Long-time Slashdot reader jasenj1 and Striek both shared news of a growing open source controversy. “Amazon Web Services on Monday announced that it’s partnering with Netflix and Expedia to champion a new Open Distro for Elasticsearch due to concerns of proprietary code being mixed into the open source Elasticsearch project,” reports Datanami. “Elastic, the company…

When reading textual communications, it can be difficult to accurately acertain emotional intent. Individual humans can be better or worse at this, with sometimes hilarious results when it goes wrong. Regardless, there’s nothing a human can do that a machine won’t eventually do better. For just this purpose, Tweetbot is here to emotionally react to…

The game discounts keep on coming. …read more Source:: CNet

Coming to Android Q: MAC address randomization, new location data permission popup, no more clipboard sniffing. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The sale ends at today. Here are the best places to still get $30 off. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian: Sharp and potentially devastating temperature rises of 3C to 5C in the Arctic are now inevitable even if the world succeeds in cutting greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris agreement, research has found. Winter temperatures at the north pole are likely to rise by at least 3C…

“The Linux Foundation is launching a new platform designed to sustain open-source communities,” reports SD Times: CommunityBridge was announced at this week’s Open Source Leadership Summit. The Linux Foundation plans to launch a number of tools to the open-source community throughout the next two years. The platform is currently being released with Community Bridge Funding…

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