Gentoo-Based Chrome OS for Work, Gentoo Sources Change
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 23rd of August 2017 04:38:44 AM Filed under



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Introducing Chrome Enterprise
Since we launched Chrome OS in 2009, our goal has been to build the simplest, fastest, and most secure operating system possible. And we’ve been inspired by all the ways we’ve seen businesses embrace Chrome, from Chromebooks in the office, to shared Chrome devices in the field, to signage and kiosks for customer engagement in retail. But with so many different business needs—not to mention so many different devices—companies have also told us they want a single, cost-effective solution that gives them the flexibility and control to keep their employees connected. That’s why today we’re announcing Chrome Enterprise.
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Google Rolls Out Chrome Enterprise: Chrome OS For Work
Google has today announced Chrome Enterprise as a subscription service to take Chrome OS and Chromebooks into more work environments.
Chrome Enterprise makes Chrome OS more friendly for professional work environments and lets IT/administrators manage Chrome extensions, printers, handle operating system updates, and provides other features like single sign-on support and more. Chrome Enterprise costs $50 USD per device per year and includes 24/7 enterprise support.
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Switch to Gentoo sources
You've might already read it on the Gentoo news site, the Hardened Linux kernel sources are removed from the tree due to the grsecurity change where the grsecurity Linux kernel patches are no longer provided for free. The decision was made due to supportability and maintainability reasons.
That doesn't mean that users who want to stick with the grsecurity related hardening features are left alone. Agostino Sarubbo has started providing sys-kernel/grsecurity-sources for the users who want to stick with it, as it is based on minipli's unofficial patchset. I seriously hope that the patchset will continue to be maintained and, who knows, even evolve further.
Personally though, I'm switching to the Gentoo sources, and stick with SELinux as one of the protection measures. And with that, I might even start using my NVidia graphics card a bit more, as that one hasn't been touched in several years (I have an Optimus-capable setup with both an Intel integrated graphics card and an NVidia one, but all attempts to use nouveau for the one game I like to play - minecraft - didn't work out that well).
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Tizen and Android
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 17th of August 2017 11:29:39 PM Filed under


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Samsung could hit a $3.5 billion license fee from Google this year
Samsung may be the number one smartphone company in the world in terms of market shares but that is just one of the tech giant’s multiple sources of revenue. The Korean company has reportedly renewed its license payment contract with Google for the use of Google’s search bar as the default search engine on its smartphones.
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Major revamp of the Google app starts rolling out to Android users
The Google Feed, Google's revamp and rebrand of its "Google Now" card feed inside of the Google app, is rolling out to Android users. The Feed is mostly a new coat of paint for features that already existed, but let's cover what's here.
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Shazam! Samsung Smart TV now gets music identification capabilities
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Samsung Internet Browser now available on any Android 5.0+ with more features coming to Tizen
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Nokia 8 Android Flagship Phone Is Now Official, Here Are the Specs and Price
Finnish company HMD Global today, August 16, 2017, unveiled the Nokia 8, its first Nokia-branded flagship smartphone powered by Google's Android mobile operating system.
After so many rumors, the Nokia 8 smartphone is finally here, unveiled by HMD Global earlier today in a live event that took place in London, United Kingdom. The smartphone comes with all the latest features that one would expect from a flagship device, yet it has a pretty high price tag.
According to HMD Global, the Nokia 8 is powered by a Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 835 Octa-core (4x2.45 GHz Kryo & 4x1.9 GHz Kryo) processor and an Adreno 540 GPU, has a 5.3-inch display with a 1440x2560 resolution and approximately 554 PPI pixel density.
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Nokia 8: An all-aluminum flagship with same-day Android security updates
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WWW: Chrome 61 Beta and WebAssembly Working Group
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 15th of August 2017 11:44:03 PM Filed under

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Chrome 61 Beta: JavaScript modules, Payment Request API on desktop, Web Share API, and WebUSB
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, Mac, and Windows.
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Chrome 61 Beta Rolls Out With JavaScript Modules, WebUSB Support
Google today is shipping the beta version of the upcoming Chrome 61 web-browser release.
Highlights of Chrome 61 Beta include native support for JavaScript modules, Payment Request API support in the desktop browser, support for the Web Share API for easily sharing content on social networks, and initial WebUSB support.
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Launching the WebAssembly Working Group
For over two years the WebAssembly W3C Community Group has served as a forum for browser vendors and others to come together to develop an elegant and efficient compilation target for the Web. A first version is available in 4 browser engines and is on track to become a standard part of the Web. We’ve had several successful in-person CG meetings, while continuing our robust online collaboration on github. We also look forward to engaging the wider W3C community at the WebAssembly meeting at this year’s TPAC.
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The 5 best Chromebooks for school or anywhere else in 2017
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 8th of August 2017 12:08:17 AM Filed under

