Open Source

First Third Party Sailfish OS Smartphone Goes On Sale

The Intex Aqua Fish is released in India as Jolla seeks to expand the Sailfish OS ecosystem

8 years ago

Mozilla Firefox will Block Flash Content To Save Battery And Boost Security

Curtains for Flash? Next month Firefox will block certain Flash content deemed “not essential to the user experience”

8 years ago

Microsoft Launches Brand New Skype For Linux Alpha

But Skype warns Linux users it's far from ready, as it needs feedback to help develop a better client

8 years ago

Facebook’s OpenCellular Platform Enables Open Source Mobile Networks

OpenCellular platform looks to make it cheaper and easier to deliver mobile connectivity using open hardware and software

8 years ago

Bulgaria Demands Open Source For Public Sector Software

The country is to legally require open source licensing for all new software projects

8 years ago

Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux Looks To Ditch 32-Bit

Canonical is the latest software maker looking to end support for Intel's once-great 32-bit platform

8 years ago

Red Hat Doubles Down on Containers, Takes a Swipe at CloudFoundry

On the first day of the Red Hat Summit, Linux vendor Red Hat makes some incremental container announcements and belittles…

8 years ago

Security Tool Strengthens Tor And ‘Foils’ FBI Attacks

The tool, called Selfrando, could greatly improve on the attack protection provided by techniques such as ASLR, researchers say

8 years ago

Study Claims HMTL5 Isn’t Much More Secure Than Flash

Flash not so bad? New report casts doubts on HTML5 adverts being safer than Adobe Flash

8 years ago

Cisco Warns Of Libarchive File Compression Flaw

Patch it now! Popular open source file compression tool libarchive contains wide reaching vulnerabilities

8 years ago

Red Hat Grows Again As It Snaps Up API Firm 3scale

Red Hat records yet more revenue growth and announces acquisition of 3scale to bolster API management credentials

8 years ago

Mozilla Awards £260,000 To Tor, Tails And Caddy Open Source Projects

Mozilla kicks off MOSS awards program with funding to accessibility, security and privacy upstarts

8 years ago

OPNFV Is ‘Critical’ For Telecoms Industry, But Skills Shortage Persists

OPNFV Project is driving uptake of NFV, but a lack of skills and manager commitment causes concern

8 years ago

Docker Container Usage Growing

A trio of new reports show positive trends for Docker container adoption, despite concerns Docker too complex to integrate into…

8 years ago

Mozilla Splashes £350,000 On SOS Open Source Security Fund

Firefox creator wants to save open source by starting fund to help community prevent security threats

8 years ago

HPE Gives Open-Source Developers Early Access To The Machine

The tech vendor wants developers to start developing code for the Machine, a system officials say will fundamentally change data…

8 years ago

Open Data For Social Good: The Case For Better Transport Services

ANALYSIS: Martin Howell from Cubic Transportation Systems explores how open data can transform urban mass transit

8 years ago

CoreOS Launches Torus Project for Cloud-Native Storage

While there are already multiple distributed storage systems, Torus aims to be cloud-native and integrate closely with Kubernetes.

8 years ago

GitHub Is Relying On Developers To Crack The Business Market

GitHub focuses on developers who are getting jobs in big business, but needs to avoid alienating its sizable individual developer…

8 years ago

What Google’s Victory In Java Case Signifies To The IT World

ANALYSIS: Following court loss to Google over Java and the exit of a key Linux thought leader, Oracle must regain…

8 years ago

Docker Founder Talks Of New Tool And Open-Source Lessons He Learned

Solomon Hykes, founder of Docker, details his firm's open-source experience and releases new tools at the OSCON conference

9 years ago

Microsoft Moves Open Source Jenkins Project To Azure

Significant customer partnership for Microsoft cloud, as Jenkins project infrastructure moves to Azure

9 years ago

Why VCs Have Invested More Than $200M in Container Tech

ANALYSIS: Last week alone, investors—aiming to profit from the new approach to building, deploying and managing apps—poured $63M into container…

9 years ago

How Fuzzing Can Make A Large Open Source Project More Secure

Emily Ratliff of the Linux Foundation explains the considerations to take when planning to fuzz your open source project

9 years ago

Updated £4 Raspberry Pi Zero Adds Camera Connector

'Thousands' of Raspberry Pi Zero devices will be built every day to satisfy demand for the cheapest flavour of Pi

9 years ago

Facebook Open-Sources Its Capture The Flag Competition Platform

Security gamification technology has already been used for hundreds of contests, helping to improve the state of security education

9 years ago

Researcher Discovers ‘Multiple’ Exploitable Vulnerabilities In 7-Zip

Update now. Flaw in popular open source compression tool uncovered by Cisco researcher

9 years ago

Firefox iOS 4.0 Adds Widget Support And Security Features

Firefox for iPhone and iPad lets you access functions quickly from notification centre and override security warnings

9 years ago

Google Open Sources Nest ‘Thread’ IoT Networking Platform

Google wades into IoT standards war by opening up protocols behind Nest

9 years ago

How Linux Kernel Development Impacts Security

At CoreOS Fest, Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel, declares that almost all bugs can be security issues

9 years ago