> ↺ Gradle: Just One Example of LinkedIn’s Open Source Interests
=> ↺ 9 Tech Giants Embracing The Open Source Revolution
=> ↺ Microsoft’s open source .Net Foundation eats Cake
=> ↺ Two in three commercial apps with open source code have security vulnerabilities
=> ↺ Black Duck
=> ↺ Helical IT solutions launches open source BI framework Helical Insight
- Helical IT Solutions has announced launch of Helical Insight, the open source Business Intelligence Framework. Helical Insight provides features such as email scheduling, multi-tenant environment, variety in visualization, and it also allows end users to add functionalities on the go using their in-house resources.
BSD
=> ↺ LDC D Compiler 1.0 Adds Objective-C Support, Full ARM Compatibility
- Version 1.0 of the LLVM D Compiler (LDC) was quietly released earlier this month as a huge step forward for the D programming language.
- LDC 1.0.0 brings support for Objective-C, full ARM platform support, initial support for AArch64/ARM64, better support for Android, support for LLVM 3.8, early support of LLVM 3.9 SVN, and support for linking against the LLVM shared library.
=> ↺ LLVM 3.9 Planned For Release In Late August
FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC
=> ↺ LulzBot TAZ 6 3D printer now FSF-certified to respect your freedom
- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today awarded Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the TAZ 6, the sixth model in the LulzBot TAZ line of 3D printers by Aleph Objects, Inc., and their 10th product to be awarded RYF certification. The RYF certification mark means that the product meets the FSF’s standards in regard to users’ freedom, control over the product, and privacy.
=> ↺ gettext-0.19.8.1 released
=> ↺ GNU gettext 0.19.8.1 has been released.
Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
Open Data
=> ↺ German “OGD 2.0 Standard” available for public review
Open Hardware/Modding
=> ↺ Razer announces its second Open Source Virtual Reality headset
- You have another option if you’re looking to jump into virtual reality.
- The HDK2 is the newest headset from the gaming-hardware company Razer, and it will start shipping in July for $400. HDK2 is the second headset from Razer as part of the Open Source Virtual Reality consortium that it cofounded and operates. While the price is $200 cheaper than the $600 Oculus Rift and $100 less expensive than even the PlayStation VR, Razer claims that the HDK2’s openness and commitment to compatibility is just as important to consumers. In a VR market that could reach $40 billion in spending by 2020, according to SuperData Research, Razer is trying to take an approach that helps it build a business at the center of VR without locking anyone out.
=> ↺ Razer’s new open-source VR headset mirrors the Oculus Rift, but costs $200 less
=> ↺ Open Source VR announces its next-gen HDK2 headset for PC
=> ↺ OSVR Unveils Open Source 2160 X 1200 Dual Display Headset
=> ↺ Razer Announces $5 Million OSVR Dev Fund to Support Open Source
=> ↺ Open-source virtual reality headset wants to beat the Oculus Rift
=> ↺ New OSVR Headset Delivers Rift And Vive Specs For $399
=> ↺ Razer’s new VR headset sounds like a big improvement
=> ↺ OSVR improves the display on its new developer headset
=> ↺ OSVR wants its new headset to be a cheaper Oculus Rift
=> ↺ Razer’s $400 HDK 2 VR headset undercuts Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
=> ↺ Razer announces its second OSVR headset and it’s a big upgrade
=> ↺ Razer unveils new $400 VR headset
=> ↺ Did Razer Just Won the VR War? $399 OSVR Hacker Development Kit
=> ↺ Razer Announces HDK2 Virtual Reality Headset
=> ↺ Razer unveils $400 VR headset
=> ↺ OSVR’s HDK 2 Virtual Reality Headset Coming in July for $399
=> ↺ Oculus Rift gets powerful (and cheaper) rival – Meet Razer’s HDK 2
=> ↺ Razer reveals $400 VR headset to compete with Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
=> ↺ OSVR enters consumer VR market with $400 headset
=> ↺ Razer taking on Oculus and HTC with new virtual reality headset
=> ↺ Razer ups the ante in its fight to keep VR open with upgraded HDK2 headset
=> ↺ Razer announce the Razer HDK2, a VR headset releasing in July
=> ↺ The OSVR HDK 2: a $400 VR headset with Rift & Vive-like specs
=> ↺ $399 OSVR virtual reality headset dev kit launches in July
=> ↺ Razer Unveils New And Improved OSVR HDK 2 At E3 2016, And It’s $200 Cheaper Than Oculus Rift
=> ↺ Razer’s OSVR headset gets more bite with a higher-res screen
=> ↺ Razer unveils new virtual reality headset: The HDK 2
=> ↺ Razer has shown off a new OSVR Headset
=> ↺ OSVR Unveils Open Source 2160 X 1200 Dual Display Headset
=> ↺ The HDK 2 Is Razer’s New $399 Virtual Reality Headset
=> ↺ Razer upgrades its OSVR headset to tackle Rift and Vive a different way
=> ↺ OSVR Hacker Development Kit 2 eyes Oculus Rift and HTC Vive in July
=> ↺ Razer Exhibits OSVR HDK2 VR Headset, And $5 Million Developer Fund At E3 2016
=> ↺ Razer announces new $399.99 VR headset to compete with Rift, Vive
=> ↺ OSVR HDK2 Brings High-End Display To Budget-Friendly VR; Razer Seeds Dev Incentive Program
=> ↺ OSVR Announces $399 HDK 2 Headset with 2160×1200 Resolution
=> ↺ Razer Earmarks $5 Million to Encourage OSVR Content Development
=> ↺ Razer announces the HDK2 VR headset, will support OSVR and SteamVR
Programming/Development
=> ↺ Onux JS++, an answer to JavaScript ‘brittle’ type safety?
- There are six types in JavaScript: Object, Number, String, Boolean, Null and Undefined.
- The problem is with achieving 100% correctness in a world where 99% correctness is not good.