In 2014, Apple still had almost half of the school market, but Google had them in its sights. By 2016, according to FutureSource, a financial markets research company, Chromebooks had a 58 percent of the education market. Despite Apple and Microsoft's best efforts, Chromebooks are continuing to dominate schools.
Why? Part of it is price. You can get a good Chromebook for a few hundred dollars. Apple has nothing in its price range. Microsoft said it was competing with its new Surface Laptop and Windows 10S, but the price alone, $999, makes it a non-starter.
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Events: Hacker Summer Camp, DebConf
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 6th of August 2017 10:35:27 AM Filed under


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Hacker Summer Camp 2017: DEF CON
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DebConf17 Open Day
Today, the day preceeding the official start of the annual Debian Conference, is the Open Day at DebConf17, at Collège Maisonneuve in Montreal (Canada).
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Google Platinum Sponsor of DebConf17
We are very pleased to announce that Google has committed support to DebConf17 as a Platinum sponsor.
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Browsers: Chrome/Chromium and Mozilla's Firefox, Send
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 6th of August 2017 10:30:36 AM Filed under



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Chrome/Chromium Turns On Support For OpenType Variable Fonts
Google's Chrome/Chromium web-browser has now enabled support by default for OpenType Variable Fonts.
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The latest challenge to Google's AI dominance comes from an unlikely place -- Firefox
Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox internet browser, has begun testing a feature that lets you enter a search query using your voice instead of typing it in. The move could help Mozilla's efforts to make Firefox more competitive with Google Chrome.
If you're using Firefox in English on Mac, Windows or Linux, you can turn on the experimental "Voice Fill" feature and then use it on Google, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo. Support for other websites will come later.
Alphabet's Google offers speech recognition on its search engine when accessed through Chrome on desktop -- it became available in 2013 -- and Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing and Google all let you run search queries with your voice on mobile devices. But searching with your voice on Google while using Firefox on the desktop, for example, has historically been impossible. Now Mozilla wants to make its desktop browser more competitive.
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Fedora 26 - Firefox Test Pilot send large files.
This tool from Firefox team let you to send you upload and encrypt large files (up to 1GB) to share online.
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Google Chrome 60 Released
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 26th of July 2017 12:08:51 PM Filed under

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Google Chrome 60 Released for Linux, Mac, and Windows
Google launched today version 60 of the Chrome browser. This version brings mostly developer and API-related changes, with no changes to visible UI functions. In addition, the Chrome team also fixed 40 security issues.
The biggest of the Chrome 60 changes is the addition of the Paint Timing API, a new tool for website developers that allows them to measure the time Chrome takes to "paint" their web page.
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Microsoft Releases Long-Awaited Security Tool, Sets Linux Preview
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ASUS Launches Chromebook Flip C213 as Ultimate Future-Proof Education Computer
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 13th of July 2017 05:32:30 PM Filed under


ASUS, the Taiwanese computer and phone hardware and electronics company, announced the Chromebook Flip C213 as an ultimate future-proof education computer for IT in schools.
The ASUS Chromebook Flip C213 is designed from the group up for kids in elementary schools as it's built tough so that it can resist accidental drops and other impacts. To achieve this goal, ASUS has put a protective, military-grade rubber that uses reinforced nano-molding technology around the laptop's all four exterior edges and corners.
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‘Open Source Development at Google Is Both Very Diverse and Distributed’
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 7th of July 2017 07:42:08 PM Filed under


Open source development at Google is both very diverse and distributed. The larger projects that we release generally have dedicated teams developing and supporting the project, working with their external developer communities and providing internal support to other Googlers. Many of the smaller projects include just one or two engineers working on something experimental or just a fun, side project. While we do have a central Open Source Programs Office (the group I manage), it is relatively small compared to the size of the company. Instead, the actual development happens throughout the company, with hundreds of teams and thousands of engineers, tech writers, designers and product managers contributing to open source in some way.
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Many Microsoft Layoffs After Microsoft Caused Android/Linux Trouble in Europe
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 6th of July 2017 06:57:11 PM Filed under

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Microsoft plans to cut 'thousands' of jobs: source
Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) plans to cut "thousands" of jobs, with a majority of them outside the United States, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Reuters reported on Monday that Microsoft would undergo a reorganization that would impact its sales and marketing teams as the company doubles down on its fast-growing cloud business.
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Exclusive: EU Considers Record Fine as Panel Checks Google Android Case-Sources [Ed: Microsoft initiated this, using all sorts of proxies several years back]
EU antitrust regulators are weighing another record fine against Google over its Android mobile operating system and have set up a panel of experts to give a second opinion on the case, two people familiar with the matter said.
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