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Desktop

=> ↺ 5 Myths About Linux That Scares Away New Users

• MacOS is as much confusing in the beginning as Linux. You will have a hard time figuring out how to navigate to files, folders. Installing new software in MacOS is another challenge when you just don’t know how to do it.

Server

=> ↺ Swisscom to cut mainframe spend as Cobol app moves to x86 Linux

• Swiss telecoms and IT giant Swisscom is working with LzLabs to move core billing apps to x86 Linux systems and cut mainframe spend on maintenance, licensing

=> ↺ Cisco Advances OpenStack and Container Networking Efforts

• Cisco is working on multiple efforts to help improve the state of both OpenStack and container networking. In a video interview, Lew Tucker, Vice President and CTO, Cloud Computing, provides insight ino the current and future state of networking for OpenStack and container environments.

=> ↺ CoreOS Fleet Fades Away in Favor of Kubernetes and Tectonic

• When container vendor CoreOS first got started, among its primary innovations was the Fleet cluster management system. Now in 2017, Fleet is on its way out, as CoreOS has standardized on Kubernetes as the basis for its commercial aspirations with the Tectonic platform.

• At the core of Fleet is the open-source etcd distributed key-value store that CoreOS developed, which has now also become the cornerstone of Kubernetes. In a 2014 interview with ServerWatch, Brandon Philips, CTO of CoreOS, explained that Fleet was the natural step after developing etcd.

=> ↺ Building Blocks of Containers

• This article series previews the new Containers Fundamentals training course from The Linux Foundation, which is designed for those who are new to container technologies. In previous excerpts, we talked about what containers are and what they’re not and explained a little of their history. In this last post of the series, we will look at the building blocks for containers, specifically, namespaces, control groups, and UnionFS.

=> ↺ The folks who brought you Kubernetes now want to make it easier to use

• Kubernetes is quickly becoming something of a standard for software container orchestration, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s still very much an early adopter’s product. A new open-source project from Heptio and others hopes to change that.

=> ↺ ​Kubernetes leads container orchestration

• At CoreOS Fest, 451 Research and CoreOS revealed that containers are being adopted by enterprises to increase efficiency and developer productivity in hybrid cloud deployments. That’s no surprise. What’s more interesting is that 71 percent of the survey’s respondents said they were using Kubernetes.

Kernel Space

=> ↺ HDR Support Is Being Worked On For Linux’s DRM Code

• With more HDR monitors hitting the market, Intel developers are working on plumbing support for High Dynamic Range displays into the Linux kernel’s DRM layer.

=> ↺ The Companies That Support Linux and Open Source: Atomic Rules

• Atomic Rules has been providing Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design services and interconnection network solutions since 2008. In April, they joined The Linux Foundation to further their commitment to open source and to support and participate in the DPDK project, which provides a programming framework that enables faster development of high-speed data packet networking applications.

=> ↺ Paragon Adds Write Support To Its ReFS Linux Driver

Graphics Stack

=> ↺ Intel Queues More Changes In DRM-Next For Linux 4.13

=> ↺ Many HDMI CEC Drivers Being Written For Linux

=> ↺ Keith Packard Making Progress With DRM Leases, Adding Vulkan Support

• Keith Packard’s latest hacking in the open-source world has been around DRM leases support as part of his work under contract with Valve for better supporting VR HMDs on Linux.

=> ↺ DRM leasing part three (Vulkan)

• With the kernel APIs off for review, and the X RandR bits looking like they’re in reasonable shape, I finally found some time to sit down and figure out how I wanted to integrate this into Vulkan.

=> ↺ Mesa 17.0.7 Being Prepped To End Out Mesa 17.0

• Emil Velikov is preparing to release Mesa 17.0.7 this week, which will serve as the final point release to the Mesa 17.0 series.

=> ↺ Mesa 17.2-dev + Linux 4.12 Intel Skylake HD Graphics 530 Benchmarks

=> ↺ Mesa Will Not Be Dropping Its Older GPU Drivers

=> ↺ Mesa 17.0.7 to End Support for Mesa 17.0 Series, Prepare to Move to Mesa 17.1

=> ↺ ARB_bindless_texture Updated For RadeonSI Gallium3D

• Valve developer Samuel Pitoiset has updated his massive patch-set for implementing OpenGL’s ARB_bindless_texture extension within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver.

=> ↺ Radeon RX Vega Launch Postponed To SIGGRAPH

• While there had been much rumor and speculations about the highly anticipated Radeon RX Vega launch happening at Computex Taipei this week, it isn’t happening and it’s now been reported that the consumer Vega launch has been postponed to SIGGRAPH.

Benchmarks

=> ↺ 28-Way NVIDIA GeForce GPU Comparison On Ubuntu: From GeForce 8 To GeForce 1080

• After finishing up the tests last week for the GeForce GT 1030 Linux review of this $70 USD passively-cooled graphics card, I ended up getting carried away running more NVIDIA Linux benchmarks and ended up making a much larger comparison — in part for the pre-celebrations with Phoronix turning 13 next week. Here’s a 28-way GeForce graphics card comparison on Ubuntu with GPUs ranging from the GeForce 8600/8800 series through the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.

=> ↺ 21-Way NVIDIA Fermi/Kepler/Maxwell/Pascal OpenCL GPU Comparison

• The tested GPUs included the:

• MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 1024MB Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 1024MB MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 1024MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2048MB eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2048MB eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6144MB MSI NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 2048MB Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2048MB eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6144MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8192MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11264MB

=> ↺ An Early Look At Debian 9.0 Performance vs. Debian 8.8, Ubuntu 17.04, CentOS 7, Clear Linux

• Debian 9.0 has settled on the Linux 4.9 kernel, GNOME Shell 3.22 desktop by default, X.Org Server 1.19.2, Mesa 13.0.6 (yes, sadly not Mesa 17.0 or 17.1), GCC 6.3.0 and is using an EXT4 file-system by default. With Debian 9 is also the switch from ACPI CPUFreq to P-State for CPU frequency scaling on newer Intel hardware, which is why the CPU frequency of this Skylake test system is reflected differently between them on the system table.

Applications

=> ↺ 5 of the Best Image Editing Software For Linux

• Most people don’t think of Linux as a great platform for image editing and digital art, but even though Adobe has never ported any of their Creative Suite to Linux, it’s still a capable operating system for creating digital artwork and working with images.

• These five tools provide artists and photographers with strong open-source alternatives to the expensive industry-standard tools on Linux. They’re all free, well documented, and actively developed by the open-source community.

=> ↺ Tinkering with OpenShot for video editing

• Although I love using open source software, I work for an organization that relies on Adobe. Most of what I do is created in Adobe, but whenever I get a chance to branch out, I turn to open source first to supplement and enhance my work. I had an opportunity recently to do just that.

=> ↺ FreeTuxTV

• You have Linux. You have access to the Internet. Why not watch TV on Linux?

• Freetuxtv gives you access to various TV and Radio stations via the Internet. Let’s get FreeTuxTV installed to your Linux system.

=> ↺ Nageru 1.6.0 released

• I’ve released version 1.6.0 of Nageru, my live video mixer, together with dependent libraries Movit 1.5.1 and bmusb 0.7.0.

=> ↺ [Scribus] 1.5.3 Release

• The Scribus Team is proud to announce the release of development release 1.5.3, another major step on the way to Scribus 1.6.0.

• In addition to being a milestone in terms of typographic features, the Scribus Team is convinced that 1.5.3 has become stable enough to be used in new workflows and documents in a similar way to the transition from 1.3.3.x to 1.4.0 after the release of version 1.3.6. However, care must be taken, because this is still a development release.

=> ↺ Mutt An Open Source Text Based Email Client For Linux

• ​Mutt is an email client but with a different approach. It is fully based on the terminal when it comes to work. Mutt is a very simple email client easy to configure and use. It was really awesome to use it and now it is the default email client on my PC. Let us see more about mutt and see how to install mutt on our Linux box.

=> ↺ Tilix (Previously Terminix) 1.5.8 And Guake 0.8.9 Available In PPA

• Tilix is a GTK3 terminal emulator. The application allows splitting terminals both horizontally and vertically, which can easily be re-arranged using drag and drop.

• Other features include a Quake-like mode (the terminal appears at the top of the screen, and can be toggled on or off with a key), saving and loading groupped terminals, synchronized input and more.

=> ↺ Scribus 1.5.3 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with New Features

• The road towards the major Scribus 1.6.0 stable series of the open-source and cross-platform desktop publishing software continues today with the release of the third milestone, versioned Scribus 1.5.3.

=> ↺ Test Profiles For The Phoronix Test Suite Now Available Via GitHub

Proprietary

=> ↺ TeamViewer’s New Native Linux Host Now Comes with Wake-On-LAN

=> ↺ Crank Software’s Storyboard Suite

• Crank Software is working hard to change how embedded user interface (UI) solutions are developed. Traditional development methodologies, asserts the Crank group, leave designers on the sideline after the artwork has been handed off to the software developers. This linear process typically leads to a UI that isn’t a true reflection of the design vision and is difficult to update.

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ How to install MantisBT 2.4 on CentOS 7

=> ↺ EasyTAG: Organize your music on Fedora

=> ↺ Why anacron

=> ↺ Installing Spotify in GNU/Linux

=> ↺ How to install Nextcloud 12 on Ubuntu Server

=> ↺ [Older] Moving Linux to a new partition

=> ↺ Build a system that can install GRUB2 on UEFI and on legacy systems

=> ↺ Debian Jessie Live on UEFI part 2

=> ↺ Get Hardware Details In Linux With ‘dmidecode’

=> ↺ Pythonic Science in the Browser

=> ↺ Split Your GNOME Shell Menu with “Extend Panel Menu GNOME”

=> ↺ HandBrake How To Rip DVDs And Convert Videos In Linux

=> ↺ Focusli – Play Nature Sounds from the GNOME Shell

=> ↺ ppl – A Command Line Address book For Linux

=> ↺ All About Tar Files And How To tar, untar Files In Linux Using Terminal

=> ↺ USB Device RAID 4, 5, and 6

=> ↺ Upgrading to Ubuntu 17.04

=> ↺ MongoDB Replication on CentOS 7

=> ↺ Simple way to extract file from Ignite image

=> ↺ What’s the hardest part about microservices? Your data

=> ↺ How to enable secure shared memory on Ubuntu Server

=> ↺ Set Up a CI/CD Pipeline with Kubernetes Part 1: Overview

=> ↺ Linux comm command tutorial for beginners (5 examples)

=> ↺ userland xnr jit

=> ↺ Egg-walking with qemu-nbd and kpartx

=> ↺ Linux Mint Sandboxing Guide

=> ↺ How To Run Tomcat Server At Startup On Ubuntu Server

=> ↺ Linux comm command tutorial for beginners (5 examples)

=> ↺ Deploy Windows 2016 AD and Fedora 25 IPA with a One-way Trust

=> ↺ How to enable trusted mode in HPUX

=> ↺ Using a Yubikey 4 for ensafening one’s encryption

=> ↺ OVN – Geneve vs VXLAN, Does it Matter?

Wine or Emulation

=> ↺ Release 2.9

• The Wine Staging release 2.9 is now available.

=> ↺ Wine Staging 2.9 released with improved support for anti-cheat and DRM

• Sounds like this Wine Staging release is a very interesting one, as it comes with improved support for anti-cheat and DRM.

