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eWEEK: As part of its Crypto Week series of announcements, Cloudflare debuts a new service to help organizations cryptographically secure time.

New Yorker: After years of verbally abusing programmers who contribute to the Linux operating-system kernel he created, the celebrated coder Linus Torvalds is stepping aside and says he is getting help.

ServerWatch: Red Hat reports second quarter revenue of $823M, as interest in container technology continues to grow.

EnterpriseAppsToday: APIs are the cornerstone of modern applications.

eSecurityPlanet: Patching failures alone didn't lead to the massive data breach at Equifax. Here are a half-dozen other mistakes that Equifax made that IT security teams should learn from.

eWEEK: Founder of Linux steps away from maintaining the upcoming Linux 4.19 release in order to work on himself and improve his own tooling.

Linux.com: Freespire developers have gone to great lengths to make this pure open source distribution a treat to use.

Phoronix: So far this year there has been 49,647 commits that added 2,229,836 lines of code while dropping 2,004,759 lines of code.

Alexander Larsson, the lead developer and creator of the Flatpak package system, has announced that the software works on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Linus Torvalds: I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people’s emotions and respond appropriately.

ServerWatch: In a video interview, Beda explains how Heptio has developed what the company refers to as a "un-distribution" of Kubernetes, in addition to a series Joe Bedaof different open source efforts.

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Ninth release of Linux Foundation's SDN effort improves security, service function chaining and IP transport.

Red Monk: For those who would develop software and sell it, open source is something of a conundrum.

SDXcentral: If you want to get AT&T’s attention, you better be ready to speak open source.

eWEEK: The Ansible Tower IT automation platform is being extended by Red Hat with new scalability improvements and enhanced customization options.

eWEEK: Corelight raises new funding to help grow its network security framework, which is based on the open-source Bro project.

eSecurityPlanet: Some accounts are more valuable than others. Privileged access management (PAM) can help secure them.

Kernel Summit: Last Friday (just before Labor Day) I learned that Linus had gotten confused about when and where the Maintainer's Summit was going to be held this year.

eWEEK: Mozilla's latest web browser release provides new web standards support for developers, speed improvements on Windows and patches for nine security issues.

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Containers have revolutionized the way applications are developed and deployed, but what about the network?

eWEEK: At the Open Source Summit, Jordan Kasper of the Defense Digital Service outlined why it makes sense for the Department of Defense and other U.S. government agencies to embrace the open-source model.

Linus Torvalds: As usual, the rc2 release is pretty small.

eWEEK: At the Open Source Summit, Linus Torvalds the creator of Linux talks about the Linux development process, security challenges and why hardware performance declines are a good thing for software development.

ServerWatch: John Merton Director of Program Management at the Open Mainframe project announces the new Zowe project.

eWEEK: Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation explains how the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) for improving open-source code security is moving forward.

ServerWatch: Linux and the open source ecosystem that surrounds it continue to do well

eWEEK: At the Open Source Summit North America, one of the world's leading Linux kernel developers took issue with Intel's initial disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities.

eWEEK: At the Open Source Summit, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announces a new project and big move for Kubernetes.

eWEEK: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu Linux discusses a recent cryptojacking attack and efforts his company is taking to secure users and applications.

eWEEK: A new type of mobile attack known as Man-in-The-Disk could leave Android users at risk, especially if the apps they are using are not coming from Google Play.

Linus Torvalds: This was a fairly frustrating merge window, partly because 4.19 looks to be a pretty big release

ServerWatch: The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is expanding its roster, announcing that it has accepted the Open Metrics project as a Sandbox effort.

The Register: Processes, Services, Installations: One UI to rule them all. Almost.

ITwire: Red Hat is a successful, public open source software company. It’s the first open source company to crack US$1 billion in revenue and is closing in on US$3 billion. Here is some advice from the chief executive for your own business.

OMGUbuntu: A promising new GTK Keepass client

LinuxJournal: Android apps meet the desktop in the Chromebook.

Phoronix: The Linux 4.19 kernel merge window opened one week ago and there's been a lot of new features and improvements to be merged during this front-half of the merge period.

LinuxInsider: Oracle announced that it has open-sourced GraphPipe to enhance machine learning applications.

eWEEK: New tool aims to help organizations conduct penetration tests against Kubernetes container orchestration system clusters, to help identify and improve cyber-security issues.

eWEEK: At Defcon, security researchers revealed 37 new vulnerabilities in tracking apps that could have enabled attackers to steal information and track users.