RMP 032 - The Year of the Linux Desktop!

Episode Notes

Apple News

• Apple Car: Apple’s now-cancelled car project — https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-car/

• Apple CEO Tim Cook sends clear message about AI to Wall Street — https://www.thestreet.com/technology/apple-ceo-tim-cook-artificial-intelligence-technology-openai-siri-chatgpt-wwdc

• iMessage with PQ3: The new state of the art in quantum-secure messaging at scale — https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/

Linux/FOSS News

• Freenginx: A fork of Nginx — https://thenewstack.io/freenginx-a-fork-of-nginx/

• Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle — https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/

• Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: Follow up 2.0 — https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-follow-up/

• Hexchat 2.16.2, The Final Release — https://hexchat.github.io/news/2.16.2.html

• Gnome 46 beta released — https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-46-beta-released/19505

• LXQt 2.0 set for April release — https://lxqt-project.org/blog/2024/02/15/qt-6-and-wayland/

• KDE Plasma 6 released — https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/

• FreeBSD Continues Push Toward Deprecating 32-bit Platforms — https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-32-bit-Deprecation-Plan

• TinyCore Linux 15 release notes — http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26861.0.html

• Tails 6.0 release notes — https://tails.net/doc/upgrade/release_notes/index.en.html

Microsoft News

• Windows 11 version 24H2: New features, next-gen AI PCs, and everything we know so far — https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/windows-11-version-24h1-changelog-release-date-features-ai-2024-update

• February 2024 Patch Tuesday: Two Zero-Days Amid 73 Vulnerabilities — https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/patch-tuesday-analysis-february-2024/

Other Tech News

• Funimation is shutting down — and taking your digital library with it — https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/8/24065940/funimation-shutdown-crunchyroll-digital-library

• THE M&M’S MACHINES ARE WATCHING YOU — https://mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mathNEWS-154-3.pdf#page=6

• Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes — https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/19/24077233/wyze-security-camera-breach-13000-customers-events

• KeyTrap attack: Internet access disrupted with one DNS packet — https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/keytrap-attack-internet-access-disrupted-with-one-dns-packet/

• Security Now Podcast episode 962: The Internet Dodged a Bullet — https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/962

• Security Now 962 Show Notes/Transcript — https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-962-notes.pdf

Retro Gaming/Tech News

• Luigi’s Mansion HD — https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/luigis-mansion-2-hd-switch/

• 'Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection' blasts its way into our galaxy on March 14 — https://www.space.com/star-wars-battlefront-remastered-march-14

• List of 2024 Leap Day Bugs — https://codeofmatt.com/list-of-2024-leap-day-bugs/

• Red Viper: a Virtual Boy emulator for the 3DS — https://github.com/skyfloogle/red-viper

• New PS3 firmware update keeps Sony’s console alive for another year — https://www.truetrophies.com/news/ps3-firmware-update-2024

Command-Line Tool of the Week: musikcube

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Main Topic: The Year of the Linux Desktop!

After a hard fought victory, I have installed Debian 12 with KDE Plasma 5.27.

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