=> ↺ Wine-Staging 2.9 Released, Supports D3D11 Pipeline Stats & Better Anti-Cheat Support

• Wine-Staging 2.9 adds in support for opening files through NT device paths, improved fake DLL generation, support for pipeline statistics of Direct3D 11, improved support for querying section names, fixes for multiple regressions, and various smaller bug fixes.

=> ↺ Wine Staging 2.9 Adds Improvements to Unreal Engine 4 and Chrome, Many Bug Fixes

• The Wine Staging team announced today the release and immediate availability of the Wine Staging 2.9 release of the Wine testing branch based, of course, on the recently launched Wine 2.9 development version.

Games

=> ↺ Unigine 2.5 Released With SSRTGI, 3D Spline System, Vector Roads API

• A new version of the visually-advanced, multi-platform Unigine Engine is now available for those licensing this game/simulation engine.

=> ↺ Valve Eyeing “Exclusive GPU Access” To Boost SteamVR Linux Performance

=> ↺ The First Text Adventure Game Ever Is Finally Open Source

• Colossal Cave Adventure was the first text-based adventure game—It was developed in 1976 using one of the earliest computer programming languages, at the same time as the earliest version of the internet itself, ARPANET. The game is an important part of both hacking and gaming history, and now, Colossal Cave Adventure’s code is online and open source.

=> ↺ Pyre from Supergiant Games is coming to Linux, should be a day-1 release

• Pyre [Steam, Official Site], the next game from Transistor developer Supergiant Games is coming to Linux! The port is being done by Ethan Lee and it should see a day-1 Linux release.

=> ↺ The slides for the Vulkan presentations from Feral Interactive, Croteam and more are now up

=> ↺ GOG adds a bunch of NEO GEO classics, some have Linux support

• GOG have just added 15 NEO GEO classic titles and some of them have Linux support, here’s a run-down for you.

Desktop Environments/WMs

=> ↺ The Road to Xfce 4.14 Desktop Environment Continues, Aiming at Full GTK3 Porting

• It’s been more than a year since the Xfce development team reported on their progress towards the Xfce 4.14 desktop environment release, and today, one of the developers posted an in-depth story about the latest developments.

• Xfce 4.14 will be a transitional release where the main goal is to port all of the desktop environment’s components to the GTK+ 3 toolkit, just like the MATE team did with the release of the MATE 1.18 desktop environment. For now, the supported GTK+ 3 version appears to be 3.20, but support for GTK+ 3.22 series is coming too.

K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

=> ↺ Qt 5.9 RC2 released

• Qt 5.9 RC2 is available. It is Qt 5.9 RC + https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/195341/

• At this time RC2 is available via online installers only, instructions here: https://wiki.qt.io/How_to_get_snapshot_via_online_installer.

• And because there is only one change after official RC we should be able to release final Qt 5.9.0 this Wed (31.5.2017) as planned.

=> ↺ Qt 5.9 RC2 Released, Qt 5.9.0 Still On Track For This Week

• The Qt Company has released their second and final release candidate for the big Qt 5.9 tool-kit update.

• Qt 5.9 RC2 has just one fix post-RC1. While the Qt 5.9 release schedule was running a bit behind, The Qt Company is still trying to meet their goal of shipping on time. As of now, they believe they can still ship Qt 5.9.0 final on Wednesday, 31 May.

=> ↺ Qbs 1.8 Released — Planned To Replace QMake Build System In Qt 6

=> ↺ Qbs 1.8 released

• Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of Qbs 1.8! This is primarily a stability-focused release which paves the way for some powerful new features coming in a few months with 1.9.

=> ↺ Moving freebsd.kde.org to KDE Community Wiki

• The KDE/FreeBSD website has been around for a long time. It has been the repository of much (well, maybe some) wisdom around KDE-on-FreeBSD. But as a repository of knowledge, it has been rather limited in recent years: it lives in KDE’s source-code repositories, and as such has a pretty high barrier to entry. You need a KDE developer account to edit it, for one. And then, editing PHP files in git is not fun, if you’re trying to contribute documentation, howto’s, or screenshots.

=> ↺ Qt Applications Will Now Look Better On Flatpak’ed GNOME Desktops

=> ↺ KDE neon User Edition 5.10

• Plasma 5.10 is just out with many spangly new features to make your desktop run smoother.

• Being able to group and ungroup windows in the task bar is a small but handy feature when you turn it on.

• Having icons back on the desktop is on by default incase you want to mess up your desktop.

• Future proofing is happening with improvements to Wayland (install plasma-workspace-wayland if you want to try it out) and experimental support for Snaps.

=> ↺ KDE Neon User Edition 5.10 Released

• KDE Neon User Edition is still using a X.Org session by default, but for those making use of this OS or its Debian packages, installing the plasma-workspace-wayland package will provide the experimental KDE Plasma Wayland experience.

=> ↺ KDE Neon User Edition 5.10 Released with KDE Plasma 5.10 Desktop Environment

• The KDE Neon development team announced a few minutes ago the availability of an updated version of the User Edition of the KDE Neon GNU/Linux distribution, versioned 5.10, after the recently released KDE Plasma 5.10 desktop environment.

• We were the first to report earlier today on the general availability of the KDE Plasma 5.10 desktop environment, giving you a first look at its new features, and now KDE Neon User Edition 5.10 launches with the KDE Plasma 5.10 packages by default if you want to upgrade your installations or deploy it on new PCs.

=> ↺ KDE Plasma 5.10 Officially Released, Folder View Is Now the New Default Desktop

• As expected, the KDE Project announced today the official availability of the final release of the KDE Plasma 5.10 desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems willing to adopt it for their users.

=> ↺ Plasma 5.10, Simple by Default Powerful When Needed

• Today KDE has released Plasma 5.10 with new features across the suite to give users an experience which lives up to our tagline: simple by default, powerful when needed.

=> ↺ KDE Plasma 5.10 Released

• The KDE community has released Plasma 5.10 as their newest desktop release.

=> ↺ Krita 3.1.4 Open-Source Digital Painting App Improves Loading of GIMP 2.9 Files

• Krita 3.1.4 is here as the latest bugfix and stability release of the popular application, which is loved by amateur and professional digital artists alike, and it’s a recommended update for anyone using Krita 3.1.3 or a previous version from the Krita 3.1 series. It has been released for all supported platforms.

=> ↺ Moving KDE-FreeBSD ports infrastructure

• We’re updating the documentation (in the KDE Community Wiki), but mostly things will be simpler, and it may make sense to simply checkout /usr/ports from the KDE-FreeBSD ports tree instead of anything else. We’ll continue to call it “Area51”, even if that string doesn’t occur in its name anymore.

=> ↺ Cutelyst 1.7.0 released! WebSocket support added.

• WebSocket support is probably a key feature to have on a modern web framework, Perl Catalyst doesn’t look like it wasn’t designed with it in mind, the way I found to do WS there wasn’t intuitive.

=> ↺ QProcess Or KProcess ?

• Most of the time of community bonding period was spent giving college exams. By the time my exams got over, I only had a week left to make something useful of the community bonding period time.

=> ↺ Qt 5.9 Launches as Long-Term Supported Release with C++11 Compliant Compiler

• Qt Project’s Lars Knoll was happy to announce today, May 31, 2017, the release and immediate availability for download of Qt 5.9.0 stable and long-term supported (LTS) series of the open-source and cross-platform application framework.

=> ↺ Qt 5.9 LTS Released With Its OpenVG Back-End & Much More

• Lars Knoll has just announced the availability of Qt 5.9. Qt 5.9 has big improvements around performance and stability as noted by Lars, which is good given this series’ LTS state. Qt LTS releases are supported for a period of three years.

=> ↺ Qt 5.9 released

• I’m happy to let you all know that Qt 5.9.0 has just been released. A lot of work has been put into it, making Qt 5.9 the best Qt version we have developed so far.

GNOME Desktop/GTK

=> ↺ Xfce 4.14 Continues Getting Closer With Its GTK3 Port

=> ↺ This week in GTK+ – 34

=> ↺ Introducing gps-share

• So yesterday, I rolled out the first release of gps-share.

=> ↺ GPS-Share: New Open-Source Project For Sharing GPS On A LAN

• GPS-Share made its first release today, a GNOME-aligned project for sharing a GPS device on a LAN.

• GPS-Share aims to make it possible to share a GPS device on a local network so that other non-GPS-enabled systems can make use of it. There’s also a goal to enable support ofr standalone GPS devices to be enabled in Geoclue. GPS-Share can serve as a replacement to the GPSD and Gypsy projects.

=> ↺ GSoC 2017 Starts

• Thanks to the great Yuki who is constantly bored and thus lives a major part of his life in the caves below the DigitalOcean all coala websites and GitMate are now properly deployed and maintained.

=> ↺ GNOME ED Update – Week 22

=> ↺ GNOME Hackfest for Fractional Scaling

• At the same time, to get proper scaling for GTK apps, we used the stratagem of mixing the UI scaling with the text scaling factor, so that the multiplication between the two values will match the user-requested scaling level.

=> ↺ GNOME’s Disks Utility to Add Many Feature Enhancements for GNOME 3.26 Desktop

• The development cycle of GNOME 3.26 started last month with the first milestone, GNOME 3.25.1, and a second one, GNOME 3.25.2, arrived last weekend with a bunch of updated components and apps, including the first development release of the upcoming GNOME Disk Utility 3.26 application.

=> ↺ Kai Lüke: GNOME Disks spins up for GSoC

=> ↺ Razzle Dazzle

• I spend a lot of time making flashy widgets for Gtk. Mostly because I find it entertaining. You can now benefit from the culmination of many years of my trial and error in a new library I’ve created, libdazzle. The code is currently on github but I suspect I’ll move it to git.gnome.org relatively soon.

=> ↺ Revisiting the Printers Settings

• If you read my announcement post or you are already running GNOME 3.24, you probably already know that there is a new Printers panel in GNOME Control Center. The new design is part of a big effort to modernize the Settings user interface.

Distributions

New Releases

=> ↺ Alpine Linux 3.6.0 has been released

• Alpine Linux version 3.6 has been released. Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox. This makes it smaller and more resource efficient than traditional GNU/Linux distributions. A container requires no more than 8 MB, and a minimal installation to disk requires around 130 MB of storage. Not only do you get a fully-fledged Linux environment but a large selection of packages from the repository. Alpine Linux was designed with security in mind. The kernel is patched with an unofficial port of grsecurity/PaX, and all userland binaries are compiled as Position Independent Executables (PIE) with stack smashing protection. These proactive security features prevent exploitation of entire classes of zero-day and other vulnerabilities.

OpenSUSE/SUSE

=> ↺ Introducing Kubic Project: a new open-source project

• Recent years have seen tremendous growth in the container technologies market. From being a non-existent category just a few years ago to being one of the most interesting, fast development and exciting areas.

=> ↺ openSUSE Announces The Kubic Project For Designing Next-Gen Container OS

• The openSUSE project has announced “Kubic” as a new initiative around making their Linux operating system more container-friendly.

=> ↺ GNOME at the openSUSE Conference 2017

• The openSUSE Conference was held during May 26–28, 2017 in Nuremberg, Germany. The event was really interesting and the location — Z-Bau — was perfect for this event.

Red Hat Family

=> ↺ Hybrid cloud specialist Codenvy snapped up by Red Hat

=> ↺ Red Hat director talks Reactive and changing middleware layer

• Application paradigms are changing rapidly. And alongside, the middleware layer that keeps applications and services in sync is also changing. But while new approaches like Reactive programming and asynchronous deployment have made things like the enterprise services bus an unwanted burden from the past, none of the functions that legacy middleware technology performed have become any less important — and new technologies must address those needs.

