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SIGINT: Few advances in GSM security

GSM icon Although weaknesses in GSM encryption have been well known for years now, only seven of the network operators included in GSMMap have made improvements. Also, few providers took action against services that locate users using text messages more »

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What's new in Linux 3.4

What's new in Linux 3.4 The new version sees a number of important changes affecting graphics drivers. The x32-ABI promises the advantages of x86-64-CPUs without the overhead of 64-bit code. Btrfs is reported to be quicker, and Yama prevents processes from accessing each other's allocated memory more »

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21 May 2012
Economical GSM base station using free software

sysmoBTS picture Harald Welte's company, sysmocom, has announced sysmoBTS, a GSM base station built with free software that allows private GSM networks to be created more »

21 May 2012
Introductory ebook for new LPI exam released

Book icon German company Linup Front has released its teaching materials for the new Linux Essentials exam from LPI as a free ebook. The book aims to cover all the basics of using a Linux-based operating system more »

21 May 2012
Oracle updates Oracle VM server virtualisation solution

Oracle logo Oracle has released version 3.1.1 of Oracle VM Server for x86, its Xen-based virtualisation solution. It includes wizards for generating VMs and server pools, and users can now add virtual CPUs to running VMs more »

21 May 2012
JavaScript SIP client sipML5 supports audio and video calls

sipML5 logo The software uses WebRTC and can be used in development versions of Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer without needing plugins. It supports multiple calls as well as holding and forwarding more »

21 May 2012
Chrome passes IE in browser share

Networking icon Chrome has passed Internet Explorer in browser share, according to StatCounter's latest numbers, and Firefox's recent downward trend appears to be over more »

21 May 2012
Mandriva management wants to collaborate with Mageia - Update

Mandriva logo The Mandriva management team is seeking to collaborate with the forked community distribution Mageia in the server field more »

21 May 2012
ZTE admits to backdoor in one of its Android devices

ZTE logo The Chinese handset maker included a program with a hard-coded password in its ZTE Score smartphone which gives root access. The backdoor was discovered after a user posted the credentials on Pastebin more »

21 May 2012
Perl 5.16.0 now available

Perl logo The latest update to Perl improves performance and support for Unicode, makes recursive subroutines easier, and gets stricter about feature bundles more »

21 May 2012
Processor Whispers: About big brothers and strong children

Processor Whispers Intel launches new Xeon processors, NVIDIA presents Kepler 2, and AMD rolls out Trinity – and loses its head Bulldozer developer more »

21 May 2012
Linux 3.4 arrives

Kernel Log penguin Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.4. The new version brings major changes to the graphic drivers while the new x32 ABI lets developers take advantage of 64-bit CPUs without the 64-bit code overhead more »

19 May 2012
The H Roundup for the week ending 19 May

The H Roundup icon In the last seven days: a beta for PostgreSQL 9.2 arrived, Chrome 19 was declared stable, and Oracle changed its mind about damages in the Android case. Also, The H provided some tools and tips for the systemd Linux init system, and Andrew Back took a practical look at the Internet of Things more »

18 May 2012
Open Recall: Yahoo patent threats, large Arduinos, open source tables and faster ext4 booting

Open recall icon Open Recall is a new space on The H for those things which are too small to package as news but are worth the linkage. Open Recall collates the interesting stories which didn't quite make the cut more »

18 May 2012
New JavaScript editor with jQuery support coming to NetBeans

NetBeans logo The NetBeans IDE is gaining native support for the jQuery JavaScript library through the implementation of a new JavaScript editor. The new feature is expected to arrive with NetBeans 7.2 at the end of June more »

18 May 2012
BuildHive: CI platform for GitHub projects

CloudBees logo The BuildHive platform makes automatic builds possible for projects hosted on GitHub, with a Jenkins CI server providing developers with a free cloud service more »

18 May 2012
Twitter refines tracking, adds Do Not Track support

Twitter logo Do Not Track is based on the idea that user changes to default browser settings related to privacy should have an effect on the way service providers online handle personal data more »

18 May 2012
Global Payments breach reportedly worse than expected

Padlock broken icon According to a report, the security breach at credit card processing company Global Payments extends back even further than was previously believed and may affect more than seven million accounts more »

18 May 2012
MK802 micro-PC runs Android 4.0 and Linux for $74

Android logo The computer is the size of a USB stick and features a 1.5GHz Cortex A8 processor with 512MB of RAM and a MALI400 GPU. It can decode 1080p video via its HDMI output and has two USB connectors more »

18 May 2012
Call for nominations for the WordPress Community Summit

WordPress logo WordPress is calling for nominations of individuals and companies that should be included in the first invitation-only Community Summit. The main focus of the event will be on code development and discussions on the project's future more »

18 May 2012
Monmouthpedia: "The World's First Wikipedia Town"

Wikipedia logo The chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation that covers the United Kingdom has announced the creation of Monmouthpedia, the first Wikipedia project to cover an entire town, specifically Monmouth in Wales more »

18 May 2012
Fedora 17 won't be released until 29 May

Fedora logo The Fedora Project has pushed back the final release date for version 17 of its popular Linux distribution by one week while its developers work to fix four blocker bugs more »

18 May 2012
Mandriva to be given over to the community

Mandrica logo The company behind the Mandriva Linux distribution has announced its intention to transfer ownership of the project to a newly founded community entity. However, details about the move are still largely unknown more »

18 May 2012
British hackers get jail terms

Scales icon One hacker took over a Facebook account and received 12 months in jail while the other ran keylogging trojans and sold stolen credentials as a sideline to committing a series of burglaries; this earned 18 months in jail more »

17 May 2012
DoS vulnerability in Bitcoin

Bitcoin logo The developers of the Bitcoin software have fixed a problem in the client that allowed users to perform DoS attacks on other user's nodes. Details of the nature of the vulnerability have not yet been disclosed more »

17 May 2012
Apache details OpenOffice 3.4 security fixes - Update

Apache OpenOffice logo Following the release of 3.4.0 last week, the Apache Software Foundation has now detailed the security fixes in the new version of the open source productivity suite and said that it has already been downloaded more than one million times more »

17 May 2012
The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks recover from DDoS attacks

The Pirate BAy logo The Pirate Bay fell under a DDoS attacks for which, an ex-Anonymous member has claimed responsibility while in an apparently unrelated DDoS attack Wikileaks was down for over 72 hours more »

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