News & Features
Google has launched Dashboard, which gives Google Account holders more control over their Google hosted data
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Subscription based support and a new version of the GPLv3 licensed fault management system have been announced by the UK based developers
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The next EclipseCon conference will take place from the 22nd to the 25th of March, 2010 and is now accepting submissions for talks
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The latest Nightly Builds of the open source WebKit browser now include a new Web Inspector for developers
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The Flock developers have released version 2.5.5 of their social web browser based on Firefox 3, addressing several security issues in its browser core and included components
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Moblin 2.1 sees the arrival of an improved browser and 3G data support in the Linux based system for mobile devices with Intel's Atom processor
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Too short for news, too good to lose; lost+found is a round up of useful security information. Today, Reinfection, LoroBot, Successes and Hoaxes
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It is looking increasingly likely that GNOME 3.0 will be delayed until September 2010, with GNOME 2.30 not being promoted to carry the version 3.0 label
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The version control system has been submitted to the Apache Incubator as it's first step to becoming a top level Apache project
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If a Twitter password falls into the wrong hands, merely changing the password is not sufficient - there is also OAuth access to be taken care of
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Originally expected to be released on the 3rd of November, the Mandriva developers have now released Mandriva Linux 2010.0, code named Adelle
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An ActiveX control that is part of "Lotus Notes Intellisync" allows attackers to remotely copy and execute code. As the control is installed by default, the vulnerability also affects BlackBerry Desktop users who don't use Intellisync
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This year's ApacheCon US, the official user conference of the Apache Software Foundation, has started in Oakland, California and, in honor of its 10th anniversary, video of the event is being streamed over the Internet live for free
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JRuby 1.4.0 brings Ruby 1.8.7 support, a new YAML parser and improved Windows deployment to the Java VM based implementation
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This year's Kernel Summit saw Linux developers, led by Linus Torvalds, discussing the development process and gaining an insight into how Google uses the Linux kernel in-house. Ulrich Drepper and Alan Cox think universal binaries in Linux are a step in the wrong direction. Various graphics drivers have recently been updated to add new functionality
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A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel can be exploited to access a system at root privilege level. The flaw has been fixed in RC6 of version 2.6.32. However, some distributions prevent the exploit from being successful, even without the patch
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Sam Ramji outlines the plan for the CodePlex Foundation's governance model; commercially sponsored galleries of open source projects
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Various buffer and integer overflows triggered by crafted audio and image files allow Java applets and 'Java Web Start' applications to escalate their privileges
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The development of the dual-screen OLPC XO-2 laptop has been cancelled and a new XO-1.75 with an ARM processor is reportedly in the works
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Adobe has released an update to its Shockwave Player to address five critical vulnerabilities, four of which could allow an attacker to inject and execute malicious code on affected systems
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According to a report Oracle is not making any concessions to the European regulators and an official statement of objections may be imminent
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Last weekend Dutch sites reported that a 17-year-old teenager had hacked a large number of iPhones via their mobile internet connections
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Red Hat's Enterprise Virtualisation for Servers is now generally available, seeing Red Hat complete another part of it's KVM
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The web-based management servers install a vulnerable ActiveX control in Internet Explorer that allows attackers to inject and execute arbitrary code in a client
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The H attended this year's LugRadio Live 2009, the last ever*, meeting a wide spectrum of people from the open source community
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