News Open Source | Silicon UK

Open Source Jobs Boom Continues Worldwide

DevOps, networking, OpenStack and CloudStack drive demand

Linux Foundation Advances Security Efforts Via Badging Program

The Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative's badging program matures, as the first projects to achieve security badges are announced

Open Source

DuckDuckGo Stumps Up Cash For Open Source Projects

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

Open Source

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

Security

OpenSSL Patched After Being Hit By Two ‘Severe’ Flaws

The bugs could help attackers steal login data or take control of servers

Open Source

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

Cloud

Mirantis Co-Founder Boris Renski Talks OpenStack And Vodka

Renski talks OpenStack ambitions, Mirantis strategy, and Gartner's OpenStack support

Broadband

Dell Teams Up With Aerohive For Wireless Network Management

Dell turns to aerohive for wireless network management, continues open data centre efforts and offers new switches

Broadband

EE Looks To Open Source Networks For 5G And Rural 4G

EE wants developers to create network services and applications using Lime Micro's software defined radio transceiver and Canonical Ubuntu Snappy Core

Cloud

In Austin, OpenStack Rediscovers Its Roots In Disruption

Jonathan Bryce claims telcos are coming to 'disruptive' OpenStack to find NFV success

Official Raspberry Pi Camera Gets Upgraded 8MP Sony Sensor

Component shortages mean an enforced upgrade for Raspberry Pi Camera V2, but it still costs the same, providing a boost for IoT projects

Cloud

Canonical Offers Up LTS Release With Ubuntu 16.04

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

Cloud

Red Hat Releases OpenStack Platform 8, Revamps Cloud Suite

Red Hat talks DevOps, goes after telcos in latest OpenStack attack

Open Source

Hortonworks Tackles Cybercrime With Open Source Apache Metron

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

Windows 10 Preview Adds Native Bash Support

Windows 10 insiders can test out new Linux development tools, with a few caveats

CyberCrime

Mumblehard Linux Spamming Botnet Finally Taken Offline

Thousands of servers running Linux and BSD had been affected by one of world's most damaging botnets

Cloud

Google And Rackspace To Develop OpenPower Server Design

Google and Rackspace co-develop open server architecture based on new IBM POWER9 hardware

Open Source

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 gain the upper hand on attackers

Cloud

Microsoft ‘Poaches’ Top Linux Executive From Oracle

Oracle loses Linux VP Wim Coekaerts to Redmond as Nadella prioritises open source

eCommerce

eBay Joins FIDO, Contributes Open-Source Authentication Server

The FIDO Alliance, which is working to deliver stronger forms of authentication for online access, expands such efforts with eBay's help

Open Source

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

Open Source

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

Browsers

Mozilla Firefox 45 Removes Tab Groups, Provides Security Updates

Mozilla provides 21 security advisories for its Firefox 45 browser. New features in the browser include improvements to the Firefox Hello communication tool.