• Xiaomi's New Android One Mi A3 Phone Looks Awesome at €249

• Xiaomi's latest pure Android One phone has a 48MP AI-powered camera

• Don't throw it out: The Lemur Center wants your Android phone for research

• OnePlus 6, 6T, 7, and 7 Pro receive their third Android Q developer previews

• Google Assistant Ambient Mode shows hidden Android Q clock face

• Samsung’s User Interface for Android Q: One UI 2.0 and 2.1 will be Released

• Check out the new emoji coming to your phone in Android Q

• Realme shares information about Android Q update, dark mode, Digital Wellbeing, and more

• Original Razer Phone to get Android Pie update in the ‘coming weeks’

• This Free Service Detects And Blocks Suspicious Behaviors Of Android Apps

• Snapchat reaches a billion downloads on Android

• The best A.I.-based photo apps for iOS and Android

• Alphabet Scoop 063: Android feature phones, Stadia AMA, and Pixel 4

• The Android Police Podcast is live on Twitch

• The era of smartphone OS swap from iOS to Android is not over

• Huawei says HongMeng OS is not for smartphones, will keep using Android

• Why Does Jim Zemlin Publicly Congratulate Microsoft?
• 2 Days Later (Case in Progress) and Still Media Silence About G 2/19
• The ‘Linux’ Foundation is Acting Like a Microsoft ISV Now, Commitment to Linux and FOSS Deteriorates Even Further
• Links 18/7/2019: OPNsense 19.7, Krita 4.2.3 and KDevelop 5.3.3 Released
• Links 19/7/2019: Oracle Linux 8.0, Latte Dock 0.9 Beta and PCLinuxOS KDE Darkstar 2019.07

• NVMe Patches to Allow macOS-Linux Dual Boot Under Review

  NVMe is a protocol used by Apple for PCIe solid state drives. It replaces the older Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI). On Tuesday, three NVMe patches were submitted to the Linux kernel to deal with Mac SSDs that use this protocol.

• VirtIO-PMEM Driver Added To Linux 5.3 For Paravirtualized Persistent Memory

  In addition to Linux 5.3 bringing a VirtIO-IOMMU driver, this next kernel version is bringing another new VirtIO virtual device implementation: PMEM for para-virtualized persistent memory support for the likes of Intel Optane DC persistent memory. 

• Comparison of Memory Usages of Ubuntu 19.04 and Flavors in 2019

  Continuing my previous Mem. Comparison 2018, here's my 2019 comparison with all editions of Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo". The operating system editions I use here are the eight: Ubuntu Desktop, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Kylin, and Ubuntu Budgie. I installed every one of them on my laptop and (immediately at first login) took screenshot of the System Monitor (or Task Manager) without doing anything else. I present here the screenshots along with each variant's list of processes at the time I took them. And, you can download the ODS file I used to create the chart below. Finally, I hope this comparison helps all of you and next time somebody can make better comparisons.

• Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) End of Life reached on July 18 2019

  This is a follow-up to the End of Life warning sent earlier this month
  to confirm that as of today (July 18, 2019), Ubuntu 18.10 is no longer
  supported.  No more package updates will be accepted to 18.10, and
  it will be archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com in the coming weeks.
  
  
  
  
  The original End of Life warning follows, with upgrade instructions:
  
  
  
  
  Ubuntu announced its 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) release almost 9 months
  ago, on October 18, 2018.  As a non-LTS release, 18.10 has a 9-month
  support cycle and, as such, the support period is now nearing its
  end and Ubuntu 18.10 will reach end of life on Thursday, July 18th.
  
  
  
  
  At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include
  information or updated packages for Ubuntu 18.10.
  
  
  
  
  The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 18.10 is via Ubuntu 19.04.
  Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at:
  
  
  
  
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiscoUpgrades
  
  
  
  
  Ubuntu 19.04 continues to be actively supported with security updates
  and select high-impact bug fixes.  Announcements of security updates
  for Ubuntu releases are sent to the ubuntu-security-announce mailing
  list, information about which may be found at:
  
  
  
  
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce
  
  
  
  
  Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most
  highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users in homes,
  schools, businesses and governments around the world. Ubuntu is Open
  Source software, costs nothing to download, and users are free to
  customise or alter their software in order to meet their needs.
  