- Onux has released JS++ as a ‘type-safe’ version of JavaScript. Poon says that the inspiration for the technology came from the fact that it’s very difficult to analyse JavaScript without actually executing code… and the code can execute differently across web browsers and platforms.
Standards/Consortia
=> ↺ Croteam’s Vulkan presentation slides from Reboot Develop conference are now online
Leftovers
Health/Nutrition
=> ↺ Whistleblower: EPA Officials Covered Up Toxic Fracking Emissions for Years
- Why has the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to take adequate action against disastrous, climate-warming methane emissions from the fracking industry?
- An environmental watchdog alleges that the answer may be a years-long, systematic cover-up of the true data surrounding these toxic emissions.
- That cover-up, the group says, was at the hands of at least one EPA researcher who accepted payments from the oil and gas industry.
Security
=> ↺ Deception Cybersecurity Pioneer illusive networks Adds Linux and Advanced Forensics in Latest Release
=> ↺ San Antonio’s Infocyte Takes Cybersecurity Threat Hunting to Linux
=> ↺ Lieberman Software Provides Security Automation at Scale for Linux
- Lieberman Software Corporation is advancing the security of the Linux enterprise by keeping the privileged attack surface in constant motion on Linux systems. The announcement was made at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit, where the company is exhibiting this week in booth #719.
=> ↺ Mozilla launches fund to vet open-source software
- More and more, developers are using open source tools when building applications and online services because it allows users to openly share and collaborate on code. Because it encourages crowdsourcing and collaboration, open source has opened the doors for amateurs and professionals alike to make better software faster than ever before.
=> ↺ Security advisories for Monday
=> ↺ Outdated authentication practices create an opportunity for threat hunter Infocyte
- “Having Linux allows us to look at web servers, for instance. If you’re going to bypass the biometrics, you’re going to need to get into that system itself,” Gerritz says. “That’s where we come in, is finding people who have inserted themselves under that authentication layer.”
=> ↺ Cable Sees NFV Enhancing Network Security
- Network functions virtualization is all the rage because of the money it can save, and because of the network flexibility it helps afford, but the cable industry is enthused about NFV for yet another, less publicized benefit: the potential NFV creates for improving network security.
=> ↺ IoT Consensus – A Solution Suggestion to the ‘Baskets of Remote’ Problem by Benedikt Herudek
- Bitcoin is able to integrate and have endpoints (in Bitcoin terminology ‘wallets’ and ‘miners’) seamlessly talk to each other in a large and dynamic network. Devices and their protocols do not have the ability to seamlessly communicate with other devices. This presentation will try to show where Bitcoin and the underlying Blockchain and Consenus Technology can offer an innovative approach to integrating members of a large and dynamic network.
=> ↺ Ready to form Voltron! why security is like a giant robot make of lions
- Due to various conversations about security this week, Voltron came up in the context of security. This is sort of a strange topic, but it makes sense when we ponder modern day security. If you talk to anyone, there is generally one thing they push as a solution for a problem. This is no different for security technologies. There is always one thing that will fix your problems. In reality this is never the case. Good security is about putting a number of technologies together to create something bigger and better than any one thing can do by itself.
=> ↺ Email Address Disclosures, Preliminary Report, June 11 2016
- On June 11 2016 (UTC), we started sending an email to all active subscribers who provided an email address, informing them of an update to our subscriber agreement. This was done via an automated system which contained a bug that mistakenly prepended between 0 and 7,618 other email addresses to the body of the email. The result was that recipients could see the email addresses of other recipients. The problem was noticed and the system was stopped after 7,618 out of approximately 383,000 emails (1.9%) were sent. Each email mistakenly contained the email addresses from the emails sent prior to it, so earlier emails contained fewer addresses than later ones.
=> ↺ Universities Become New Target for Ransomware Attacks
- This week the University of Calgary in Canada admitted paying C$20,000 (€13,900) to a hacker to regain access to files stored in 600 computers, after it suffered a ransomware attack compromising over 9,000 email accounts. In order to receive the keys, the school paid the equivalent of C$20,000 in Bitcoins.
=> ↺ Blue Coat to Sell Itself to Symantec, Abandoning I.P.O. Plans
- Blue Coat Systems seemed poised to begin life as a public company, after selling itself to a private equity firm last year.
- Now, the cybersecurity software company plans to sell itself to Symantec instead.
- Blue Coat said late on Sunday that it would sell itself to Symantec for $4.65 billion. As part of the deal, Blue Coat’s chief executive, Greg Clark, will take over as the chief executive of the combined security software maker.
- To help finance the transaction, Blue Coat’s existing majority investor, Bain Capital, will invest an additional $750 million in the deal. The private equity firm Silver Lake, which invested $500 million in Symantec in February, will invest an additional $500 million.
Defence/Aggression
=> ↺ The Chinese Hackers in the Back Office
- At the N.S.A., Mr. Falkowitz had worked with teams that detected North Korean missile launches. Much of that early work was done with satellites that would look for sudden heat blasts.
- Eventually, Mr. Falkowitz’s team tried a more proactive approach. If they could hack the computers that controlled the missile launch systems, they could glean launch schedules. Area 1 is now taking a similar approach to digital attacks, tapping into the attackers’ launchpads, as it were, rather than waiting for them to attack.
- Hackers don’t just press a big red “attack” button one day. They do reconnaissance, scout out employees on LinkedIn, draft carefully worded emails to trick unsuspecting employees to open them and click on links or email attachments that will try to launch malicious attacks.
- Once they persuade a target to click — and 91 percent of attacks start this way, according to Trend Micro, the security firm — it takes time to crawl through a victim’s network to find something worth taking. Then they have to pull that data off the network. The process can take weeks, months, even years and leaves a digital trail.
