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The Mozilla Foundation, the organisation behind the popular Firefox web browser, has announced the launch of a new public process to update the 10 year old Mozilla Public License (MPL)
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The Fixstars Corporation, which specialises in software for the Cell processors, has announced the release of Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux (YDEL) 6.2 for CUDA, the first enterprise Linux OS optimised for GPU computing
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Vodafone Spain sold a HTC Magic Android smartphone which had the Mariposa bot installed on its memory card
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The Mozilla Labs developers have announced the availability of the first milestone for the Jetpack SDK, which will "replace the Jetpack 0.8 prototype over the coming months"
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Twitter has announced that it is launching a new service to protect its users against phishing and other attacks by attempting to detect, intercept and prevent "bad links" before a user has a chance to click on them
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Microsoft warns of an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, which is already being actively exploited in targeted attacks to infect Windows PCs with a Trojan
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In May, Swiss company Business Systems Integration AG (BSI) will release its Scout business application framework to the open source community. A first look at the Scout project's source code will be available to attendees at this year's EclipseCon
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The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of a new Linux.com online store that features a number of “geek culture" related items, including T-shirts, mugs, hats and stickers
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The security specialist Objectif Sécurité has optimised its rainbow tables - a common tool used to crack password hashes - to make use of SSDs
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Microsoft has released two security updates to close one hole in Windows Movie Maker and seven holes in Excel
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Having closed the merge window, Linus Torvalds has announced the first preview release of the upcoming Linux kernel 2.6.34
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The H attended this year's CeBIT trade show on the world's largest fairground in Hannover, Germany and met up with a wide variety of people from the open source community, including free and open source software (FOSS) developers, project members and companies
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At the RSA conference, two security specialists presented the results of an investigation into how easy it is to inject a malicious program into thousands of Android smartphones and jail-broken iPhones
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As well as a range of bug fixes, OpenSSH 5.4 includes a netcat mode which couples a local system's standard input to another computer's network port. There are also enhancements to the SFTP subsystem
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Google's Android Native Development Kit r3 supports the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard, allowing vertex and fragment shader programs to be used, for instance, for developing 3D games for Android devices
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Version 2.2.15 fixes numerous bugs and closes three security holes. One of the holes is rated critical but only affects the Windows version of Apache
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Phoronix finds that power and memory consumption tests for the four major Linux desktop environments show that KDE SC 4.4.1 uses the most memory and has the highest power consumption
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The interface technology for integrating task and ALM tools into Eclipse will incorporate four sub-projects dealing with various facets of IDE and ALM integration
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The PCLinuxOS developers have released the first beta for the 2010 edition of their Linux distribution, improving LiveCD boot time by 50%
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The Appcelerator Inc developers have released version 1.0 of their Appcelerator Titanium application framework and runtime platform, upgrading its mobile processing engine and improving load times to under 3 seconds
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Simon Phipps joins a number of Sun employees who have left the company since its acquisition by Oracle
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KillerBee is a collection of open source Linux tools for testing the security of ZigBee wireless networks
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Elive is a Debian GNU / Linux based LiveCD distribution that can be run from CD or installed on a USB stick or hard drive and is designed to minimise the required hardware resources
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The development of Linux 2.6.34 has started and is causing heated discussions on the LKML. LWN.net has analysed Linux 2.6.32.9 for security fixes and found almost twenty of them. Linux-Libre removes proprietary files from the kernel, and new graphics drivers for Radeon cards offer numerous improvements
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Free tools for developing Android applications include a port of the QEMU processor emulator, Arriba Java development tools for QEMU and compilers and GUIs for Android’s Native Development Kit
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Attacks on newly discovered vulnerability in IE 6 and 7
Happenings: FOSS at CeBIT 2010