  
  
  
  On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team,
  
  
  
  
  Adam Conrad
  

• CMake leverages the Snapcraft Summit with Travis CI to build snaps

  CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. It is used to control the software compilation process and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in any compiler environment. 

  While some users of CMake want to stay up to date with the latest release, others want to be able to stay with a known version and choose when to move forward to newer releases, picking up just the minor bug fixes for the feature release they are tracking. Users may also occasionally need to roll back to an earlier feature release, such as when a bug or a change introduced in a newer CMake version exposes problems within their project.

  Craig Scott, one of the co-maintainers of CMake, sees snaps as an excellent solution to these needs. Snaps’ ability to support separate tracks for each feature release in addition to giving users the choice of following official releases, release candidates or bleeding edge builds are an ideal fit. When he received an invitation to the 2019 Snapcraft Summit, he was keen to work directly with those at the pointy end of developing and supporting the snap system. 

• Ubuntu's Zsys Client/Daemon For ZFS On Linux Continues Maturing For Eoan

  Looking ahead to Ubuntu 19.10 as the cycle before Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, one of the areas exciting us with the work being done by Canonical is (besides the great upstream GNOME performance work) easily comes down to the work they are pursuing on better ZFS On Linux integration with even aiming to offer ZFS as a file-system option from their desktop installer. A big role in their ZoL play is also the new "Zsys" component they have been developing. 

• Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, June 2019

  Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.

• ApacheCon Europe 2019 Schedule Revealed by The Apache Software Foundation

  If you’ve been following Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announcements for ApacheCon 2019, you must be aware of the conference in Las Vegas (ApacheCon North America) from September 9 to September 12.

  And, recently, they announced their plans for ApacheCon Europe 2019 to be held on 22-24 October 2019 at the iconic Kulturbrauerei in Berlin, Germany. It is going to be one of the major events by ASF this year. In this article, we shall take a look at the details revealed as of yet.

• GStreamer in Oslo

  Aaron discussed various ways to record RTSP streams when used with playbin and brought up some of his pending merge requests around the closed captioning renderer and Active Format Description (AFD) support, with a discussion about redoing the renderer properly, and in Rust.

  George discussed a major re-work of the gst-omx bufferpool code that he has been doing and then moved his focus on Qt/Android support. He mostly focused on the missing bits, discussing builds and infrastructure issues with Nirbheek and myself, and going through his old patches.

• The clearest sign of AWS' open source success wasn't built by Amazon [Ed: AWS is proprietary software, but one can always rely on Mac Asay to spin proprietary (like his employers past and  present) as "open". There's nothing "open" about AWS and in some sense it is even worse than traditional proprietary software because of the surveillance.]

• The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2019 [Ed: Microsoft-funded 'analyst' RedMonk bases its "Programming" 'study' on Microsoft GitHub data, which is notoriously biased]

• Linux Foundation Energy member TenneT “open sources” their open source strategy [Ed: Another new example of openwashing by LF in a sector that usually relies on greenwashing to 'seem' or 'feel' "ethical"]

  TenneT is the first European cross-border electricity transmission system operator (TSO), with activities in the Netherlands and in Germany, providing uninterrupted electricity to over 41 million people. The security of our supply is among the best in Europe, with 99.99% grid availability. With the energy transition, TenneT is contributing to a future in which wind and solar energy are the most important primary sources to produce electricity.

• How to apply 'release early, release often' to build a better brand [Ed: Mere openwashing of the SPAM (B2B) ‘industry’]

• Security updates for Thursday

  Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium, firefox, and squid), CentOS (thunderbird and vim), Debian (libonig), SUSE (firefox, glibc, kernel, libxslt, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (libreoffice and thunderbird).

• EvilGnomes Linux malware record activities & spy on users [Ed: This is something the user actually installs, harming his/her machine. Original post here.]]

  Dubbed EvilGnomes by researchers; the malware was found masquerading as a Gnome shell extension targeting Linux’s desktop users.

