Android Leftovers

• Arizona lawsuit claims Google illegally tracked Android smartphones

• Arm’s new GPU offerings to power high-end Android smartphones of 2021

• How to get the Citra Nintendo 3DS emulator to work on Android smartphones

• How to get dark mode on the Apple Music app on your iPhone or Android device

• 5 simple ways towards Android smartphone personalization

• Top Android App Development Tools That Helps In Creating Unique Apps

• Android Tablet Users Can Now Create Google Duo Account Without Phone Number: Report

• Citra 3DS Emulator Now Available on Android Devices

• Huawei P20 Pro and Mate 10 are now getting Android 10 with EMUI 10 globally

• The Android 11 Beta Launch party will be livestreamed on June 3

Microsoft and Proprietary Software

• Red Cross urges halt to cyberattacks on healthcare sector amid COVID-19 [iophk: Windows TCO]

  The Red Cross called for an end to cyberattacks on healthcare and medical research facilities during the coronavirus pandemic, in a letter published Tuesday and signed by a group of political and business figures.

  Such attacks endanger human lives and governments must take “immediate and decisive action” to stop them, the letter stated.

• FBI offers US companies more details from investigations of health care [cr]acking

  Criminal and state actors continue to target U.S. clinical trial data, trade secrets, and the “sensitive data and proprietary research of U.S. universities and research facilities,” the FBI told industry in an advisory this week. “Likely due to the current global public health crisis, the FBI has observed some nation-states shifting cyber resources to collect against the [health care and public health] sector, while criminals are targeting similar entities for financial gain.”

  The advisory, which CyberScoop obtained, includes multiple examples since February of state-linked [attackers] trying to compromise and retain access to the networks of organizations in the U.S. health care and public health sector. It is the latest in a series of warnings from U.S. officials about similar cybersecurity incidents as the race for a coronavirus vaccine intensifies.

• Microsoft copied its new Windows Package Manager from rival AppGet, claims developer

  Beigi interviewed in December, and then never heard anything back from the company for nearly six months until he received a 24-hour heads up that Microsoft was launching winget last week. “When I finally saw the announcement and the GitHub repositories, I was shocked? Upset? I wasn’t even sure what I was looking at,” says Beigi.

  Beigi claims the “core mechanics, terminology, the manifest format and structure, even the package repository’s folder structure” of Microsoft’s winget are all heavily inspired by AppGet. Microsoft only briefly mentions AppGet once in its announcement, in a throwaway line that lists other Windows package managers.

  “What was copied with no credit is the foundation of the project. How it actually works,” explains Beigi in a separate Reddit post. “And I don’t mean the general concept of package / app managers... WinGet works pretty much identical to the way AppGet works.”

• The Day AppGet Died.

  TLDR; I’m no longer going to be developing AppGet. The client and backend services will go into maintenance mode immediately until August 1st, 2020, at which point they’ll be shut down permanently.

• Apache Pulsar joins Kafka in Splunk Data Stream Processor

  Splunk built out its event streaming capabilities with a new update, released Wednesday, to its Data Stream Processor to bring in more data for analysis on the Splunk platform. The DSP technology is a foundational component of the information security and event management vendor's Data-to-Everything approach.

Graphics: Wayland in 2020, NVIDIA, AMD and Khronos

• Wayland in 2020

  It is nearly a year since my last blog article about Wayland on Linux. Thus I thought it is time for an update on how my desktop with sway developed. What happened?

• Mainline Linux Kernel Starts Seeing A NVIDIA Tegra X1 Video Input Driver

  While the Tegra X1 SoC (Tegra210) has been available for several years, finally with the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel is a mainline driver contributed by NVIDIA for the video input support. The Tegra X1 features a high-end video input controller that can support up to six MIPI CSI camera sensors concurrently.

• AMDVLK 2020.Q2.4 Released With TMZ Enabled, Improved Memory Allocation

  As the first open-source code drop in two weeks, AMDVLK 2020.Q2.4 is out today as the latest update to this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver stack for Linux. AMDVLK 2020.Q2.4 comes with improved memory allocation for systems not using any local invisible memory, command buffer prefetch is now disabled for local memory, TMZ is enabled, and a back-end optimization for kills is used. There are also several bug fixes concerning the Radeon Graphics Profiler and other targeted bug fixes.

• Khronos Releases OpenVG 1.1 Lite For High Quality Vector Graphics On Mobile

  It's been a while since hearing of OpenVG as The Khronos Group's hardware-accelerated 2D vector graphics API. But today they announced a "Lite" version of OpenVG 1.1. OpenVG 1.1 as their latest version came back in 2008 and since then there hasn't been much to report on this vector graphics API besides maintenance tasks and a short-lived OpenVG Gallium3D state tracker. Out today though is the provisional specification of OpenVG 1.1 Lite.