Open Source

Targeted Malware Takes Aim At GitHub Developers

The Dimnie malware avoids detection by concealing its communications as it looks to steal data and passwords used by developers…

8 years ago

Docker At 4: The Container Revolution Continues

ANALYSIS: Four years ago, few had heard of Docker. Now it's one of the leading technologies helping to enable DevOps…

8 years ago

IBM And Red Hat Join Forces To Drive OpenStack And Hybrid Cloud

IBM will become a certified provider of Red Hat’s cloud products and services on its private cloud

8 years ago

Pwn2Own Hackers Earn $340,000 Exploiting Windows, macOS

The second day of the Pwn2Own 2017 hacking competition reveals Windows, macOS, Adobe Flash and web browser exploits

8 years ago

Ubuntu Linux Falls On Day 1 Of Pwn2Own Hacking Competition

First day of Trend Micro-sponsored Pwn2Own competition awards $233,000 to security researchers for exploiting software

8 years ago

Google Touts Smaller JPEGs With Open Source Guetzli Encoder

Does size matter? Google certainly thinks so with the launch of a new encoder to shrink JPEG files

8 years ago

Firefox 52 Marks The End Of Support For Windows XP & Vista

Firefox 52 will be the last mainstream release for Windows XP and Vista, adds WebAssembly support

8 years ago

Google Volunteer Team Patches Thousands Of Open Source Projects

A 50-member team of Google engineers voluntarily worked to patch 2,600 open-source projects against a Java deserialization bug in 2016

8 years ago

FSFE: City Of Munich Might Not Ditch Linux After All

FSFE campaigning forces a delay in Munich Mayor's mandate to return to Microsoft software

8 years ago

MWC 2017: Jolla Sailfish Arrives On Sony Xperia & Will Be Used To Create Chinese Mobile OS

Jolla's Sailfish OS will be able to run on Xperia smartphones and will form the basis of a national mobile…

8 years ago

Raspberry Pi Turns Five, Launches Zero W PC With Wi-Fi And Bluetooth

New product builds on the success of the Raspberry Pi Zero with added connectivity options

8 years ago

OpenStack Ocata Improves Cloud Usability And Federation

The new release comes with better container services integration, improved cloud federation and an enhanced dashboard

8 years ago

Netflix’s Open Source Cybersecurity Tool Hopes To Empower Employees

Netflix says it wants to treat workers like people and educate them rather than restrict them on cybersecurity issues

8 years ago

Microsoft Makes Its Drone AI Training Simulator Kit Available As Open Source Software

The software simulator toolset could be used to train artificial intelligence and autonomous systems for all manner of devices

8 years ago

Docker Secures Container Secrets in Datacenter Update

Docker has added new security features to its open-source and commercial container platforms

8 years ago

LibreOffice 5.3 Online Takes Aim At Office 365 With Cloud Document Collaboration

New release of open source Office suite includes cloud version, plus collaborative editing and other improvements

8 years ago

Platform9 Building Open-Source AWS Lambda Alternative

Platform9 officially launches its managed Kubernetes service and pushes forward on development of its Fission open-source effort

8 years ago

Mozilla Highlights Insecure HTTP Websites In Firefox 51

Unsecured websites will display a lock with a red strike through it

8 years ago

Heartbleed OpenSSL Bug Is Still Alive And Kicking & Affects 200,000 Services

Nearly 200,000 services are still at risk from the OpenSSL bug, with majority coming from the US

8 years ago

Mozilla Rebrands To ‘Help People Understand’ Its Open Web Mission

Mozilla is 'Moz://a' as it debuts new 'open' brand that designers can build upon its mission of accelerating the future…

8 years ago

27,000 MongoDB Databases Suffer Ransomware Attack

Widespead ransomware attack now impacts over 27,000 MongoDB databases, according to researchers

8 years ago

Red Hat CloudForms 4.2 Improves Hybrid Cloud Management

New release of Red Hat's hybrid cloud management platform provides improved container, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and OpenStack capabilities

8 years ago

Popular Android Competitor Pulls Plug

CyanogenMod, which gave Android mobile users more control over their devices, has shut down following commercial friction

8 years ago

Oracle Exec Resigns Over CEO’s Support For Donald Trump

Decision by Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz to join Trump transition team leads to executive resignation

8 years ago

Container Storage Vendor ClusterHQ Shuts Down

NEWS ANALYSIS: ClusterHQ which had been an early pioneer in the container storage market with its open-source Flocker project, ceases…

8 years ago

Kubernetes 1.5 Brings Container Management To Windows

New release of open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system adds initial support for Microsoft Windows Server and previews beta stateful application…

8 years ago

Mirai UK Botnet Consists Mostly Of TalkTalk Routers

The Mirai botnet has spread like wildfire and now infects 2,398 home routers across the UK, with 99 percent of…

8 years ago

Docker Boosts Container Storage With Infinit Acquisition

Docker to directly integrate storage capabilities into its container engine, while still leaving room for organizations to choose other storage…

8 years ago

Alphabet’s DeepMind Releases AI Training Game To Researchers, Developers And The Public

DeepMind Lab can be used to put intelligent agents to the test and train them to become smarter

8 years ago

OpenAI Releases Universe To Train AI To Use Computers Like Humans

OpenAI has released Universe, a software platform for measuring and training the general intelligence of artificial intelligence (AI) for apps

8 years ago