FOSS Weekly #7 - Four new Linux Laptops, Shopify's $1M donation to Ruby, Meta's new translation tool, and other news

Even more Linux Laptops! Last week, we've seen two new Linux Laptops and other hardware hit the shelves. And this week, four more powerful Laptops are here! The Linux hardware scene is getting better by the day and we love to see it.

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💻 Latest Linux Laptops

• KDE's Slimbook 4 is here with AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor and a better battery. Starts from $1,000. [kde.slimbook.es]

• TUXEDO's Pulse 15 - Gen2 has a WQHD 165Hz display and Ryzen 7 5700U processor [tuxedocomputers.com/.../TUXEDO-Pulse-15-Gen2.tuxedo]

• System76 has announced Lemur Pro with 12th Gen Alder Lake processor, 180 degree hinges, and 14 hour battery life [system76.com/laptops/lemur]

• Roma - the first RISC-V Laptop may ship in September [theregister.com/.../riscv_roma_laptop/] [xcalibyte.com.cn/en/roma-preorder/]

📰 News

• Meta has open sourced an AI model that can translate across 200 different languages called "No Language Left Behind" [ai.facebook.com/research/no-language-left-behind/]

• systemd creator, Lennart Poettering has joined Microsoft after a decade and half at Red Hat [phoronix.com/.../Systemd-Creator-Microsoft]

• Shopify is donating $1M to Ruby Central to support Ruby and Ruby on Rails [rubycentral.org/ruby-shield] [shopify.engineering/shopify-open...]

• Russian Linux distributor, RosBITech Astra plans to IPO as Astra Linux gains popularity due to Big Tech sanctions [theregister.com/.../debianderivative_vendor_plans_ipo/]

• Microsoft store's updated FOSS pricing policies confuse open source developers [sfconservancy.org/.../microsoft-bans-commerical-open-source-in-app-store/]

• [Alibaba's Ant Group, has open sourced its "privacy-preserving Computation Framework", SecretFlow [github.com/secretflow] [theregister.com/.../ant_group]

🔗 Security

• Intezer Labs has discovered a new Linux threat called OrBit which uses advanced evasion techniques and gains persistence on the machine [intezer.com/blog/incident-response/orbit...]

• OpenSSL releases patch for high-severity bug that could lead to RCE Attacks [thehackernews.com/2022/07/openssl...]

• atomicwrites developer deletes and reuploads package after PyPI mandates 2FA [bleepingcomputer.com/.../developer-pushes-back/]

• ReversingLabs uncovers malicious Javascript packages offered via the NPM package manager that are harvesting sensitive data from forms [blog.reversinglabs.com/...npm-software-supply-chain-attack-]

  • throwback: [qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code/]

📝 Releases

• darktable 4.0.0 gets new UI, adds color and exposure mapping ,and other features [darktable.org/2022/07/darktable-4.0.0-released/]

• VS Code 1.69 June release brings 3-way merge editor, DND mode, and more. [github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases/tag/1.69.0]

• K9 Mail 6.3 adds OAuth 2.0 support [github.com/thundernest/k-9/releases/tag/6.200]

• Oracle Linux, KDE neon, EasyOS, and other ditro releses [distrowatch.com]

🔍 Interesting finds of the week

• Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen) [pilimi.org/blog-introducing.html]

• The Open Logic Project is a collection of teaching materials on mathematical logic aimed at a non-mathematical audience [openlogicproject.org]

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