LibreOffice Board Assures the Community That it Will Remain Free Software Forever

LibreOffice 7.0 will be released in soon and you may see it labelled as Personal Edition. This labelling and its tagline have created a sort of controversy.

Android Leftovers

• How to view desktop websites on Android

• How to download 4rabet mobile app for Android and iOS?

• Gboard 9.6 beta lets you access Emoji 13.0 on Android 1

• HMD Global is rolling out Android 10 to the Nokia 1

• Nokia 1 from 2018 is now receiving the update to Android 10 (Go Edition)

• The cheapest Nokia smartphone is now eligible for Android 10 Go Edition upgrade

• 10 best bullet hell games and shoot 'em ups for Android

• Top 10 most powerful Android phones of June 2020 as per AnTuTu

• Over 2 dozen additional Android apps found stealing user data

• New useful feature being tested for Android version of Google Maps

• Official Wiko Y61 in Italy: price under 90 euros and Android Go

• Android Google Duo Finally Supports 32 Simultaneous Participants

• OpenSynergy COQOS Hypervisor SDK for Qualcomm SoC & Google Android

• Firefox for Android fixes critical security vulnerability in latest update (APK Download)

• Tiny IOGEAR GUD3C460 USB-C docking station turns your Android smartphone into a desktop

10 Things to do After Installing Linux Mint 20

Here is a curated list of items that you should try after installing Linux Mint 20 Ulyana.

today's leftovers (Red Hat Picks and Security Mostly)

       

• WordPress 5.5 Beta 1

  WordPress 5.5 Beta 1 is now available for testing! This software is still in development, so it’s not recommended to run this version on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version. [...] Keep your eyes on the Make WordPress Core blog for 5.5-related developer notes in the coming weeks, breaking down these and other changes in greater detail. So far, contributors have fixed more than 350 tickets in WordPress 5.5, including 155 new features and enhancements, and more bug fixes are on the way.

• Security updates for Tuesday

  Security updates have been issued by Debian (php7.3), Fedora (gst), Mageia (libvirt, mariadb, pdns-recursor, and ruby), openSUSE (chocolate-doom, coturn, kernel, live555, ntp, python3, and rust, rust-cbindgen), Oracle (virt:ol), Red Hat (file, firefox, gettext, kdelibs, kernel, kernel-alt, microcode_ctl, nghttp2, nodejs:10, nodejs:12, php, qemu-kvm, ruby, and tomcat), SUSE (libjpeg-turbo, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss, mozilla-nss, nasm, openldap2, and permissions), and Ubuntu (coturn, glibc, nss, and openexr).

• Lawsuit & Bi-Partisan Group Of Senators Seek To Push Back On Trump Administration's Attempt To Corrupt The Open Technology Fund

  Last month we wrote about how the newly appointed head of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) had cleaned house, getting rid of the heads of the various organizations under the USAGM umbrella. That included Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Middle East Broadcasting... and the Open Technology Fund. The general story making the rounds is that Pack, a Steve Bannon acolyte, planned to turn the famously independent media operations into a propaganda arm for the Trump administration. Leaving side the concerns about why this is so dangerous and problematic on the media side, we focused mostly on the one "different" organization under the USAGM banner: the Open Technology Fund.

• EFF Joins Coalition Calling On the EU to Introduce Interoperability Rules

  Today, EFF sent a joint letter to European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager, highlighting the enormous potential of interoperability to help achieve the EU’s goals for Europe’s digital future. EFF joins a strong coalition of organizations representing European civil society organizations, entrepreneurs, and SMEs. We are calling on the European Commission to consider the role interoperability can play in ensuring that technology creates a fair and competitive economy and strengthens an open, democratic, and sustainable society. Specifically, we urge the Commission to include specific measures requiring interoperability of large Internet platforms in the forthcoming Digital Services Act package. This will strengthen user empowerment and competition in the European digital single market.

  Interoperability mandates will enable users to exercise greater control over their online experiences. No longer confronted with the binary choice of either staying on dominant platforms that do not serve their needs or losing access to their social network, users will be able to choose freely the tools that best respect their privacy, security, or accessibility preferences. Interoperability rules will also be crucial to ensure a dynamic market in which new entrants and innovative business models will have a fair shot to convince users of their value.

• How not to treat a customer

  First, my complaint to Simply NUC about the recent comedy of errors around my attempt to order a replacement fan for Cathy’s NUC. 

• Kafka Monthly Digest – May 2020

• Kafka Monthly Digest – June 2020

  In this 29th edition of the Kafka Monthly Digest, I’ll cover what happened in the Apache Kafka community in June 2020.

• Introduction to Watson AutoAI

  AutoML is a current buzzword that appears in a lot in tech industry articles and research, and is a product offering in many vendor product catalogs. It’s also one of the topics that I get asked about, such as “How to approach AutoML products”, “Will these products perform all of the steps of the machine learning lifecycle while giving me as a data scientist some control over the parameters?”

• Red Hat Learning Subscription News Flash 5: First look at Red Hat Remote Certification Exams

• Mike Blumenkrantz: Testing Accidents

  Armed with a colossal set of patches in my zink-wip branch and feeling again like maybe it was time to be a team player instead of charging off down the field on my own, I decided yesterday morning to check out Erik’s MR to enable ARB_depth_clamp that’s been blocked on a failing piglit test for several weeks. The extension was working, supposedly, and all this MR does is enable it for use, so how hard could this be?