News & Features
Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013
Canonical has created the Carrier Advisory Group for wireless telecommunications companies to offer feedback on Ubuntu for phones and to get exclusive launch privileges in their markets when the product launches
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Oracle's latest critical patch update addresses 37 vulnerabilities in all versions of Java that can be exploited without authentication over a network. Free updates are only available for Java 7 users
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Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013
After over 12 months of previews, the latest version of Oracle's MySQL Cluster, 7.3 is now generally available and offers Node.js connectors and foreign key support alongside easier deployment and the latest MySQL server technology
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The latest version of the compiler infrastructure suite brings full support for all C++11 features in Clang, including library features which, according to its developers, makes it the first compiler to support the full C++11 standard
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The free software platform for media sharing can now share all sorts of documents, harnessing the power of two other free software projects, pdf.js and LibreOffice, to handle displaying and converting documents
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It's possible to trick users into activating their webcams through clickjacking trickery and transparent Flash apps in the page. The problem was allegedly fixed in 2011 but is back again in the latest Chrome browser
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The Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA), a confederation of German open source providers and users, and its French counterpart, the Conseil National du Logiciel Libre (CNLL), have agreed on a wide-ranging collaboration
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In this edition: Altova's Raptor escapes, Xcode is 5, Go 1.1.1 stops off, Angular.js gets a Dart port, driving LevelDB from Python, Apache Commons Net, Syncope and Qpid updated, and TIOBE wonders why JavaScript isn't a resident of its top ten
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Google has finalised the bit stream for its new video compression protocol. The final version of VP9 will be integrated into Chrome 29 on 20 August
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Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Tor anonymising proxy, RS Components introduces a site for open source hardware projects, two new boards to control Arduino projects from mobile devices, and an augmented reality backend for Drupal
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Mozilla has created an initiative that aims to further the use of digital research, open source technologies and the internet to help researchers improve and modernise the scientific process
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Java users should be prepared to update their installations later today as Oracle's latest Java update will fix 40 security vulnerabilities, 37 of which can be exploited over the network
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Reflecting the OSI's transition to a membership-driven organisation, the group that defines open source and advocates its use is seeking a General Manager to help run the operation
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Red Hat's marketing denies the company has made a decision about which database will be default in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, despite an apparent announcement at the company's summit. The confusion may be down to possible packaging changes for RHEL 7
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Monday, 17 Jun 2013
If attackers can get the user to install a malicious app and convince the user to reset their password using BlackBerry Protect, it is possible to take complete control of a BlackBerry Z10
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The first beta of version 4.11 of the KDE Software Collection, also referred to by its actual version number of 4.10.80, has been released and brings experimental Wayland support to KWin and more Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces
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Patient monitors, medical pumps, and analysis devices like industry control systems, the equipment used in hospitals is increasingly connected to networks. Now, ICS-CERT says that some 300 devices from 40 manufacturers have backdoors
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In this edition of the Open Recall, MIMO at the TDF, openSUSE 13.1's second milestone, the latest Parted Magic, Minecraft cloned in assembler, LibreOffice's code cleaning, playing Pong with WebRTC and GStreaming on iOS devices
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The US District of Utah has re-opened the SCO v IBM court case, six years after SCO filed for Chapter 11. The case has been resurrected because SCO's motion to re-open the case was wrongly denied
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Media reports have suggested that Microsoft has been supplying the US government with Windows security vulnerabilities for uses related to the PRISM programme. Microsoft has now released a statement denying all such allegations
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The Debian project has begun its normal process of releasing updated media for the stable version of Debian. Debian 7.1 rolls up the fixes of 33 security advisories and many important corrections to packages
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Initially as a preview only, Microsoft is offering Azure customers the facility, after entering their username and password, to authenticate via a smartphone app or over the phone. This option does not, however, come cheap
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AMD offers first x86 processors with 5GHz clock speed, but loses its top position among the supercomputers. Intel's Xeon Phi takes over though not in the USA, but in China
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Open source media player Songbird will no longer undergo further development. The decision has been made for financial reasons
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Saturday, 15 Jun 2013
In the week ending 15 June Business Source, GNOME Classic Mode in RHEL 7, users warned to remove the Debian Multimedia repository, Hetzner hacked, GlassFish 4.0, the BrickPi, and a sophisticated Android trojan
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Oracle releases fixes for 40 Java holes