=> ↺ Before Nightclub Shooting, FBI Pursued Questionable Florida “Terror” Suspects
- The attack on a gay club in Orlando in which 50 people were killed and more than 50 wounded — now the largest mass shooting in U.S. history — demonstrates how potential threats are escaping the FBI’s vast counterterrorism dragnet.
- While it’s unclear whether gunman Omar Mateen’s inspiration was hatred of gays, the Islamic State, or something else, attackers like him are the intended targets of the FBI’s post-9/11 prevention program. Federal law enforcement’s top priority today is to stop the attacker of tomorrow.
- But Mateen’s mass shooting is an example of how dangerous men slip past the FBI’s watch while federal agents focus on targets of questionable capacity.
=> ↺ Orlando Pulse Open Thread
- There is so much we need to fix in this country: the guns, the homophobia. But I fear we’re most likely to just throw more policing in the mix, rather than addressing the underlying issues.
=> ↺ Omar Mateen and Rightwing Homophobia: Hate Crime or Domestic Terrorism
- US law enforcement is at least initially categorizing the horrific Orlando shootings as “domestic terrorism.”
- I don’t think it probably was terrorism in any useful sense of the term.
=> ↺ The Orlando Horror
- Terrorism is a reality – but endless war is not the answer
=> ↺ Recent Events in Honduras
- This week’s program looks at recent events in Honduras, including the 2009 coup, the 2012 killing of four villagers by a joint US-Honduran patrol at Ahuas, and the March 2016 assassination of indigenous environmental campaigner Berta Caceres. The guests examine some of the underlying institutions and circumstances there, including the heavily militarized Honduran police, the US “drug war,” and US willingness to use drug trafficking accusations to bring down critics of the country’s ruling party.
=> ↺ Hillary Clinton’s ‘Entangled’ Foreign Policy
- Besides bashing Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton offered few specifics in her big foreign policy speech which stressed the value of “friends.” But those “entangling alliances” helped create today’s global chaos, writes Daniel Lazare.
=> ↺ Gun Industry Describes Mass Shootings Like Orlando as a “Big Opportunity”
- In recent corporate presentations, leading gun makers celebrated the fact that consumers bought more firearms because of the December terrorist attack in San Bernardino. And, prior to the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando on Saturday night, executives were telling investors to expect another big bump — because of the upcoming elections.
- The surge in sales after mass shootings, as we’ve reported, is nothing new: Mass shootings lead to talk of gun control; the National Rifle Association — the gun advocacy group funded significantly by gun and ammunition manufacturers — uses its influence in Congress to block any legislative action; but gun owners, irrationally terrified that the government will restrict or ban firearms, rush out to buy more guns and ammo.
=> ↺ Donald Trump Calls Obama Complicit in Orlando Shooting, Escalating Years of Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
- Donald Trump’s first response to the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando was to congratulate himself “for being right on radical Islamic terrorism.”
- His second response was to accuse President Obama of complicity.
- “Look, we’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind,” Trump told Fox News early Monday. “There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on. … He doesn’t get it or he gets it better than anybody understands — it’s one or the other and either one is unacceptable.”
=> ↺ As FBI Was Rolling Up Ibragim Todashev and Friends in Orlando, Omar Mateen Claimed a Tie
- Described as a tie to the brothers behind the Marathon killing, the claim is just wacky. But perhaps not as much when you consider the close FBI focus on Orlando’s Muslim community. The FBI killed Todashev in May of 2013, and started rounding up and deporting his friends shortly thereafter.
=> ↺ Stop Exploiting LGBT Issues to Demonize Islam and Justify Anti-Muslim Policies
- In the late 1990s, Eric Rudolph – raised Catholic and affiliated for a time with a Christian Identity sect – bombed abortion clinics and a gay bar, insisting they were venues of immorality and evil. Last July, an Orthodox Jewish Israeli attacked the marchers in the Jerusalem LGBT pride parade, stabbing six of them, and one of them, a teenager, died of her wounds; justifying his attacks by appealing to Talmudic punishments for homosexuality, he had just been released from a 10-year prison term for doing the same in 2005. Yesterday, a Christian pastor from Arizona, Steven Anderson, praised the slaughter of 49 people in an Orlando LGBT club on the ground that “homosexuals are a bunch of disgusting perverts” and are “pedophiles.”
=> ↺ Was Orlando Shooter’s Domestic Violence History a Missed Warning Sign?
- The ex-wife of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen described him as a volatile and violent spouse who abused steroids and beat her during their brief marriage. “He started abusing me physically, very often, and not allowing me to speak to my family, keeping me hostage from them,” Yusufiy told reporters gathered in front of her home yesterday. After four months of marriage, Yusufiy was physically rescued from Mateen by her parents and, she said, filed a police report about his abusive treatment.
=> ↺ America’s Many Mideast Blunders
- Official Washington’s neocon foreign policy establishment looks forward to more “regime change” wars in the Mideast and more “blank checks” for Israel, but ex-Ambassador Chas W. Freeman Jr. sees such actions as a continued march of folly.
=> ↺ Globalization and the American Dream
- Implicit in all the rhetoric promoting globalization is the premise that the rest of the world can and should be brought up to the standard of living of the West, and America in particular. For much of the world the American Dream – though a constantly moving target – is globalization’s ultimate endpoint.
=> ↺ A Tale of Two Terrorists
- Nearly 15 years since its fiery debut, Bush’s “War on Terror” has somehow (and for some time now, too) been banalized into the humdrum of Obama’s permanent war; in light of this, as terrorism continues to simultaneously deviate from and reflect social norms, it seems entirely fitting that the two people vying for the presidency of the United States should be terrorists themselves.
=> ↺ Campaign 2016’s Brave New World
- As the U.S. election shapes up as a battle between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the prospect for the public hearing anything approaching a truthful exchange of ideas appears hopeless, writes David Marks.
Transparency/Investigative Reporting
=> ↺ Newly Released Clinton Email Was Marked Classified When It Hit Clinton’s Unclassified Server
- When her use of an unclassified email server first broke in March 2015, Hillary Clinton’s earliest statements were that no classified information was sent or received.
