Last seven days of news
Sat 11 Feb 2012
Fri 10 Feb 2012
- FSF wants labels on free JavaScript code
- Mesa 3D 8.0 supports OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30
- Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday will close critical holes
- UK Government starts new Open Standards Consultation
- Open source driver for ARM's Mali graphics appears
- oVirt's virtualisation software gets a first release
- Chrome 18 Beta brings graphics improvements
- Eolas's claim on the "interactive web" invalidated in court
- Google expands its security rewards programmes
- No further updates for Debian 5.0 Lenny
- WebKit dominance threatens the open web
- EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.1 ships
Thu 9 Feb 2012
- Foxconn hacked by Swagg Security
- HP releases Android kernel source for TouchPad tablet
- State of New Hampshire votes for open source
- CrunchBang 10 update split into two editions
- NGINX rolls out commercial support
- Drupal completes community election of board members
- Chrome 17 brings improved speed and security
- Path apologises for iPhone address book uploading
Wed 8 Feb 2012
- Mozilla considers removing Trustwave CA
- Path iOS app uploads address book to its servers
- Editor of The Times admits to unlawful email access by journalist
- pcAnywhere code on the internet after "hush money" ruse fails
- Sabayon 8 released with Cinnamon desktop
- Upgrade kit for Openmoko smartphones now available
- ReactOS 0.3.14 brings improvements with help from GSoC students
- Satellite phone encryption cracked
- Netty 3.3.1 adds SPDY protocol support
- Google launches Chrome for Android
Tue 7 Feb 2012
- Trustwave issued a man-in-the-middle certificate
- Perl Data Language gets auto-parallelisation
- New Fedora Project Leader announced
- Trimble Yuma: a rugged Ubuntu-based tablet
- Ubuntu Global Jam looking for event organisers
- Adobe releases beta version of sandboxed Flash for Firefox
- New Linux kernel fixes power-saving issues
- RealPlayer update closes critical holes
- Sandbox applications quickly with KVM or LXC
- Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu, drops commercial support
- Google wants to do away with online certificate checks
Mon 6 Feb 2012
- Apache Commons updates Configuration and Validator
- Joomla! updates close information disclosure holes
Five open source hardware projects that could change the world
- Firefox 11 enters beta, brings add-on sync
- Mozilla wants to push notifications to browsers and devices
- Backdoor in TRENDnet IP cameras
- Open source players share their experiences in CC-BY-SA book
- Open Source Initiative affiliates announced at FOSDEM
- KDE Akademy 2012 conference Call for Papers
- Wayland 0.85 soon, 1.0 by end of year
- Google Summer of Code 2012 announced
- German government makes recommendations for secure Windows PCs
Sat 4 Feb 2012
Fri 3 Feb 2012
- Linux Mint 12 KDE released
- Comment: Unity can't go it alone
- SambaXP 2012 conference call for papers
- Further details of Spark "Plasma Active" tablet revealed
- Komodo IDE 7.0 adds Node.js, LESS and CoffeeScript support
- 90% of Android devices now running 2.2 and later
- Google's Bouncer scans the Android Market for Malware
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 2 arrives for testing
- MSUpdate trojan attacked companies in the defence sector
- Alfresco Enterprise 4 adds a free public cloud option
