Today in Techrights

• Immunity of the European Patent Office and Lack of Oversight Within the Organisation Mean That It’s a Rogue Entity Above the Law
• Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are at War With European Democracy, Which They View as an Obstacle to Money and Power
• Links 1/10/2016: Linux 4.7.6 and 4.4.23, Blender 2.78

today's leftovers

• Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac: the channel comparison

  Linux is open source meaning you can customise and modify the code any which way you like. This flexibility has made the system hugely popular amongst the developer community. This is not the same in Windows and Mac. Neither the Windows and Mac programmes nor the operating systems are open source. So there we have it, three entirely different operating systems offering unique experiences that can meet the differing demands of the modern user, whilst offering unique opportunities throughout the channel. So the real question now is, are you a Mac Linux or Windows user?

• How to install and run Dropbox from a headless Linux server

• Red Hat Inc. (NYSE:RHT) Receives $88.33 Consensus Target Price from Brokerages

• Pay Close Attention To These Analyst Ratings Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT), Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL)

• Mintbox Mini Pro: A Cheap Linux Machine With Compelling Specs

  The Mintbox Mini has been received a major hardware upgrade and it is now called Mintbox Mini Pro. The Linux machine comes at a price of $395 and features an all-metal casing which eliminates the need for a cooling fan. Significant bumps having been given to the storage, RAM, processor, wireless, and other hardware components.

• Android Circuit: Note 7 Nightmare Haunts Samsung, Goodbye Faithful BlackBerry, New Galaxy S8 Leaks

• Google is finally kicking out unsupported cards from Android Pay in mid-October, causing people to freak out

• Yahoo open-sources machine learning porn filter

  Yahoo is the latest tech company to open source its computer vision code. The beleaguered outfit's application for it? Filtering porn. Yahoo hopes that its convolutional neural net (CNN) will empower others to better guard innocent eyes, but admits that because of the tech's very nature (and how the definition of "porn" can vary wildly), that the CNN isn't perfect. "This model is a general purpose reference model, which can be used for the preliminary filtering of pornographic images," a post on the Yahoo Engineering Tumblr says. "We do not provide guarantees of accuracy of output, rather, we make this available for developers to explore and enhance as an open source project." The code is available on Github at the moment, and if you need any testing material, well, there isn't exactly a shortage of it on Tumblr. Just ask Indonesia.

• Top Microsoft Open Source Projects You Must Know [Ed: when this site isn’t just plagiarising legit news sites it actually engages in Microsoft openwashing and promotion]

• A $5 Linux server, open source software in China, and more news

Linux/FOSS Events

• The Linux Foundation Announces Session Lineup for ApacheCon(TM) Europe

• OpenShift Commons Gathering event preview

  We're just two months out from the OpenShift Commons Gathering coming up on November 7, 2016 in Seattle, Washington, co-located with KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. OpenShift Origin is a distribution of Kubernetes optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment. Origin adds developer and operations-centric tools on top of Kubernetes to enable rapid application development, easy deployment and scaling, and long-term lifecycle maintenance for small and large teams. And we're excited to say, the 1.3 GA release of OpenShift Origin, which includes Kubernetes 1.3, is out the door! Hear more about the release from Lead Architect for OpenShift Origin, Clayton Coleman.

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