The usual love for the Mars helicopter and KDE, rare praise for Mozilla, and fingers pointed at DuckDuckGo and Brave. Plus apprehension about Broadcom’s VMware acquisition, and Intel’s new “features”.
News
Alex’s London meetup is going to be a day earlier than originally planned. He’s still working on a venue but stay tuned and watch the meetup page!
Ingenuity Adapts for Mars Winter Operations
NASA’s 161-second helicopter tour of Martian terrain
Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
DuckDuckGo: Why our browsers won’t block Microsoft trackers
DDG has a tracker blocking carve-out linked to Microsoft contract
Broadcom is acquiring VMware for $61 billion
VMware users are nervous about Broadcom acquisition
Broadcom’s stated strategy ignores most VMware customers
Linux 5.18 Released With Intel SDSi, New CPU & GPU Features
Intel’s software-defined silicon set to debut in Linux 5.18
KDE Korner
SCAM: Lightmoon IS NOT Kdenlive. Lightmoon is MALWARE
KDE ECO sprint May & Nico Fella
Job vacancy for furthering KDE in app stores
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