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Five open source hardware projects that could change the world

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9 February 2012
State of New Hampshire votes for open source

New Hampshire seal 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 more »

9 February 2012
CrunchBang 10 update split into two editions

CrunchBang logo 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 more »

9 February 2012
NGINX rolls out commercial support

NGINX logo The high performance, low memory footprint web server now has commercial support from the company set up by its creator more »

9 February 2012
Drupal completes community election of board members

Drupal logo 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 more »

9 February 2012
Chrome 17 brings improved speed and security

Google Chrome logo 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" more »

9 February 2012
Path apologises for iPhone address book uploading

Path app icon 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 more »

8 February 2012
Mozilla considers removing Trustwave CA

Certificate icon 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 more »

8 February 2012
Path iOS app uploads address book to its servers

Path app logo 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 more »

8 February 2012
Editor of The Times admits to unlawful email access by journalist

Times icon 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 more »

8 February 2012
Sabayon 8 released with Cinnamon desktop

Sabayon logo The newest version of the Gentoo Linux-based distribution brings incremental improvements as well as a port of the Cinnamon desktop developed by Linux Mint more »

8 February 2012
Upgrade kit for Openmoko smartphones now available

OpenMoko logo Good things come to those who wait – one year on from unveiling a prototype, Golden Delicious is finally selling replacement motherboards for the open source Openmoko Freerunner and Neo 1973 smartphones in its online store more »

8 February 2012
ReactOS 0.3.14 brings improvements with help from GSoC students

ReactOS logo The newest version of the open source reimplementation of the Windows NT architecture adds an improved TCP/IP stack, ACPI support and the ability to change the look of the operating system more »

8 February 2012
Satellite phone encryption cracked

Phone icon A research team at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany has cracked the A5-GMR-1 and A5-GMR-2 encryption algorithms used in satellite phones more »

8 February 2012
Netty 3.3.1 adds SPDY protocol support

Netty logo The SPDY protocol is appearing in more and more software. Now, the Java-based Netty project event-driven network framework has added the protocol thanks to code donated by Twitter more »

8 February 2012
Google launches Chrome for Android

Google Chrome logo Google has released a beta version of its Chrome browser for Android - although currently only for devices that run Android 4.0. Google plans to make the advantages of the desktop version available to Android devices more »

7 February 2012
Trustwave issued a man-in-the-middle certificate

Trustwave logo Certificate authority Trustwave issued a CA certificate to a company allowing it to issue certificates for any server, thereby enabling it to listen in on encrypted data sent and received by its staff more »

7 February 2012
Perl Data Language gets auto-parallelisation

Perl icon A new ParallelCPU module allows the N-dimensional array supporting extension to Perl to make better use of systems with many cores when manipulating arrays more »

7 February 2012
New Fedora Project Leader announced

Fedora logo Jared Smith has stepped down from leading the Fedora Linux distribution and is being replaced by Robyn Bergeron more »

7 February 2012
Trimble Yuma: a rugged Ubuntu-based tablet

Yuma Tablet The Trimble Yuma from SDG Systems is a rugged dust- and water-resistant tablet computer with a 7-inch touchscreen display that runs the Netbook Edition of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS more »

7 February 2012
Ubuntu Global Jam looking for event organisers

Ubuntu logo Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon is calling for participants to organise hands-on meetings around the world to improve the Linux distribution more »

7 February 2012
Adobe releases beta version of sandboxed Flash for Firefox

Flash logo Protected Mode is designed to significantly improve the security of Flash in Firefox and a beta version is now available for download more »

7 February 2012
New Linux kernel fixes power-saving issues

Tux Linux 3.0.20 and 3.2.5 fix a headline-grabbing problem with the PCIe power-saving technology ASPM more »

7 February 2012
RealPlayer update closes critical holes

RealPlayer logo Version 15.02.71 of RealPlayer addresses seven remote code execution vulnerabilities that could be exploited by an attacker to compromise a victim's system. The company advises all users to upgrade more »

7 February 2012
Sandbox applications quickly with KVM or LXC

Libvert logo At FOSDEM, Daniel Berrange presented libvirt-sandbox, which sandboxes programs in a VM or a container without first requiring the user to set up an operating system there more »

7 February 2012
Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu, drops commercial support

Kubuntu logo Canonical is no longer paying Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell to work on Kubuntu and is making the KDE version of Ubuntu a fully community-supported distribution more »

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