The Free Software Foundation elects a new president, security researchers warn of an attack related to Spectre and Meltdown that affects even more processor types, Ubuntu 20.04.1 is out, a new tool aims to automatically optimize laptop power without sacrificing battery life, and just two candidates are running for the vacant openSUSE board seat.

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• Geoffrey Knauth elected Free Software Foundation president; Odile Bénassy joins the board
  
• [Old] GNU's Bulletin, vol. 1 no. 24, March, 1998
  
• Statement from FSF's new president, Geoffrey Knauth
  
• Foreshadow returns to the foreground: Secrets-spilling speculative-execution Intel flaw lives on, say boffins
  
• Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip threaten mobile phones’ usability worldwide
  
• Nearly 50% of all smartphones affected by Qualcomm Snapdragon bugs
  
• Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS released
  
• auto-cpufreq
  
• Ad-hoc openSUSE Board Election 2020 - Nominations
  
• Stasiek Michalski answers Richard Brown's questions as the openSUSE election campaign progresses