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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.32 (Part 4) - Drivers

Kernel Log logo The forthcoming Linux version 2.6.32 comes with numerous new and improved drivers - for instance for the Hauppauge HVR 2200 and 2250, for some ThinkPad notebooks by IBM/Lenovo, and for the MSI Wind's fingerprint reader. The kernel developers have incorporated Microsoft's Hyper-V driver into the staging area more…

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Chromium OS - Digging deeper into the open source Chrome OS

With the arrival of the first code of Chrome OS, also known as Chromium OS in its open source form, the H takes a deeper look at the browser-centric operating system more…

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25 November 2009
Security feature of Internet Explorer 8 unsafe

IE8 logo The cross-site scripting filter of Microsoft's browser reportedly contains vulnerabilities that allow the very cross-site scripting attacks it is meant to prevent more…

25 November 2009
US senators ask European Commission to speed up Sun takeover investigation

Sun/Oracle combined logo 59 members of the senate are claiming that delays to the takeover could put thousands of US jobs at risk more…

25 November 2009
Security update for BIND name server

ISC logo Due to a DNSSEC-related error, attackers can inject faked entries into a name server's cache. As a result the server resolves specific domains to incorrect IP addresses more…

25 November 2009
Mozilla releases Thunderbird 3 RC1

Thunderbird logo Originally expected two weeks ago, Mozilla has now released the first release candidate for version 3.0 of its Thunderbird email and news client. This preview release is based on the Gecko 1.9.1.5 platform and includes over 100 changes from the previous beta 4 release more…

25 November 2009
KOffice 2.1 arrives

KOffice logo Aimed at early adopters, the KOffice team have released version 2.1 of their open source office suite. The latest release includes a number of application updates and a more "unified look and feel" more…

25 November 2009
FreeBSD 8.0 released

FreeBSD logo FreeBSD 8.0 is now available to download from the project's FTP servers and includes a number of updates and new features more…

24 November 2009
Eclipse 4 goes a mile further

Eclipse logo In the second milestone of Eclipse 4, the developers have focused on the GUI, which is generated via XML more…

24 November 2009
User-generated PDF documents disclose private information - Update

IE8 logo User-generated PDF documents can potentially disclose information the author might not wish to reveal. The leak is caused by a flaw in Internet Explorer more…

24 November 2009
Debian 6.0 Squeeze to be released in summer 2010

Debian logo Debian project leader Steve McIntyre wants to have the Linux distribution's next stable version ready before the DebConf Debian conference in early August 2010. The code freeze has now been scheduled for March 2010 more…

24 November 2009
OpenEMM 6.0 email marketing software released

OpenEMM logo OpenEMM 6.0, the open source version of AGNITAS's E-Marketing Manager, includes several new features, such as new content module types and embedded click statistics more…

24 November 2009
Numerous vulnerabilities in VMware products

VMware logo VMware has advised of a total of 93 vulnerabilities in several of its products, including ESX Server, Server, VirtualCenter and vCenter. more…

24 November 2009
Chrome extensions gallery opened to developers

Google Chrome logo Google has announced that developers can now upload their extensions to Chrome's extension gallery more…

24 November 2009
Microsoft confirms critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer

IE logo Internet Explorer 6 and 7 running under all versions of Windows are affected. Microsoft is working on a security update and in the meantime is advising users to set their security level to high, or to activate data execution prevention more…

24 November 2009
Free Software Foundation comes to an agreement with PayPal

FSF logo The Free Software Foundation has thanked PayPal for resolving a problem with its terms and conditions when applied to free software projects more…

24 November 2009
Microsoft fails to open source Windows 7 USB tool

Windows Flag logo Microsoft misses self imposed deadline to release a GPL version of the GPL violating utility more…

23 November 2009
Alert!Opera 10.10 closes "extremely severe" hole

Opera logo The previous version of Opera was affected by a flaw that can be exploited to compromise systems and that has been known for six months. The KDE libraries are also said to be vulnerable more…

23 November 2009
Alfresco announce CMIS 1.0 implementation

Alfresco logo Alfresco has released an implementation of the public review version of CMIS 1.0 in the community version of the Alfresco CMS to serve as an example, enabling developers to participate in the review more effectively more…

23 November 2009
Estonia to open source security tools

An Estonian government project plans to release a number of network security tools as open source more…

23 November 2009
New iPhone password: "ohshit"

A new version of the worm infecting insecure jailbroken iPhones resets the password more…

23 November 2009
Alert!New critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer

Windows flag logo A few lines of HTML code, posted anonymously under the heading "IE7" on a security list, turn out to be a previously unknown security problem in the Microsoft browser more…

23 November 2009
Processor Whispers - About War and Peace

Intel and AMD come to an arrangement and now AMD can cheerfully present new roadmaps without worrying about pesky patents. In return, problems arise between Microsoft and Intel more…

21 November 2009
The H Week

In the past week, The H posted the latest Linux news in the Kernel Log, took a detailed look at Fedora 12, and reported on Google's Chrome OS, Android 2.0, Metasploit 3.3, Camino 2 and Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 more…

20 November 2009
Security vulnerabilities in add-ons imperil Firefox users

Firefox logo Security experts have found security problems in several popular Firefox extensions. They warn that using add-ons can impact the security of the entire system more…

20 November 2009
Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.32 (Part 3) - Storage

The kernel development team have enhanced various aspects of Btrfs, one effect of which is to significantly improve the experimental file system's write performance. A number of changes to the block layer promise better data throughput and reactivity. There are also several new drivers for storage hardware more…

20 November 2009
Second generation Pogoplug adds more USB ports

Pogoplug logo Cloud Engines has released the second generation of its popular Pogoplug "plug-top computer", adding more USB ports to expand the data capacity more…

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