Open Source

Bitcoin Reaches Record Value Of £224

The exact causes of a $90 boost in value over the last seven days are unknown

11 years ago

The NSA Uses OpenStack – But Its Clouds Promise Freedom

The NSA has contributed to OpenStack, writes Sean Micchael Kerner from Hong Kong - but it hasn't given it a…

11 years ago

Research Suggests A Conspiracy Of Miners Could Destroy Bitcoin

A team from the Cornell University proposes changes to the Bitcoin protocol to make it safer

11 years ago

Sir Nigel Shadbolt: Free Data Can Be ‘As Valuable As You Can Imagine’

The co-founder of the Open Data Institute talks about analytics and how to raise a new generation of data scientists

11 years ago

Cisco Pushes OpenStack On UCS

Cisco is rolling out 'accelerator packs' designed to make it easier to deploy OpenStack distributions on Cisco's UCS infrastructure

11 years ago

Git Soothes PHP Security Fears… For Now

In a classic watering hole attack, hackers compromised a well-known, respected high-traffic Website and planted malware in a bid to…

11 years ago

Linus Torvalds: Linux Kernel 4.0 ‘Happening In A Year Or So’

The major release is likely to focus on stability, not new features

11 years ago

Google Launches Nexus 5 With Android 4.4 On Board

The smartphone developed in partnership with LG goes on sale today at half the price of iPhone 5S

11 years ago

Forgotten Investment In Bitcoin Buys Man A Flat In Central Oslo

In 2009, Kristoffer Koch bought 5,000 bitcoins for £16 and forgot about it

11 years ago

Mozilla Adds Web Audio Capabilities And Security Updates To Firefox 25

Mozilla updates the desktop and mobile versions of the open source browser

11 years ago

Open Data Institute Expands Its Vision Across Borders

The network of 13 international ‘Nodes’ could attract millions to the open data cause, says ODI CEO Gavin Starks

11 years ago

Adobe Releases Vector Graphics Tool To The Open Source Community

Snap.svg, a JavaScript library for interactive SVG content, is now available on GitHub

11 years ago

IT Life: The Future Of Computing Is Distributed

Justin Sheehy, CTO at Basho, talks about NoSQL, Grace Hopper and why distributed computing tools shall inherit the earth

11 years ago

MariaDB Developer SkySQL Raises £12.4m In Latest Financing Round

Open source relational database gets a vote of confidence from Intel Capital

11 years ago

Linux Foundation To Support The Development Of KVM Hypervisor

Open source enthusiasts get behind the Open Virtualisation Alliance

11 years ago

Torrent Tracker isoHunt To Close And Settle Lawsuit For $110m

Site founder Gary Fung says he’ll be back, but the case establishes that a Torrent index infringes copyright

11 years ago

IP Expo: Vello Systems Hopes To Create Open Source Optical Forum

Ashish Shah from Vello Systems talks about the need for standardisation in the optical networking market

11 years ago

OpenStack Havana Broadens Cloud Options

The OpenStack Havana release is now available with a number of new features geared towards the cloud

11 years ago

Canonical Adds Smartphone Support To Ubuntu 13.10

The "Saucy Salamander" Linux release supports desktops, servers, the cloud, and now mobile devices

11 years ago

Ubuntu Server 13.10 To Focus On OpenStack

Canonical synchronises its release cycle to that of the open source cloud framework

11 years ago

Google Offers Money To Open Source Patch Developers

Improving security of free software can result in a $3,133.7 paycheck

11 years ago

Firefox OS To Launch In Another Nine Countries In 2013

Network operators love Mozilla's open source OS

11 years ago

One Million Raspberry Pi Computers Baked In The UK

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has shipped a total of 1.75 million devices, and the demand is ongoing

11 years ago

Unisys Introduces Forward Platform For Migration Off Unix

Unisys' new Intel-based servers are intended to make it easier for businesses to shift critical workloads onto Windows- or Linux-based…

11 years ago

MongoDB Gets $150 Million In A New Funding Round

Open source NoSQL database breaks industry records, now valued at $1.2 billion

11 years ago

SoundCloud Gives Away Its Anti-Spam Tool, Sketchy

‘Sketchy’ was developed to stop... sketchy behaviour

11 years ago

Intel Partners With Arduino To Offer New Range Of Development Boards

The very first Arduino-compatible Intel product is the Galileo board, based on the new Quark X1000 SoC

11 years ago

Silk Road Closure Causes Sharp Drop In Bitcoin Value

BTC goes from $142 to $118 after the FBI shuts down illegal online marketplace

11 years ago

Apache CloudStack 4.2 Bolsters Open Source Cloud Cause

The open source cloud just got a bit more advanced following the Apache CloudStack 4.2 release

11 years ago

Microsoft Offers BrowserSwarm JavaScript Testing Tool

Microsoft and its partners have launched BrowserSwarm, an open-source tool for testing JavaScript frameworks

11 years ago