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Submission + - Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working With Russian Intelligence (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Internal company emails obtained by Bloomberg Businessweek show that Kaspersky Lab has maintained a much closer working relationship with Russia’s main intelligence agency, the FSB, than it has publicly admitted. It has developed security technology at the spy agency’s behest and worked on joint projects the CEO knew would be embarrassing if made public.

The previously unreported emails, from October 2009, are from a thread between Eugene Kaspersky and senior staff. In Russian, Kaspersky outlines a project undertaken in secret a year earlier “per a big request on the Lubyanka side,” a reference to the FSB offices. Kaspersky Lab confirmed the emails are authentic.

Submission + - Fedora 26 Linux distro available for download (betanews.com)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: Today, Fedora 26 sheds its pre-release status and becomes available for download as a stable release. GNOME fans are in for a big treat, as version 3.24 is default. If you stick to stable Fedora releases, this will be your first time experiencing that version of the desktop environment since it was released in March. Also new is LibreOffice 5.3, which is an indispensable suite for productivity. If you still use mp3 music files (Iâ(TM)ve moved onto streaming), support should be baked in for both encoding and decoding.

âoeThe latest version of Fedoraâ(TM)s desktop-focused edition provides new tools and features for general users as well as developers. GNOME 3.24 is offered with Fedora 26 Workstation, which includes a host of updated functionality including Night Light, an application that subtly changes screen color based on time of day to reduce effect on sleep patterns, and LibreOffice 5.3, the latest update to the popular open source office productivity suite. For developers, GNOME 3.24 provides matured versions of Builder and Flatpak to make application development for a variety of systems, including Rust and Meson, easier across the board,â says the Fedora Project.

Submission + - Microsoft's Calibri font at the center of Panama papers case in Pakistan (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by arnott
arnott writes: From the article: Microsoft's default font, Calibri, is currently at the centre of a hot legal and political debate in Pakistan and it could very well end up sealing the fate of the country's first family. The font is playing a pivotal role as investigators continue to ask questions to the family members of embattled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over their illegal offshore properties flagged in the Panama Papers.

Submission + - 24 Cores and The Mouse Won't Move: Engineer Diagnoses Win10 Bug

Submitted by ewhac
ewhac writes: Bruce Dawson recently posted a deep-dive into an annoyance that Windows 10 was inflicting on him — namely, every time he built Chrome, his extremely beefy 24-core (48-thread) rig would begin stuttering, with the mouse frequently becoming stuck for a little over one second. This would be unsurprising if all cores were pegged at 100%, but overall CPU usage was barely hitting 50%. So he started digging out the debugging tools and doing performance traces on Windows itself. He eventually discovered that the function NtGdiCloseProcess(), responsible for Windows process exit and teardown, appears to serialize through a single lock, each pass through taking about 200S each. So if you have a job that creates and destroys a lot of processes very quickly (like building a large application such as Chrome), you're going to get hit in the face with this. Moreover, the problem gets worse the more cores you have. The issue apparently doesn't exist in Windows 7. Microsoft has been informed of the issue and they are allegedly investigating.

Submission + - Newspapers To Bid For Antitrust Exemption To Tackle Google and Facebook (cnbc.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The news industry is to band together to seek a limited antitrust exemption from Congress in an effort to fend off growing competition from Facebook and Google. Traditional competitors including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, as well as a host of smaller print and online publications, will temporarily set aside their differences this week and appeal to federal lawmakers to let them negotiate collectively with the technology giants to safeguard the industry. Antitrust laws traditionally prevent companies from forming such an alliance which could see them becoming over-dominant in a particular sector. However, the media companies will be hoping that Congress will look favorably on a temporary exemption, particularly giving the recent clampdown on the technology industry which saw Google slapped with a $2.7 billion antitrust fine. The campaign is led by newspaper industry trade group News Media Alliance and it is intended to help the industry collaborate in order to regain market share from Facebook and Google, which have been swooping in on newspapers' distribution and advertising revenues. The two companies currently command 70 percent of the $73 billion digital advertising industry in the U.S., according to new research from the Pew Research Centre. Meanwhile, U.S. newspaper ad revenue in 2016 was $18 billion from $50 billion a decade ago.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Is There A Way To Experience The Chinese Internet From Outside? (fffff.at)

Submitted by dryriver
dryriver writes: In 2008 a bunch of crafty developers created a Firefox plugin called China Channel (http://chinachannel.fffff.at/). It apparently allowed you to connect to a proxy server in China, and experience the — heavily censored and filtered — Internet as Chinese citizens experienced it back then. The nearly decade old plugin doesn't seem to work anymore. My modern Firefox browser couldn't install it. So the question: is there a way to surf the Internet as if you were inside China, and experience for yourself how much of the experience is censored or filtered? It would be interesting to experience firsthand what the Great Firewall of China lets you see of the free world and internet as we know it in 2017, and what it does not.

Submission + - CFQ In Linux Gets BFQ Characteristics

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: Paolo Valente from University of Modena has submitted a Linux kernel patchset which replaces CFQ (Completely Fair Queueing) I/O scheduler with the last version of BFQ (Budget Fair Queuing, a proportional-share scheduler). This patchset first brings CFQ back to its state at the time when BFQ was forked from CFQ.

Paolo explains: "Basically, this reduces CFQ to its engine, by removing every heuristic and improvement that has nothing to do with any heuristic or improvement in BFQ, and every heuristic and improvement whose goal is achieved in a different way in BFQ. Then, the second part of the patchset starts by replacing CFQ's engine with BFQ's engine, and goes on by adding current BFQ improvements and extra heuristics."

He provides a link to the thread in which it is agreed on this idea, and a direct link to the e-mail describing the steps.

Submission + - BBC's Connected TV strategy (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: At our BBC Online Briefing event in Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, Paul Caporn and I presented the recently open sourced TV Application Layer which provides the platform for the BBC’s Connected TV strategy.

Submission + - KDE Plasma Can Now Run On Wayland (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: With the upcoming KDE 4.11, there's an initial Wayland backend through the KWin manager. The developer behind the code notes on his blog: "Once the system is fully started you can just use it. If everything works fine, you should not even notice any difference, though there are still limitations, like only the three mouse buttons of my touchpad are supported ;-)"
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Submission + - Keep your /home folder clean. Mundus 2.1.0 is out! (mundusproject.org)

Submitted by
sebikul
sebikul writes: "Mundus is a small utility that can help you keep your /home folder clean. It keeps an internal database of known applications and folders, and automagically detects those apps that where uninstalled but left configuration files. It can then make a backup and clean them. This version allows it to update its database without needing to update the software. More and more apps are being added every week!"

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