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Norwegian Study Finds The Online Advertisement Industry To Be "OUT OF CONTROL". Data collection and sharing is pervasive. Ten examined #smartphone apps were found to be sharing data with 135 different third parties. F-Droid is a free software app-store which does not have that problem.

https://linuxreviews.org/Norwegian_Study_Finds_The_Online_Advertisement_Industry_To_Be_%22OUT_OF_CONTROL%22

#PlayStore #Android #FDroid #Advertising @[email protected]

#GParted 1.1.0 Is Released. The latest version of the go-to graphical disk partition utility on #Linux supports moving locked #LUKS partitions, it will recognize ATARAID members and it can now calculate how large partitions using the 30 year old JFS file systems are correctly.
https://linuxreviews.org/GParted_1.1.0_Is_Released

Firefox 72.0.2 Is Released with mostly Windows-specific bug fixes. Firefox users on other platforms get a CSS rendering fix.
https://linuxreviews.org/Firefox_72.0.2_Is_Released

Vulkan 1.2 Specification Finalized and #Linux support is ready. Most of the new functionality in Vulkan 1.2 has exited as optional extensions for quite some time. The new core specification ensures that those extensions are present on Vulkan 1.2 platforms.

Khronos Group mentions the ability to run DirectX games on Linux in their announcement slides. Mesa 20 will have full Vulkan 1.2 support.

https://linuxreviews.org/Vulkan_1.2_Specification_Finalized,_Linux_Support_In_Place

Linux 5.5rc7 Is Released. There are no huge changes in this release candidate. Linus Torvalds will release Linux 5.5 next week unless some huge last-minute patch(es) land on his plate.
https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_5.5rc7_Is_Released

We are pleased to find that mstdn.io is once again able to handle images and other media content after a day of downtime this weekend. Good job admin.

Bandwhich, a new bandwidth monitoring tool able to show per-process network usage, seems to be wildly off in it's reporting..
https://github.com/imsnif/bandwhich.git

#Mozilla Fires 70 Employees, #Apple Offers New Jobs. It is a sad time for the free software Firefox web browser.
https://linuxreviews.org/Mozilla_Fires_70_Employees,_Apple_Offers_New_Jobs

Xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin 2.3.5 Released! The optional #xfce menu used as adefault on #manjaro and other #linux distributions got 6 bugs fixed in this release.
https://linuxreviews.org/Xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin_2.3.5_Released

#SeaMonkey 2.53.1 Beta 1 Is Released: Not Fully Abandoned Abandonware.Good old #Netscape Communicator is not dead; it is border-line alive. The latest release uses #GTK3 on #Linux and the web browser component is based on #Firefox ESR 60.3.
https://linuxreviews.org/SeaMonkey_2.53.1_Beta_1_Is_Released:_Not_Fully_Abandoned_Abandonware

#AMD Confirms "Big Navi" GPU Coming In 2020.
How "big" that #navi will be, when in 2020 it will launch and how it will compete against high-end GPUs from Nvidia is anyone's guess, AMD did not provide any further details.
https://linuxreviews.org/AMD_Confirms_%22Big_Navi%22_GPU_Coming_In_2020

Pale Moon is a web browser for Windows and #Linux which is essentially Firefox with the "classic" interface Firefox had before they modernized it. It is otherwise a perfectly fine web browser. Don't expect to get the latest browser extension versions.
https://linuxreviews.org/Pale_Moon

Wine 5.0-rc6 Is Released With 21 Bug-Fixes. The big 5.0 will be released next week. #Wine is now mature enough to run the vast majority of #Windows software, including games, on #Linux.
https://linuxreviews.org/Wine_5.0-rc6_Is_Released_With_21_Bug-Fixes

Red Hat Recommends Disabling Hardware Acceleration on Intel Integrated Graphics Due To Hardware Flaw
https://linuxreviews.org/Red_Hat_Recommends_Disabling_Hardware_Acceleration_on_Intel_Integrated_Graphics_Due_To_Hardware_Flaw

CentOS 8.1 Released With New Security Tools For Servers And Containers
https://linuxreviews.org/CentOS_8.1_Released_With_New_Security_Tools_For_Servers_And_Containers

GNU sed 4.8 Is Released. The latest version has "s/many new exiting features/one noteworthy bug fix/g".
#gnu #linux #Shell
https://linuxreviews.org/GNU_sed_4.8_Is_Released

Latest Linux Kernels Fix Security Flaw In The Intel Processors With iGPUs. It is locally exploitable but not a huge concern desktop and laptop users who typically don't let random strangers run code on their machines. #linux #intel #vulnerability
https://linuxreviews.org/Latest_Linux_Kernels_Fix_Security_Flaw_In_The_Intel_Processors_With_iGPUs

First Xfce 4.14 Maintainance Release Available, ScreenSaver Security Hole Remains Wide Open. Many bugs are fixed in this minor stable version #xfce release. By-passing the screensaver lock-screen remains trivial.
#liux #wjsn
https://linuxreviews.org/First_Xfce_4.14_Maintainance_Release_Available,_ScreenSaver_Security_Hole_Remains_Wide_Open

LibreDWG 0.10.1 Brings GNU One Step Closer To Liberating AutoCAD Files
https://linuxreviews.org/LibreDWG_0.10.1_Brings_GNU_One_Step_Closer_To_Liberating_AutoCAD_Files

Linux 5.5rc6 Is Released, 5.5 Final Is Coming In Two To Three Weeks
https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_5.5rc6_Is_Released,_5.5_Final_Is_Coming_In_Two_To_Three_Weeks