• Mike Driscoll: New Malicious Python Libraries Found Targeting Linux

  They were written by a user named ruri12. These packages were removed by the PyPI team on July 9, 2019. However they were available since November 2017 and had been downloaded fairly regularly.

  See the original article for more details.

  As always, when using a package that you aren’t familiar with, be sure to do your own thorough vetting to be sure you are not installing malware accidentally.

• Latest Huawei 'Smoking Gun' Still Doesn't Prove Global Blackball Effort's Primary Justification

  We've noted a few times now how the protectionist assault against Huawei hasn't been supported by much in the way of public evidence. As in, despite widespread allegations that Huawei helps China spy on Americans wholesale, nobody has actually been able to provide any hard public evidence proving that claim. That's a bit of a problem when you're talking about a global blackballing effort. Especially when previous investigations as long as 18 months couldn't find evidence of said spying, and many US companies have a history of ginning up security fears simply because they don't want to compete with cheaper Chinese kit.

  That said, a new report (you can find the full thing here) dug through the CVs of many Huawei executives and employees, and found that a small number of "key mid-level technical personnel employed by Huawei have strong backgrounds in work closely associated with intelligence gathering and military activities."

• No love lost between security specialists and developers

  Unless you've been under a rock, you've noticed hardly a day goes by without another serious security foul-up. While there's plenty of blame to go around for these endless security problems, some of it goes to developers who write bad code.

  That makes sense. But when GitLab, a DevOps company, surveyed over 4,000 developers and operators, they found 68% of the security professionals surveyed believe it's a programmer's job to write secure code, but they also think less than half of developers can spot security holes.

• GitLab Survey Surfaces Major DevSecOps Challenges Ahead

  A report based on a survey of 4,071 software professionals published this week by GitLab, a provider of a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform, found that while appreciation of the potential value of DevSecOps best practices is high, the ability to implement those practices is uneven at best.

• GitLab Survey Reveals Disconnect Between Developer And Security Teams

  In a survey conducted by GitLab, software professionals recognize the need for security to be baked into the development lifecycle, but the survey showed long-standing friction between security and development teams remain. While 69% of developers say they’re expected to write secure code, nearly half of security pros surveyed (49%) said they struggle to get developers to make remediation of vulnerabilities a priority. And 68% of security professionals feel fewer than half of developers are able to spot security vulnerabilities later in the lifecycle.

• Cook: security things in Linux v5.2

  Over on his blog, Kees Cook runs through the security changes that came in Linux 5.2.

• Doctorow's novella "Unauthorized Bread" explains why we have to fight DRM today to avoid a grim future

  Salima has a problem: her Boulangism toaster is locked down with software that ensures that it will only toast bread sold to her by the Boulangism company… and as Boulangism has gone out of business, there's no way to buy authorized bread. Thus, Salima can no longer have toast.

  This sneakily familiar scenario sends our resourceful heroine down a rabbit hole into the world of hacking appliances, but it also puts her in danger of losing her home -- and prosecution under the draconian terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Her story, told in the novella “Unauthorized Bread,” which opens Cory Doctorow’s recent book Radicalized, guides readers through a process of discovering what Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) is, and how the future can look mightily grim if we don’t join forces to stop DRM now.

  “Unauthorized Bread” takes place in the near future, maybe five or ten years at most, and the steady creep of technology that takes away more than it gives has simply advanced a few degrees. Salima and her friends and neighbors are refugees, and they live precariously in low-income housing equipped with high-tech, networked appliances. These gizmos and gadgets may seem nifty on the surface, but immediately begin to exact an unacceptable price, since they require residents to purchase the expensive approved bread for the toaster, the expensive approved dishes for the dishwasher, and so on. And just as Microsoft can whisk away ebooks that people “own” by closing down its ebook service, the vagaries of the business world cause Boulangism to whisk away Salima’s ability to use her own toaster.

