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Harald Welte's company, sysmocom, has announced sysmoBTS, a GSM base station built with free software that allows private GSM networks to be created
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German company Linup Front has released its teaching materials for the new Linux Essentials exam from LPI as a free ebook. The book aims to cover all the basics of using a Linux-based operating system
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Oracle has released version 3.1.1 of Oracle VM Server for x86, its Xen-based virtualisation solution. It includes wizards for generating VMs and server pools, and users can now add virtual CPUs to running VMs
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The software uses WebRTC and can be used in development versions of Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer without needing plugins. It supports multiple calls as well as holding and forwarding
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Chrome has passed Internet Explorer in browser share, according to StatCounter's latest numbers, and Firefox's recent downward trend appears to be over
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The Mandriva management team is seeking to collaborate with the forked community distribution Mageia in the server field
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The Chinese handset maker included a program with a hard-coded password in its ZTE Score smartphone which gives root access. The backdoor was discovered after a user posted the credentials on Pastebin
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The latest update to Perl improves performance and support for Unicode, makes recursive subroutines easier, and gets stricter about feature bundles
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Intel launches new Xeon processors, NVIDIA presents Kepler 2, and AMD rolls out Trinity – and loses its head Bulldozer developer
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Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.4. The new version brings major changes to the graphic drivers while the new x32 ABI lets developers take advantage of 64-bit CPUs without the 64-bit code overhead
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In the last seven days: a beta for PostgreSQL 9.2 arrived, Chrome 19 was declared stable, and Oracle changed its mind about damages in the Android case. Also, The H provided some tools and tips for the systemd Linux init system, and Andrew Back took a practical look at the Internet of Things
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Open Recall is a new space on The H for those things which are too small to package as news but are worth the linkage. Open Recall collates the interesting stories which didn't quite make the cut
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The NetBeans IDE is gaining native support for the jQuery JavaScript library through the implementation of a new JavaScript editor. The new feature is expected to arrive with NetBeans 7.2 at the end of June
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The BuildHive platform makes automatic builds possible for projects hosted on GitHub, with a Jenkins CI server providing developers with a free cloud service
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Do Not Track is based on the idea that user changes to default browser settings related to privacy should have an effect on the way service providers online handle personal data
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According to a report, the security breach at credit card processing company Global Payments extends back even further than was previously believed and may affect more than seven million accounts
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The computer is the size of a USB stick and features a 1.5GHz Cortex A8 processor with 512MB of RAM and a MALI400 GPU. It can decode 1080p video via its HDMI output and has two USB connectors
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WordPress is calling for nominations of individuals and companies that should be included in the first invitation-only Community Summit. The main focus of the event will be on code development and discussions on the project's future
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The chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation that covers the United Kingdom has announced the creation of Monmouthpedia, the first Wikipedia project to cover an entire town, specifically Monmouth in Wales
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The Fedora Project has pushed back the final release date for version 17 of its popular Linux distribution by one week while its developers work to fix four blocker bugs
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The company behind the Mandriva Linux distribution has announced its intention to transfer ownership of the project to a newly founded community entity. However, details about the move are still largely unknown
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One hacker took over a Facebook account and received 12 months in jail while the other ran keylogging trojans and sold stolen credentials as a sideline to committing a series of burglaries; this earned 18 months in jail
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The developers of the Bitcoin software have fixed a problem in the client that allowed users to perform DoS attacks on other user's nodes. Details of the nature of the vulnerability have not yet been disclosed
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Following the release of 3.4.0 last week, the Apache Software Foundation has now detailed the security fixes in the new version of the open source productivity suite and said that it has already been downloaded more than one million times
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The Pirate Bay fell under a DDoS attacks for which, an ex-Anonymous member has claimed responsibility while in an apparently unrelated DDoS attack Wikileaks was down for over 72 hours
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