Games: Siralim 3, Humble, and Victory At Sea Pacific

• Monster taming RPG 'Siralim 3' now has a Linux version on Steam

  Siralim 3, the deep monster taming RPG from Thylacine Studios now has a Linux version available for those who gotta catch 'em all. While it's not exactly graphically impressive, the Siralim titles usually make it for it and then some with the amount of features they have. Seems to be a hit with users too, with a nice positive rating.

• Humble has a pretty good Game Development book bundle

  For those thinking about or already creating games, you might want to take a look over at Humble with their game development book bundle.

• Naval strategy game Victory At Sea Pacific is now available with Linux support

  Set during World War II, Victory At Sea Pacific from Evil Twin Artworks is an interesting naval strategy game that released recently with Linux support.

PostgreSQL adopts a code of conduct

The PostgreSQL community has, after an extended discussion, announced the adoption of a code of conduct "which is intended to ensure that PostgreSQL remains an open and enjoyable project for anyone to join and participate in".

Android Leftovers

• Renault-Nissan Teams With Google and Lets Android Into the Dash

• Google 'sorry' for remotely enabling Battery Saver on Android Pie handsets

• Google partners with the world's biggest auto group to bring Android to cars

• AnyTrans Offers iPhone and Android Users a Seamless Transition to iPhone XS, XS Max, or XR

• Cyber Sleuths Find Traces of Infamous iPhone and Android Spyware 'Pegasus' in 45 Countries

Microsoft EEE and Openwashing/'Open' PR Tactics

• Linux on Windows 10: Running Ubuntu VMs just got a lot easier, says Microsoft

• Microsoft Announce Enhanced Version of Ubuntu 18.04 for Hyper-V

  Well, it just got easier to run Ubuntu on Windows 10 as a virtual machine — and it’s all thanks to Microsoft. Windows 10 Pro users are now able to spin up an enhanced Ubuntu virtual machine directly from the Hyper-V Quick Create tool.

• Microsoft Announces Azure Pipelines With Unlimited CI/CD Minutes for Open Source [Ed: Microsoft is openwashing its proprietary-with-surveillance stuff. Anything to misuse the "Open Source" brand while pushing malware with back doors.]

• How To Try Linux Without Making Any Changes To Your PC [Ed: Microsoft wants GNU/Linux to just be a "Windows feature" or something you can "play" with]

• Kong Inc. Launches Kong 1.0, the Only Open Source API Platform Purpose Built for Microservices, Cloud-Native and Serverless Architectures

  Kong Inc., the leading API platform for modern architectures, today launched Kong 1.0, the latest version of Kong's core open source technology that incorporates learnings from three years of production experience for a fully featured offering. Developers, DevOps engineers and solutions architects at organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises use Kong to effectively secure, connect and orchestrate APIs within modern architectures to help meet evolving demands for scalability, performance and flexibility.

• QUALCOMM DIRBS Software Platform to Solve Counterfeit Issue

• Qualcomm Open-Sources Mobile ID Platform

  “Counterfeit devices are a significant problem worldwide and result in an estimated 45.3 billion EUR in lost sales to genuine manufacturers each year” Qualcomm has decided to share its Device Identification Registration and Blocking System (DIRBS) for mobile devices as open-source software on GitHub. DIRBS is a sever-based platform developed by Qualcomm to help government authorities tackle trade in stolen mobile phones and identify counterfeiting activities.

• Hindawi Limited Launches Open-Source Peer Review System Built on the PubSweet Framework

  Hindawi Limited is pleased to announce the launch of a new peer review platform built using the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation's (Coko) open source PubSweet framework. This is the first complete open-source peer review system to come out of the Coko community, a group of like-minded organizations, including eLife, the European Bioinformatics Institute, and the University of California Press, keen on working collaboratively towards the advancement of openness in scholarly communications software.

• Tidelift Reaches Milestone of One Million Dollars Committed to Pay Open Source Software Maintainers

  Select maintainers in the JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby ecosystems to receive at least $10,000 each