# Linux Action News 101

URL: /show/linux-action-news/101/
> Google's important news this week, why Linux is fueling PowerShell Growth, and the Matrix breach that might be worse than it sounds.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 101
- Date: 2019-04-14
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 00:29:36
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/70968bb5-3011-4488-a7d0-4520ed8ec4dd.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/VreNfdnf7Jo





### Episode Links

  * [The 6 most important announcements from Google Cloud Next 2019](https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/10/the-6-most-important-announcements-from-google-cloud-next-2019/ "The 6 most important announcements from Google Cloud Next 2019") — Anthos is the new name of the Google Cloud Services Platform, Google’s managed service for allowing enterprises to run applications in their private data center and in Google’s cloud. 
  * [PowerShell growth fueled by Linux use](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/the-next-release-of-powershell-powershell-7/ "PowerShell growth fueled by Linux use") — PowerShell Core usage has grown significantly in the last two years. In particular, the bulk of our growth has come from Linux usage
  * [Teaching machines to triage Firefox bugs](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/teaching-machines-to-triage-firefox-bugs/ "Teaching machines to triage Firefox bugs")
  * [Mozilla still on track to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in Firefox](https://www.ghacks.net/2019/04/10/mozilla-still-on-track-to-enable-dns-over-https-by-default-in-firefox/ "Mozilla still on track to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in Firefox")
  * [Protections Against Fingerprinting and Cryptocurrency Mining Available in Firefox Nightly and Beta](https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protections-against-fingerprinting-and-cryptocurrency-mining-available-in-firefox-nightly-and-beta/ "Protections Against Fingerprinting and Cryptocurrency Mining Available in Firefox Nightly and Beta")
  * [Matrix suffers security breach](https://matrix.org/blog/2019/04/11/security-incident/ "Matrix suffers security breach") — An attacker gained access to the servers hosting Matrix.org. The intruder had access to the production databases, potentially giving them access to unencrypted message data, password hashes and access tokens. 
  * [Archive of deleted GitHub Issues lodged by the hacker](https://web.archive.org/web/20190412081930/https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/issues "Archive of deleted GitHub Issues lodged by the hacker")
  * [Chinese government proposes ban on bitcoin mining](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/chinese-government-proposes-ban-on-bitcoin-mining/ "Chinese government proposes ban on bitcoin mining") — A Chinese ban on cryptocurrency mining would be a huge deal for the global bitcoin community.