• New Linux Malware Called EvilGnome Discovered; First Preview of Fedora CoreOS Now Available; Germany Bans Schools from Using Microsoft, Google and Apple; VirtualBox 6.0.10 Released; and Sparky 5.8 Has New Live/Install Media for Download

  Germany has banned its schools from using cloud-based productivity suites from Microsoft, Google, and Apple, because the companies weren't meeting the country's privacy requirements. Naked Security reports, that the statement from the Hessische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (Hesse Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, or HBDI) said, "The digital sovereignty of state data processing must be guaranteed. With the use of the Windows 10 operating system, a wealth of telemetry data is transmitted to Microsoft, whose content has not been finally clarified despite repeated inquiries to Microsoft. Such data is also transmitted when using Office 365." The HBDI also stressed that "What is true for Microsoft is also true for the Google and Apple cloud solutions. The cloud solutions of these providers have so far not been transparent and comprehensible set out. Therefore, it is also true that for schools, privacy-compliant use is currently not possible."

• Microsoft, Google and Apple clouds banned in Germany’s schools

  Germany just banned its schools from using cloud-based productivity suites from Microsoft, Google, and Apple. The tech giants aren’t satisfying its privacy requirements with their cloud offerings, it warned.

  The Hessische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (Hesse Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, or HBDI) made the statement following a review of Microsoft Office 365’s suitability for schools.

• Microsoft, Google and Apple clouds banned in Germanys schools

  Did you know that Germany just banned its schools from using cloud-based productivity suites from Microsoft, Google, and Apple? The tech giants aren’t satisfying its privacy requirements with their cloud offerings, it warned. What are your thoughts?

  The Hessische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (Hesse Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, or HBDI) made the statement following a review of Microsoft Office 365’s suitability for schools.

• Destination Linux EP130 - Linux 5.2, Debian 10, AMD, System76’s Thelio, Valve’s Steam Labs & more

  Debian 10, Linux Kernel 5.2, Pi 4 more Flaws, AMD News, System 76 Thelio and AMD, Nvidia Responds, Ubuntu Snaps, Red Hat & IBM Merge, Valve Rolls Out Steam Labs, Valve Early Access Dota Underlords

• Comparing Linux Package Formats - Deb, Flatpak, AppImage, etc.

• Episode 23: Advertisers: Don't Be Creepy

  Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Linux Journal's Danna Vedder about the current state of advertising.

• Twitching with OpenBSD | BSD Now 307

  FreeBSD 11.3 has been released, OpenBSD workstation, write your own fuzzer for the NetBSD kernel, Exploiting FreeBSD-SA-19:02.fd, streaming to twitch using OpenBSD, 3 different ways of dumping hex contents of a file, and more.

• The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 817

• The Most Handy du (Disk Usage) Commands in Linux

• find all files that have 20 or more MB on every filesystem, change the size and filesystem to your liking

• Installing Updates on Proxmox with no VM Downtime

• Finding malformed markup

• Disable SELinux on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 / Fedora Linux

• Getting Yesterdays or Tomorrows Day With Bash Shell Date Command

• Enable notification plugin in KDE Connect on macOS

• slack-desktop and xdg-open

• Optimize JPEG/JPG Images in Ubuntu with Jpegoptim

• Create backup copy of file, adding suffix of the date of the file modification (NOT today's date)

• Contribute at the Fedora Test Week for kernel 5.2

  The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 5.2. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora. This version has many security fixes included. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday, July 22, 2019 through Monday, July 29, 2019. Refer to the wiki page for links to the test images you’ll need to participate. Read below for details.

• Red Hat Learning Community fosters open source tech education and reaches 10k members

  We are pleased to announce that the Red Hat Learning Community has reached more than 10,000 members! Since its launch in September 2018, the community has shown itself to be a valuable hub for those seeking to share knowledge and build their open source skill set.

  When we first started out, this was just an idea. We set out to support, enable, and motivate new and experienced open source learners as they learn how to work with Red Hat technologies, validate their technical skill sets, build careers and pursue Red Hat Certifications. We soft launched the community in July 2018 and invited 400 Red Hat Training instructors, students, curriculum developers and certifications team members to jump-start community discussion boards and earn a founding member badge.