=> ↺ Tata Consultancy Services Launches ‘Engineering Environment as a Service’ on Red Hat OpenStack Platform

=> ↺ Red Hat to acquire Codenvy; to create cloud-native applications

=> ↺ Scaling an open culture and getting it right

• An open organization’s culture—the unique ways that you work together as a community—can create a strategic competitive advantage. Red Hat, my home for the last 15 years, was born out of the Linux community. For years, maintaining our open and collaborative culture was relatively simple: We just hired as many open source contributors as we could find, people who already embodied the principles of openness like transparency and collaboration. As the leader of the People team (our HR organization), my job was mostly to make sure we didn’t mess the culture up!

=> ↺ ASEAN enterprises accelerate digital transformation with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

=> ↺ Red Hat to Acquire Codenvy to Extend DevOps Tools Capability

• Red Hat has announced the acquisition of Codenvy, an Agile and cloud-native tools provider. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed.

=> ↺ Red Hat Buying Cloud Development Tools Vendor Codenvy

Finance

=> ↺ Red Hat to acquire Codenvy; to create cloud-native applications

=> ↺ Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) And The Naked Truth Exposed In Its Technicals

=> ↺ Analysts’ Recommendations in Limelight: Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT)

=> ↺ Sanford C. Bernstein Initiates Coverage on Red Hat Inc (RHT)

=> ↺ Two sizzlers stock’s are not to be missed: Red Hat, Inc. (RHT), Coach, Inc. (COH)

=> ↺ Red Hat Inc (RHT) Rating Reiterated by Oppenheimer Holdings Inc.

=> ↺ Red Hat gets high marks in container space: Cowen analysts

=> ↺ Breaking: Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT) Stock Through Resistance — Technicals Hit Extreme Strength

Fedora

=> ↺ Flock 2017 registration and submissions open

• Planning is heavily underway for the annual Fedora contributors conference, Flock 2017. The conference is in Cape Cod, Massachusetts USA from August 29 – September 1, 2017. If you’re a contributor, or want to become one, here are some ways you can get involved.

=> ↺ IBus 1.5.16 is released

=> ↺ Flock ’17 Design Tickets Rollin’ In!

Debian Family

=> ↺ Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” Will Ship With New Digital Forensics Tools

• Last week, we told you about the announcement of the release date of Debian 9.0 Stretch GNU/Linux distro. According to the announcement, Debian 9.0 is slated to arrive on June 17, 2017. Prior to that, another exciting development was made in the Debian world in the form of release of systemd-free Devuan 1.0.0 distro.

=> ↺ Jessie live on UEFI systems

=> ↺ Free software activities in May 2017

=> ↺ Debian 9 Stretch Coming on June 17, Check Out The New Features

• The upcoming Debian 9 Stretch is being released two years after the last major release Debian 8 codenamed Jessie. Before we see Debian 9 features, let me add an anecdote about those funny sounding code names.

Derivatives

=> ↺ SparkyLinux 4.6 to Be Based on Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch,” Will Use Linux 4.11

• The SparkyLinux development team have informed the community of the Debian-based operating system about some of the latest developments planned for the upcoming major stable release of the distribution and what landed this month.

• It appears that the month of May was pretty quiet for the SparkyLinux project as well, as people are already starting preparing for the summer vacation, not to mention that was Memorial Day today in the US. However, the SparkyLinux team is still working hard to polish the final release of SparkyLinux 4.6.

=> ↺ Debian/TeX Live 2017 is ready

• I have uploaded all the packages matching with the planned release of TeX Live 2017 to Debian/experimental, and most of them should be already available there. texlive-extra has to go through NEW processing, though.

Canonical/Ubuntu

=> ↺ uNav powered by Mapzen! Raising from the darkness thanks to UBPorts!

• Mapzen is moving to a paid API after June 1. This was a big issue to uNav, the map viewer and GPS navigator for Ubuntu Phone.

=> ↺ Why Ubuntu is good for robots

• In order to develop a robot with these specific abilities, RobotCheers needed to find an operating system (OS) that was robust, that programming benefits when adapting a robot to different requirements, and which could provide a high level of security.

• The operating system required for Spiro would also need to be stable, responsive, and unlikely to cause any issues in terms of latency. Given the costs and expertise involved in maintaining and servicing advanced robotics in the field, it was also seen as critical that the OS chosen should minimise the chances of device freeze or failure.

• After speaking to a number of potential OS providers throughout the course of 2016, RobotCheers selected Ubuntu as Spiro’s primary OS.

=> ↺ Our open source websites

• Three years ago we started to move our website projects to Github, and we also took this opportunity to start making them public. We started with the www.ubuntu.com codebase, and over the next couple of years almost all our team’s other sites have followed suit.

Flavours and Variants

=> ↺ Peppermint 8 Released. Download Now!

• Cloud focused Linux distribution Peppermint OS has a new release today. The latest version Peppermint OS 8 is based on the latest point release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

=> ↺ Latest Black Lab Enterprise Linux ISO Snapshot Adds YUM and RPM Support, More

• Black Lab Software’s Roberto J. Dohnert is today informing Softpedia about the immediate availability of yet another weekly ISO snapshot of the Black Lab Enterprise Linux operating system, version 261.

• As you might have heard the big news earlier this month, the Black Lab Enterprise Linux 11 operating system was launched as the latest stable release of the Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and its Linux 4.8 kernel.

Devices/Embedded

=> ↺ Raspberry Pi foundation merges with CoderDojo Foundation

• The Raspberry Pi Foundation and the CoderDojo Foundation have merged in order to combine forces and accelerate both organisation’s mission to teach kids how to code.

• Raspberry Pi Foundation CEO Philip Colligan wrote that the two organisations “see an opportunity to do even more by joining forces.” CoderDojo’s executive director Giustina Mizzoni says the merger means her organisation’s students and volunteer mentors will enjoy “access to the best possible support, including access to the world’s best educational materials and resources.”

=> ↺ ARM debuts Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55 with AI in mind

• ARM unveiled three chip designs that support DynamIQ load sharing: an up to 50 percent faster Cortex-A75, a Cortex-A55 companion, and a Mali-G72 GPU.

=> ↺ 2018 Toyota Camry packs an open-source Linux-based infotainment system

• Automotive Grade Linux, or AGL, is a division within The Linux Foundation set on developing open-source software for cars that will help support the future of connected cars. The group is made up of more than 100 automakers, suppliers, and tech corporations. We sampled some of the iterations at this year’s CES in Las Vegas. Toyota, one of the first two OEMs to join, announced today that a new AGL-backed infotainment system will go on sale later this summer in the 2018 Toyota Camry.

• The new system will mark a huge step forward for Toyota and presumably Lexus, which has fallen far behind in the infotainment department. The Camry will be the first vehicle with the new AGL infotainment, but the system’s flexibility will help provide an easy transition to other models, including those from Lexus. The big takeaway is improved connectivity and new functionality, though exact details haven’t been revealed.

=> ↺ Will Linux make the new Toyota Camry a better car?

• When the 2018 Toyota Camry comes out later this year, it will come with a new generation infotainment system in the dashboard that Toyota calls Entune 3.0. Behind the scenes, this new system relies on Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), an open-source operating system hosted by The Linux Foundation.

=> ↺ An Open-Source (and Cute) Alternative to Amazon Echo

• Mycroft’s voice-enabled assistant is embodied in the startup’s friendly looking Mark 1 gadget, but you can build it into all kinds of devices.

Phones

Tizen

=> ↺ Samsung releases 75-inch versions of its Q7 & Q8 QLED TVs

=> ↺ Samsung launches $13,000 Smart Refrigerator made with porcelain

• The Chef Collection Porcelain refrigerator comes with al the features of Samsung’s Smart refrigerator lineup. It runs on the Tizen OS and has the Family Hub which provides access to several apps which could be used for shopping right from the refrigerator and pay using Samsung Pay. You can also get entertained, food management technique and more right from the display unit on the door. The refrigerator also comes with voice recognition support which is perhaps the Bixby AI which Samsung just released for the Family Hub recently.

=> ↺ Fit Evolution Pro fitness app gets updated to version 1.0.1

=> ↺ OLX App finally lands on the Tizen Store

=> ↺ Smartphone Game: PIXEL is available in the Tizen Store

=> ↺ Yamaha Motor Europe partners with Smartsign and Samsung to setup digital signage at outlets

• As part of the project, digital screens from Samsung will be installed at the dealer locations which are powered by the Tizen OS which once again indicates the versatility of applications that Tizen can handle. Over 4,000 displays will be installed during the project timeline and one of the key requirement put out by Yamaha was that the content being displayed needed to be specific to each store’s requirements.

=> ↺ Commax to use the Tizen OS for Smart Home and IoT devices

=> ↺ 10 Best Smart TV Apps for your Tizen Samsung TV

Android

=> ↺ Android execs get technical talking updates, Project Treble, Linux, and more

=> ↺ Android Pay expands to Canada

=> ↺ Paranoid Android returns with Android 7.1.2 Builds: Pie Controls, Color Engine, and More!

=> ↺ OnePlus confirms Android O for the OnePlus 3/3T

=> ↺ BlackBerry KEYone Android Phone Brings Back the Keyboard We Used to Love

=> ↺ 6 ways to make the most of Android’s Clock app

• Who needs an alarm clock when you’ve got your Android phone handy? In the past year or so that I’ve relied on the Clock app on my Nexus 5X, I’ve rarely overslept. Now that I’ve got the hang of the Clock app’s various features and foibles, I’m close to replacing that “rarely” qualifier with a “never.”

=> ↺ Volvo partners Google to develop Android for cars

=> ↺ YouTube for Android Gets Redesigned Layout With Navigation Bar at Bottom

=> ↺ Android founder says his new smartphone will launch in about 30 days

=> ↺ Dozens of Android Apps Infected with Korean Adware

=> ↺ Waze tells beta testers long-awaited Android Auto support is getting closer

=> ↺ 5 easy-to-use Android home screen launchers

=> ↺ Nokia Android phones are finally coming in June

=> ↺ Asus is still feeding the Android tablet market with its new ZenPad 3S 8.0

=> ↺ YouTube Android app gets a new bottom navigation bar in latest update

=> ↺ Details of Android Pay’s Canada launch leak before official launch tomorrow

=> ↺ The father of Android says it has ‘forced us to fight’ with technology

• Here’s the big question for Andy Rubin, widely known as the father of Android: what’s next? The answer, in part, is that his new company is announcing an entire ecosystem of products that will work together: an intelligent assistant device for you home, a 360 camera, and (of course) a phone. That last one runs Android, which is what you’d expect from any new phone maker.

=> ↺ Check out Samsung’s next high-end Android flip phone

• Samsung’s next high-end #Android flip phone http://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-w2018-flip-phone-tenaa-sports-4-2-inch-displays-snapdragon-821ab-776031/ phones have become just fashion. Old fashion back?

=> ↺ What’s up with the Android ‘O’?

• In 2008 the Android operating system revolutionised the tech world by towing smartphone experience into a whole new dimension. The Operating System (OS), without fail, has been working on making user-experience sweet—quite literally with its confectionary-themed versions.

