Now in public beta, the OS known as "Android P" as in Papara (Παπάρα) includes features designed to address growing concerns about phone addiction and distraction.
Newsflash
Unix LF support in Notepad
For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters - Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF). This means that Notepad was unable to correctly display the contents of text files created in Unix, Linux and macOS.
C Is Not a Low-level Language
David Chisnall: "Your computer is not a fast PDP-11!" In the wake of the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, it's worth spending some time looking at root causes.
Linux Kernel Maintainer Statistics
Dave Chinner looked into how the Kernel’s maintainer structure can be measured. One very interesting approach is looking at the pull request flows. Note that in the linux kernel process, pull requests are only used to submit development from entire subsystems, not individual contributions. What he is trying to work out here isn’t so much the overall patch flow, but focusing on how maintainers work, and how that’s different in different subsystems.
zedboad with upstream components
Nothing patched!
poky 2.4.2
U-Boot 2018.03
kernel:4.14.39
Amazon challenge tests robots' stow and pick skills
Amazon hunting for ways to further automate logistics operations.
Spectre Next Generation vulnerabilities affect Intel processors
A report in the German computer magazine site
Heise (in German: Super-GAU für Intel: Weitere Spectre-Lücken im Anflug) suggests that eight new vulnerabilities were reported to Intel recently. Intel gave four of the eight vulnerabilities a severity rating of high and the remaining four a severity rating of medium according to Heise.
Maybe some of those? CVE-2018-9056 CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-5727 CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2017-5696
