Today in Techrights

• Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions Still Uncontroversial Unless One Asks the Patent Maximalists
• Latest Talk From IBM’s Manny Schecter Shows That IBM Hasn’t Changed and After the Red Hat Takeover It’ll Continue to Promote Software Patents
• The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
• António Campinos Turns His ‘Boss’ Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad
• EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment
• Links 12/12/2018: Mesa 18.3.1 Released, CNCF Takes Control of etcd
• Links 11/12/2018: Tails 3.11, New Firefox, FreeBSD 12.0

Android Leftovers

• MIUI 10 based on Android Pie gets ported to the OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T

• Android Pie adds Keystore features to make phone safer, more secure

• Blu made a budget smartphone that runs Android Pie Go Edition

• Pocophone F1 gets Android 9 Pie stable update ahead of official launch in the country

• We Broke Into A Bunch Of Android Phones With A 3D-Printed Head

• Cinemo to Showcase Next Generation Android Automotive Based Infotainment Systems at CES® 2019 in Las Vegas

• 5 best remote desktop apps for Android!

• Dodgy Android app steals £1,000 from user’s PayPal account in SECONDS

• Panasonic Toughbook FZ-T1, Toughbook FZ-L1 Rugged Android Devices Launched in India

• Get These Android-Powered TV Box Models At A Hefty Discount: Includes Xiaomi Mi Box S, Beelink GT1 And More

• I'm a diehard iPhone user who switched to Android for a week — here's what I loved and hated about the Google Pixel 3 XL

Radeon ROCm 1.9.1 vs. NVIDIA OpenCL Linux Plus RTX 2080 TensorFlow Benchmarks

Following the GeForce RTX 2080 Linux gaming benchmarks last week with now having that non-Ti variant, I carried out some fresh GPU compute benchmarks of the higher-end NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards. Here's a look at the OpenCL performance between the competing vendors plus some fresh CUDA benchmarks as well as NVIDIA GPU Cloud TensorFlow Docker benchmarks. This article provides a fresh look at the Linux GPU compute performance for NVIDIA and AMD. On the AMD side was the Linux 4.19 kernel paired with the ROCm 1.9.1 binary packages for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. ROCm continues happily running well on the mainline kernel with the latest releases, compared to previously relying upon the out-of-tree/DKMS kernel modules for compute support on the discrete Radeon GPUS. ROCm 2.0 is still supposed to be released before year's end so there will be some fresh benchmarks coming up with that OpenCL 2.0+ implementation when the time comes. The Radeon CPUs tested were the RX Vega 56 and RX Vega 64 as well as tossing in the R9 Fury for some historical context.

KDE Applications 18.12 Are Waiting for You

It's that time of the year again. Everyone is in a festive mood and excited about all the new things they're going to get. It's only natural, since it's the season of the last KDE Applications release for this year! With more than 140 issues resolved and dozens of feature improvements, KDE Applications 18.12 are now on its way to your operating system of choice. We've highlighted some changes you can look forward to. Also: KDE Applications 18.12 Released With File Manager Improvements, Konsole Emoji