Category:2020 News Archive
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Pages in category "2020 News Archive"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 359 total.
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- Ad-Tech Industry Complains That Google Has Too Much Control Over Web Standards
- AMD Announced 8 Core Laptop APUs and CPUs and a 64 Core Threadripper CPU at CES 2020
- AMD Announces Four 5000-Series Ryzen CPUs
- AMD Announces Record High Q3 2020 Profits And $35 Billion Deal To Buy Xilinx
- AMD At The X.Org Developers Conference 2020: No-No Baking Your Graphics Card
- AMD Confirms "Big Navi" GPU Coming In 2020
- AMD Hopes To Get Sensor Fusion Hub Driver For AMD Laptop Gyroscopes And Other Sensors Into Linux 5.10
- AMD Launches 3 High-End RX 6000-Series GPUs For 4k Gaming
- AMD Launches Ultra-budget A520 Motherboards For Third and Fourth Generation Ryzen On A Budget
- AMD Radeon Open Compute Framework 3.7 Released
- AMD Reveals Picture Of RX 6000 Series GPU With 2 8-Pin PSU Connectors
- AMD ROCm 3.8 Is Released
- AMDVLK 2020.Q3.5 Alternative AMD Vulkan Driver Released With Four Game Specific Fixes And Sub-RADV Performance
- AMDVLK 2020.Q4.1 Is Released With A New Vulkan Extension And Three Game-Specific Fixes
- AMDVLK v-2020.Q3.6 Is Released With Four Game-Specific Fixes
- Apple Devices Are Finally Getting WebP Support
- Apple Recommend Not Covering Your Laptops Webcam, Claims It Can Damage Hardware
- Apple's CUPS Repository Has Died A Quiet Death
- Arch Linux: Past, Present and Future
- ARM announces Cortex-R82 Processor With Support For Up To 1 TiB RAM
- AV1 Hardware Video Decode Support For AMD RX 6000 Series GPUs Coming In Linux 5.10
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- Ben Cotton: How Fedora Is Run And Why
- Beware People Who Enter Free Software Projects Only for Power Trips
- Black Lives Matter For Linux
- Brave Browser 1.12.112 Is Released With Re-Vamped Synchronization
- Brave Web Browser Caught In Affiliate Link Controversy Prompting Fork
- Buffer Overflow In Older Sudo Versions Could Be Used To Get Root On Elementary, Linux Mint
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- Caesar III re-implementation Julius v1.2.0 Is Released
- Cantata 2.4.0 Is Released
- Catfish 1.4.12 Is Released With GNOME and Wayland Support
- CentOS 8.1 Released With New Security Tools For Servers And Containers
- Chipmaker TSMC Reports Revenues Are Up 33.6% Compared To 2019
- Chris Down, Facebook: Linux memory management at scale
- Chrome and Chromium 80 Have A New Directly To Text Snippet Linking Feature
- Chromium 81 Is Released With Many Security Fixes And Mostly Working Vulkan Rendering Support
- Corbett Report: YouTube Is Purging Again
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Has A New Anti-Cheat Trusted Mode
- Current Ethereum Network Fees Are Killing CryptoCurrency Tokens Like The Brave Browsers BAT Currency
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- Decentralized Social Networks vs. The Trolls
- Deepin 20 Is Released
- Department of Homeland Security Urges Firefox And Thunderbird Users To Upgrade
- Direct3D To Vulkan Translation Layer DXVK 1.5.3 Is Released
- Distri: researching fast Linux package management
- Dooble Web Browser 2020.07.07 Is Released
- Dozens Of High Profile Twitter Accounts Owned And Used For Bitcoin Scam: "Tough day" For Twitter
- DXVK DirectX To Vulkan Translation Layer 1.7.2 Released
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- Fake News Detector For Firefox Is Coming After The Harvest Festival Holiday
- Fedora 33 Is Released
- Firefox 72.0.1 Released With Fix For Actively Exploited Security Hole
- Firefox 72.0.2 Is Released
- Firefox 73 and 68.5.0esr Are Released With Security Updates
- Firefox 74 Is Released With Several Vulnerability Fixes
- Firefox 78 Is Released With 14 Security Fixes
- Firefox 79 Is Released With 10 Security Fixes
- Firefox 80 Released With 10 Security Fixes And A Higher Version Number
- Firefox 81 Is Released
- Firefox 82 Is Released With Four High-Impact Security Fixes
- Firefox Is Rolling Out DNS over HTTPS And The Security Benefits Are Not What You May Think They Are
- First UbuntuDDE Remix 20.10 Groovy Beta Is Released
- First Xfce 4.14 Maintainance Release Available, ScreenSaver Security Hole Remains Wide Open
- Four Malicious Packages In The NPM Repository With Names Similar To Popular Packages Were Phoning User Data Home
