Miscellaneous Tech News

[scottalanmiller]

The new skins are pretty cool

[black3dynamite]

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/enable-live-patch-kernel-updates-in-ubuntu-18-04

[NashBrydges]

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/enable-live-patch-kernel-updates-in-ubuntu-18-04

Wut?

Not clear about free use for Ubuntu servers though.

[mlnews]

System76 joins the Gnome advisory board.

[PenguinWrangler]

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

System76 joins the Gnome advisory board.

But they are still pushing their PopOS.

[black3dynamite]

@nashbrydges said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/enable-live-patch-kernel-updates-in-ubuntu-18-04

Wut?

Not clear about free use for Ubuntu servers though.

https://auth.livepatch.canonical.com/
Personal users of Ubuntu can subscribe three machines (laptop, server or cloud) free of charge. Canonical's customers are entitled to use the service on every system for which a product including Livepatch is active, including those covered by an Ubuntu Advantage enterprise support agreement (Essential, Standard, or Advanced).

[mlnews]

ZFS 0.7.8 on Linux updated to deal with a possible data loss bug in 0.7.7.

[mlnews]

Some Android manufactures thought to be hiding patches from users.

[mlnews]

New GMail design coming soon.

[mlnews]

New GMail design leaked.

[mlnews]

TMobile Austria decides to go to "state of the art" in security by encrypting users' passwords.

[mlnews]

How to see if YOU were affected by the Cambridge Analytics scandal...

https://www.facebook.com/help/1873665312923476?helpref=search&sr=1&query=cambridge

[scottalanmiller]

I was affected. Someone on my feed used the CA application and got some of my data.

[JaredBusch]

Opened the app for the first time since December.

Got this.

[JaredBusch]

That takes you to this

[mlnews]

WebAuthn coming to Firefox and Chrome. Passwordless web logins may become a standard reality.

[mlnews]

US Senators proposing new laws to protect US user' privacies.

[nadnerB]

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

New GMail design leaked.

As long as I can use a dark theme, I'm ok with that.

[NerdyDad]

Ubiquiti hires Home Assistant founder as a developer for tighter integration between products. Home Assistant stays independent and Open Source.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2018/04/12/ubiquiti-and-home-assistant/

[JaredBusch]

@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Ubiquiti hires Home Assistant founder as a developer for tighter integration between products. Home Assistant stays independent and Open Source.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2018/04/12/ubiquiti-and-home-assistant/

Never heard of it before. But likely only because I have no home automation yet.