=> ↺ Play Music From Any App On Android Auto With AnyAutoAudio

=> ↺ Dive into the world of developing Android apps for just $24

=> ↺ Here’s how to get Google Assistant on Android 5.0+ Tablets WITHOUT Root

=> ↺ Android Pay’s expansion play

=> ↺ Nokia 3 First Impressions: Entry-level Android phone

=> ↺ Waze sending out emails to Android Auto beta testers, beta release could be just a few weeks away

=> ↺ Should I run a VPN on my Android phone?

=> ↺ Apple ruthlessly targets Android in trio of new ads

=> ↺ Samsung Galaxy J3 (2017) specs and images leak ahead of official reveal

=> ↺ An introduction to Kotlin for Android development

=> ↺ An Useful Android App To Browse Arch User Repository(AUR)

Free Software/Open Source

=> ↺ Genode OS 17.05 Released, Switches To GCC 6.3, Kernel/Platform Improvements

• Version 17.05 of the Genode OS research/experimental operating system project is now available.

• Genode OS 17.05 features upgrades to the GCC 6.3 code compiler, the Qt 5.8 tool-kit is now used, its VirtualBox port has been upgraded, and there are a number of architecture and API changes happening this summer for the OS.

=> ↺ Seminal game ‘Colossal Cave Adventure’ released onto GitLab

• The classics never die – or so we hope. One classic, Colossal Cave Adventure, is getting a new lease of life on GitLab.

• Regarded the first text adventure game, Colossal Cave Adventure was first given life in the 1970s on a Digital PDP-10, by ARPANET pioneer William Crowther, and expanded on by Don Woods, then a Stanford student.

=> ↺ Long chat today about retirement, activism, the choice not to have kids, etc. We expect to be doing much of the same for decades to come.

• But blockchain-based platforms are wielding a growing influence in the media and advertising markets as well. In this space, open-source projects are leveraging blockchain technology to build new solutions for displaying ads and engaging with customers.

• Here’s a look at four media projects that are building innovative platforms or concepts based on blockchain and open source.

=> ↺ SDxCentral Survey: 26% of Users Will Not Consider Open Source MANO

• Although open source groups doing network functions virtualization (NFV) management and network orchestration (MANO) have proliferated, 26 percent of end-user respondents to an SDxCentral survey said they will not consider open-source MANO. Rather, they will “only use commercial solutions,” according to survey results in the “2017 NFV Report Series Part 2: Orchestrating NFV – MANO and Service Assurance.”

=> ↺ Open source network software matures, but needs incentives for use -

• Open source network software is maturing, but the networking industry needs to create compelling economic incentives for large suppliers and buyers to contribute, as well.

=> ↺ Google engineer demonstrates & releases open source fuzzing tool

=> ↺ The enterprise’s appetite for open-source software continues to grow

Events

=> ↺ ownCloud X Enterprise Unveiled to Provide Secure File Sharing to Enterprises

• ownCloud unveiled ownCloud X Enterprise, the next-generation of self-hosting cloud server targeted at enterprise users, extending the file sharing capabilities of ownCloud, including security, performance and productivity.

=> ↺ ownCloud Conference 2017 Announced for September 20-23 in Nürnberg, Germany

• The ownCloud community was pleased to announce today that the upcoming and fourth ownCloud Conference event will happen during September 20-23, 2017, in Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany.

=> ↺ 6th RISC-V Workshop Proceedings

Web Browsers

Chrome

=> ↺ Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly!

• Historically, running native code on the web required a browser plugin. In 2013, we introduced the PNaCl sandbox to provide a means of building safe, portable, high-performance apps without plugins. Although this worked well in Chrome, it did not provide a solution that worked seamlessly across all browsers.

=> ↺ Google Plans End To PNaCl Support In Favor Of WebAssembly

• The Portable Native Client (PNaCl) ecosystem hasn’t been too vibrant for executing native code in web-browsers given its lack of adoption outside of Google/Chrome and other factors. With WebAssembly seeing much broader adoption and inroads, Google is planning to end PNaCl.

Mozilla

=> ↺ Mozilla’s Giant, Distributed, Open-Source Hackathon

• Mozilla’s annual Global Sprint is scheduled for June 1 and 2. It’s an international public event: an opportunity for anyone, anywhere to energize their open-source projects with fresh insight and input from around the world.

• Participants include biostatisticians from Brazil, research scientists from Canada, engineers from Nepal, gamers from the U.S., and fellows from Princeton University. In years past, hundreds of individuals in more than 35 cities have participated in the Global Sprint.

Databases

=> ↺ MariaDB Offers a Bigger Box of Transactional Tools

• MariaDB TX offers a comprehensive package of technology and services, including feature-rich new releases of MariaDB Server and MariaDB MaxScale, which close the functional gap between open source and proprietary offerings. It is part of a MariaDB’s larger effort to offer complete solutions to support specific workload needs, whether transactional, analytical or developer-focused.

• The TX 2.0 release meets business technology needs for increased agility, scalability and security. It provides developers with an open and extensible database solution that lets them develop many different types of applications easily.

=> ↺ IBM’s new platform readies open source databases for private cloud

Oracle/Java/LibreOffice

=> ↺ Presentations in a browser

• If you’ve ever given a slide presentation at a conference, you know the drill. Tell the audio-visual people what session your talk is in, then hand them a USB stick with your PowerPoint on it. The presentation has to be in Microsoft PowerPoint because the one and only laptop plugged into the data projector runs Windows and PowerPoint. No LibreOffice Impress, no other presentation software, sorry.

Pseudo-Open Source (Openwashing)

=> ↺ ​Microsoft Azure container team releases first open-source developer tool

=> ↺ SQL Server 2016 Integration Services boosted by Linux support

BSD

=> ↺ MWL’s "Relayd and Httpd Mastery" Published

• Relayd and Httpd Mastery, the latest book in the "Mastery" series by Michael W Lucas, is now available.

FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC

=> ↺ Recording for “Limux the loss of a lighthouse”

• On 26 May I had the honour to give the keynote at the openSUSE conference. They asked me to talk about the Limux project in Munich. This talk was special talk for me, as in 1999 SUSE 6.0 was my first GNU/Linux distribution and therefore also my start into the Free Software movement. Below you will find the abstract and the recordings of the talk.

Licensing/Legal

=> ↺ European Commission updates EUPL open source licence

• The European Commission has updated the European Union Public Licence (EUPL). Version 1.2 has a wider coverage, making it easier to use the licence to publish data, documents, technical specifications and standards, as well as software source code. In addition, the new licence is compatible with a wider range of other free and open source software licences, including the GNU Public Licence v3.

=> ↺ 100 Million Reasons For Open Source Compliance

• CoKinetic Systems Corporation filed suit against Panasonic Avionics Corporation, seeking damages in excess of $100 million, in part, for violation of the GPL v2 open source license. CoKinetic alleged that Panasonic blocked competitors from having the ability to develop software for Panasonic’s In-flight Entertainment (IFE) hardware by refusing to distribute the source code for its open-source Linux based operating system. CoKinetic alleged that this software controls the basic functions of Panasonic IFE hardware systems. According to CoKinetic, this is a willful violation of the GPL License, exposing Panasonic as a willful infringer of the copyrights of thousands of software developers that have contributed to Linux. The suit includes other very interesting legal claims, detailed below.

=> ↺ Artifex v. Hancom: Open Source is Now an Enforceable Contract

• Today, as much as 50 percent of the code used in all software (including Internet of Things devices) is comprised of open source software. While open source provides a convenient short cut for software developers to be more agile and efficient – there’s also a hidden risk: The law. While open source components are by definition free and available for anyone to use – there are limitations and most open source components have licensing obligations that developers must comply with.

Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

Open Hardware/Modding

=> ↺ Triggertrap Open Sources Its Mobile Dongle Hardware

• As Triggertrap continues winding down its business, their Triggertrap Mobile Dongles are becoming increasingly difficult to find. But there’s some good news now: the company has decided to open source the hardware, making it is possible to build your own dongle.

Programming/Development

=> ↺ Red Hat’s Jim Tyrell: Java’s Popularity Continues in Federal IT

• Jim Tyrell, a principal JBoss solutions architect for the public sector business of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), has noted that many government agencies have adopted or continue to use the Java programming language in efforts to drive flexibility, speed and efficiency, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday.

=> ↺ Feature Branching vs. Feature Flags: What’s the Right Tool for the Job?

• A dev team’s branch management strategy can have a significant impact on the rate at which it can release high-quality software. In this article we’ll explore the pros and cons of several different approaches for enabling multiple concurrent streams of dev work in the same codebase. We’ll see that two major factors—the cost of merge conflicts and the ability to release streams of work independently—are often in tension, but that Feature Flags provide a way to resolve that tension.

=> ↺ What do Ubuntu and NE-YO have in common? A Coding Summer Camp!

• As the Tech industry is suffering from a huge lack of talent, and, according to US CTO Megan Smith, heading toward 1 million unfilled IT jobs in the next decade. We need to inspire more youth toward a career in Software Engineering. That’s why we at Holberton decided to launch a 3-week Summer Coding Camp for 15 to 18 years old. Students will not attend class but will be building their first website, following our progressive education methodology focusing on learning by doing.

=> ↺ A year at Bitnami

• I’m a stone’s throw away from reaching my 1 year anniversary at Bitnami, so it feels like a good time to pause a bit and look back. ot After 8 years working at Canonical on a wide range of projects and roles, it was a very difficult step to take and was riddled with uncertainty and anxiety about leaving behind so many things I had poured my heart and soul into for so many years behind, and more than anything else a once-in-a-life-time epic team of people to work with.

• A year in, I’m overwhelmingly happy I made that decision.

• A lot of people expressed surprise I was joining Bitnami as either they hadn’t heard about them at all or they had but thought of them as a company that “made some installers or something”. However, Bitnami had been quietly but consistently growing in size, scope and revenue, all fueled by being organically profitable which is very rare nowadays in the tech world.

=> ↺ GitHub CEO Wanstrath: ‘Our goal is no outages’

• GitHub has tried to reassure users that it is targeting zero downtime with the help of new data centres and infrastructure software – some being open-sourced.

• “The fundamentals of GitHub is it’s there when you need it. GitHub needs to be as reliable as a light switch or a dial tone,” chief executive Chris Wanstrath told The Reg.

=> ↺ Using Node.js with ScyllaDB

• Web applications typically feed information back and forth from a database to process information for the user. Organizations need to build applications that can scale with their business. While it is easy to scale web applications with containers and cloud platforms, the last thing that an IT administrator would want is a bottleneck at the database because it would affect application performance and availability at scale. One way to address these concerns is by using a clustered database solution such as ScyllaDB. This blog post will demonstrate how to use Node.js and ScyllaDB running in Docker.

=> ↺ Gollvm: Google Working On LLVM-Based Go Compiler

• It seems Google is working on a new Go language compiler that’s making use of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.

=> ↺ TickSmith releases open source Python API

=> ↺ Language Server Protocol (lsp), rust and Emacs

=> ↺ Gee, optimization sure is hard

Standards/Consortia

=> ↺ One Standard to Rule Them All: A Common Language for the Cloud’s Identity Management Crisis

• The movements of containerization, APIs and open source are more than just the hottest IT buzzwords — they speak to a shift in the way today’s savviest tech minds are getting ahead in the digital economy. Today’s companies are realizing that rather than reinvent the wheel with every new technology, they can innovate faster and better by tapping into the power of collaboration, integration and openness rather than DIY. Yet, despite the increasing pervasiveness of collaboration across the tech industry, one industry is still struggling with divides: the identity and access management (IAM) industry.

