Open Source

DuckDuckGo Stumps Up Cash For Open Source Projects

Anonymous Internet search engine DuckDuckGo announces funding awards for worthy open source projects

9 years ago

EMC Embraces Open Source With New EMC {code} Projects

EMC broadens open source contributions with 'Polly' for storage scheduling and new enhancements to REX-Ray storage orchestration engine

9 years ago

Two Thirds Of Software Firms Contribute To Open Source

A majoirty of businesses are now using or contributing to open source projects, as adoption of the technology goes mainstream

9 years ago

Fake Social Button Plug-in Redirects To Exploit Kit, Warns Malwarebytes

Notorious Angler exploit kit is hiding as social buttons on hacked WordPress websites, says Malwarebytes

9 years ago

Canonical Offers Up LTS Release With Ubuntu 16.04

Businesses running open source Ubuntu offered new long term support (LTS) release 16.04

9 years ago

Hortonworks Tackles Cybercrime With Open Source Apache Metron

Apache Metron community is a vital army in the battle against cybercriminals, says Hortonworks

9 years ago

Open Network Insight Project Builds On Big Data To Improve Security

The open-source effort, which is backed by Cloudera, Intel, eBay and others, is seeing early adoption, as organizations aim to…

9 years ago

Microsoft Is Bringing The Linux Command Line To Windows 10

Microsoft is launching a Windows Subsystem on Linux and has partnered with Canonical to deliver ‘Ubuntu on Windows’ for Windows…

9 years ago

What Is Apache Spark And Why Choose It?

Tugdual Grall, technical evangelist at MapR Technologies, looks at the rise of Apache Spark and why everyone’s talking about it

9 years ago

Steve Ballmer: Linux Is No Longer ‘A Cancer’

Feisty ex boss of Microsoft ends hostility to Linux operating system and praises Satya Nadella's open source commitments

9 years ago

5 Ways To Get More Out Of Hadoop

Ashley Stirrup, CMO at Talend, shares his top tips for honing Hadoop skills

9 years ago

Google Joins Unicef’s Fight Against Zika Virus

Google partners UNICEF in the global fight against the Zika virus, with mapping data and more

9 years ago

Canonical Touts 64-bit ARM IoT Developer Platform

IoT developers offered powerful but tiny quad core platform to deliver Internet of Things solutions

9 years ago

How Linux Kernel Cgroups And Namespaces Made Modern Containers Possible

Computer service provider ElasticHosts offers insight into the underlying Linux Kernel technologies used by Docker, LXC and lmctfy

9 years ago

UNICEF Seeks World-Changing Open Source Technologies

United Nations to fund startups to develop open source tech to improve the lives of vulnerable children and civilians

9 years ago

Critical Linux Kernel Flaw Found

Security researchers urge Android users to manually patch a vulnerability that's existed for at least three years

9 years ago

Twitter Community Helps Create Improved Linux Encoder Ransomware

New version of dangerous ransomware has infected 600 Linux servers

9 years ago

IBM, Linux Foundation And Others Launch Blockchain Consortium

Linux Foundation oversees new Blockchain consortium to develop enterprise grade ledger framework

9 years ago

Simple Linux Flaw Exposed By Backspace Key

Hacking skills not required - just hit the backspace key 28 times to hack a Linux system

9 years ago

Microsoft Announces Linux On Azure Certification

When it comes to the cloud, the software giant extends its embrace of Linux to include a new certification for…

9 years ago

Chakra Bleu! Microsoft Open Sources Core Edge Browser Component

By January 2016, Microsoft will have opened Edge’s ChakraCore repository onto GitHub

9 years ago

Open Source Developers Are ‘Too White And Too Male’

An Apache Software Foundation executive has slammed white men in the Open Source community for stifling diversity among project contributors

9 years ago

Firefox 42 Brings Private Browsing, Halts Online Trackers

Latest Firefox provides web surfers with a more private browsing experience with Tracking Protection

9 years ago

Canonical Targets OpenStack Deployments With Ubuntu 15.10

Latets version of open-source OS comes with OpenStack deployer to aid speedy rollout of Ubuntu OpenStack clouds

9 years ago

How To Take An Apache Hadoop Concept Into Production

Apache: Big Data Europe 2015 - Gary Richardson, UK head of data engineering, KPMG, shares his top Hadoop project tips

9 years ago

Mozilla Blames Bugzilla Hack For Firefox Attack

Bug reporting system compromised by hackers and used to attack on Firefox users, Mozilla admits

9 years ago

IBM Unveils Linux-Only Mainframe, Joins Open Mainframe Project

LinuxONE aims to help IBM drive mainframe adoption as firm dumps mainframe code into open source community

9 years ago

LibreOffice 5.0 Delivers Windows 10 Support

Alternative Office suite bundles Windows 10 support, improved source code, and 'cleaner' user interface

9 years ago

How ‘Democratic’ Open Source Can Aid UK Tech Growth

BLOG: Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange, explains how governments and the UK tech industry can learn from the democratic ethos…

9 years ago

OpenSSL Delivers Patch To Fix Critical Vulnerability

New version of OpenSSL arrives to address a single ‘high severity’ vulnerability

9 years ago