Apple works hard to make each incremental iOS release look spiffier, but some places that don’t receive as much attention as they should include the native power down menu and volume HUD interfaces, just to name a few. With a newly-released jailbreak tweak called Modernize by iOS developer tylerd3v, you […]
3D printing has increased in popularity over the last few years. These printers have been used in a wide variety of environments, including classrooms, labs, and homes. Many are now looking to 3D printing for industrial purposes, and these kinds of projects require a massive printer and a large amount […]
It looks like Lenovo may upstage Dell as the big name in OEM Linux laptops—not counting specialty retailers like System76, of course. Red Hat and Lenovo are announcing pre-installed and factory-supported Fedora Workstation on several models of ThinkPad laptops at Red Hat Summit this week. Read More at Ars Technica
Con Kolivas is out with his Linux 5.6-ck1 optimization patch-set and version 0.199 of the MuQSS scheduler. This re-base against the Linux 5.6 stable kernel is coming late due to Kolivas leading a team making 3D printed COVID-19 equipment in Australia. No major changes this time besides re-basing against the […]
YouTuber Marc Verdiell, a.k.a. CuriousMarc, has turned a 1930s teletype machine into a Linux terminal. To do that, he had to make circuitry and programming that translates five-bit Baudot code into eight-bit ASCII code. Let’s take a crash course in the history of over-wire communication. Read More at Popular Mechanics
IBM Research has announced two container-based open-source projects — Encrypted Container Images and Trusted Service Identity — to enable confidentiality of code and data. Encrypted Container Images protects the confidentiality of the workload/code by extending the OCI container image specification with +encrypted media types while Trusted […]
While more organisations are adopting open source software (over 95 percent), selecting and building an open source stack can be overwhelming, writes Justin Reock, Chief Architect OpenLogic, Perforce Software. There are thousands of open source solutions from which to choose, and it can be hard to know what questions to […]
