Open Source

ProtonMail Account Freed After PayPal ‘Freeze’

The ProtonMail project can once again access the money it has raised after an unpleaseant incident with the payments service

10 years ago

MapR Gets $110 Million To Improve Its Hadoop Distribution

The company closes its largest ever financing round, led by Google Capital

10 years ago

Non-Profit XSS Vulnerability Archive Launched

XSSposed wants Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities to be disclosed responsibly

10 years ago

Open Wireless Movement Wants People To Open Up Their Wi-Fi To Everyone

Open Wireless Movement says W-Fi should be open by default and wants industry to work together to make it safe,…

10 years ago

Elon Musk Gives Away All Of The Tesla Patents

CEO of Tesla Motors says the company will not sue anyone for using its proprietary technologies

10 years ago

Firefox 30 Adds Security Fixes And Developer Features

Mozilla's latest web browser steps into the ring to trade punches with Chrome and Internet Explorer

10 years ago

Jolla ‘Saapunki’ Update Adds 4G Support For All Sailfish OS Users

Jolla adds LTE support and browser features in new update for Sailfish OS

10 years ago

$25 Firefox OS Smartphones To Be Released In India

Ultra low-cost Firefox OS smartphones seek to tempt feature phone owners in emerging markets

10 years ago

Red Hat Launches Enterprise Linux 7

The new open source OS adopts XFS as the default file system, introduces application container support

10 years ago

The Isle Of Man Embraces Virtual Currencies

Local authorities promote the island as the perfect base for Bitcoin and Litecoin operations, say they can prevent money laundering

10 years ago

Google Open Sources End-To-End Email Encryption

Open source effort should help email providers encrypt messages between one another

10 years ago

Samsung Z Is First Tizen-Powered Smartphone

Samsung Z to debut in Russia in Q3 ahead of wider release as company seeks to reduce Android dependency

10 years ago

Mozilla Opens Pre-Orders For ‘Flame’ Smartphone

The mid-tier Firefox OS reference device from China costs just $170 with free shipping

10 years ago

Google Previews Docker Support On Compute Engine

Google is testing support for containers on its cloud infrastructure service, as interest in the Docker project grows

10 years ago

No More Windows 8 For The Chinese Government

Chinese authorities ban Windows 8 in government offices, to avoid the ‘end of support’ dilemma they are facing with Windows…

11 years ago

Autodesk To Launch Its Own 3D Printer Later This Year

The ‘Spark’ platform includes both software and hardware, is expected to cost around £3,000

11 years ago

Mutiny At Bitcoin Foundation Over New Director Brock Pierce

At least ten foundation members want to see former child star and Bitcoin investor removed from the board

11 years ago

The Impact Of Heartbleed On Open Source Security

Thanks to Heartbleed open source software will be better engineered and more secure, says Steve Nice, CTO at Reconnix

11 years ago

Mozilla Reluctantly Adopts Digital Rights Management

Mozilla says it has no choice if it wants to keep its user base, while the user base calls adoption…

11 years ago

Canonical Pushes OpenStack Managed Service With ‘Your Cloud’

Canonical is offering to build and operate OpenStack cloud infrastructure either on-site or using a customer's service provider of choice

11 years ago

Five Year Old Flaw Fixed In Linux Kernel

A high severity bug in the Linux kernel remained undetected since 2009

11 years ago

Australian Government Plans To Save With Open Source Drupal

The Australian government wants to build a unified CMS for all government websites, based on the open source Drupal software

11 years ago

Docker-Based CoreOS Linux Distribution Beta Launches

New Linux version CoreOS uses the Docker container system for apps

11 years ago

Samsung Prepares Tizen Smartphones For Russia And India – Report

Samsung Tizen smartphone could finally see the light of day in the next few weeks

11 years ago

Mozilla Reassures Users Over Firefox Ad Programme

Mozilla has said it will test its Directory Tiles programme to ensure it delivers 'user value' before rolling it out…

11 years ago

Oracle Wins Round In $1bn Android Court Battle

A US federal court has ruled that Oracle's Java programming interfaces can be protected by copyright, in a blow to…

11 years ago

Firefox OS-Powered ZTE Open C Goes On Sale In UK For £69.99

ZTE Open C is available on eBay and runs the latest version of Firefox OS

11 years ago

UK ISPs Will Have To Issue Alerts To Suspected Pirates

Customers who infringe copyright will start getting warning letters in 2015, but there are no legal consequences

11 years ago

Anonymous Linux Distribution TAILS Reaches Release Version 1.0

The OS that helped Edward Snowden communicate with journalists is ready for prime time

11 years ago

‘Most Customisable Ever’ Mozilla Firefox 29 Boasts Brand New Interface

Firefox 29 offers new tabs, bookmarks and sync options, while developers get new tools to play with

11 years ago