For years, there’s been a security problem with how the GNU C Library dealt with single-linked-lists. Now, Check Point has released a patch, which will fix the problem once and …read more Source:: Linux
Month: May 2020
Microsoft’s Windows Package Manager: This command-line tool can install all your apps
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•Microsoft releases open-source Windows Package Manager in preview, but Microsoft Store isn’t going anywhere. …read more Source:: Linux
2020 will be the year of Linux on the Windows desktop
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•Linux on Windows just took a big graphical desktop step forward with Microsoft’s plans for Windows Subsystem for Linux. …read more Source:: Linux
Windows Terminal 1.0 is out: Here’s how we’ll update it in future, says Microsoft
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•Microsoft releases version 1.0 of the open-source Windows Terminal application following a year of development. …read more Source:: Linux
Microsoft: Linux GUI apps coming to Windows 10 WSL along with GPU access
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•Microsoft also wants its DirectX-based Linux GPU kernel driver upstreamed to the Linux kernel, but there’s resistance. …read more Source:: Linux
New study estimates the odds of life and intelligence emerging beyond our planet
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•Despite knowing when life first appeared on Earth, scientists still do not understand how life occurred, which has important implications for the likelihood of finding life elsewhere in the universe. …read more Source:: Science
Long-term data show hurricanes are getting stronger
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•In almost every region of the world where hurricanes form, their maximum sustained winds are getting stronger. That is according to a new study involving an analysis of nearly 40 …read more Source:: Science
Scientists find brain center that ‘profoundly’ shuts down pain
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•A research team has found a small area of the brain in mice that can profoundly control the animals’ sense of pain. Somewhat unexpectedly, this brain center turns pain off, …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft: We were wrong about open source, but luckily you can change
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•Microsoft president Brad Smith talks open source, privacy, and coronavirus contact-tracing apps. …read more Source:: Linux
Will the solo open source developer survive the pandemic?
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•By Matt Asay Open source has been booming for decades, but it tends to do particularly well in times of financial distress. Like now. As Drupal founder Dries Buytaert has suggested, …read more Source:: OpenSource