Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

California's Dixie Fire Is Now the 2nd Largest in State History
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/08/1025928690/californias-dixie-fire-is-now-the-2nd-largest-in-state-history

(submitted by TroisM)

0 A.D. (real time strategy in ancient world) has released a new Alpha, the 25th, called Yaunā: https://play0ad.com/new-release-0-a-d-alpha-25-yauna/ #linux #linuxgaming #foss #oad #rts #release

Zoom to pay $85M for lying about having E2E encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/zoom-to-pay-85m-for-lying-about-encryption-and-sending-data-to-facebook-and-google/

Microsoft director with intelligence background will lead the White House’s space council - The White House’s core space policy body will be led by Ch... - https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/2/22605570/microsoft-intelligence-national-space-council-executive-director-chirag-parikh-white-house

Nextcloud Talk 12 introduces voice messages, location sharing, Outlook integration & more!

With Nextcloud, enterprises, educational institutions and private users can immediately benefit from a decentralized, ad-free, surveillance-free complete communication experience!

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (Updated for 5.x Kernels)
https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg/

(submitted by eating555)

Economics in Brief: Dollar Stores Make Up Nearly Half of All New Store Openings
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/dollar-stores-make-up-nearly-half-of-all-new-store-openings-this-year

(submitted by paulpauper)

Secret collusion with public blockchains is impossible.

Some websites say they won't do it. Only LBRY says we can't do it.

UnityX 10 Desktop Environment Makes Great Progress, Now Features a New Sidebar Design

https://9to5linux.com/unityx-10-desktop-environment-makes-great-progress-now-features-a-new-sidebar-design

#desktopenvironment #UnityX10 #UnityX #Unitydesktop #Unity

Any system that privileges digital ID over traditional ID will disadvantage people already at society’s margins. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/dhss-flawed-plan-mobile-drivers-licenses

What's better than Proton for Linux gaming? A bleeding-edge, rolling version of it. What's better than THAT? A simple tool that installs and updates it for you!

Special thanks to @AUNaseef for creating ProtonUp!

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7UP8MF9ne4

ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/@LinuxForEveryone:9/level-up-linux-gaming-with-protonup!:9

The shadow of the chip shortage is looming over tech’s big quarter - Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Tech earni... - https://www.theverge.com/22602104/chip-shortage-tech-quarterly-earnings-intel-apple-microsoft-amd-samsung-tesla

New blog post.

Android Privacy Guide: Zero Trust
https://ebin.city/~werwolf/posts/android-privacy-guide/

I've written a detailed guide on how to maximize privacy when using a smartphone. I hope that you find it useful

Amazon will pay you $10 in credit for your palm print biometrics - How much is your palm print worth? If you ask Amazon, it’s about $10 in promotiona... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/gcCVWNRDEdk/ #lawenforcement #unitedstates #amazonmusic #biometrics #technology #computing #newjersey #security #maryland #privacy #newyork #seattle #amazon #retail #texas #palm

Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub - Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more In brief  Malici... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/08/02/in_brief_security/

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series will premiere in September 2022 - The first image from Amazon’s yet-untitled Lord of the Rin... - https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/2/22606267/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-series-release-date

#GNU Emacs is so much more than a text editor -- it's an entire workflow environment, loved by free software supporters around the world. Get the new GNU Emacs Manual, Nineteenth edition, for Emacs 27.2, at the GNU Press Shop: https://u.fsf.org/3ff

Twitter adds third-party signup with Apple or Google - Twitter has introduced third-party login support, letting ... - https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/2/22606150/twitter-third-party-apple-google-login-signup-feature

Mastodon now has an official iPhone app https://web.archive.org/web/20210731011024/https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/30/22602275/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-official-ios-app-launches

Distribution Release: 07/30 Freespire 7.7 http://distrowatch.com/freespire