• skuba Dives into Open Source Waters

  SUSE CaaS Platform 4, our next major release is now in beta. It has major architectural improvements for our customers. In the process of planning and developing it, we took a close look at bootstrapping clusters and managing node membership, and we listened to our customers. One of the things we heard from many of them was that they wanted a way to deploy multiple clusters efficiently, by scripting the bootstrap process or by integrating it into other management tools they use.
  To address this, we committed even more strongly to our upstream participation in Kubernetes development. Instead of building SUSE-specific tools as we had in earlier versions, we contributed the efforts of SUSE engineers to the upstream kubeadm component, helping it bridge the gap between its current state and the abilities we had previously implemented in the Velum web interface. Our bootstrap and node management strategy in version 4 is built on kubeadm.

• Deprecated APIs Removed In 1.16: Here’s What You Need To Know

  As the Kubernetes API evolves, APIs are periodically reorganized or upgraded. When APIs evolve, the old API is deprecated and eventually removed.

I am pleased to announce the July 2019 release of the PClinuxOS KDE Darkstar is ready for download.

• Acer Chromebook R 13

  It has Android Apps (Google Play) and Linux Apps (crostini) support and it will receive auto-updates until September 2021.

• HP Chromebook x360 14

  It has Android Apps (Google Play) and Linux Apps (crostini) support and it will receive auto-updates until June 2024.

• Linux disk resizing on Chromebooks pushed back to Chrome OS 78

  Back in March, I reported on an effort that would enable resizing of the Linux partition for Crostini-supported Chromebooks. At that time, I expected the feature to land in Chrome OS 75. I’ve checked for the feature now that Chrome OS 75 is available (again) and it’s nowhere to be seen. That’s because it was recently pushed back to Chrome OS 78.

  [...]

  However, other aspects need to be considered: Storage of large media files, for example, or enabling Google Drive synchronization with the Chrome OS Files app for offline file access. And then there are Android apps, so of which – particularly games – can require one or two gigabytes of space.

  So far, I haven’t run into any storage issues on my Pixel Slate with 128 GB of data capacity. But it’s easy to see that the Linux container is using up the bulk of my tablet’s storage: As I understand it, /dev/vdb is the Crostini container with Linux, which is 88 GB in size with 58 GB free.

• Maestral Is A New Open Source Dropbox Client For Linux And macOS

  Maestral is a new open source Dropbox client for macOS and Linux, that's currently in beta. It can be used both with and without a GUI, and it was created with the purpose of having a Dropbox client that supports folder syncing to drives which use filesystems like Btrfs, Ext3, ZFS, XFS or encrypted filesystems, which are no longer supported by Dropbox.

• GLava – OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for desktop windows or backgrounds

  Over the past few months, I’ve written lots of reviews of open source audio software, focusing mainly on music players. Linux has a mouthwatering array of open source multimedia tools, so I’m going to turn my attention wider afield from music players. Let’s start with some multimedia candy.

  GLava is an OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for Linux. An audio visualizer works by extracting waveform and/or frequency information from the audio and feeds this information through some display rules, which produces what you see on the screen. The imagery is usually generated and rendered in real time and in a way synchronized with the music as it is played.

  GLava makes a real-time audio visualizer appear as if it’s embedded in your desktop background, or in a window. When displayed as the background, it’ll display on top of your wallpaper, giving the appearance of a live, animated wallpaper.

  GLava is a simple C program that sets up the necessary OpenGL and Xlib code for sets of 2D fragment shaders. The software uses PulseAudio to sync the desktop visualizer with any music source.

• Millan Castro: GSoC: First month working in Pitivi

  Pitivi is a video editor, free and open source. Targeted at newcomers and professional users, it is minimalist and powerful. This summer I am fortunate to collaborate in Pitivi development through Google Summer of Code.

  My goal is to implement an interval time system, with the support of Mathieu Duponchell, my menthor, and other members of the Pitivi community.

  An interval time system is a common tool in many video editors. It will introduce new features in Pitivi. The user will be able to set up a range of time in the timeline editor, playback specific parts of the timeline, export the selected parts of the timeline, cut or copy clips inside the interval and zoom in/out the interval.

