News & Features
Friday, 24 May 2013
Twitter has now applied its Innovators Patent Agreement to a recently granted patent in a move designed to ensure that patents under the agreement are only used for defensive purposes
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The Tizen Developers Conference saw a glimpse of a desktop/laptop version of Tizen from Intel, the latest update to Tizen's SDK, and an application competition launched
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Less than a month after the smartphone's commercial launch, Dan Rosenberg found a design flaw in Samsung's secured bootloader that allows arbitrary kernels to be booted even on a locked phone
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Thursday, 23 May 2013
Current customers can still use the products until their subscription runs out. Symantec says that customers who are affected by the change should switch to Norton products
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This edition of the Open Recall catches up with a number of open source project releases: siduction 13.1.0, Puppy Linux 5.6, Wifislax 4.4, Diaspora 0.1.0.0 and Moodle 2.5
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NoPackageCyclesEnforcerRule automatically detects cyclical dependencies between classes from different packages; Macker helps define specific dependencies between packages and automatically verifies those rules
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Apple has released QuickTime 7.7.4, fixing 12 critical security holes causing memory corruption and buffer overflows when processing a number of media formats
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Google has announced that it will discontinue the ability for new projects on Google Code to host direct downloads of files. Existing downloads will continue to be available
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A code sent by SMS, in addition to the standard password, will improve security for Twitter accounts - not a bad idea, after recent problems with hacked accounts sending out false reports
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Seneca College has released Pidora 18, its Fedora remix optimised for the Raspberry Pi mini-computer. It features a special headless mode that makes it easy to install the distribution over the network
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At the LinuxTag conference, the leader of Munich's Linux migration project, Peter Hofmann, emphasised that the City of Munich has no intentions to switch its Linux desktops to Windows
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Chrome 27.0.1453.93 closes 17 security vulnerabilities for which Google has paid out almost $15,000. The newest version of the browser also improves page load speed for pages with many assets
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Digia is bringing Android's base layer and Qt's UI framework together to make a platform that's aimed at embedded device makers who want a slick user interface on their systems
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Unscrupulous profiteers are openly offering DDoS attacks as a service. They have no fear of being prosecuted - according to a reputable US blogger, the prosecutors themselves might be on board
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In his personal blog, open source advocate Simon Phipps has pointed out that Google's proposed cross-licence for the VP8/WebM video codec patents is incompatible with multiple parts of the open source definition
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Available free of charge, the Clueful app exposes Android programs that don't take users' privacy seriously enough, for example by sending personal information to advertising networks
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The developers of the Debian project have released the first major version of the Debian userland with the GNU Hurd kernel. Even though it is not an official Debian release, it is in "a very decent state" say the developers
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The memory-mapped I/O can potentially double the performance of the embeddable SQL engine but care needs to be taken with its use. Other enhancements make SQLite databases easier to identify and improve error reporting
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Microsoft's Skype division has released a new version of its proprietary voice, video and text messaging client for Linux that includes user interface improvements and fixes a number of bugs including a crashing problem when using the call window
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The hacker attacks on Google in late 2009 may have had a greater impact than previously thought. The attackers reportedly had access to information on foreign agents collected by the US counterintelligence service
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013
A first stable series 2.2 version of the PHP web framework is now available. The new release includes additions such as a new diagnostic feature for ZFTool and supports dynamic DDL queries
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Sony has released proprietary drivers and libraries of its Xperia S smartphone, Xperia Z smartphone and Xperia Tablet Z along with source code from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) to make building custom firmare easier
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The latest version of the Jira issue tracker revamps the web interface, adds new ways of tracking issues, integrates a mobile interface and adds pre-configured workflows for agile developers
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At the Google I/O conference, developer Ilya Grigorik gave some advice on how to optimise mobile applications for the maximum energy efficiency and gave an overview of how various mobile radio networks interact with web protocols
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Alerted by the levels of outgoing traffic, Yahoo Japan believes that 22 million user IDs were leaked from their systems but it is confident that no password or other verification data was involved in the exfiltration
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