For the first time in most of our lifetimes, your local movie theater won’t have a summer blockbuster season. The covid-19 pandemic took care of that, pushing most of the big-budget popcorn films scheduled for this year’s summer months into fall, spring, or even next summer. Since we can’t enjoy summer blockbusters in…
Source: io9 – Our 25 Favorite Summer Blockbusters of the 1990s
The next release of the Fedora distribution — Fedora 33 — is currently scheduled
for the end of October. Fedora’s nature as a fast-moving distribution
ensures that each release will contain a number of attention-getting
changes, but Fedora 33 is starting to look like it may be a bit more
volatile than its immediate predecessors. Several relatively controversial
changes are currently under discussion on the project’s mailing lists; read
on for a summary.
Source: LWN.net – [$] Stirring things up for Fedora 33
If you’re tired of making quarantine coffee at home or simply need a regular iced coffee fix to combat the summer heat—and if you have a Panera nearby—sign up right now for a free three-month MyPanera Coffee+ subscription.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Get 3 Months of Free Coffee at Panera
Your quads matches in Call of Duty: Warzone are about to get a little more intense. The max player count is expanding from 150 to 200 later today. It’s not quite clear how long you and your cohorts will be able to square off against 196 other players…
Source: Engadget – ‘Call of Duty: Warzone’ matches expand to 200 players for a limited time
A Kubernetes deployment is a resource object in Kubernetes that provides declarative updates to applications. In this article, we will learn to create a deployment in Kubernetes and perform operations on it.
Source: LXer – How to create a Deployment in Kubernetes
Amazon on Monday said it’s paying out $500 million in one-time bonuses to front-line employees — those most at risk of contracting the coronavirus — who worked for the company through June. From a report: The move is an apparent reversal for the company following weeks of criticism for it cutting its coronavirus hazard pay even as the pandemic has continued. Amazon had eliminated its $2-an-hour hazard pay for workers at the start of June, after it first instituted the higher wages in mid-March. That hazard pay increases had already cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars. “Our front-line operations teams have been on an incredible journey over the last few months, and we want to show our appreciation with a special one-time thank you bonus,” Dave Clark, the company’s SVP for worldwide operations, wrote in a note to workers Monday. Full-time Amazon workers, Whole Foods employees and Delivery Service Partner drivers will get $500, while their part-time counterparts will receive $250. Amazon and Whole Foods employees in leadership positions will get $1,000, Delivery Service Partner owners will get $3,000 and Amazon Flex drivers who worked more than 10 hours in June will each get $150.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Amazon To Pay 0 Million in Bonuses To Workers Most Exposed To Coronavirus
Well, here we are. We’re knocking on July’s door and COVID-19 is still running rampant through many of our communities. Maybe you’ve added some socially distanced playdates into the mix by now, or maybe you’re starting to figure out how to safely venture out to a playground or a friend’s pool. If you haven’t run out…
Source: LifeHacker – 6 Great Energy-Burning Backyard Games for Little Kids
Sony is celebrating PlayStation Plus, which launched on June 29, 2010. While taking time to thank everyone who supported PlayStation Plus over the last decade, several new games are also being added to the service. The new games available for PS Plus members lands on July 7 and are available until August 3.
The first of the games is a very
Source: Hot Hardware – Sony Celebrates 10 Years Of PlayStation Plus With Surprise Bonus Game For July
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 is
complete and ready for a planned release on July 2. Leap is the
version based on SUSE Linux Enterprise, but with many updated packages; see
the 15.2 features
page for an overview of what’s coming. “Leap 15.2 is filled with
several containerization technologies like Singularity, which bring
containers and reproducibility to scientific computing and the
high-performance computing (HPC) world. Singularity first appeared in the
Leap distribution in Leap 42.3 and provides functionality to build smallest
minimal containers and runs the containers as single application
environments. Another official package in Leap 15.2 is
libcontainers-common, which allows the configuration of files and manpages
shared by tools that are based on the github.com/containers libraries, such
as Buildah, CRI-O, Podman and Skopeo. Docker containers and tooling make
building and shipping applications easy and fast.“
Source: LWN.net – OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 set for release
We’ve seen Back to the Future. We’ve seen Ghostbusters. We’ve seen Lord of the Rings. And now, it’s time for the X-Men. Well, kind of.