=> ↺ The story of SEMIC: Bringing Europe together through semantic interoperability

• The first edition of SEMIC took place in 2011 in Brussels. Back then, the event attracted 97 people from 22 countries, mainly representatives of European public administrations and private companies. Its success ensured the continuation of SEMIC for the years to come.

Leftovers

=> ↺ These are the online communities we will never forget

• Today the Ars staff is celebrating some of the Internet communities we’ve loved.

=> ↺ [Older] The Adventure begins again

• With the approval of its authors, I bring you Open Adventure. And with it some thoughts about what it means to be respectful of an important historical artifact when it happens to be software.

=> ↺ Manuel Noriega, Panama ex-strongman, dies at 83

• General Manuel Antonio Noriega, former military leader of Panama, has died aged 83, officials have announced.

• Noriega recently underwent an operation after suffering a haemorrhage following brain surgery.

• Noriega had been a key US ally but was forcibly removed when American troops invaded in 1989 and was later jailed in the US on drugs and laundering charges.

• He spent the rest of his life in custody, latterly in Panama for murder, corruption and embezzlement.

=> ↺ Microsoft Outlook users left locked out of their accounts amid global outage – with Australia the worst affected

• Australian Microsoft users have been left the hardest hit amid a global outrage crisis for the company that has seen thousands of users unable to access their accounts.

• More than half of Australian customers have reported trouble logging in to their respective accounts for services such as Office, Outlook, Lync and OneDrive.

• The outages have prevented many students from completing assignments and employees from accessing emails.

Health/Nutrition

=> ↺ NHS patients offered the chance to see a GP weeks earlier – if they pay

• NHS patients are being offered the chance to jump the queue to see a GP weeks earlier – if they pay for it.

• Touchscreen advertising within NHS practices is offering patients facing waits of almost a month a same-day appointment for £39.

Security

=> ↺ Stealing from customers

• Now let’s think about insurance. Just like loss prevention insurance, cybersecurity insurance isn’t there to protect customers. It exists to help protect the company from the losses of an attack. If customer data is stolen the customers are not really covered, in many instances there’s nothing a customer can do. It could be impossible to prove your information was stolen, even if it gets used somewhere else can you prove it came from the business in question?

• After spending some time on the question of what if insurance covered the customers, I realize how hard this problem is to deal with. While real world customer theft isn’t very common and it’s basically not covered, there’s probably no hope for information. It’s so hard to prove things beyond a reasonable doubt and many of our laws require actual harm to happen before any action can be taken. Proving this harm is very very difficult. We’re almost certainly going to need new laws to deal with these situations.

=> ↺ Microsoft patched more Malware Protection Engine bugs last week

• Project Zero’s Mateusz Jurczyk didn’t turn up just one “crazy bad” bug: while the new bugs are all named either “Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Denial of Service Vulnerability” or “Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability”, there are eight individual bugs covered in Microsoft’s announcement.

=> ↺ Security is hard ..

• The most recent print I had made was a collection of display cases, for holding an OLED display, as well as an ESP8266 device.

• Unfortunately at the same time as I was falling in love with the service I discovered a glaring XSS attack against the site itself.

=> ↺ WhiteEgret: New Linux Security Module For Execution Whitelisting

• WhiteEgret is the name of a new Linux Security Module (LSM) in-development by Toshiba for being able to limit what your system can execute via a whitelist.

=> ↺ Reproducible Builds: week 109 in Stretch cycle

=> ↺ 82% of Databases Left Unencrypted in Public Cloud

=> ↺ Episode 49 – Testing software is impossible

=> ↺ New Shadow Brokers 0-day subscription forces high-risk gamble on whitehats

• The mysterious group that over the past nine months has leaked millions of dollars’ worth of advanced hacking tools developed by the National Security Agency said Tuesday it will release a new batch of tools to individuals who pay a $21,000 subscription fee. The plans, announced in a cryptographically signed post published Tuesday morning, are generating an intense moral dilemma for security professionals around the world.

=> ↺ Sudo Vulnerability Patched in All Supported Ubuntu Linux Releases, Update Now

=> ↺ Tech pro cautions on attribution of cyber attacks

=> ↺ Cyber crime to cost business US$8 trillion: Juniper

• The report, by Juniper Research, also forecasts that the number of personal data records stolen by cyber criminals will reach 2.8 billion in 2017, and almost double to 5 billion in 2020.

=> ↺ Russian Hackers Are Using Google’s Own Infrastructure to Hack Gmail Users

• The “Change Password” button linked to a short URL from the Tiny.cc link shortener service, a Bitly competitor. But the hackers cleverly disguised it as a legitimate link by using Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP. This is a service hosted by the internet giant that was originally designed to speed up web pages on mobile, especially for publishers. In practice, it works by creating a copy of a website’s page on Google’s servers, but it also acts as an open redirect.

=> ↺ The sudo tty bug and procps

=> ↺ Improving Linux Security with DevSecOps

• Ask people who run IT departments these days what keeps them up at night, and they’ll probably tell you it’s security—or the lack of it. With the explosive growth of malicious attacks on everything from hospitals to Fortune 500s, security—not hardware, software and even staff—is what currently makes life miserable.

• That’s why organizations of all sizes are looking to change fundamentally how they do security. It’s no longer a single team’s job to make sure systems are secure and internal auditing is good enough to identify and mitigate attacks. Today, everyone is responsible for security, which is the guiding principal of DevSecOps.

• Just as in DevOps, which aims to speed the development of software by improving collaboration and balancing the competing interests of operations teams and developers, DevSecOps seeks to get everyone thinking about security together and up front. Trying to bake in security after systems are built and code is deployed is simply too late.

Transparency/Investigative Reporting

=> ↺ Noam Chomsky in Conversation with Amy Goodman on Climate Change, Nukes, Syria, WikiLeaks & More

• In this Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with the world-renowned linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky. In a public conversation we had in April, we talked about climate change, nuclear weapons, North Korea, Iran, the war in Syria and the Trump administration’s threat to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and his new book, “Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power.”

Environment/Energy/Wildlife/Nature

=> ↺ Theresa May accused of being ‘Donald Trump’s mole’ in Europe after UK tries to water down EU climate change policy

• Theresa May has been accused of being Donald Trump’s “mole” in Europe after leaked documents showed the UK attempted to water down EU policies designed to tackle climate change.

• While other European politicians have made clear to the Republican billionaire that his denial of climate science is a problem, the Prime Minister has remained resolutely silent on the issue.

=> ↺ Renewable energy generation in the US dramatically exceeds 2012 predictions

• The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released numbers on US electricity generation for the first quarter of 2017, and renewable energy numbers are coming in big.

• According to the EIA, renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and geothermal power accounted for 10.68 percent of total electricity generation in the first quarter of 2017. If you include electricity from conventional hydroelectric plants, renewables made up nearly a fifth of total electricity generation—as much as 19.35 percent.

• The striking part about that number is that the EIA, a statistical department within the Department of Energy, couldn’t foresee how dramatically renewables’ share of the electricity mix would increase just five years ago. In 2012, the administration predicted (PDF, page 87) that electricity generation from renewable sources would increase “from 10 percent in 2010 to 15 percent in 2035.” Even by 2015, the administration predicted (PDF, page ES-6) that “The renewable share of total generation grows from 13 percent in 2013 to 18 percent in 2040.”

=> ↺ Donald Trump ready to withdraw from Paris climate agreement, reports say

• Donald Trump is poised to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, according to multiple reports on Wednesday, in a move that would profoundly undermine the landmark agreement by nearly 200 nations to curtail global warming.

• Trump tweeted on Wednesday that he would reach a final decision in a few days, shortly after a wave of reports said he was about to exit from the deal. The reports follow his refusal to express support for global efforts to combat climate change at a G7 summit with European leaders last week.

=> ↺ Exclusive: UN, EU Agencies Reject Ties to Conference Hijacked by Climate Science Deniers

• On the face of it, the climate science conference scheduled for the romantic Italian city of Rome looks like any other.

• The organizers, India-based ConferenceSeries, promise their “4th World Conference on Climate Change” will attract “world class experts” from across the planet.

• Anticipating “more than 500 participants,” the event claimed to have an organizing committee with representatives from the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the European Space Agency, and the European Environment Agency (EEA).

=> ↺ Exxon shareholders approve climate impact report in win for activists

• Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) shareholders on Wednesday approved a proposal calling for the company to disclose the impact of compliance with global climate change guidelines on its business, an issue central to probes by two state attorneys general.

• A preliminary tally showed the non-binding proposal passed with 62.3 percent of ballots cast, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company said. The increase from last year’s 38 percent support for a similar report signaled that the non-binding proposal was backed by at least some of Exxon’s top institutional shareholders.

Finance

=> ↺ Aviation is hell because airline exec pay is solely based on quarterly profits

• There was a time when airline execs were paid based on a mix of on-time arrivals, accurate and timely baggage delivery, and profits. Now it’s just profits.

=> ↺ Route to Air Travel Discomfort Starts on Wall Street

• Rich bonus packages for top executives are now largely tied to short-term income targets and fatter profit margins instead of customer service.

=> ↺ [Old] Attitudes towards the impact of digitisation and automation on daily life

• The European Commission has published a Eurobarometer survey presenting European citizens’ opinions on the impact of digitisation and automation on daily life. European citizens see digitisation and automation primarily as an opportunity but call for investment for better and faster internet services as well as effective public policy to accompany changes, in particular in areas such as employment, privacy and personal health. The results also show that the more people are informed or use technologies the more they are likely to have a positive opinion on them and to trust them.

=> ↺ Theresa May losing the general election would be good for the pound, says JP Morgan

• Sterling looks set for a volatile run in to British elections next week but an argument can be made for markets reacting positively to a defeat for Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives, according to analysts from US bank JP Morgan.

=> ↺ Study reveals huge economic benefit refugees are having in Germany

• Earlier this year Starbucks made a pledge to hire 10,000 refugees globally over the next five years in a publicity-fuelled stunt that hit all the right notes following Donald Trump’s inauguration and amidst all the dark clouds hanging over the toxic geopolitical environment. The warm gesture provided a much-needed PR boost for the often beleaguered coffee house chain, but sentiment has little to do with it, the truth is that it makes good business sense.

• Over the next decade Starbucks is planning to have another 12,000 new stores open around the world as well as opening more dine-in restaurants, drive-thrus and even walk-thrus in busy metropolitan areas. Key to its ambitious growth plans is access to a bank of young, hard-working and often low-paid labour which has been afforded by the refugee crisis, and their business plans very much chime with the consensus in economic literature that refugees have a favourable economic impact on both demand and supply forces.

• The move also has obvious connotations with Angela Merkel’s approach in Germany.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ Anti-Trump protests planned nationwide on Saturday

• Protesters will gather in Washington, D.C., and 135 other cities on Saturday to call for an independent commission to investigate possible collusion between President Trump’s campaign and Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

• The “March for Truth” is the latest in a series of weekend protests opposing the Trump administration that has included the Women’s March in January and the Tax March and March for Science in April.

• Organizers of the latest demonstration are also demanding that Trump release his personal income tax returns.

=> ↺ Comey to testify publicly about Trump confrontations

• Fired FBI director James Comey plans to testify publicly in the Senate as early as next week to confirm bombshell accusations that President Donald Trump pressured him to end his investigation into a top Trump aide’s ties to Russia, a source close to the issue said Wednesday.

=> ↺ ‘Strong and stable’ May too strong and stable to debate ‘naked and alone’ Corbyn

• It’s worth remembering that we’ve been told for two years that Corbyn couldn’t politics his way out of a wet paper bag. And yet, in the last month, he’s made a Prime Minister whose key strength is her alleged ‘strength’ refuse to face him twice.

