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Mycroft: Linux’s Own AI
The future is artificially intelligent. We are already surrounded by devices that are continuously listening to every word that we speak. There is Siri, Google Now, Amazon Alexa, and Microsoft’s Cortana. The biggest problem with these AI “virtual assistants” is that users have no real control over them. They use closed source technologies to send every bit of information they collect from users back to their masters.
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Three "Open Source" Investing Strategies to Start Using Today
More and more tech companies are building their success by going "open source."
By that, I mean they're using open-source tech platforms like Linux and Hadoop – which are free and open to the public to use – to write code, create cloud storage, and develop Big Data applications. With these platforms, they're saving money, running their business more efficiently… and raking in the profits.
I thought of open-source platforms recently – on New Year's Eve.
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Security Updates For Linux 4.5 Brings Improvements For Smack, EVM & TPM
Linus Torvalds pulled in the security subsystem updates this weekend for the Linux 4.5 kernel.
Security updates for Linux 4.5 include TPM/TPM2 enhancements for the Trusted Platform Module, Smack now supports file-receive process-based permission checking for sockets, and EVM has support for loading an x509 certificate from the kernel into the EVM trusted kernel keyring. There are also bug-fixes and other minor improvements as part of these security updates for Linux 4.5.
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NVIDIA Publishes Nouveau Patches For Secure Boot, Unified Firmware Loading
NVIDIA has released new patches today for helping the open-source Nouveau driver step towards properly supporting the GeForce GTX 900 "Maxwell" graphics cards as well as better supporting Tegra.
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Intel NUC Skylake NUC6i3SYK Linux Benchmarks
These open-source benchmark results complement other recent Intel NUC Skylake Benchmarks On Linux and thanks to the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org they are all easily-reproducible and support side-by-side comparisons.
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KDE Made Much Progress In 2015 Thanks To Student Developers With GSoC
While Google's annual Summer of Code has been done for several months now, the KDE project published this weekend their final overview of all the progress that was made this past summer by these promising student developers.
Among the work that came to KDE over the summer of 2015 thanks to GSoC was porting more software to KDE Frameworks 5 and Qt 5, a checker framework for KDevelop, Kdenlive improvements, handling of OpenStreetMap files within Marble, PDF tags/layers within Okular, a new configuration module for pointing devices, a GnuPGP-plugin for Kopete, and other improvements.
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A brief 360° overview of my first board turn
You’ve certainly noticed that I didn’t run for a second turn, after my first 2 years. This doesn’t mean the election time and the actual campaign are boring
If you are an openSUSE Member, we really want to have your vote, so go to Board Election Wiki and make your own opinion.
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