- She quickly changed her standard reply to say nothing sent or received was marked classified at the time. As recently as Wednesday of last week, she told reporters, “nothing that I sent or received was marked classified. And nothing has been demonstrated to contradict that. So it is the fact. It was the fact when I first said it. It is the fact that I’m saying it now.”
- (The statement is itself an outright lie. Some information — the names of CIA undercover personnel, imminent drone strikes, details on U.S. NSA sources and methods, for example — is inherently classified and does not need to be marked to restate that. In addition, many suspected classified documents that were marked as such were simply retyped minus the marker when they were sent to Hillary. Leaving the marker off does not “declassify” information, and is in fact a national security crime.)
Environment/Energy/Wildlife/Nature
=> ↺ Ten Degrees Above Average, Alaska is Having Its Hottest Year Since Records Began
- Like the rest of the world, Alaska has been unusually hot this year—and it’s about to get hotter.
- That’s according to the most recent data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as Climate Central reported.
- Between March and May of this year, the meteorological spring, the entire state has been about 10 degrees hotter than normal, with an average temperature of 32°F.
- “That may sound cold,” Climate Central noted, “but warmth is a relative term. That temperature handily beat the previous record hot spring of 1998 by 2°F (1°C), according to NOAA.”
=> ↺ Mobilizing for COP21
- Tom Goldtooth is a Diné and Dakota environmental activist based in Minnesota. He has worked on environmental justice issues with tribal governments since the 1980s, and is widely respected as a grassroots leader throughout North America. In addition to serving as Executive Director of Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), he is a founder of the Durban Group for Climate Justice, co-founder of Climate Justice NOW!, co-founder of the U.S. based Environmental Justice Climate Change Initiative, and a regular policy advisor to indigenous communities. In 2010, he was honored by the Sierra Club and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as a “Green Hero of Color.” Last year, just weeks before COP21, he was awarded the Gandhi Peace Award, bestowed upon leaders who strive for world peace.
=> ↺ Nuclear ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ Is a Real Threat to New York, But the Feds Don’t Seem to Care
- A little more than a year ago, a transformer fire and oil spill reminded the world that Indian Point, an aging nuclear power plant, sits only about 45 miles north of midtown Manhattan. Later it was revealed that the fire was caused by a short circuit due to insulation failure in a high-voltage coil in the transformer.
=> ↺ Revealed: New evidence shows palm oil giant flouting rules to prevent Indonesian forest fires
- One of the world’s largest producers of palm oil appears to have defied instructions from the Indonesian government to stop practices that could cause a repeat of the extreme forest and peat fires of 2015, a new investigation has revealed.
- In November last year, the Ministry of Environment prohibited the palm oil industry from planting commercial crops on already burned land and instructed companies to ensure primary canals are blocked to prevent land being drained.
- Evidence unearthed by a Greenpeace Indonesia field investigation in April suggests that IOI has in fact violated these new rules.
=> ↺ Peabody Coal Bankruptcy Reveals Climate Denial Network Funding
- Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private-sector coal company, has provided funds to a network of individuals, scientists, non-profits and political organizations espousing climate change denial and opposition to efforts to tackle climate change, according to newly available documents reviewed by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD/PRWatch).
- The recipients of funding from Peabody Energy were made public in the company’s recent bankruptcy filings.
=> ↺ Revealed: How This Coal Giant Became Treasury Dept. for Climate Denialists
- Peabody Energy, the largest coal producer in the U.S., funded dozens of groups spreading skepticism about climate change, according to new figures that reportedly surprised even environmental advocates with their scale.
- A Guardian analysis of the company’s filings reveal that Peabody gave money to at least two dozen companies including trade associations, lobbying groups, conservative think tanks, and other organizations that campaigned against climate science and fought President Barack Obama’s plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
=> ↺ Now THAT’s going to make you saddle sore! Hundreds of cyclists ride naked through London in protest against car culture
Finance
=> ↺ Walmart Canada to stop accepting Visa cards due to ‘unacceptably high’ fees
- Walmart says it intends to join the list of retailers in Canada that don’t accept Visa cards, citing high fees for transactions. It’s a move one retail analyst has said will cause “pain on all sides.”
- All credit cards charge fees to retailers, which generally are between one per cent and 2.5 per cent of the cost what’s being sold. The fees vary depending on the type of card the customer is using — cash-back and premium cards generally have higher fees — and the type of retailer they’re shopping at.
=> ↺ EU referendum: Gordon Brown urges Labour voters to stay in
- Former PM Gordon Brown is to tell Labour voters they have the “most to gain” if the UK stays in the European Union, as the party seeks to rally its supporters behind the Remain campaign.
- In a speech later, he will say the EU can deliver policies close to their concerns including tackling corporate tax avoidance and creating jobs.
- Mr Brown will make what he is calling the “positive” case for staying in.
=> ↺ Left-Wing Party In Spain Borrows Ikea Style to Promote Anti-Austerity Manifesto
- The Spanish anti-austerity political party Podemos has an interesting idea to make its new platform the “most-read manifesto ever produced”: put it in the form of an Ikea catalog.
- Across pages of photographs depicting the party’s leaders relaxing or working in their sun-dappled homes, Podemos outlines its proposals (pdf) on key political issues, covering familiar ground with plans to reduce unemployment and increase taxes on the wealthy.
AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
=> ↺ Going Global: Bernie Sanders’s Challenge
- As Bernie Sanders ponders his next step, he could fall in line behind the Clinton bandwagon or break free and take his critique of economic injustice to a global stage, starting with a challenge to Brazil’s pro-corruption coup, writes Sam Husseini.
=> ↺ How Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Others Used Social Media to Reframe News of Orlando Shooting
- As news updates rolled in about Sunday’s shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, politicians, public figures, activists and journalists took to Facebook and Twitter to send out unfiltered statements about the significance of the massacre.
