News briefs for May 3, 2019.
In honor of World Press Freedom Day, today Tutanota[1] announces the launch of Secure Connect, "an open source encrypted contact form for news sites. Secure Connect can be easily added to any news site for free so that whistleblowers can get in touch with journalists securely." From the press release: "'To support the crucial work of journalists and whistleblowers, Tutanota's Secure Connect will be free for journalists to place on their websites', says Matthias Pfau, co-founder and developer of Tutanota. 'We believe in the Human Right to Privacy and Freedom of Speech—a secure and private form to communicate online is critical to achieve free speech. With Secure Connect we want to support journalists, activists and whistleblowers for the important work they are doing for all of us.'" Journalists can get Secure Connect for free by contacting
Private Internet Access is celebrating World Press Day[2] with a discount on yearly and biyearly plans for journalists. If you are a member of the press and you would like to trial PIA's apps, or you are reporting high-risk topics or from a high-risk area, please email
GCC 9.1 has been released. From the release announcement (posted on LWN[3]): "GCC 9.1 is a major release containing substantial new functionality not available in GCC 9.x or previous GCC releases. In this release C++17 support is no longer marked experimental. The C++ front-end implements the full C++17 language (already previous GCC major version implemented that) and the C++ standard library support is almost complete. The C++ front-end and library also have numerous further C++2a draft features [1]. GCC has a new front-end for the D language. GCC 9.1 has newly partial OpenMP 5.0 support and almost complete OpenACC