- Free Software Foundation Turns 35
- Free Software Licenses Are Losing Ground To Permissive Open Source Licenses
- FreeBSD Fridays: Introduction to RISC-V on FreeBSD
- Frictional Games Has Released Source Code For Two Amnesia Games As FOSS Under The GNU GPLv3
- From the FSF Bulletin: Trial by proprietary software
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- GamerOS: An Arch Linux based gaming OS
- Gbrainy Is 2.4.2 Released
- GCC 11 Will Be Set In Stone On November 15th
- Genius Mathematics Tool 1.0.25 Is Released
- Gentoo Linux Starts Offering Pre-Built Kernel Packages
- Geoffrey Knauth Elected President Of The Free Software Foundation
- Get Tomb Raider For Free On Steam Until March 24th
- GIMP 2.10.22 Is Released With AVIF Support And Improved Support For Many Other File Formats
- GIMP Starts Offering Nightly GIMP 3.0 Pre-Release Builds, But Only For Windows
- Glib-networking up to 2.64.2 accepts any TLS certificate as valid for any domain
- GNOME 3.36 "Gresik" Is Released
- GNOME 3.38 "Orbis" Is Released
- GNOME And KDE Are Merging To KNOME - The Next Generation Linux Desktop Environment
- GNOME Internet Radio Locator 3.0.5 Is Released With More Radio Stations
- GNOME Proposal Aims To Make GNOME Applications More Environment Friendly By Optimizing Them
- GNU grep 3.5 Is Released
- GNU make 4.3 Is Released
- GNU Parallel Ginsburg Is Released
- GNU sed 4.8 Is Released
- GNUnet 0.13.0 Released With A New Protocol Version
- GNUnet 0.13.3 Released With Hand-full Of Bug Fixes
- Godot Game Engine Awarded $250k USD Grant From Epic Games
- Google Chrome 86 and Brave 1.13.82, Both Based On Chromium 86, Are Released With Security Enhancements And New Features
- Google Is Cracking Down On Fediverse Applications For Android
- Google Stadia Dev Brings Spinlocks Back From The Dead, Blames The Linux Kernels Scheduler For Performance Problems
- GParted 1.1.0 Is Released
- GStreamer 1.18 Is Released
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- Having A Hobby Will Make You Happy
- How Arch Linux Manage Their Servers: "Infrastructure at Arch: Making servers go brrrrr"
- How the ACO Mesa Vulkan Shader Compiler For AMD GPUs Came To Be: From Prototype To Default
- HTTPS Security Certificates Will Soon Have To Be Limited To A One Year Long Life-Time To Be Valid
- Huawei Announces OpenHarmony Project With A BSD-Licensed HarmonyOS Source Code Release
- Huawei Post Record $122 Billion Revenue For 2019 Despite US Government Sanctions
- Humble Bundle Has A Huge Sale With Many Native Linux Games
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- Improved Lenovo Laptop Hotkey Support Coming To Linux 5.10
- India Announces RISC-V Innovation Contest
- Inkscape 1.0.1 Is Released
- Intel Is Pushing For 1984-Style Revision Of Words Allowed In Linux Kernel Development And Documentation
- Intel Unveils Tiger Lake Laptop CPU Line-Up With Impressive Graphics Performance Numbers
- Intel's latest NEO OpenCL Driver Claims Support For OpenCL 3.0 On All Intel Chips Going Back To Broadwell
- Intels 10th-gen Series CPUs Revealed: Up To 10 Cores and 5.3 GHz on 14nm++++
- It Is OK To Not Use Firefox If You Are For Free Software
- It Never Ends: Two More Intel CPU Vulnerabilities Disclosed
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- K-Pop Fans Are Outraged Over The 2020 Idol Star Athletics Championship Taking Place Without A Live Audience
- KDE Launches MyKDE Identity Service
- KDE Launches Plasma Widget Tutorial Website
- KDE Plasma 5.18 Wallpaper Winner Announced
- KDE Plasma Will Default To Using The Wayland Display Server On Fedora 34
- Kdenlive 19.12.2 Is Released With Bug Fixes And Qt 5.14 Compatibility
- Kdenlive 20.08.2 Is Released With 17 Bug-Fixes And GPU Accelerated Video Rendering
- KnotDNS 3.0.0 Is Released
- Korean Trot Singer Kang Hye Yeon's Latest Cover Brings Attention To Lonely Single Mothers
- Krita 5.0 Will Have A Built-In Screen Recorder
- Krita Paint Program Will Get SVG Mesh Gradients, Storyboard Docker, MyPaint Brush Engine And Dynamic Fill Layers Thanks To GSoC Students
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- Latest 20.41.18123 Intel NEO OpenCL Driver Claims "Production" OpenCL 3.0 Quality On All Intel CPUs Going Back To Broadwell
- Latest Linux Kernels Fix Security Flaw In The Intel Processors With iGPUs
- Lenovo's Increasing Their Line-Up Of ThinkPad And ThinkStation Computers With Linux Pre-Installed
