FOSS Weekly #3 -- Linux malware, Atom retirement, new releases, and other announcements

Lots of news this week! This issue covers open source announcements by companies, releases by big projects, and a few interesting links I found on the interwebs.

📰 News

• GitHub is archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization on December 15, 2022 [github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/]

• Virtru launches OpenTDF, a project that helps developers to build data protections natively within their applications using the Trusted Data Format [venturebeat.com] [repo]

• World's leading VFX and animation studio DNEG to launch xSTUDIO, an open source image review tool [dneg.com/dneg-to-launch-xstudio/]

• OpenInfra launches "direct funding" model to fund OSS [openinfra.dev/blog/op]

• China's RedHat, ArcherMind Technology's founder had been taken away for investigation [scmp.com/tech/big-tech/...]

• GitHub open sources "Entitlments", an Identity and Access Management solution [github.blog/2022-06-09-introducing-entitlements]

• Washington Post joins Prebid.org as a technology partner to help improve open-source digital advertising software [washingtonpost.com/pr/2022/06...]

🔐 Security

• Blackberry and intezer detect new Linux malware called Symbiote [blogs.blackberry.com/en/2022/06/symbiote-a-new-]

• Wiz security publishes community-driven cloud middleware dataset on Github [github.com/wiz-sec/cloud-middleware-dataset]

• 35 security vulnerabilities patched in Ubuntu with Linux Kernel update [9to5linux.com/ubuntu-users-get...]

🔌 Hardware

• Apple offers improved Linux support in macOS 13. Will now be able to use Rosetta 2 to run x86 binaries [arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/macos-ventura...]

• System76 to open distribution hub in Europe [omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/06/system76-is...]

• Blender 3.2 enables AMD GPU rendering on Linux [9to5linux.com/blender...]

📝  Releases

• Homebrew 3.5.0 [brew.sh/2022/06/06/homebrew-3.5.0/]

• Blender 3.2 [blender.org/download/releases/3-2/]

• LibreOffice 7.3.4 [blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/...]

• openSUSE Leap 15.4 [news.opensuse.org/2022/06...]

 🔍 Interesting finds of the week

• In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia [diff.wikimedia.org/2022/06..]

• Google employee calculates 100 trillionth digit of pi using 128 vCPUs, 864 GB RAM, 82 PB I/O, and 515 TB of Storage in 157 days. 🤯 [blog.google/pro...] [cloud.google.com/blog/pr..] [pi.delivery]

• This tiny Linux Distro lets you play Doom, the 1993 classic PC FPS game. [makeuseof.com/doomlinux...]

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