• A new Prime Minister approaches.

=> ↺ EXCL Brussels prepared to postpone start of Brexit talks if Jeremy Corbyn becomes Prime Minister

• Michel Barnier, the European Union’s cheif negotiator in the crunch talks, said last week that he hoped they would begin on 19 June.

• His comments were pounced upon by Theresa May as further evidence that she and her experienced ministerial team should be re-elected.

=> ↺ Corbyn on leading a coalition: ‘Ask me on June 9′

• Jeremy Corbyn stood on the stump in a Reading car park and talked without hesitation, though with a good deal of repetition, for 30 minutes.

• His largely white, young and middle class audience was in raptures, as he elaborated in meticulous detail all the spending on public services he would do to end seven years of austerity.

• It is the message which seems to have reduced the Tories lead over Labour by 15 or so percentage points, and made it plausible – according to YouGov – that May and the Tories could lose their majority in parliament.

=> ↺ Jeremy Corbyn Won’t Be Perfect, But He Has The Qualities I Want In A Strong And Stable Leader

• You know I never actually said “don’t vote”? I said “There’s no point in voting when the main political parties are basically indistinguishable and the relationship between government, big business and factions of the media make it impossible for the democratic will of the people to be realised”, which is a more nuanced point and plainly true. Anyway, that was then and this is now.

• Since then we have had a revolution, and not a pleasant one, a nostalgic backward lunge into an imaginary world where economic disparity and social fragmentation are concealed by a flag, draped across the truth like a patriotic tablecloth. The late Zygmunt Bauman had a phrase for this phenomenon – ‘retroptopia.’

• Compared to the buffet of neo-liberal homogeneity that we chewed through in 2015, the possibility of voting for a politician that offers change seems oddly exotic. Jeremy Corbyn has somehow been in politics for decades with his integrity perfectly preserved, like his much derided beard has functioned as hairy formaldehyde for his principles.

=> ↺ WaPo’s Laziest Columnist Calls Protesters ‘Fascists,’ Equates Them to Manchester Bomber

• Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen (5/29/17) continues his impressive streak of downplaying racism and being wrong with his latest half-baked column, “Protesters at Middlebury College Demonstrate ‘Cultural Appropriation’—of Fascism.”

• After describing the chaotic events at Vermont’s Middlebury College three months ago—which left one professor with a concussion after activists sought to shut down a speech by white supremacist-with-a-PhD Charles Murray—Cohen goes full-Godwin, equating the students with 1920s Italian fascists, a comparison that’s both fresh and totally proportionate to accidentally hitting a person on the head…

=> ↺ Nordic leaders troll Trump orb photo

• The leaders, including the prime ministers of Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Iceland, stood around a soccer ball, each touching it.

=> ↺ Donald Trump Is Picking a Fight With Germany—and It Will Not End Well

=> ↺ Observer lays off four staffers, including reporter who wrote open letter to Kushner: report

• Culture writer Dana Schwartz was one of the employees let go. She wrote an open note to Kushner over the summer, titled "An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, From One of Your Jewish Employees," after President Trump, Kushner’s employer and father in law, tweeted out a controversial anti-Hillary Clinton message that featured Clinton surrounded by $100 bills and wearing a six-point star that resembled the Star of David.

=> ↺ The Real Trouble With The GOP We’re Too Distracted To Notice

=> ↺ Revealed: How Facebook chief, Sheryl Sandberg, lobbied Taoiseach Enda Kenny over data protection role and taxation

• Facebook chief, Sheryl Sandberg, personally lobbied the Taoiseach at one-to-one meetings and in correspondence, on who would be appointed as Ireland’s next Data Protection Commissioner.

=> ↺ Tainted Leaks

• Last year, I wrote about the potential for doxers to alter documents before they leaked them. It was a theoretical threat when I wrote it, but now Citizen Lab has documented this technique in the wild

=> ↺ [Old] The Elements of Dictator Style

=> ↺ Why the nasty party is back in business under Theresa May

• Theresa May sits down to be interviewed by Jeremy Paxman tonight, she’ll no doubt want to talk about her record.

• I’m happy to remind her.

• When she called the Tories the ‘nasty party’ all those years ago, she pointed out they only spoke for a privileged few.

=> ↺ Donald Trump’s War on Journalism Has Begun. But Journalists Are Not His Main Target.

• Wars are rarely announced in advance, but President Trump provided an abundance of warning about his intention to wage an assault on journalism. During the election campaign, he called journalists an “enemy of the people” and described media organizations he didn’t like as “fake news.” You can pretty much draw a direct line between his words and the actions we’ve seen lately — which include journalists physically prevented from asking questions of officials, arrested when trying to do so, and in a now-famous example from Montana, body-slammed to the ground by a Republican candidate who didn’t want to discuss his party’s position on healthcare.

• This is most likely a prelude. From virtually the moment Trump took the oath of office, a deluge of irritating leaks has poured forth about, for instance, his private complaints against senior aides and his late night habits when he is upstairs at the White House without a tweet-blocking retinue of aides. Matters of crucial substance have also been leaked, such as his own disclosure of highly classified information to Russia’s foreign minister, and his obstruction-of-justice-worthy request to James Comey that the FBI restrain its investigation of Michael Flynn. Just a few days ago, there was another leak that wasn’t even Trump-centric, disclosing information about the British investigation into the suicide bombing in Manchester.

=> ↺ A massive foreign policy blunder came back to bite Putin on his first meeting with Macron

• As soon as Emmanuel Macron swept home to an enormous victory in the French presidential election in early May, analysts predicted that Russia’s propaganda and alleged hacking interference in his campaign had backfired, turning a relatively moderate candidate into a president with a grudge.

• Russian president Vladimir Putin’s first meeting with Macron, in Versailles palace today, showed they weren’t wrong. When asked at a joint press conference why he had banned Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik from attending events towards the end of his campaign, Macron pulled no punches (link in French), saying, “I’ve always had exemplary relations with foreign journalists, for as long as they are journalists,” he said. “Let’s tell things like they are: Russia Today and Sputnik didn’t behave like organs of the press and journalists, they behaved like organs of influence and mendacious propaganda.”

=> ↺ General election 2017 live: Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn face live TV grilling on Battle for Number 10

• Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May are facing a grilling on the Battle for Number 10, live on Sky News and Channel 4.

• Each leader will face questions from a live studio audience before being grilled by Jeremy Paxman.

• Mrs May refused to debate Mr Corbyn head to head on live TV so they will not share the stage at any point tonight.

=> ↺ Foursquare: US tourism is down sharply in the age of Trump

• Over the past couple of years, Foursquare has used their location data to accurately predict iPhone sales and Chipotle’s sales figures following an E. coli outbreak. Their latest report suggests that leisure tourism to the United States was way down year-over-year over the past 6 months (relative to tourism to other countries).

=> ↺ New posterboy for ‘more Europe’ — Donald Trump

• Angela Merkel’s beerfest call for Europe to wean itself from U.S. reliance may have looked like a salvo in Donald Trump’s direction. In fact, she was aiming closer to home.

• Merkel’s intent wasn’t so much to antagonize the U.S. president (though she may well have done so), but rather to convince Germans their destiny lies in Europe and prepare them for deeper integration.

• “We Europeans really need to take our fate into our own hands,” Merkel said on Sunday, offering a clear coda to her remarks about Trump.

• Though the underlying arguments for a more a tightly wound EU aren’t new, the debate has taken on new urgency since the election of Emmanuel Macron as French president. The victory of the passionately pro-EU Macron presents what many liberal European leaders view as a short window of opportunity for Berlin and Paris to turn the rhetoric of reforming the EU’s creaking infrastructure into reality.

=> ↺ Corbyn, Paxman, May and a TV studio audience: the verdict

• Corbyn had a much better 45 minutes than she did, but she was the one the audience would send in to Brussels to negotiate with our European partners.

=> ↺ Charities say ‘gag law’ stops them speaking out on Tory social care plans

• Charities have been silenced from speaking out about the Conservative social care plans despite believing they will be hugely damaging to elderly and disabled people across the country, it has been claimed.

• One chief executive of a major charity in the social care sector told the Guardian they felt “muzzled” by legislation, introduced in 2014, which heavily restricts organisations from intervening on policy during an election period.

=> ↺ The electable Mr Corbyn

• UK Theresa May called snap UK elections (after promising not to) in order to consolidate power in her own party, shutting up the MPs who didn’t fall into line with her policies — this was the same logic behind her predecessor David Cameron’s decision to call a referendum on Brexit, and both banked on the idea that the UK electorate wasn’t willing to vote for an “unthinkable” alternative in order to tell the establishment to go fuck itself.

=> ↺ The US Bernie Sanders campaigners lending Jeremy Corbyn a hand

• As rush-hour commuters hurried past to find shelter, dozens of people braved the pouring rain to queue outside the TSSA union building, next door to Euston station in London.

• Over the course of the evening, there would be hundreds of them. “Labour members queue to the right – and who has RSVP-ed on Facebook?” a woman shouted down the street.

=> ↺ UK election rivals May and Corbyn set out opposing EU ‘no deal’ stances

• British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would walk away from divorce talks with the European Union without a deal if she had to, but her rival in next week’s election, Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, said he would make sure an agreement was reached if he won power.

• Britons will go to the polls in a vote that will decide whether May, from the centre-right Conservatives, or Corbyn of the leftist Labour Party, gets to sit down with Brussels and hammer out an exit deal that will define the country’s trade and diplomatic ties with the EU.

=> ↺ David Davis & Brexit Negotiations

• Finally, and ironically, prior to this period he was instrumental in blocking one of the major initiatives that would have allowed the UK to manage FoM in the same way as our European partners, arguably one of the key drivers for Brexit.

=> ↺ Anti-Theresa May song ‘banned by radios’ makes its way up the charts

• A ska song accusing the Prime Minister of lying has raced up the music charts.

• With just over a week to go before the general election the song has been banned by radio stations over impartiality concerns.

=> ↺ ‘Liar Liar’ Song About Theresa May By Captain Ska Soars To Number 2 On iTunes Chart

• ster Theresa May has rocketed up the music charts less than two weeks before the General Election.

• ‘Liar Liar’ by Captain Ska was released on Friday and by Monday had risen to number two on the influential iTunes singles chart.

• The song features soundbites from May, alongside lyrics including: “She’s a liar liar, you can’t trust her, no, no, no.”

=> ↺ Theresa May ‘liar’ song now at number three in iTunes download charts

• A song accusing Theresa May of being a “liar” has reached number three in the iTunes charts and the top 10 radio charts.

• “Liar Liar Ge2017”, produced and performed by Captain Ska, skewers the Prime Minister on the NHS, education and poverty, and her party’s several recent U-turns including calling the snap election.

• The chorus and easy-to-sing-along melody – “She’s a liar, liar, you can’t trust her, no no no no” – has helped the song to overtake Miley Cyrus, Niall Horan and Ed Sheeran.

=> ↺ Corbyn and May

• I do not believe that this economic argument has yet been won by the neo-liberals. A different response, though, is to think about the opportunities for the development of virtue that are lost when we introduce markets. I think that fear is one of the greatest barriers to the development of the virtues. It closes us down. Fundamentally, social justice is about the removal of fear, so that people are able to flourish. The neo-liberals would rather encourage and exploit fear, in all stratas of society (they want themselves to be afraid of being a bit less rich, and respond accordingly).