- For prominent politicians in and seeking office, the shooting represented an obligation to comment as well as a challenge, as the tragedy touched on several highly charged issues and themes in the public sphere, including but not limited to: LGBTQ rights, homophobia, Islamophobia, gun control and terrorism.
Censorship/Free Speech
=> ↺ Hope we move from censorship to certification: Vivek Oberoi
- Vivek Oberoi says he is optimistic that the CBFC will move to certifying films rather than censoring, which, he feels is beyond their assigned duty.
=> ↺ Clicking This Website’s Search Button Can Put You On A Government Watch List
- Ruin My Search History is a website that you should avoid visiting. If you open the website and click on the search button, your search history gets filled with a list of embarrassing search terms and some of them are even related to ISIS, penis, and Donald Trump.
=> ↺ Brown: Censorship is more dangerous than hate speech
- Someone needs to tell Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, YouTube and the European Union that the only way to stop a bad guy’s speech is to counter it with a good guy’s speech, not censor it.
- Recently, the internet giants took on the role of internet speech police when they agreed to monitor and combat so called “hate speech” for the EU. No word on how they define hate speech.
- I suspect the whole EU hate speech argument is less about preventing terrorist attacks, as they propose, and more about culling criticism of their immigration and refugee policies.
=> ↺ Pamela Geller: Facebook’s Assurances Of Neutrality ‘Utterly Hollow’
- Islam critic and American Freedom Defence Initiative President Pamela Geller slammed Facebook in an interview with Breitbart this evening, rejecting their pretenses of political neutrality and urging conservatives to fight back.
=> ↺ Facebook shuts down ‘Stop the Islamization of America’
- In the wake of deadly Islamic terror attack in Orlando, Facebook deletes page run by anti radical Islam activist.
=> ↺ Facebook deletes Pam Geller’s page after Orlando
- Facebook has deleted “Stop Islamization Of America,” a group with over 50,000 members in the wake of deadly Islamic terror attack in Orlando, Florida.
=> ↺ Facebook and Reddit accused of censorship after pages discussing Orlando carnage are The social networking sites Facebook and Reddit were accused of censorship over the weekend after pages discussing the terrorist attack in Orlando were deleted or blocked. deleted in wake of terrorist attack
=> ↺ Banned & blocked: Facebook & Reddit censor users after Orlando massacre
- Facebook and Reddit have taken down pages and deleted posts discussing the Orlando shooter’s religion and a page by “Islamophobe” Pamela Geller.
=> ↺ Orlando Shooting Sparks Reddit Exodus Amid Censorship
- The deadly rampage at a popular gay nightclub in Florida has ignited a firestorm on Reddit with legions of users alleging that the gatekeepers of one of the site’s largest channels are censoring news coverage of the event.
- Thousands of Reddit users are abandoning the r/news subreddit amid accusations that its moderators deleted dozens of posts containing vital information about the rampage and its aftermath. The suspected gunman, identified by authorities as Omar Mateen, opened fire inside the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando early Sunday, killing 50 people and injuring dozens more in what is the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Hours later, ISIS officially claimed responsibility for the deadly shooting, saying that “a soldier of the Islamic State has carried out the attack.”
- Records of deleted mentions from the “Orlando Nightclub shooting—Megathread” show posts that identified Mateen by name, cited news outlets reporting an Islamic State connection to the attack, and contained other details that don’t appear to violate r/news’ stated rules, were all scrubbed clean from the thread. But what sparked fury among hundreds of users was the revelation that the subreddit’s moderators even removed links that provided locations where volunteers could donate blood in the Orlando area.
=> ↺ SABC suffers weekend cyber attack from Anonymous Africa
=> ↺ Hacker shuts down SABC websites
=> ↺ Hackers bring SABC sites down
=> ↺ SABC launches investigation into blocked websites
=> ↺ SABC restored after cyber attack
=> ↺ SABC websites hacked and it’s not over yet
=> ↺ “We are not done yet.” Anonymous warns of more SABC website hacks
=> ↺ Anonymous take down South African State Broadcasting Corp Website Over News Censorship
=> ↺ Anonymous Attacks South African State Broadcaster over News Censorship
=> ↺ SABC confirms hack attack on its websites
=> ↺ Anonymous Africa hacks SABC sites over violent protest footage “ban”
=> ↺ Group claims cyber attack on SABC, station websites
=> ↺ UPDATE: Hackers shut down SABC websites
=> ↺ Anonymous activist takes down SABC websites
=> ↺ SABC cyber attack not unique
=> ↺ Anonymous takes down EFF website
=> ↺ Anonymous hacktivists hit South African state broadcaster over censorship
=> ↺ SABC vows to find source of cyber hacking
=> ↺ SABC must mirror the nation
=> ↺ Africa Anonymous targets the SABC
=> ↺ Anonymous vows to continue attacks
=> ↺ Hackers shut down SABC websites
=> ↺ Hlaudi welcomed to cyber nightmare – SABC targeted by hacktivists Anonymous
=> ↺ Indian court clears Bollywood film ‘Udta Punjab’ with stinging remarks on censorship
=> ↺ Censorship: More than movies and TV
- In 2014 the office classified a graphic novel called Lost Girls written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Melinda Gebbie.
- It follows heroines from classic works of fiction: Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz and Wendy from Peter Pan. It is set at the beginning of World War I where the three meet as adults to share their erotic adventures.
- “Most readers will be both titillated and — at times — repulsed by sexual material of such scope and detail,” the case study read.
- It also noted that the book has been acclaimed for its literary and artistic significance.
=> ↺ Film censorship
Privacy/Surveillance
=> ↺ Embarrassed German intelligence official trying to discredit Snowden
- German intelligence mandarin Hans-Georg Maassen of the Verfassungsschutz has told the Bundestag’s NSA committee that it is “highly plausible” that whistleblower Edward Snowden is a Russian spy.
