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The second week in the trial between the SCO Group and Novell about the copyright to Unix has uncovered further surprising details of this never-ending story
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Following three alpha releases, the Ubuntu developers have announced the availability of the first beta for what will become Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, code named "Lucid Lynx"
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A hacker who goes by the name "JDuck" has discovered the first malicious PDF files which use Return Oriented Programming to bypass Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
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Version 6 of PHProjekt is a complete rebuild and has been released under a new licence
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Google has published a list of the accepted mentoring organisations for this year's Google Summer of Code event. Mentors include the Debian Project, Facebook, Mozilla and Ubuntu
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Florian Schießl, deputy head of the Munich-based LiMux project for migrating the city's public administration to Linux, has been explaining why migrating the computing landscape to open source software has taken longer than originally planned. One reason cited is the proprietary world's "digital waste"
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An outdated Java runtime environment leaves security holes in the backup software
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The SystemRescueCd developers have released version 1.5.0 of their Linux distribution that's configured as a tool kit for administering or repairing an operating system and recovering data after a system crash. Version 1.5 updates the Linux kernel and a number of the included applications and components
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A hacker has written exploit code which can tunnel a shell connection through firewalls via DNS
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In an move designed to kickstart the widespread adoption of Ogg Theora video, the Open Video Alliance, comprised of Mozilla, Kaltura, the Participatory Culture Foundation and the Yale Law School's Information Society Project, has launched the "Let's get video on Wikipedia" campaign
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Mozilla has released third Firefox 4.0 preview, labelled "3.7 Alpha 3", a developer preview of its latest Gecko web rendering platform build
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While welcoming Microsoft's OData announcement, the W3C want Microsoft to put their open data project in the W3C Incubator.
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Drupal's Email Input Filter, Keys and Tag Order modules contain security vulnerabilities, and should be updated to resolve this issue. The first at least is critical, as it can be exploited to penetrate a server
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20 security holes in Apple software are about to be disclosed: Charlie Miller intends to present details of the vulnerabilities at the CanSecWest conference next week. The expert talked with heise Security about the security of Mac OS X beforehand
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A report says that Google is working with Intel, Sony and Logitech to develop an Android based set-top box
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The Parrot Foundation developers have released version 2.2.0 of the Parrot virtual machine, code named "Like Clockwork", on which the Rakudo implementation of Perl 6 will run
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Does a software flaw which allows security safeguards to be bypassed count as a security hole in itself? Microsoft takes care to point out that it doesn't consider a recently published problem in Virtual PC a "vulnerability per se"
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Contacts is Mozilla Labs project to pull together user's various address books within the web browser and make that data available to web sites the user visits
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The opentaps developers have released version 1.4 of their Apache OFBiz-based open source Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management suite. The latest release includes several new features and changes its license to AGPLv3
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Miguel de Icaza confirms Novell's plans to bring Mono to Google's Android
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Under the company name of Qi Hardware, ex-OpenMonki employees have have released the Ben NanoNote pocket computer. The device is the size of a cigarette box, costs $99 and is available as an open hardware platform under a copyleft licence
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ARM processors are now supported by Google's Native Client, but Google has its eye on future processors and are working on PNaCl, a processor independent version of the technology
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Novell and Ingres have announced a new cooperative agreement under which the Ingres database is now available within SUSE Studio as part of the SUSE Appliance Program
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Mozilla has announced that it is officially discontinuing support for the 1.x branch of its SeaMonkey "all-in-one internet application suite", the successor to the old Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Application suites
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Attackers are attempting to take control of mail servers, in particular those running Postfix and SpamAssassin, by exploiting a security vulnerability in the SpamAssassin Milter plug-in
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CA updates ARCserve Backup
