A phase three clinical trial determined that a 3-drug combination improved lung function and reduced symptoms in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients who have a single copy of the most common …read more Source:: Science
Month: October 2019
Fedora 31: Peering into Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s future
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•Fedora, Red Hat’s cutting-edge community Linux distribution, is a crystal ball into RHEL’s future. …read more Source:: Linux
Linus Torvalds: ‘I’m not a programmer anymore’
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•In a discussion about Linux and programming, Linux’s founder, Linus Torvalds talks about what he does today and his own doubts about his work. …read more Source:: Linux
ESO telescope reveals what could be the smallest dwarf planet yet in the solar system
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•Astronomers using ESO’s SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the asteroid Hygiea could be classified as a dwarf planet. The object is the fourth largest …read more Source:: Science
Top Linux developer on Intel chip security problems: ‘They’re not going away.’
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•Greg Kroah-Hartman, the stable Linux kernel maintainer, says we’re going to see Intel chip security problems for years to come. …read more Source:: Linux
Most system administrators prefer firewall GUIs over CLIs
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•Almost 60% of respondents said they preferred managing a firewall via a GUI, rather than a clunky CLI. …read more Source:: Linux
Open Invention Network comes to GNOME’s aid in patent troll fight
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•GNOME, the popular Linux desktop, is under attack by Rothschild Patent Imaging, a patent troll. But the non-profit GNOME has friends in this fight. The Open Invention Network is helping …read more Source:: Linux
Dolphins demonstrate coordinated cooperation
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•Researchers investigated the cooperative abilities of dolphins. Utilizing a simplified Hirata Task, the team found that dolphins coordinated their behavior to work together on a shared task. Specifically, the ‘initiator’ …read more Source:: Science
Automated testing comes to the Linux kernel: KernelCI
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•Linux, the most important software program in the world, has a major weak point: Poor testing. That’s changing, and one big sign of that is KernelCI, an automated testing framework …read more Source:: Linux
Engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air
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•A new way of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of air could provide a significant tool in the battle against climate change. The new system can work on the …read more Source:: Science