  Mi proposal also includes the design of a marker system to store information at a certain time position.

• How to Mirror & Control Your Android Phone from the Ubuntu Desktop

• Setting Up A Completely Free Jupyter Server For Data Science With AWS

• How to change the LED on a Logitech G series mouse in Linux

• How to Install phpMyAdmin with Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

• How to Wipe Your Smart Devices Before You Throw them Away

• How to install Debian 10

• How to Install Mesa 19.0.8 in Ubuntu 18.04 / 19.04

• How To Install Speedtest-cli On a CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux To Check Internet Speed

• How To Automatically Disable Touchpad When Typing In Ubuntu

Before there was Big Tech, there was "adversarial interoperability": when someone decides to compete with a dominant company by creating a product or service that "interoperates" (works with) its offerings.

In tech, "network effects" can be a powerful force to maintain market dominance: if everyone is using Facebook, then your Facebook replacement doesn't just have to be better than Facebook, it has to be so much better than Facebook that it's worth using, even though all the people you want to talk to are still on Facebook. That's a tall order.

Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects, using incumbents' dominance against them. To see how that works, let's look at a historical example of adversarial interoperability role in helping to unseat a monopolist's dominance.

The first skirmishes of the PC wars were fought with incompatible file formats and even data-storage formats: Apple users couldn't open files made by Microsoft users, and vice-versa. Even when file formats were (more or less) harmonized, there was still the problems of storage media: the SCSI drive you plugged into your Mac needed a special add-on and flaky driver software to work on your Windows machine; the ZIP cartridge you formatted for your PC wouldn't play nice with Macs.

But as office networking spread, the battle moved to a new front: networking compatibility. AppleTalk, Apple's proprietary protocol for connecting up Macs and networked devices like printers, pretty much Just Worked, providing you were using a Mac. If you were using a Windows PC, you had to install special, buggy, unreliable software.

And for Apple users hoping to fit in at Windows shops, the problems were even worse: Windows machines used the SMB protocol for file-sharing and printers, and Microsoft's support for MacOS was patchy at best, nonexistent at worst, and costly besides. Businesses sorted themselves into Mac-only and PC-only silos, and if a Mac shop needed a PC (for the accounting software, say), it was often cheaper and easier just to get the accountant their own printer and backup tape-drive, rather than try to get that PC to talk to the network. Likewise, all PC-shops with a single graphic designer on a Mac—that person would often live offline, disconnected from the office network, tethered to their own printer, with their own stack of Mac-formatted ZIP cartridges or CD-ROMs.

[...]

Someone attempting to replicate the SAMBA creation feat in 2019 would likely come up against an access control that needed to be bypassed in order to peer inside the protocol's encrypted outer layer in order to create a feature-compatible tool to use in competing products.

Another thing that's changed (for the worse) since 1993 is the proliferation of software patents. Software patenting went into high gear around 1994 and consistently gained speed until 2014, when Alice v. CLS Bank put the brakes on (today, Alice is under threat). After decades of low-quality patents issuing from the US Patent and Trademark Office, there are so many trivial, obvious and overlapping software patents in play that anyone trying to make a SAMBA-like product would run a real risk of being threatened with expensive litigation for patent infringement.

• Netherguild, a promising team-based turn-based strategy about adventuring deep underground

  Netherguild is a recent discovery that's currently in development from David Vinokurov. It's a turn-based rogue-lite strategy game, about sending a team deep below ground.

• Ready for another beautiful hidden object puzzler? Queen's Quest 5: Symphony of Death is out

  Queen's Quest 5: Symphony of Death from Brave Giant LTD and Artifex Mundi has released today, another fantastic looking hidden object game for a more casual experience.

• The Chaos Space Marines have arrived in Warhammer 40,000: Gladius

  Today Proxy Studios and Slitherine have released the latest DLC for the turn-based strategy game Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, with the Chaos Space Marines making their way across the planet.

  Also available today is a big save-breaking patch. Update 1.3, which is actually a pretty huge patch for the game adds in new items, new achievements, new tips, new settings, performance improvements, fixes to the AI, save game format improvements to reduce UI lag with large saves, a mod management screen and there's quite a bit more. Good to see it really well supported a year after the original release.

