Open Source

Hackers Breach Linux Mint Distribution, Forums

Attackers manage to breach Linux Mint's security, adding a backdoor to the distribution and even stealing information from user forums.

9 years ago

MWC 2016: Mirantis Rolls Out Public Cloud For Largest Middle Eastern Telco

Saudi Telecom will use OpenStack public cloud from Mirantis to support customers in nine countries across the Middle East and…

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

‘Catastrophic’ Glibc Flaw Threatens Linux And IoT Devices

Patch now. GlibC DNS vulnerability could have serious reach amongst Internet-connected devices

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

Apple Open Sources Its Swift Benchmarking Suite

The Swift Benchmarking Suite gives developers a wide range of tools to track the performance of their fledgling Swift applications

9 years ago

First Ubuntu Tablet Is ‘Important Step’ For Converged Computing

Canonical says BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition is only tablet capable of delivering true touch and desktop experience

9 years ago

Firefox 44 Arrives With Push Notifications

New browser allows websites to deliver push notifications, even if the site not loaded

9 years ago

5 Simple Steps To Increase The Cloud Talent Pool

Heidi Bretz, director of alliances at the OpenStack Foundation, explains how to smash through the roadblock caused by a lack…

9 years ago

IBM Boosts Hybrid Cloud Capabilities On LinuxONE

IBM expands LinuxONE ecosystem with optimised Cloudant NoSQL database and StrongLoop API development technologies

9 years ago

Microsoft Lifts Restrictions On Deep Learning Toolkit, Moves To GitHub

Microsoft's deep learning toolkit is now open to more developers who want to create deep learning models for speech and…

9 years ago

Juniper Upgrades US Air Force Network Along Open Standards

US Air Force network upgrade will boost resiliency, performance, management and scalability says Juniper Networks

9 years ago

Major Linux Kernel 4.5 Update Released For Testing

The new kernel, version 4.5, includes major driver improvements, including better 3D graphics support for the Raspberry Pi

9 years ago

MariaDB Gets £6.35m Funding, Appoints New CEO, CTO

Open source database MariaDB gets more funding from Intel and others as it seeks to expand

9 years ago

Dell OS10 Promises Open Network Freedom For Data Centre, Cloud Providers

'Disaggregated' Dell OS10 promises greater choice of equipment and application modules and development freedom

9 years ago

Linux Trojan Takes Screenshots And Captures Audio

Linux.Ekoms.1 takes a screenshot every 30 seconds but audio capture function remains dormant for now

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

North Korean OS Tracks Users’ Files

North Korea's Red Star OS includes a system for tracking files shared offline, researchers have found

9 years ago

Pivotal Buys London Cloud Foundry Startup CloudCredo

CloudCredo experts fold into Pivotal's long-term game plan of accelerating European Cloud Foundry influence

9 years ago

Jolla Secures Sailfish OS Future With New Investment

Jolla says funding has safeguarded the immediate future of the Sailfish OS project

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

Mozilla Releases 64-Bit Firefox 43 For Windows

Mozilla improves private browsing with Firefox 43, which gets a Windows 64-bit release too

9 years ago

GCHQ Releases Open Source Code On GitHub

British spy agency releases code for graph database tool, but why?

9 years ago

TfL Legal Threats Shut Down London Underground Parody Sign Website

TfL gets the lawyers involved to take down popular website where users could create parody London Underground signs

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

Mozilla Releases iOS Ad Blocker For Safari, But Not Firefox

Mozilla attempts ethical ad blocker with Focus by Firefox, but it only works with Safari for now

9 years ago

Mozilla Stops Development Of Firefox OS Smartphones

Mozilla calls time on Firefox OS, saying it wasn't able to develop the "best user experience possible"

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