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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jared Smith has stepped down from leading the Fedora Linux distribution and is being replaced by Robyn Bergeron
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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
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Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon is calling for participants to organise hands-on meetings around the world to improve the Linux distribution
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Protected Mode is designed to significantly improve the security of Flash in Firefox and a beta version is now available for download
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Linux 3.0.20 and 3.2.5 fix a headline-grabbing problem with the PCIe power-saving technology ASPM
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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
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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
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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
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