- Obviously, it is very hard if at all possible to know if anyone is a Russian spy. There are even speculations about Chancellor Merkel (who is of East-German descent). But speculations are just speculations.
=> ↺ DOJ Warns Calexico Police: Fix Institutional Problems Before Adopting Surveillance Tech
- Law enforcement agencies should not expand their electronic surveillance capabilities until they have addressed core problems of corruption, incompetence, poor oversight, and inadequate training.
- Echoing concerns long raised by EFF, that’s the message the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sent the Calexico Police Department (CPD) following a years-long investigation into alleged corruption by officers.
=> ↺ NSA interested in exploiting internet-connected medical devices, spying on IoT
- The NSA has new tricks up its sleeve, looking for ways to exploit the Internet of Things and connected biomedical devices like pacemakers in order to monitor targets and collect foreign intelligence.
- At the Defense One Tech Summit on Friday, NSA Deputy Director Richard Ledgett said, “We’re looking at it sort of theoretically from a research point of view right now.”
- If that involves hackers from the NSA’s Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), then it’s practically a done deal when you consider the wide range of devices previously pwned and listed in the ANT division catalog of exploits. It surely wouldn’t be too difficult for the group, since IoT and wireless medical devices are notoriously insecure.
- Ledgett, according to The Intercept, claimed surveillance via biomedical devices might be “a niche kind of thing … a tool in the toolbox.” He reminded the audience that there are easier ways for the NSA to spy on targets.
=> ↺ NSA targets the Internet of Things as a new data source
- The Internet of Things (IoT) may be the US National Security Agency’s next potential target for spying and collecting data according to a comment made by its deputy director at a recent military technology conference.
- During the conference, which was held in Washington DC on 10 June, deputy director of the NSA Richard Ledgett said that the agency is considering potential ways it could collect data from internet-connected devices such as smart appliances and pacemakers. According to the Intercept, he said: “We’re looking at it sort of theoretically from a research point of view right now.” IoT technology has yet to become truly mainstream and as such the NSA exploring ways it could utilise this new wave of devices to collect information is in line with the agency’s past activities.
=> ↺ Snowden leak reveals Scottish links to GCHQ spy programme
=> ↺ Snowden exposes mass surveillance in Scotland by “unknown” government agency
=> ↺ Politicians and researchers raise questions over secret Scottish surveillance system
=> ↺ Apple vs FBI: NSA reveals why it couldn’t hack San Bernardino iPhone
=> ↺ NSA Explains Why It Couldn’t Hack San Bernardino iPhone
=> ↺ Could FBI Again Struggle To Get Access To Orlando Terrorist’s Phone?
=> ↺ BlackBerry hands over user data to help police ‘kick ass,’ insider says
- A specialized unit inside mobile firm BlackBerry has for years enthusiastically helped intercept user data — including BBM messages — to help in hundreds of police investigations in dozens of countries, a CBC News investigation reveals.
- CBC News has gained a rare glimpse inside the struggling smartphone maker’s Public Safety Operations team, which at one point numbered 15 people, and has long kept its handling of warrants and police requests for taps on user information confidential.
=> ↺ BlackBerry: We’re Here To Kick Ass And Sell Out Users To Law Enforcement. And We’re (Almost) All Out Of Users.
- Back in mid-April, it was discovered that Canadian law enforcement (along with Dutch authorities) had the ability to intercept and decrypt BlackBerry messages. This level of access suggested the company had turned over its encryption key to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. BlackBerry has only one encryption key for most customers — which it maintains control of. Enterprise users, however, can set their own key, which cuts BlackBerry out of the loop completely.
- BlackBerry CEO John Chen — despite publicly criticizing Apple for locking law enforcement out of its phone with default encryption — refused to provide specifics on this apparent breach of his customers’ trust. Instead, he offered a non-denial denial, stating that BlackBerry stood by its “lawful access principles.”
=> ↺ US government asks to join key EU Facebook privacy case brought by Schrems
- The US government has asked to be joined as a party in the Irish High Court case between the Austrian privacy activist and lawyer Max Schrems, and the social network Facebook. In a press release, Schrems called this “an unusual move.”
- He told Ars that there are no documents relating to the “amicus curiae”—friend of the court—request yet. “The US government simply appeared via a barrister at the first (administrative) hearing today,” he said. “They will be able to file the documents until the 22nd.”
- Schrems speculated that the US government has made this move because it wanted to defend its surveillance laws before the European Courts. “I think this move will be very interesting,” he told Ars. “The US has previously maintained that we all misunderstood US surveillance.”
=> ↺ Now, please focus on Tor and its future
- Having seen the Swedish and the German Pirate Parties going down in flames after infighting, I can recognize some sort of underlying tone in the Tor dispute. Conflicts in tech-oriented communities often tend to spiral out of control and reason.
=> ↺ Snowden: Scotland has its own NSA conducting mass surveillance of phone and internet activity
- Documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal that Scottish authorities have been engaged in gathering data about phone and internet usage in much the same way as the NSA and GCHQ.
=> ↺ Secret police phone tap unit was run by Strathclyde Police
Civil Rights/Policing
=> ↺ America’s First Communal Muslim Funeral: Muhammad Ali
- The funeral of Muhammad Ali, attended by a throng of 20,000, was the first national funeral for a national hero of the United States that was also a Muslim ceremony or janazah. Muhammad Ali crafted it as a interfaith event, but obviously Islam was central.
- The transitions in life from one stage to another are marked in most societies by religious rituals, which are necessarily distinctive. Marriage has commonalities across the religions but the ceremony isn’t exactly the same (except where globalization has smoothed out differences). Muslim funerals have their own special attributes. Likely most Americans mainly paid attention to the speeches of celebrities and perhaps remained little aware of the funeral prayer that was said. Still, the Muslim funeral was in our living rooms, held for a person who helped define contemporary American society.
