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The qooxdoo developers have released version 1.0 of their free Ajax GUI framework, suitable for creating web applications with a desktop-like user interface
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Nullsoft has released version 5.57 of Winamp, closing several critical vulnerabilities its popular media player that could be exploited to compromise a user's system
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The Perian developers have announced the availability of version 1.2 of their open source preference pane. The latest maintenance release is the first major update since Apple released Mac OS X 10.6 and addresses several Snow Leopard issues
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developerWorks, the IBM site for software developers and IT professionals, has compiled the top ten Linux developments over the last decade. The list perhaps presents a different perspective on Linux than that of most end users
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The Open Source Fulfillment Center is aimed at helping prevent GPL violations. The service, provided by open source systems house OpenLogic is intended primarily for businesses
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The update fixes over 60 bugs, mainly to increase stability, but also closing some security holes
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As promised earlier this month, the AppJet developers have released all of the source code to their EtherPad online real-time collaborative word processor service
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Instead of tweets, users accessing the start page of the Twitter micro-blogging service on Friday morning were presented with an "Iranian Cyber Army" page
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As well as various bug fixes, version 6.0.0.7 of the open source content management system includes extensions and enhancements to the shop and workflow modules
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The Labs team at Mozilla has announced the launch of version 2.0 of Personas, a Mozilla Labs experiment that lets users easily change the appearance of their standard grey Firefox web browser
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The Mozilla developers have announced the availability of the fifth beta for what will become version 3.6 of their open source Firefox web browser, code-named Namoroka
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Mark Shuttleworth has announced he is changing focus at Canonical and Jane Silber, COO and Ubuntu One project leader, will take over as CEO
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Update Check, the new online service at The H is designed to help users check how up-to-date the installed software is on their Windows systems
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A downloadable version of Moonlight, the Silverlight implementation for Linux systems, is now available. A patent agreement with Microsoft means that it can now be included in non-Novell Linux distributions
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A recently published procedure achieves an 18 per cent hit rate for automatic recognition of Google captchas. The method is, however, based on old captchas which Google no longer uses in the same form
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The Spring development team has managed to squeeze the next generation of the Java application framework Spring out before the turn of the year. Last minute support for Java EE 6 has also been added
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The update fixes multiple buffer overflows which can be provoked using crafted video files. Reportedly some of the bugs can potentially be exploited to compromise a system
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According to reports, insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan are using off-the-shelf software to view video from surveillance drones thanks to unencrypted downlinks
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Adobe has confirmed the existence of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. The vulnerability is already being actively exploited, but the company does not plan to release an update until 12th January 2010. Until then, users should use one of a number of workarounds to protect against attacks
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The VideoLAN project is urgently seeking developers for the Mac OS X port of the VLC multimedia player. If they are not found, the 1.1.0 port will be the last
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The European Commission has officially dropped its antitrust charges against Microsoft after Microsoft agreed to provide users of its Windows operating system the choice of web browsers
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The open source Java library for reading and writing Microsoft format files now uses significantly less memory and exhibits improved performance when dealing with spreadsheet formats
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MonoDevelop, the open source IDE, is now available under an extension-friendly license. Changes in the new version of the .NET-compatible Mono framework aim towards platform independence
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Bruce Perens, former Debian project leader, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative and author of the first versions of BusyBox is unnerved by the Software Freedom Law Center's litigation activities
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Less than two months after the release of SeaMonkey 2.0, Mozilla has released the first maintenance and security update to its all-in-one internet application suite
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Winamp 5.57 eliminates vulnerabilities