=> ↺ Trump clashes with German leaders as transatlantic tensions boil over

• Donald Trump has escalated a row between the US and Germany in an early morning tweet accusing Berlin of unfair trade relations and not paying its way in the Nato alliance.

• Trump’s tweet, declaring German policies “very bad” for the US and vowing to change the situation, came a few hours after the German foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel, declared that the administration’s “short-sighted policies” were weakening the west.

• The discord between the Trump administration and Berlin is just the sorest point in increasingly troubled transatlantic relations, aggravated by the president’s European trip last week. Since then, simmering tensions have boiled over in a public spat.

=> ↺ Why Angela Merkel’s Concerns Are So Concerning

• If it is politically harmful for America’s allies to be seen supporting America’s president, those alliances are not long for this world.

=> ↺ Ridiculed, reviled, resurgent … Is Corbyn’s campaign beginning to #feeltheBern?

• Just as I was wondering if I had come to the right place, out of the drizzle stepped a familiar figure. “Sorry about the rain,” Jeremy Corbyn told the crowd waiting in a park in Southall, west London, before launching into an eerily familiar speech. For more than a year, I had followed an almost identical politician around the United States, where the climate was more extreme than the London suburbs. From baking-hot Iowa prairies, to the blizzards of New Hampshire, the rise of Bernard Sanders played out on a continental scale. In the made-for-America production, the ageing leftwinger known simply as Bernie rose from nowhere to electrify the 2016 race for the White House. Yet, despite the lower-budget feel of the British version, this movie is getting a remake. Here, too, a leader who was at first ignored, then ridiculed, and now reviled by the establishment, has seen a last-minute surge in the opinion polls that threatens to upset a complacent opponent.

• Without wanting to give the plot away, it is important to note that Sanders lost. A mounting wave of support peaked too late for him to overhaul Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination and never allowed him to test the polling data that suggested he could have beaten Donald Trump. But the last time an angry white-haired socialist called for political revolution, something nonetheless remarkable happened. Against all the odds, Sanders found millions more Americans were enthusiastic about radical social change than even he imagined was possible. Ideas that once seemed absurd by the old standards of Washington politics set the country alight.

=> ↺ Corbyn turns in one of his best media performances

• Jeremy Corbyn turned in one of his most assured media performances in the Sky / Channel 4 ‘Battle for Number 10’ programme. Answering questions from the audience, Corbyn was confident and kept his temper under some hostile questioning. He took every opportunity to return to his key messages. He framed them in a reasonable, rather than ideological manner.

• Now, this is not to say that Corbyn was telling the whole truth. On Northern Ireland, he suggested that all he had ever wanted was a peace process and a dialogue. But his activity at the time was far closer to sympathy for the IRA, then support for a peace process. It is worth remembering that he opposed the Anglo-Irish agreement and that Seamus Mallon, the deputy leader of the Nationalist SDLP, said of Corbyn that he ‘very clearly took the side of the IRA and that was incompatible, in my opinion with working for peace’. But a voter not versed in these details might have accepted Corbyn’s claim that he was just pushing for a Good Friday-style deal.

=> ↺ ‘Covfefe’ trends on social media after Trump shares unfinished tweet with typo

• “Covfefe” was the number one trend on Twitter across the U.S. early Wednesday morning after President Trump sent out what appeared to be an unfinished tweet with a typo.

• “Despite the constant negative press covfefe,” Trump tweeted shortly after 12 a.m. E.T.

=> ↺ Portland MAX hero’s last words: ‘Tell everyone on this train I love them’

• Holding his neck, he said, “I’m going to die,” according to Macy.

• “I looked at him and said, ‘we can handle this. Lay down.’ ”

• He lay on the floor of the train. Macy crouched beside him, pulled off her black tank top and gave it to Namkai-Meche. He pressed the shirt to his neck wound. She placed her hand over his.

• She noticed a deep, long gash along Namkai-Meche’s neck.

• Another man who she described as a veteran also tried to comfort Namkai-Meche and keep him from panicking. He told Namkai-Mache that his heart was beating, and he was OK, pointing out the sound of sirens and help on its way.

• “I just kept telling him, ‘You’re not alone. We’re here,” Macy said. “What you did was total kindness. You’re such a beautiful man. I’m sorry the world is so cruel.”

• And she prayed.

• “When I said ‘pray with me,’ he just closed his eyes and tried to keep breathing,” she recalled.

• Fletcher stumbled off the train holding his neck, she said.

• Macy remained on the train until police and emergency medics arrived. Medical personnel tried to work on Best but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

• Medics put Namkai-Meche on a stretcher. Macy stayed by his side. Before he was carried away, he had a last message, she said: “Tell everyone on this train I love them. ”

• Macy, who is studying psychology at the Cascade campus of Portland Community College, left her leather school bag, purse and cell phone behind and then stepped back to where Best was lying. She prayed for him and his family.

=> ↺ Theresa May ‘Liar liar’ song tops UK charts

• A song that splices British Prime Minister Theresa May’s speeches with the lyrics “She’s a liar, liar” on Tuesday became the most downloaded song on iTunes in the U.K., despite being barred from many radio stations over its political content.

• Liar Liar GE2017, performed by Captain Ska and promoted by a group called the People’s Assembly Against Austerity, attacks May and her Conservative Party for cuts to education and the National Health Service.

=> ↺ Election 2017 debate: Jeremy Corbyn to take part in live TV show after Theresa May refuses to attend

• Jeremy Corbyn has revealed he will take part in tonight’s TV election debate and has challenged Theresa May to come and face his questions.

• The Labour leader threw down the gauntlet to the Prime Minister, claiming it is “ridiculous” that he would not have a chance to debate her before election day and accusing her of “weakness”.

• Labour’s momentum has been reflected in a shrinking Tory poll lead and one projection pointing to a hung parliament, while Mr Corbyn has grown in confidence following his performances in previous TV events.

=> ↺ Jeremy Corbyn Will Take Part In Tonight’s Leaders’ Debate And He’s Challenged Theresa May To Join Him

• “The Tories have been conducting a stage-managed arms-length campaign and have treated the public with contempt. Refusing to join me in Cambridge tonight would be another sign of Theresa May’s weakness, not strength.”

=> ↺ Election 2017: David Dimbleby says Jeremy Corbyn has not had ‘fair deal’ from British press

• “If the Conservative story is how Theresa May is the ‘brand leader’,” Mr Dimbleby said, “the interesting thing is that a lot of Labour supporters really like and believe in the messages that Jeremy Corbyn is bringing across,” adding that while this support may not come from his own MPs in the House of Commons, it does from many people across the country.

• “And I don’t think anyone could say that Mr Corbyn has had a fair deal at the hands of the press, in a way that the Labour Party did when it was more to the centre, but then we generally have a right-wing press,” he told the Radio Times.

=> ↺ Theresa May denies demeaning the office of Prime Minister after asking voters to imagine Jeremy Corbyn ‘naked and alone’

• Flapping Theresa May fired off a volley of insults at Jeremy Corbyn today after Labour surged in general election polls.

• The desperate Prime Minister even conjured up an image of the Labour leader naked in Brussels as she urged voters to consider the impact of propelling Mr Corbyn to No 10.

=> ↺ Corbyn to join TV debate as gap with Conservatives narrows

• May’s ratings have been slipping since she was forced to backtrack on one of her most striking election pledges, hours before the suicide bombing which halted campaigning for several days.

• A projection published by pollsters YouGov on Wednesday showed May could lose control of parliament.

• May called the snap election in a bid to strengthen her hand in negotiations on Britain’s exit from the European Union, to win more time to deal with the impact of the divorce and to strengthen her grip on the Conservative Party.

• But if she does not soundly beat the 12-seat majority Cameron won in 2015, her authority could be undermined just as she tries to deliver what she has told voters will be a successful Brexit.

=> ↺ Here are all of Theresa May’s ridiculous excuses for not debating Jeremy Corbyn live on television

• So it’s confirmed – tonight’s live TV debate won’t feature chicken Prime Minister Theresa May.

• Since the day she called the election, Mrs May has refused to debate Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn head-to-head on television even though he has thrown down the gauntlet many times.

• Instead, Home Secretary Amber Rudd will represent the Tories in tonight’s BBC Election Debate 2017 in Cambridge, alongside Mr Corbyn, SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, UKIP leader Paul Nuttall, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood and Green co-leader Caroline Lucas.

=> ↺ What does Jeremy Corbyn stand for?

• The 2017 UK Labour Manifesto has been hugely popular since it was leaked early last month, and young Britons registered to vote in droves after it got out. But what does it actually say?

• By all means, read it. But also read Max Shanly and Ronana Burtenshaw’s analysis for Jacobin, which sums it up nicely: “end the era of austerity and shape a new economic terrain, one that shifts wealth and power from capital to workers.”

• More importantly, read through to the end, where the authors point out that Prime Minister Corbyn couldn’t make all this stuff — renationalising key industries, providing free education, taxing the rich and multinational corporations, and instituting key protections for workers — won’t happen on their own. As anyone who watched Yes, Minister knows, the blob of powerful interests (represented by elite civil servants, party grandees, press barons and billionaires) have powerful tools for manipulating political outcomes.

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ Bret Weinstein and the cowardice of college leaders

• Footage of the confrontation between Weinstein and students reveals a kind of mass hysteria. Weinstein himself described it as being like ‘Phnom Penh 1975′, in reference to the violent forced re-education of intellectuals by the Khmer Rouge. Protesting students invaded his classroom and confronted him. Weinstein tried to propose discussion as a way forward, but was told: ‘This is not a discussion.’ He then tried to argue for ‘the truth’ – the response was derisive laughter.

=> ↺ Huge Coalition Protests EU Mandatory Piracy Filter Proposals

=> ↺ Man fined by Swiss court for ‘liking’ defamatory comments on Facebook

• The court said it did not matter that the comments had not originated from the defendant, whose name was not given. By clicking the like button, "the defendant clearly endorsed the unseemly content and made it his own," the court statement said.

=> ↺ Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship

• Determining how to prevent these acts of censorship has long been a priority for the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, and thanks to new research from the Harvard Center for Internet and Society, the foundation seems to have found a solution: encryption.

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ Fifth Circuit Says No Warrants Needed To Obtain Near-Real Time Cell Site Location Info

• The Fifth Circuit Appeals Court has issued a ruling on cell site location data which basically gives the government permission to engage in real-time tracking without a warrant. The acquisition of historical cell site location data is still the source of much judicial dispute. But at the federal appellate level, courts that have handled these cases have decided no warrant is needed. Location records are just another thing law enforcement can have warrantless access to, thanks to the Third Party Doctrine.

=> ↺ Nest Cam IQ is a $300 indoor camera with a 6-core processor

=> ↺ Hackers publish private photos from cosmetic surgery clinic

• Hackers have published more than 25,000 private photos, including nude pictures, and other personal data from patients of a Lithuanian cosmetic surgery clinic, police say.

• The images were made public on Tuesday by a hacking group calling themselves “Tsar Team”, which broke into the servers of the Grozio Chirurgija clinic earlier this year and demanded ransoms from the clinic’s clients in more than 60 countries around the world, including the UK.

• Police say that following the ransom demand, a portion of the database was released in March, with the rest following on Tuesday. It’s unclear how many patients have been affected, but police say dozens have come forward to report being blackmailed. “It’s extortion. We’re talking about a serious crime,” the deputy chief of Lithuania’s criminal police bureau Andzejus Raginskis told reporters.

