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Novell is reporting a critical security vulnerability in NetStorage which can be exploited by a remote attacker to compromise a system. A patch is available to fix the vulnerability
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The European Network and Information Security Agency has published a report that warns of the risks and threats of using mobile social networking services and also provides a list of "17 golden rules for mobile social networks"
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The 1.8 release sees big performance improvements in directory scanning for the popular Java build tool.
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Lay offs at Sun's Accessibility Program Office have left the GNOME accessibility (a11y) efforts "an unfunded mandate, doomed ultimately to fail" say contributors
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The openSUSE project developers have announced the start of their 2010 survey to gather feedback about the distribution, the tools environment and the project in general
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ARCHOS has published Special Developer Edition firmware based on a customised embedded build of Ångström Linux that allows developers to easily install a complete Linux distribution onto its 5 and 7-series Internet Tablets
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According to a survey of more than two hundred thousand international visitors by a German IT service provider, OpenOffice's market share varies widely from country to country
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The Chinese authorities have shut down what they describe as the biggest training website for hackers in China. Members are reported to have used their skills to obtain private access data for games and other entertainment website
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The February issue of the TIOBE Programming Community Index shows that Apple's Objective-C and Google's Go are gaining popularity and notes that Scratch, Scala, Erlang and JavaFX Script could potentially break into the top 20 as early as next month
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The Open University has announced 'Linux - an introduction' a ten week course on the open source operating system aimed at absolute beginners
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Following recent announcements of the demise of Kenai, it appears that the project does have a future ahead of it after all, as a collaborative infrastructure for administering the java.net Java community
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The Mandriva developers have released the the second alpha of what will become Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring, updating the desktop components and a number of the included third-party packages
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Two malware infected 'experimental' add-ons have been available on the Mozilla download site for a prolonged period
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The Mozilla developers have released the first alpha for version 3.1 of their popular open source Thunderbird email and news client, code named "Lanikai"
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SourceForge has made the blanket block for countries on the US export control list into a selectable option, allowing project owners to decide if their project is subject to controls
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A critical vulnerability in the WebLogic Server Node Manager has forced Oracle to release an unscheduled update outside of its normal quarterly patch cycle.
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This week, The H had the latest news on how, even without cookies, web browsers and users can be identified, the latest Linux kernel developments with the Kernel Log, yet another vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser and
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Matt Asay has left Alfresco and joined Canonical as its new Chief Operating Officer
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The next version of Linux is not only the first to offer the Nouveau KMS graphics driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware, it also comes with a multitude of improvements for the two AMD/ATI and Intel graphics drivers which support Kernel-based Mode Setting (KMS)
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Elcomsoft's iPhone Password Breaker promises to recover the passwords of protected iPhone backups. This is said to allow access to stored data such as addresses, SMS archives, apps, calendar items and photos
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A bug in Oracle's Java implementation allows users of database version 11gR2 to obtain arbitrary privileges
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The now released beta of the next generation of the Ruby on Rails framework was co-developed by more than 250 developers who submitted more than 4,000 commits
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The newly revealed vulnerability in Internet Explorer is not one of them, but the company will be fixing the recently discovered 17-year old privilege escalation vulnerability in its Virtual DOS Machine
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The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of a second "We're Linux" video contest focused on what a "spot for the Super Bowl might look like"
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The LLVM developers have announced that the Clang compiler is now capable of compiling itself, marking a milestone in the development of the C compiler for the low level virtual machine
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Critical vulnerability in Novell's NetStorage