=> ↺ From Olympic Stadium To Olympic Display of Human Suffering
- Twelve years ago the stadium – and the surrounding Hellinikon Olympic Complex – was ground zero for another reality: the 2004 summer Olympic games. The $7 billion series of Olympic complexes now stand in ruins, forlorn reminders of Greece’s last gilded era. The scene today bears more similarities to Santiago National Stadium after Pinochet’s 1973 coup than to anything Olympic.
=> ↺ What to make of Amos Yee and his arrest
- The arrest of Amos Yee on charges of wounding religious feelings has caused much debate over the freedom of expression in Singapore. The 17-year-old is known for creating and posting online videos mocking Christianity and Islam, using religious symbols such as the crucifix, Bible and Koran in his latest videos. The arrests arise from Singaporeans filing police reports against Amos. He is now charged with various offences, including Section 298a of the Penal Code for the alleged offence of wounding religious or racial feelings with deliberate intent.
- Amos’ arrest has attracted international attention. The latest incident has been mentioned on the Richard Dawkins’ Foundation for Reason and Science web page, Lawrence Krauss’ Facebook fan page and most recently, in Dave Rubin’s recent show. Amos has even caught the attention of the Hong Kong media and Hong Kong youth activist Joshua Wong. Amos’ case is held up as yet another example of how Singapore’s laws harshly restricted the freedom of expression.
=> ↺ Terrorism, crime, or mental illness?
- This morning I was invited on to RT to do an interview about the breaking story of a mass shooting that occurred last night at a nightclub in Florida in the USA. You will, no doubt, have seen the headlines by now – the biggest mass shooting in modern American history.
- At the time, as the news was breaking, I was somewhat puzzled about what I could contribute – surely this was just another ghastly massacre by the usual gun-toting crazy that America seems to spawn so regularly? After all, it seems that the Second Amendment is the last right standing from the US constitution, after all the others have been eviscerated as a result of the “war on terror” and the social friction caused by the financial melt-down of the US economy?
- I have a problem with this current usage. When working as an intelligence officer with MI5 in the 1990s – at the height of the religious civil war being waged between the Protestants and the Catholics in Northern Ireland, our working definition was that “terrorism” was the use of violence to achieve political aims. So “terrorism” has never been a purely Muslim-originated concept, no matter how the USA has chosen to define it since 9/11.
=> ↺ Why Are Hate Crime Statistics So Poorly Tracked?
- Last June, a gunman opened fire at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church – a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, and the subsequent investigation resulted in federal hate crime charges against the alleged shooter, Dylann Roof . The shooting was one of the thousands of reported hate crimes in the United States every year. Nearly half of the reports involved race. However, due in large part to spotty tracking of hate crime statistics, establishing a definitive understanding of how many hate crimes occur each year has proved elusive.
=> ↺ Qatar detains Dutch woman on adultery charges after filing rape complaint
- A Dutch woman who reported being raped during her holiday in Qatar has been held by the country’s authorities on suspicion of adultery since March. Dozens of people on social media have condemned the arrest and called for the woman’s release.
=> ↺ Dutch woman arrested in Qatar after reporting rape to appear in court
- A Dutch woman arrested in Qatar on suspicion of adultery after reporting she had been raped is to appear in court on Monday.
- The 22-year-old says she was drugged in a hotel in Doha, and realised she had been raped when she woke up in an unfamiliar apartment.
- “She was arrested in March on suspicion of adultery, which means having sex outside marriage,” her lawyer, Brian Lokollo, told Dutch radio NOS-Radio 1.
=> ↺ Lawyer says Qatar detained Dutch woman who reported rape
- A Dutch woman who told Qatari police she had been drugged and raped in March has been in government detention ever since on unclear charges, a lawyer said Saturday.
- The Dutch Embassy in Qatar confirmed the woman remained held ahead of a scheduled hearing Monday in Doha, which will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The case highlights the clash between the Islamic-based legal codes governing Qatar and other Gulf nations as they try to draw in tourists expecting the protection of Western-style laws.
=> ↺ Top Human Rights Activist Rearrested In Bahrain
=> ↺ Bahrain Detains One of Arab World’s Most Prominent Rights Activists
=> ↺ Time for Washington to Act as U.S. Ally Bahrain Targets Human Rights Defenders
=> ↺ Bahrain detains rights activist as UN official criticises repression
=> ↺ Bahrain rights activist Nabeel Rajab rearrested – family
=> ↺ Bahrain re-arrests top human rights activist Nabeel Rajab – family
=> ↺ Bahrain detains prominent human rights activist
=> ↺ Top human rights activist rearrested in Bahrain: family
=> ↺ Bahraini human rights activist arrested again
=> ↺ Bahrain detains prominent activist during raid on his home
=> ↺ Bahrain: human rights defender Nabeel Rajab arrested
=> ↺ Bahrain: fresh arrest of human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is ‘alarming’
=> ↺ Al Khalifah repression of Bahrainis has no limit: Activist
=> ↺ Manama Regime Taking Revenge on Rights Activists: Bahraini Figure
=> ↺ Bahrain arrests prominent rights activist Nabeel Rajab
=> ↺ Bahrain re-arrests leading human rights activist Nabeel Rajab
=> ↺ Bahrain arrests rights activist Nabeel Rajab
=> ↺ Bahrain: Prominent human rights activist arrested
=> ↺ Index condemns arrest of Nabeel Rajab
=> ↺ Bahrain rearrests top activist Rajab in dawn raid
=> ↺ Leading human rights activist rearrested in Bahrain
=> ↺ Kelantan’s call on non-Muslim women to stop wearing ‘sexy’ clothes causes public concern
=> ↺ Inside Bangladesh’s killing fields: bloggers and outsiders targeted by fanatics
=> ↺ Cops tell domestic abuse victims to call local sharia council when they rang for help
=> ↺ Don’t mythologize Ali’s rage
- Reading this, one might imagine that Ali lived the kind of life that made everyone admire him. The truth is quite opposite. During the prime of his life, Ali was widely hated. Politicians and news commentators denounced him as a cowardly, anti-American traitor. The legislature of his home state, Kentucky, passed a resolution declaring that he had brought discredit to the state and to “thousands who gave their lives for this country.” Even other African-American athletes, including Joe Louis and Jackie Robinson, criticized him.
