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Vulnerabilities in Google's Wallet payment app allow attackers to bypass PIN authorisation and make payments; however, physical access to the mobile phone is required
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JavaScript Licence Web Labels are a proposal from the FSF to label every JavaScript file used on a site so that automated tools can confirm the site is all free software
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The latest version of the OpenGL implementation and 3D driver collection adds improved support for the latest graphics hardware
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As part of this month's upcoming Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has announced that it plans to release nine bulletins, four of which are rated as critical, to close a total of 21 security holes in its products
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After withdrawing its original open standards policy, the UK Government has opened a new consultation process which will run until 1 May 2012, gathering opinions on its proposed policies
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Lima is an open source driver for the Mali-200 and Mali-400 graphics chips used in various systems-on-a-chip containing ARM processors. The driver could open the way for 3D graphics rendering on ARM using a completely free software stack
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Jointly sponsored by Canonical, Cisco, IBM, Intel, NetApp, Red Hat and SUSE, the oVirt project has released the first version of its software for implementing and managing virtualised environments
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The Beta channel release of Chrome 18 includes support for GPU-accelerated rendering of 2D Canvas content and, on older systems, uses the SwiftShader software rasteriser to display 3D content
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After testimony from Tim Berners-Lee and other pioneers of the web, a Texas court has ruled Eolas's 906 patent invalid and thrown out their $600 million claim against Google, Yahoo and others
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The Chromium Security Rewards programme has been expanded to include bugs in Chromium OS, the open source branch of the minimalist Chrome OS Linux-based operating system
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After three years, Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny) has reached its "End of Life" and will receive no further security updates
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Web standard activists are calling on designers to avoid creating exclusively for Chrome and Safari and have compared the current situation to the former dominance of IE6
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EnterpriseDB's enhanced version of the open source PostgreSQL database is now available and offers higher read and write performance on modern multicore systems
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Electronics manufacturer to the major brands, Foxconn, was apparently breached by a hacker team called Swagg Security who released an archive of mail users' names and passwords, along with other files
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Last year's accidental release of HP TouchPads that ran Android has now led to the company's release of the Android/Linux kernel source and other GPL licensed components that were created for the TouchPad tablet
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In the US, the New Hampshire state legislature has passed an act requiring the state's agencies to consider using open source software for all future software acquisitions
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The update to the Debian-based Linux distribution is available as "stable" and "backported" editions because of concerns expressed over the default use of backport images
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The high performance, low memory footprint web server now has commercial support from the company set up by its creator
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The support organisation for the open source CMS has elected two new board members with a community vote as it moves to more community-centric governance model
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Version 17 of Chrome improves page loading times by pre-rendering pages in the background and now better protects users against malicious downloads. The update also addresses a total of 20 security vulnerabilities, one of which is considered to be critical and eight that are rated as "high severity"
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Path deletes all uploaded data, but worries persist about the protection of address book data on iPhones as another company is also found uploading its content to its own servers
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The snooping certificate issued by Trustwave has prompted the submission of a bug report to request that the CA's root certificates be removed from all Mozilla products
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When analysing the iOS app for the photo sharing and messaging service, a software developer discovered that it uploads a user's full address book, as an unencrypted file, without first requesting permission to do so
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In evidence presented to the Leveson Inquiry, the editor of The Times has admitted that one of the paper's journalists hacked the email account of an anonymous police blogger in order to expose the author's identity
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Symantec expect the code of Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security will, sooner or later, also be released onto the internet
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