Tizen Operating System

Was brought to my attention through its use as an operating system for phones, watches and appliances.    Best known for its use by Samsung as a standard OS.  I am told that although it is framed as open source,  Samsung attaches a non open EULA.  The Bixby Voice assistant system is written in Tizen.

Tizen Experts is a site covering things Tizen.  They define it this way:

What is Tizen?

Tizen is a open source operating system which is designed for a variety of form factors, from smartphones to in-vehicle infotainment, Camera, Fridges and more. Tizen utilises HTML5 (HTML, Javascript, CSS) as the main focus for application development, allowing developers to maintain a single codebase. .... " 

See also the considerable Wikipedia article on Tizen. 

Linkedin Changes its Agreement with You

 A look at how Microsoft is altering the Linkedin user agreement you are very likely to say OK to.  Evan Schuman points out some of the risks.  Linkedin is a place where you are likely to voluntarily offer lots of personal and business information.  How is it protected?

Use LinkedIn a lot? Read its new privacy policy — carefully.
At the very least, it’s a reminder that social media embarrassments are forever  By Evan Schuman

And looking at the scale involved,  Linkedin now has 500M registered users.