Intellectual Monopolies
=> ↺ Experts, scientists urge Kerala govt to include IPR in curriculum
- Now, the IPR experts and scientists have submitted a representation to the new Kerala government to include IPR in the educational curriculum from the school level and to set up an IPR Academy. Thiruvananthapuram: Since the last seven years, a proposal to set up an Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Academy in Kerala remains only on paper. IP literacy is still very low even after two decades since we signed the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) at World Trade Organisation. “The proposal to include it in educational curriculum and to set up an IPR Academy will be taken forward by the new government and a clear picture on its modalities will emerge soon,” he said. IPR is already an optional subject for Law students in Kerala.
=> ↺ Why you just can’t have a one-size-fits-all IPR policy
- The National IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) policy was released on May 11. This 38-page document will give directions to the government to promote ‘creative and innovative India’. Questions have been raised in some quarters about the need for a new policy now, as extensive legislation has been passed amending patent, copyright, trademark and design laws. Was the report released because of the Prime Minister’s US trip? Will it play into the pharmaceutical lobby?
=> ↺ Alongside UN Commitments To End AIDS, Event On Access Brings Tears, Vision
- Last week, United Nations members agreed on a political declaration on ending AIDS by 2030, with some new and old commitments. Alongside the 8-10 June High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, a side event looked at issues of access and got into intellectual property rights issues.
=> ↺ Myriad Genetics Refuses To Accept That People Have A Right To Access Their Own DNA Sequences
- One of the biggest victories on the patent front was when the US Supreme Court finally ruled that naturally-occurring DNA cannot be patented. The company involved in this case, Myriad Genetics, didn’t give up at this point, but tried to claim that despite this ruling, its patents on genetic testing were still valid. Fortunately, the courts disagreed, and struck down those patents too.
=> ↺ Love IP enforcement? Come to Brussels next week for the Commission’s IP Enforcement Conference!
- The AmeriKat currently has a four dedicated IP passions – SPCs, the UPC, trade secrets and remedies. Luckily for her 2016 has so far been an exciting year for all four. In particular, IP remedies in Europe is undergoing a potential renaissance in the form of the Commission’s Consultation on the IP Enforcement Directive (2004/48/EC) which closed on 15 April 2016 (see here).
Copyrights
=> ↺ “Piracy Monitoring Outfit Uses Flawed Tracking Technology”
- Every day anti-piracy outfits monitor millions of unauthorized BitTorrent transfers. Among other things, the data collected is used to sent stark warnings to alleged pirates. However, according to a torrent site owner the tracking methods of these companies are not all foolproof.
=> ↺ Neil Young Onstage: ‘F–k You, Donald Trump’
- In a lengthy Facebook post, Neil Young cleared the air about how he feels about Donald Trump using his songs: “YOUNG CONTINUES TO DENY TRUMP PERMISSION TO USE HIS MUSIC,” the rocker wrote, attaching a short clip of him yelling “Fuck you, Donald Trump” onstage.
=> ↺ Not The Onion: Morocco Bans Sharing Newspapers To Protect Publisher Business Models
- It’s no surprise that traditional newspaper publishing is a struggling business. That’s been the case for a long time, leading to a variety of silly proposals to try to prop up their failing businesses. There’s been talk of changing copyright law to ban linking to or paraphrasing newspaper articles online. There’s been a lot of focus on somehow harming search engines, as if they’re the problem that newspapers face. There have been proposals to create a special version of the hot news doctrine to stop search engines from linking to stories. And, of course, over in the EU there’s been a years-long push to “tax” links, which was so broad in Spain that Google News shut down in that country. That law, designed to protect newspapers, actually harmed them.
- However, I don’t think any proposal we’ve seen is crazier than what’s happening in Morocco, where apparently newspaper publishers are lashing out at anything they can think to blame in response to decreasing revenue — including people in cafes sharing newspapers with others. And thus, a compliant government has now banned the practice. No one’s putting any spin on this other than “OMG, newspapers are making less money, and let’s ‘protect’ them.”
=> ↺ Pure Bullshit: AMC Threatens Huge Fan Community With Copyright Claim Over ‘Spoiler’ Predictions
- What’s up, Hollywood TV people? Hey, could you do everyone a favor and maybe stop being complete assholes to your biggest fans — and especially completely abusing copyright law to harass and bully those people? Almost exactly a month ago we wrote about HBO abusing the DMCA process to go after people who were predicting what would happen in Game of Thrones, accusing them of violating copyright law in accurately predicting what would happen in the future. As we noted, that’s not at all how copyright law works, but apparently AMC took a look at what HBO was doing and said “hey, let’s do that too.”
=> ↺ EU digital copyright consultation: Last chance to have your voice heard
- An important EU public consultation on copyright closes on Wednesday. As well as the official consultation page from the European Commission, there is an easy-to-use site set up by the Copyright for Creativity group that aims to facilitate the process by explaining what the questions really mean. It takes only a few minutes to complete, and automates the entire submission process. There are versions in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Polish.
- The consultation offers a rare chance for members of the public to help shape the EU’s future digital copyright policy in two areas that are highly relevant for Ars readers. The first is the idea of placing a “Google tax” on snippets. More formally called a “neighbouring right” or “ancillary copyright,” it would allow publishers to demand payment from search engines and content aggregators when the latter include short snippets that link to the original text. As Ars explained last year, the approach has been tried in Spain and Germany with disastrous results—a powerful argument not to extend it across the whole of the EU, as the European Commission is still considering.
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