Intel wants a piece of the GPU market, and Github Copilot's code is unsafe - Linux News August 2021

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This time, we have Intel announcing gaming-grade GPUs, multiple new distro releases, and Gihub Copilot producing unsafe code.



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06:47 Apps News
08:04 Hardware News
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## Linux
Zorin OS 16 was released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgjHCGgitiU&t=102s

Manjaro 21.1, codename Pahvo, was released as well.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-21-1-0-pahvo-released/78663

Linux celebrated its 30th birthday, and Linus Torvalds was interviewed for the occasion.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-on-linuxs-30th-birthday/

The Linux Kernel version 5.14 was released.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/08/linux-kernel-5-14-new-features

## Open Source
The MAUI Framework, and its associated apps, have seen a new release, version 2.
https://mauikit.org/blog/maui-2-release/

MATE 1.26 was released, with a few nice improvements, including initial support for wayland.
https://mate-desktop.org/blog/2021-08-08-mate-1-26-released/

I mentioned it last time, but this time, it's live: the gnome apps website has been launched.
https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2021/08/26/apps-gnome-org-is-online/

Github Copilot's code is found to be very vulnerable
https://www.techradar.com/news/github-autopilot-highly-likely-to-introduce-bugs-and-vulnerabilities-report-claims


## Apps
LibreOffice 7.2 was released, and it's a big one, with huge compatibility and performance improvements.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/08/libreoffice-7-2-release-download

Claudio Cambra, who is working on a nice visual update to Kalendar, has shown a few screenshots of the new Todo View of the app.
https://claudiocambra.com/2021/08/21/say-hello-to-your-new-todo-app-kalendar-week-11-gsoc-2021/

## Hardware
Intel announced their future line of consumer, gaming-grade GPUs, all grouped under the name "Arc".
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/16/22626912/intel-arc-gpu-brand-alchemist-codename-release-date

## Gaming
Proton 6.3-6 was released, with updates to Mono, DXVK, VkD3D and Faudio.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog

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Wine 6.16 was released.
https://www.winehq.org/announce/6.16

## Privacy
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It's more of a "monopoly abuse" topic, but Windows 11 seems intent on making users lose their minds, as they'll make switching their default browsers even harder.
https://www.theverge.com/22630319/microsoft-windows-11-default-browser-changes