PineNote e-reader, Firefox has lost 50M users, and Apple looks at your pictures – Linux news August
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We have a ton of stuff to cover, including the newly announced PineNote e-ink tablet, a lot more coverage of Steam Deck Prototypes, or Apple announcing they’ll look into the pictures their customers upload to the cloud.
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00:00 Intro
01:36 Open Source News
03:10 Linux News
06:27 Application News
09:59 Gaming News
11:48 Privacy News
## Open Source
The Free Software Foundation will fund white papers to study the philosophical and legal questions around Github Copilot.
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-funded-call-for-white-papers-on-philosophical-and-legal-questions-around-copilot
KDE Gear 21.08, the latest update to the collection of KDE apps, has been released.
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.08.0/
## Linux
AMD and Valve are starting to work on a new CPU scheduler that should offer much better performance, at least on AMD hardware.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/08/amd-and-valve-working-towards-a-new-cpu-performance-scaling-design-for-amd-cpus
Linux has passed the 1% market share threshold in the Steam hardware survey.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/08/linux-has-finally-hit-that-almost-mythical-1-user-share-on-steam-again
Looks like GNOME might soon get a website to showcase applications made for that desktop environment.
https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2021/08/05/apps-for-gnome/
Debian 11, codenamed Bullseye, has been released as the latest stable version.
ThePine64 continues to expand their range of devices, with the newly announced PineNote. It’s an e-ink tablet, with a 60hz refresh rate, an unconventional 1404×1872 resolution, pen input support, and 16 levels of grayscale.
## Apps
Lutris has seen a new beta update, which now supports Epic Games Store games.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/08/lutris-game-manager-059-beta1-is-out-adding-epic-games-store-support
Firefox has lost 50 million users since 2018.
Firefox Lost Almost 50 million Users: Here’s Why It is Concerning
Crossover 21 is now out.
https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jschmid/2021/8/3/hello-crossover-21
Mousai is a brand new app that’s basically Shazam on Linux.
Firefox 91 was released, with a new privacy related feature, something they call enhanced cookie cleaning.
## Gaming
Valve talked a bit about their decision process leading from the Steam machines to the Steam Deck, and it’s an interesting watch.
https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-valve-explains-how-it-learned-from-past-mistakes
Speaking of the Steam Deck, the early reception to the first prototypes seems to be pretty good.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/08/seems-the-valve-steam-deck-has-been-impressing-people-with-some-hands-on-time
Wine 6.15 was released, with more libraries converted to the PE format, more 64 bit conversion work for NTDLL calls, and more work on the GDI syscall interface, which is the interface windows apps use to display graphical elements on screen.
https://www.winehq.org/announce/6.15
## Privacy
Apple got called out after they announced that they would start looking in their user’s phones for child abuse photos.
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