=> ↺ Congress Fast-Tracks Bill That Would Give DHS Agencies Access To NSA Collections

• The DHS is already on the list of agencies with access to NSA collections. This bill would allow it to give underling agencies access to the same info. Some notable three-letter agencies on that list include CBP, ICE, and TSA. While the NSA’s collections are supposed to serve a national security purpose, the FBI uses its access for standard criminal investigations. There’s no reason to believe these agencies won’t do the same.

• But the bill has friends everywhere in the House. The bill was passed after 40 minutes of debate, thanks to a suspension of normal voting rules. The normal concerns for national security were voiced, but nothing was said of the NSA collection’s routine use in routine, domestic criminal investigations. That Congress considers expanded information sharing with domestic security agencies “non-controversial” (hence the sped-up voting process) is an indication of the majority’s view of the privacy/security balancing act.

=> ↺ UK government confirms plans to destroy the British software Industry

• Last week, the UK government confirmed plans to force Internet companies to undermine security by weakening or backdooring encryption. As Privacy News Online reported back in March, the UK’s Home Secretary (Interior Minister) Amber Rudd refused to rule out this move when she called for the “necessary hashtags” to be used. But what was just a vague threat then has moved much closer to reality now that the UK government has held a brief and semi-secret consultation on the so-called “Technical Capability Notices”, which will enable it to demand compliance from companies. Now the Conservatives are saying that they will bring in the new powers as soon as they can after the UK General Election, assuming they are returned to office, as currently seems likely.

• The fact that this story broke the day after the attack in Manchester is probably no coincidence. The UK government seems to have decided to exploit public outrage over the murder of so many young people to ensure that protests over the news that the long-threatened assault on encryption is happening would be muted. The implicit reasoning is that if the UK government had been able to read encrypted messages, the Manchester attack would somehow have been averted.

• But as more details of the terrorist emerged, it became clear that there were at least five opportunities to have the stopped him, and none of them involved breaking encrypted messages. [...]

=> ↺ Judge Orders Gov’t To Stop Screwing Around And Hand Over Docs In Long-Running Surveillance Case

• One of the longest-running lawsuits over NSA surveillance is still no closer to a final decision, but at least we may get to take a look at a few more Section 702 documents. Jewel vs. NSA (filed in 2008) predates the Snowden leaks by five years and, judging by the speed of the government’s responses, will probably hit the 10-year mark before everything is sorted out.

=> ↺ [Older] The Human Fabric of the Facebook Pyramid

=> ↺ How Facebook’s tentacles reach further than you think

• Facebook’s collection of data makes it one of the most influential organisations in the world. Share Lab wanted to look "under the bonnet" at the tech giant’s algorithms and connections to better understand the social structure and power relations within the company.

=> ↺ This Open Source “Concrete Ball” Has Built-In TOR Protection And Internet Blackout Dial For Your Computer

• However, people mostly depend on software options like Tor and VPN for enabling their anonymity cover online. But in recent times, hardware-based privacy solutions are also finding their place in normal households, one of them being CUJO, which is a smart firewall.

=> ↺ How Telegram Took My Unique Username

=> ↺ Could the UK be about to break end-to-end encryption?

• Once again there are indications the UK government intends to use the law to lean on encryption. A report in The Sun this week quoted a Conservative minister saying that should the government be re-elected, which polls suggest it will, it will move quickly to compel social media firms to hand over decrypted data.

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ US hasn’t ruled out a full laptop ban of flights heading to its shores

• After confirming last week that US and EU authorities have agreed that there should be no ban between the EU and US, it still appears that the US may act unilaterally.

=> ↺ China to implement cyber security law from Thursday

• China, battling increased threats from cyber-terrorism and hacking, will adopt from Thursday a controversial law that mandates strict data surveillance and storage for firms working in the country, the official Xinhua news agency said.

• The law, passed in November by the country’s largely rubber-stamp parliament, bans online service providers from collecting and selling users’ personal information, and gives users the right to have their information deleted, in cases of abuse.

=> ↺ JetBlue Flight From JFK Makes Emergency Landing After Laptop Catches Fire

• There were some terrifying moments for 158 passengers on a JetBlue flight from John F. Kennedy Airport to California after the lithium battery in a passenger’s laptop somehow caught fire, forcing an emergency landing halfway through the trip.

• JetBlue flight 915, which left JFK around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday heading for San Francisco, landed in Grand Rapids, Michigan after the laptop stowed away in backpack in an overhead bin caught on fire.

=> ↺ U.S. might ban laptops on all flights into and out of the country

• The United States might ban laptops from aircraft cabins on all flights into and out of the country as part of a ramped-up effort to protect against potential security threats, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Sunday.

=> ↺ Germany gains access to detained journalist in Turkey

• Martin Schäfer, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said Monday that German officials had received a verbal confirmation of permission to visit to Mesale Tolu, a 33-year-old German-Turkish journalist under arrest in Turkey.

• “We have received this information by phone, but are still waiting for written approval,” Schäfer said, adding that diplomats would likely visit Tolu on June 2.

• The German Foreign Ministry had been demanding consular access to Tolu since it learned of the arrest – only by way of media reports – last month. The German government called the arrest “regrettable.”

=> ↺ Duterte: I will ignore Supreme Court, Congress on martial law =

• President Rodrigo Duterte will ignore the Supreme Court and Congress in his implementation of martial law in Mindanao, despite powers given by the Constitution to the two branches.

• In a speech to soldiers during his visit to Jolo, Sulu on Saturday, Duterte said, “Hanggang hindi sinabi ng pulis pati Armed Forces na safe na ang Philippines, this martial law will continue. Hindi ako makinig sa iba. Mga Supreme Court, ‘yung mga congressman, wala man sila dito.”

=> ↺ Is “I forget” a valid defense when court orders demand a smartphone password?

• On May 30, two suspects accused of extorting the so-called “Queen of Snapchat” as part of a sex-tape scandal are scheduled to appear in a Florida court. But as wild as the premise sounds, primarily the accused need only to answer a simple question on this visit. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Charles Johnson wants an explanation as to why Hencha Voigt and her then boyfriend, Wesley Victor, can’t remember the passcodes to their mobile phones.

• [...]

• if he doesn’t believe them or if they remain silent, the two suspects face possible contempt charges and indefinite jail time for refusing a court order to unlock their phones so prosecutors can examine text messages. Their defense to that order, however, rests on an unsettled area of law. Voigt and Victor maintain that a court order requiring them to unlock an encrypted device is a breach of the Fifth Amendment right to be free from compelled self-incrimination.

=> ↺ EU top lawyer argues for right of residency for non-EU citizens

• An advocate general for the European Court of Justice argued today that non-EU citizens ought to have the right to reside in an EU country if their partners are naturalized citizens in that country.

• The case revolves around Toufik Lounes, an Algerian citizen who overstayed his visa in the United Kingdom and in 2014 married a Spanish national who became a naturalized British citizen. Lounes was later denied a residence card and informed that because his wife had taken on British citizenship, she was no longer a “European Economic Area national,” meaning that she no longer enjoyed the rights of non-British EU citizens. These include claiming a residence card for a non-EU family member.

=> ↺ Men investigating Ivanka Trump brand in China arrested, missing: report

• The three men were investigating Ganzhou Huajian International Shoe City Co.’s factory in Jiangxi province. Heng had been working undercover at the factory since April, China Labor Watch Director Li Qiang said. The parent company is known as Huajian Group.

=> ↺ Ivanka Trump: Men Probing China Shoe Company Missing

=> ↺ Judge Smacks NYPD For Its ‘Gotcha’ Tactics In Forfeiture Public Records Lawsuit

• New York’s court system is finally pushing back against the NYPD’s refusal to provide better accounting of its forfeiture programs. Late last year, the NYPD informed people requesting information on seizures it had no way of compiling this data for them. Its $12 million software — meant to provide “cradle-to-grave” tracking of seized property — apparently couldn’t handle routine inquiries about seizure totals.

• When the NYPD did decide to talk about its forfeiture operations, it used incomplete and misleading numbers. It claimed to have forfeited only around $12,000 in 2015, something miles away from the $69 million estimate of seized cash-on-hand others had cobbled together using info the NYPD had managed to turn over. According to numbers the NYPD said its software couldn’t compile, the department had generated $6 million in revenue in 2015 alone.

=> ↺ DHS, TSA To Make Boarding A Plane Even More Of A Pain In The Ass

• More bag-sorting and intrusiveness awaits more flyers thanks to the DHS and TSA. The TSA has already banned electronic devices larger than a cellphone from being brought on board flights originating in 10 predominantly Muslim countries. Now, it wants to extend that ban to European nations. For now, the new inconvenience is in its test phase.

• Rather than make things safer, officials now want lithium ion batteries and other similar fire hazards to be stowed in areas where no one’s likely to notice a developing fire and subject them to the sort of abuse airline employees save for items they haven’t personally purchased. All in the name of safety, and all in the name of unspecified threats.

Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

=> ↺ A Bad Broadband Market Begs for Net Neutrality Protections

• Anyone who has spent hours on the phone with their cable company can tell you that in the broadband market, the customer is not always right.

• When it comes to Internet access wired into your home, the major ISPs like Comcast, Charter, and Verizon don’t have to play nice because they know that most customers aren’t able to switch to another provider.

• Thanks to policies at the federal, state, and local levels, as well as some careful planning by the major ISPs, there is no meaningful competition in the broadband market in most parts of the country. Instead, consumers are stuck with government-backed monopolistic ISPs that can get away with anti-consumer business practices.

=> ↺ Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to experience an Internet without net neutrality

Intellectual Monopolies

=> ↺ Uber engineer Levandowski, accused of massive theft from Google, has been fired

• The Uber engineer at the center of the company’s litigation with Waymo, Anthony Levandowski, has been fired.

Copyrights

=> ↺ Anti-Piracy Group Shuts Down ‘Pirate’ Kodi Repos and Add-Ons

• The websites of several Israeli Kodi repositories and add-ons have been shut down this week, following legal action from a local anti-piracy group. The operators of the platforms reportedly agreed to pay a settlement of thousands of shekels and face a hefty fine if they relaunch their services.

=> ↺ Danish ISPs Stand Up Against ‘Mafia-Like’ Copyright Trolls

• Following a recent victory in Norway, Internet provider Telenor now hopes to put the brakes on copyright trolling efforts in Denmark as well. The company is backed by other ISPs and the local Telco Industry Organization, which notes that users must be protected from these "mafia-like" practices.

=> ↺ Open Letter on the EU copyright reform

• On 29 May 2017, over 60 civil society and trade associations – representing publishers, journalists, libraries, scientific and research institutions, consumers, digital rights groups, start-ups, technology businesses, educational institutions and creator representatives – sent this open letter [PDF] to the Ministers attending the Competitiveness Council and European Parliament Rapporteur MEP Therese Comodini Cachia and her colleagues, asking them to put the EU copyright reform back on track.

=> ↺ Danish ISPs stop providing copyright industry with subscriber identities

• Denmark’s ISPs are collectively putting their foot down and will no longer surrender identifying subscriber information to the copyright industry’s lawyer armies. This follows a ruling in neighboring Norway, where the Supreme Court ruled that ISP Telenor is under no obligation to surrender subscriber identities, observing that the infraction of the copyright distribution monopoly is not nearly a serious enough issue to breach telecommunications privacy. This has the potential to end a long time of copyright industry free reign in Denmark, and will likely create a long series of court cases.

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