Andreea Ilie studied Japanese and East Asian culture during her university years, but had a strong interest in IT. She taught herself using free online resources in her free time, and eventually managed to secure an IT job despite her lack of formal training and experience. In 2017, Andreea heard about the Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarship program and decided to submit an application.
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Thunderspy is a class of seven vulnerabilities found within Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 hardware and the researchers having found nine realistic scenarios for exploiting these Thunderbolt issues across platforms. Researcher Björn Ruytenberg summed up the situation as: “All Thunderbolt-equipped systems shipped between 2011-2020 are vulnerable.”
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The Swift project has officially landed on three more Linux distributions in addition to the two platforms that were already supported. More specifically, users are now provided with downloadable toolchain and Docker images for Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 8, and Amazon Linux 2. Previously, Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 were the only Linux distributions supported by Swift.
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Some enterprises have not yet used open source on premises, not to mention cloud. However, some confusing aspects of cloud-based open source—especially how to define the value—leave some enterprises scratching their heads. Here are a few emerging best practices to consider for cloud-based open source software.
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The Indian government is looking to make Aarogya Setu application open-source as unease over data surveillance grows over microblogging platform Twitter. Many users on Twitter have demanded the government to make Aarogya Setu open-source so that they can get to know the purpose of the application.
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StellarGraph has launched a series of new algorithms for network graph analysis to help discover patterns in data, work with larger data sets and speed up performance while reducing memory usage. The version 1.0 release delivers three new algorithms into the library, supporting graph classification and spatio-temporal data.
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Recently, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to protect the US electricity grid from cyber attacks by blocking power-equipment imports from “foreign adversaries.” Presumably, that includes Russia, Iran, and — most important of all — China. There’s only one problem with that: The vast majority of high-end electrical equipment is built outside of the US.
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Designers make Linux desktop environments to appeal to all users. You may not be a generic user. While you read this, consider what your preferences are. The two most popular desktop environments are GNOME and KDE. They have different philosophies. The third most popular Linux desktop environment is Cinnamon.
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Linux has long been considered the best alternative to Windows, and the latest data shows its market share and adoption is massively improving. But as far as China is concerned, building a Linux alternative to Windows could even take 10 years, Liu Wenhuan, the general manager of Union Tech explains.
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So you consider yourself a digital nomad. Well, there are plenty of open source tools that can help you achieve nomad nirvana. And because these tools are open source, they have no associated software cost, making them even more appealing. Let’s dive in and find out more about these tools.
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