- LibreDWG 0.10.1 Brings GNU One Step Closer To Liberating AutoCAD Files
- LibreOffice 7.0.2 Is Released With 131 Bug-Fixes
- LibrePlanet 2020 Is CANCELLED
- Libtorrent 2.0 Is Released With BitTorrent 2.0 Support
- Libtorrent-rasterbar Now Features WebTorrent Support In The Master Branch
- Linus Torvalds Has Merged Inclusive-Terminology Rules Into The Linux Kernel Git Tree
- Linus Torvalds: AVX512 Is "A Hot Mess" "I hope AVX512 dies a painful death"
- Linux 5.10 To Get Creative SoundBlaster AE-7 Audio Card Driver
- Linux 5.10 Will Have A Fully Lock-Less Ring Buffer
- Linux 5.5 "Kleptomaniac Octopus" Is Released
- Linux 5.5rc6 Is Released, 5.5 Final Is Coming In Two To Three Weeks
- Linux 5.5rc7 Is Released
- Linux 5.6 Is Released
- Linux 5.6 Will Support Per-Die Temperature Readings On AMD Zen2 Processors
- Linux 5.6.2 Is Released With Intel Wifi Fix
- Linux 5.8 Brings Per-Core Energy Sensor Support For AMD CPUs
- Linux 5.8 Is Released And It The Largest Release Of All Time
- Linux 5.9 Brings Hardware Accelerated Video Playback To 10+ Year Old AMD Graphics Cards Using The "amdgpu" Linux Kernel Driver
- Linux 5.9 Is Released With New Drivers, Improved AMD GPU Support, And Support The x86-64 FSGSBASE CPU Instructions
- Linux 5.9 rc1 Is Released With Support for Upcoming AMD GPUs and Corsair RGB Hubs
- Linux 5.9 rc4 Released
- Linux 5.9 Will Be Delayed One Week
- Linux 5.9-rc7 Is A Total Disaster On Machines With Intel Graphics
- Linux 5.9-rc8 Is Out With PCIe IDs for AMDs Upcoming Sienna Cichlid GPUs
- Linux 5.9.1 And Older Stable Kernel Updates Fixing "Bleeding Tooth" Bluetooth Vulnerability Are Available
- Linux AV1 Hardware Video Decoding Support Ready For Intel Tiger Lake
- Linux Desktop Market Share Could Have Doubled, Or Stagnated, In Q2 2020
- Linux Desktop Market Share Fell 0.88% In August 2020
- Linux Desktop Market Share Nearly Halved During September 2020
- Linux Desktop Market Share Steady at 0.8-3.5% In July 2020
- Linux Desktop Users Who Use Qt or KDE Software May Want To Hard-Code QT AUTO SCREEN SCALE FACTOR and XCURSOR SIZE
- Linux Foundation Announces "Climate Finance Foundation"
- Linux From Scratch 10.0 Released
- Linux Gamers Account For Close To 1% In The Steam Hardware Survey For January 2020
- Linux Is Dropping WiMAX Support
- Linux Kernel 5.5 Will Not Fix The Frequent Intel GPU Hangs In Recent Kernels
- Linux Mint 20 Blocks And Removes Snap Citing Backdoor To Canonicals SnapCraft Store
- Linux Remains Licensed Under The GNU GPL v2 And New Contributions Remain Subject To It
- Linux Support for Variable Refresh Rates On Gen12+ Intel GPUs Is On The Way
- Lumina 1.6 Is Released For Those Who Want A Sort-Of Really Light-Weight Desktop Environment
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- Manjaro Linux Lead Developer In Hot Waters Over Donation Slush Fund For Laptop And Personal Items
- Manjaro Linux Lost All Of Their Support Forum Images
- Manjaro Lomiri Alpha1 for PinePhone Is Released
- Martin Dougiamas: Why Openness in Education is essential
- Mastodon 3.1.0 Is Released With Bookmarks, UI animations And More
- Meet The New Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board
- Mesa 19.3.2 Is Released With SDMA Disabled On Older AMD GPUs
- Mesa 20 Will Have SDMA Disabled On AMD RX-Series GPUs
- Mesa 20.0.0 Is Released
- Mesa 20.0.0-rc1 Is Released With Vulkan 1.2 Support and Iris As New Default Intel OpenGL Driver
- Mesa 20.0.0-rc3 Is Released With Barely Nothing New Since rc2
- Mesa 20.1.10 Is Released With A Handful Of Bug-Fixes
- Mesa 20.1.5 Is Released With 29 Bug-Fixes And SDMA Disabled On Vega GPUs
- Mesa 20.2.0 Is Released
- Mesa Developers Debate Using Rust Code In Mesa
- Mesa Just Got A Significant Performance Boost For Intel Tiger Lake Chips
- Microblogging Client Choqok 1.7.0 Is Released
- Microsoft Edge For Linux Is Here
- Microsoft Edge Is Coming To Linux In October 2020
- Microsoft WordPad 2020 Will Contain In-App Advertisements
- Modern Web Standards Are Leaving Niche Web Browsers Behind
- Mozilla Fires 250 Employees, Blames COVID-19 For Years Of Mismanagement
- Mozilla Fires 70 Employees, Apple Offers New Jobs
- Mozilla Is Rolling Out Redirect Tracking Protection In Firefox In A Somewhat Concerning Fashion
- Mpv drops GNOME support
- Mstdn.jp Is Back After Hours Of Downtime Due Post Containing Islamic Terrorist Material
- Mutazione Got A Native Linux Version