Source: io9 – In Pure Deadpool Fashion, Watch Ryan Reynolds Ruin an X-Men Reunion
If you accidentally delete a file, all hope isn’t lost. However, assuming you can’t just drag it back out of the Windows Recycle Bin—especially true if you, like me, tend to default to the more permanent Shift + Delete instead of just “delete”—you’re going to have to roll up your sleeves and try a slightly more…
Source: LifeHacker – Recover Deleted Files With Microsoft’s New Free Windows App
In this episode of HotHardware’s Two And A Half Geeks, Marco, Dave, and Chris are on the scene to discuss Apple’s big switch to its own custom Arm-based processors, Intel’s 10th generation NUCs and the Nubia RedMagic 5 Android smartphone (among other topics). It’s a jam-packed episode that you’ll definitely want to check out in the YouTube
Source: Hot Hardware – 2.5 Geeks Podcast: Apple Silicon, iOS 14 Reveal, Intel 10th Gen NUC, And Nubia RedMagic 5G
A decision that Apple unilaterally took in February 2020 has reverberated across the browser landscape and has effectively strong-armed the Certificate Authority industry into bitterly accepting a new default lifespan of 398 days for TLS certificates. From a report: Following Apple’s initial announcement, Mozilla and Google have stated similar intentions to implement the same rule in their browsers. Starting with September 1, 2020, browsers and devices from Apple, Google, and Mozilla will show errors for new TLS certificates that have a lifespan greater than 398 days. The move is an important one because it not only changes how a core part of the internet works — TLS certificates — but also because it breaks away from normal industry practices and the cooperation between browsers and CAs. Known as the CA/B Forum, this is an informal group made up of Certificate Authorities (CAs), the companies that issue TLS certificates used to support HTTPS traffic, and browser makers. Since 2005, this group has been making the rules on how TLS certificates should be issued and how browsers are supposed to manage and validate them.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Apple Strong-Arms Entire CA Industry Into One-Year Certificate Lifespans
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Reddit has banned hundreds of subreddits after a major rewrite of its content rules, the site announced on Monday. The newly banned subreddits include /r/The_Donald, a leading forum for fans of the president. Reddit also banned /r/ChapoTrapHouse—a subreddit dedicated to the popular left-wing podcast.
The bans are the latest signs of how much Reddit’s content-moderation policy has evolved. Until 2015, the site hosted openly racist subreddits. But like Twitter and other social media sites, Reddit has adopted increasingly strict policies against hosting hate speech.
The new version of Reddit’s content policies makes Reddit’s opposition to hate speech more overt. “Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people,” the company says in the first of its eight new rules.
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Source: Ars Technica – Reddit bans pro-Trump /r/The_Donald for “rule-breaking content”
Right now, we’re living through a timeline where everything from unemployment rates to death tolls appear to be much more grim than authorities let on. So it’s somehow both deeply horrifying and deeply unsurprising that, while states across the country are facing unprecedented floods with disastrous long-term impacts,…
Source: Gizmodo – Report Finds FEMA Is Massively Undercounting Flood Risks
Articles from The New York Times will no longer appear in the Apple News app. Today, the NYT announced that it is ending its partnership with Apple News. The issue seems to be that while other services, like Google News, send readers to publishers’ w…
Source: Engadget – The New York Times removes its articles from Apple News
GnuCash 4.0 has been released as a major new version for this powerful, free and multi-platform accounting software for managing your finances, investments and accounts.
Source: LXer – GnuCash 4.0 Free Accounting Software Released with Major New Features
The Zephyr project is an
effort to provide an
open-source realtime operating system (RTOS) that is designed to bridge the gap
between
full-featured operating systems like Linux and bare-metal development
environments. It’s
been over four years since Zephyr was publicly announced and discussed here
(apparently
to a bit of puzzlement). In this
article, guest authors Martí Bolívar and Carles Cufí give an update on
the project and its community as of
its v2.3.0
release in June 2020; they also make some guesses about its near future.
Source: LWN.net – [$] Four years of Zephyr
The excellent 1999 racing game Star Wars Episode I: Racer received an HD re-release for Switch and PlayStation 4 last week. It’s hideous in the unique way that only sharpened-up ‘90s-era 3D games can be, and I adore it.
Source: Kotaku – The Star Wars Episode I: Racer Remaster Is A Little Ugly, But I Love It
Facebook’s iOS app is finally getting an official dark mode. Just like the dark modes in Facebook’s other apps—Messenger, Instagram and Whatsapp—turning on dark mode swaps the iOS app’s default white and blue interface with a black and grey theme. And it looks great, and should please those of you who haven’t already…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Enable Facebook’s New Dark Mode on iPhone
