Net Neutrality rules will officially die April 23. You can read the full order here. A new fight is about to begin.
For those of us who have been holding out to see an Oracle-supported port of DTrace on Linux, that time is nearly here. Oracle just re-licensed the system instrumentation tool from the original CDDL to GPLv2.
We would like to congratulate the hard working folks behind the LibreOffice 6.0 application suite. Officially released on January 31, the site has counted almost 1 million downloads. An amazing accomplishment.
Starting February 15, 2018, Google Chrome began removing ads from sites that don't follow the Better Ads Standards. For more info on how Chrome's ad filtering will work, see the Chromium blog.
Feral Interactive tweeted that Rise of the Tomb Raider will be coming this spring to Linux and macOS.
RIP John Perry Barlow, EFF Founder, Internet Pioneer, 1947 —2018. Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the EFF, wrote: "It is no exaggeration to say that major parts of the Internet we all know and love today exist and thrive because of Barlow's vision and leadership. He always saw the Internet as a fundamental place of freedom, where voices long silenced can find an audience and people can connect with others regardless of physical distance."
A major update of VLC, version 3.0 "Vetinari", has been released after three years in the works, and it's available for all platforms: Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Apple TV and Android TV. New features include support for Google Chromecast and HDR video—the full list and download links are here.
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