News & Features
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
The latest version of the live Debian Linux distribution for anonymity and privacy especially in repressive environments is now available with on the fly package updating and support for the latest obfuscation bridges
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The latest version of the open source SQL client for Windows brings a query history function, supports search and replace in results and introduces folders that allow users to organise the software's user interface better
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The new QEMU supports KVM virtualisation on the Cortex A15 series of ARM cores and can use VFIO to pass through graphics chips from the host to the guest
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Monday, 20 May 2013
With a new slicker x264 set of controls, the latest version of the open source video transcoder is easier to use. New betas show developments using Intel GPUs and OpenCL too
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The developers of the open source web frontend framework Bootstrap are designing the next version of their software to be adaptable to mobile form factors by default. Development work on Bootstrap 3 is almost complete
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In this edition: Meteor goes all WebSockets, IntelliJ IDEA goes all Android, Pythonic progress, development kits for Hadoop, and standards for lifecycle software
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The new Hangouts is designed to put an end to the proliferation of Google chat services and promises to provide interesting features - but its missing XMPP support potentially means that numerous Google Talk contacts could be irretrievably lost
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Twelve months and 400,000 lines of code changes have produced the latest version of Perl, 5.18. The headline feature is a reimplementation of hashing to make it truly random
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Among the enhancements in NetBSD 6.1 is support for the Raspberry Pi's USB and onboard Ethernet, along with security and bug fixes. The same fixes are also in the newly released 6.0.2
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"Saucy Salamander" could include early versions of Ubuntu's Mir display server and of the Qt-based Unity Next desktop, both of which have been demonstrated. However, the graphics stack of Ubuntu 12.10 will continue to be used by default
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After almost two months' delay, the latest version of the distribution that started as a fork of Mandriva refreshes the included software packages, implements the /usr move pioneered by Fedora and adds Steam for Linux
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Saturday, 18 May 2013
In the week ending 18 May Microsoft is reading what you type in Skype's chat, an exploit for the Linux kernel is discovered, Google unveils its new IDE for developing Android applications, and the International Space Station is using more Linux
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Friday, 17 May 2013
Mozilla's new Firefox 22 beta brings two potentially major web technologies - WebRTC and OdinMonkey - to the desktop, aiming for integrated web real-time communications and even better JavaScript performance
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In this edition: Amarok fixes a crashing bug on Linux, the last GNOME 3.8 release, the first development milestone for openSUSE 13.1, the first alpha of Canaima GNU/Linux 4.0, a Calligra bug fix release, and a new version of Fail2Ban
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Opera's lawsuit against a former employee for leaking trade secrets, reportedly designs of search buttons and tabs, to Mozilla is no more as the company has settled the case, but terms of the settlement are secret
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The ownCloud developers have released versions 5.0.6, 4.0.15, and 4.5.11 to fix a number of serious vulnerabilities in their software including SQL injection, code execution and privilege escalation problems
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Google is now previewing App Engine support for PHP which will allow PHP developers to make use of Google's PaaS platform and various cloud services
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The Linux Mint developers have announced a release candidate for Linux Mint 15. The "most ambitious release since the start of the project" includes a custom control centre application, a new screensaver tool and a number of other features
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Thursday, 16 May 2013
What is someone scanning the internet for easily accessible industrial plants actually up to? The SCADA honeypot Conpot can help supply answers to that question
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Talend's latest release of its various data integration and big data applications has an eye towards making creating and deploying into a Hadoop cluster simpler
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The Apache Software Foundation has announced that, just a little more than a year after their first release of OpenOffice, the open source productivity suite has been downloaded 50 million times
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Qt 5.1 comes a step closer with the release of the first beta of the next version which includes technology previews of Qt for iOS and Android, new controls and layout modules
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At its annual SambaXP Samba developer and user conference, IT service provider SerNet has presented its first fully featured Samba 4 installation packages
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At Google I/O, the company unveiled an early preview of Android Studio, a fully featured, GUI-design-capable IDE that is heavily integrated with Google's Android SDK tools
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To avoid the need to develop new fuzz testing tools, researchers at Fraunhofer FOKUS institute have created the Fuzzino open source fuzzing library that can be used to add fuzzing features to existing test tools
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