By Matt Asay Not every open source project lead agrees with Rich Felker, founder of the Musl project. As I covered recently, Felker puts a premium on users of Musl, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: May 2020
Telescopes and spacecraft join forces to probe deep into Jupiter’s atmosphere
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•NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the ground-based Gemini Observatory in Hawaii have teamed up with the Juno spacecraft to probe the mightiest storms in the solar system, taking place more …read more Source:: Science
Vitamin D levels appear to play role in COVID-19 mortality rates
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•Researchers analyzed patient data from 10 countries. The team found a correlation between low vitamin D levels and hyperactive immune systems. Vitamin D strengths innate immunity and prevents overactive immune …read more Source:: Science
The Fairphone ethical smartphone is now available with the Google-less Android /e/OS operating system
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•Do you want a phone you can repair yourself and comes with a privacy-first Android operating system? Then you want the Fairphone 3 with /e/OS. …read more Source:: Linux
Bat ‘super immunity’ may explain how bats carry coronaviruses, study finds
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•Researchers have uncovered how bats can carry the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus without getting sick — research that could shed light on how coronaviruses make the jump to …read more Source:: Science
Best practices for selecting software composition analysis tools
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•By IT Central Station SCA tools automate the process of identifying and classifying open source code used in a development environment, identifying security, licensing and quality issues. Here’s how to pick a product. …read more Source:: OpenSource
ESO instrument finds closest black hole to Earth
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•Astronomers have discovered a black hole lying just 1,000 light-years from Earth. The black hole is closer to our solar system than any other found to date and forms part …read more Source:: Science
Most popular operating systems of 2020: The more things change…
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•According to Net Applications, desktop Linux is making a surge. But Windows still rules the desktop and other data suggests that macOS, Chrome OS, and Linux are still way behind, …read more Source:: Linux
Microsoft to hackers: Break our Azure Sphere Linux IoT OS and earn up to $100k
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•Microsoft puts up a $100,000 bounty for critical bugs affecting its Linux-based OS for Azure Sphere. …read more Source:: Linux
Microsoft Teams’ new feature: Group chat jumps from 100 to 250 people
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•Microsoft beefs up chat features in Microsoft Teams to take on rivals like Zoom and Google Meet. …read more Source:: Linux