• To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Steam has a sale on

  Lookout! Another sale is approaching! This time it's Valve's turn, with Steam having a space themed sale for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

In early May right before the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 we saw the public beta of Oracle Linux 8 while today Oracle Linux 8.0 has been promoted to stable and production ready.

Oracle Linux 8.0 is available today as Oracle's re-build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 and the features it brings while adding in some extras like the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel option along with D-Trace integration and other bits.

The default kernel shipped by Oracle Linux 8.0 is a Linux 4.18 derived kernel that remains compatible with Red Hat's official RHEL8 kernel package.

Also: Announcing the Release of Oracle Linux 8

• It’s World Emoji Day! Here are the emojis coming to Android and iPhone this year

• Here are the Emoji Now Available in Android Q

• Digital Wellbeing Beta Update Adds Android Q’s Parental Controls, Here’s All It Can Do

• Realme talks Android Q update plans, Digital Wellbeing, dark mode, more

• Registration now open for Android Dev Summit 2019

• Verizon rolls out Android Pie for Nokia 2 V

• [Update: Downloads] Android 9 Pie now rolling out to OnePlus 3 and 3T

• RuggON presents a fully rugged tablet with Android 9 and octa-core processor

• Top 10 Best Android Cycling Apps & Games - 2019

• Janam Introduces New "Android Enterprise Recommended" Rugged Touch Computer

• How to Stop Any Android App from Stealing Your Data

• This could be our first look at an Android-powered feature phone from Nokia

One of the first PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs to market has been the Corsair Force MP600. AMD included the Corsair MP600 2TB NVMe PCIe4 SSD with their Ryzen 3000 reviewer's kit and for those interested in this speedy solid-state storage here are some benchmarks compared to various other storage devices on Ubuntu Linux.

The 2TB Force Series Gen 4 MP600 SSD is rated for sequential reads up to 4950MB/s and sequential writes up to 4250MB/s and 600k IOPS random writes and 680k IOPS random reads. The MP600 relies upon 3D TLC NAND and relies upon a Phison PS5016-E16 controller. This 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD will set you back $450 USD while a 1TB version is a modest $250 USD.

• How to fix trailing underscores at the end of URLs in Chrome

• How to Install Ubuntu Alongside With Windows 10 or 8 in Dual-Boot

• Beginner’s guide on how to git stash :- A GIT Tutorial

• Handy snapcraft features: Remote build

• How to build a lightweight system container cluster

• Start a new Cryptocurrency project with Python

• [Mozilla] Celery without a Results Backend

• Mucking about with microframeworks

  Python does not lack for web frameworks, from all-encompassing frameworks like Django to "nanoframeworks" such as WebCore. A recent "spare time" project caused me to look into options in the middle of this range of choices, which is where the Python "microframeworks" live. In particular, I tried out the Bottle and Flask microframeworks—and learned a lot in the process.

  I have some experience working with Python for the web, starting with the Quixote framework that we use here at LWN. I have also done some playing with Django along the way. Neither of those seemed quite right for this latest toy web application. Plus I had heard some good things about Bottle and Flask at various PyCons over the last few years, so it seemed worth an investigation.

  Web applications have lots of different parts: form handling, HTML template processing, session management, database access, authentication, internationalization, and so on. Frameworks provide solutions for some or all of those parts. The nano-to-micro-to-full-blown spectrum is defined (loosely, at least) based on how much of this functionality a given framework provides or has opinions about. Most frameworks at any level will allow plugging in different parts, based on the needs of the application and its developers, but nanoframeworks provide little beyond request and response handling, while full-blown frameworks provide an entire stack by default. That stack handles most or all of what a web application requires.

  The list of web frameworks on the Python wiki is rather eye-opening. It gives a good idea of the diversity of frameworks, what they provide, what other packages they connect to or use, as well as some idea of how full-blown (or "full-stack" on the wiki page) they are. It seems clear that there is something for everyone out there—and that's just for Python. Other languages undoubtedly have their own sets of frameworks (e.g. Ruby on Rails).