NSA researchers present security improvements for Zephyr and Fucshia at Linux Security Summit 2018
Last week, James Carter and Stephen Smalley presented the architecture and security mechanisms of two operating systems, Zephyr and Fuchsia at the Linux Security...
German IoT startup relayr acquired by Munich Re for $300 million
Relayr, an IoT middleware startup based in Berlin, has been purchased by German insurance group Munich Re. The deal, which values relayr at $300...
Hybrid nanomembranes make conformal wearable sensors possible, demo South Korean researchers with imperceptible loudspeakers...
A team of researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea has developed an ultrathin, and transparent wearable device...
Amazon FreeRTOS adds a new ‘Bluetooth low energy support’ feature
Amazon team announced a newly added ‘bluetooth low energy support’ (BLE) feature to its Amazon FreeRTOS. Amazon FreeRTOS is an open source, free to...
AMD releases AMD Open-Source Driver for Vulkan v-2019.Q1.2
Last week, the AMD team released v-2019.Q1.2 version of AMD Open Source for Vulkan (AMDVLK). This release comes with fairly small updates including a...
Intel releases patches to add Linux Kernel support for upcoming dedicated GPU releases
Last week, Intel released a big patch series to introduce the concept of memory regions to the Intel Linux graphics driver, which is being...
Google I/O 2019: Flutter UI framework now extended for Web, Embedded, and Desktop
At the ongoing 2019 Google I/O, Google made a major overhaul to its Flutter UI framework. Flutter is now expanded from mobile to multi-platform....
Debian GNU/Linux port for RISC-V 64-bits: Why it matters and roadmap
Last month, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo, a Debian contributor and developer talked about the Debian GNU/Linux riscv64 port at the RISC-V workshop. Debian, a...
Red Hat joins the RISC-V foundation as a Silver level member
Last week, RISC-V announced that Red Hat is the latest major company to join the RISC-V foundation. Red Hat has joined as a Silver...
IBM open-sources Power ISA and other chips; brings OpenPOWER foundation under the Linux Foundation
Yesterday, IBM made a huge announcement to seize its commitment to the open hardware movement. At the ongoing Linux Foundation Open Source Summit 2019,...