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The latest Linux 3.14 kernel activity is the Intel MID update.

The open-source Tizen mobile OS has suffered another setback, with Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo announcing that it has put off plans to launch a smartphone powered by the system this year.

While the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver continues making (as) much headway as the modern open-source AMD Gallium3D Linux graphics driver along with the GLAMOR library it depends upon for 2D acceleration, the 2D performance of the Linux desktop is still quite poor compared to the proprietary Catalyst driver.

Wine 1.7.11 has been released and it packs a fair number of changes.

Advantech's first ARM-based SBC is a signage oriented 3.5-inch embedded board called the RSB-4410 that runs Linux on a Freescale i.MX6 at just 2.3 Watts After rolling out the ARM-powered ROM-7420 Qseven COM (computer-on-module) earlier this month, Advantech has added what appears to be its first ARM-based single board computer - the RSB-4410 - which which is implemented on the time-honored 3.5-inch SBC form-factor.

Google has outed the Chrome 33 browser beta with several new features...

MYIR announced a Linux- and Android-ready COM called the MYC-AM335X with six versions of the TI Sitara AM335x SoC, plus a baseboard and touchscreens. Shenzhen-based MYIR, which recently released a series of low-cost MYC-SAM9X5-V2 computer-on-modules (COMs) based on Atmel's AT91SAM9X5 system-on-chips, is now taking pre-orders for two versions of a new TI Sitara-based MYC-AM335X COM.

Developers behind the digiKam digital camera software for KDE continue piling on new features for the digiKam 4.0 release. The second beta of digiKam 4.0 is now available.

The latest benchmarks of the AMD A10-7850K APU to share on Phoronix and to complement yesterday's Windows vs. Linux OpenGL comparison are benchmarks of the APU's Radeon R7 Graphics compared to numerous AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards.

Google's pending $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest Labs brings it a hot selling, Linux-based smart thermostat - and a launchpad for the Internet of Things. Google's stock price rose 1 percent the day after it announced it planned to acquire Nest Labs for $3.2 billion.

Google has updated their Chrome web-browser with a variety of new features and improvements as part of their v32 stable release.

Back in the mid-1990s, a college friend (hi Russ!) and I would put our old 8088 computers to work rendering ray-traced images for days - literally. The end result would be, by today's standards, incredibly low resolution and not terribly interesting. Still, the thought of a computer system creating realistic photos from nothing more than math equations was fascinating.

Fernando Russ from Groundworks Technologies reported a buffer overflow flaw in srtp, Cisco's reference implementation of the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP), in how the crypto_policy_set_from_profile_for_rtp() function applies applies cryptographic profiles to an srtp_policy. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash an application linked against libsrtp, resulting in a denial of service.

Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been found in libxslt.

With the Linux.Conf.Au 2014 conference having wrapped up, here's some of the video recordings that I'd recommend worth watching as Phoronix readers.

For your viewing pleasure this weekend are some extra benchmarks of various Intel Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, and Haswell HD Graphics when using an Ubuntu 14.04 Linux development snapshot with the Linux 3.13 kernel and Mesa 10.0.1. The processors tested included the Core i3 2120, Core i5 2500K, Core i5 3470, Core i7 3770K, Core i3 4130, and Core i7 4770K.

Earlier this week on Phoronix I noted the new release of the GNU RPG Engine. To no surprise given its very rudimentary feature-set for a game engine in 2014, it was laughed at by many Phoronix readers and several were appalled it is even a GNU project.

A teenager in Australia who thought he was doing a good deed by reporting a security vulnerability in a government website was reported to the police.

It's been a while since last having anything to report on with the planned patch-set for Wine that provides significant Direct3D performance improvements via work on the D3D command stream. Fortunately, the patches have been updated and now offer better support as well.

KStars adds support to online plate solving using astrometry.net web services API, optimizes memory usage; Umbrello adds duplication of diagrams; KWin adds and option in oxygenrc to disable window background; Krita supports kra and ora files; Numerous bug fixes in KMix; and more.