FOSS Weekly #6 - Linux phones, Linux Laptops, new $6 Raspberry Pi, two $90 million settlements, and other news.

This week's issue features ton of hardware news, some major releases from large projects, and two settlements of $90 million each from Google and Facebook.

🔌Hardware News

• Pine64's Linux smartphones, PinePhone and PinePhone Pro are back in stock [pine64.org/2022...]

• Raspberry Pi Pico W, a "$6 IoT platform" launched [raspberrypi.com/news...]

• Star Labs teases new StarFighter Linux Laptop with 4K Display [9to5linux.com/star-labs...]

• Pine64 is working on a RISC-V based single board computer [pine64.org/2022/...]

• MNT Research introduces MNT Pocket Reform, 7 inch mini Linux laptop [mntre.com/media/reform...]

🔗AI/ML

• Stanford University open sources AI Diffusion-LM, a controllable generative language [opensourceforu.com/2022/06/stanford...]

• Microsoft opens-sources GODEL language model for realistic conversations [microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/godel-combining...]

• Facebook and UT Austin open source three audio-visual AI models [ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-driven-acoustic-synthesis...]y

📝 Releases

• Rust 1.62.0 [blog.rust-lang.org/...]

• Vue 2.7 [blog.vuejs.org/pos...]

• Vim 9.0 [vim.org/vim90.php]

• Thunderbird 102 [blog.thunderbird.net/2022...]

• Git 2.37 [lore.kernel.org/git/...] [github.blog/2022../]

• Firefox 102.0 [mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/102.0/releasenotes/]

🗞️ Other News

• China has created an open platform with more than 10 entities called openKylin to develop operating systems [scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/tech-war-china]

• Software Freedom Conservancy urges people to give up GitHub over concerns with Copilot [sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/]

• Red Hat is hiring a blind software engineer to help with accessibility refinements in GNOME, Fedora, and RHEL. [news.itsfoss.com/red-hat-accessibility-gnome/]

• Databricks donates Delta Lake framework and MLflow operations platform entirely to open source [siliconangle.com/2022/06/28/databricks-donates-delta-lake]

• Google agrees to a $90 million settlement with U.S app developers over Play Store billing policies [blog.google/outreach-in...] [gizmodo.com/google-play...]

• Facebook agrees to $90 million settlement for Data Privacy class action lawsuit [apnews.com/press-release/...] If you are a person who, between April 22, 2010 and September 26, 2011, inclusive, were a Facebook User in the United States who visited non-Facebook websites that displayed the Facebook Like button, you may be eligible for a payment from a Class Action Settlement. www.fbinternettrackingsettlement.com

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