News & Features
Thursday, 20 Dec 2012
ROSA Laboratory has released ROSA Desktop.Fresh, a version of its Mandriva-based ROSA Desktop distribution that includes up-to-date packages and boots twice as fast
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Version 1.2 brings a new beta web front end to the open source financial analytics and risk management platform, along with many other improvements
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In this edition: Makeblock, VLC 2.0.5, Newscoop 4.0.3, ngIRCd 20, Skrooge 1.4.0, IPFire 2.11 Core Update 65, and 0 A.D. Alpha 12.
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AMD appears to have found a "minor security vulnerability" in the auto-update notification feature of Catalyst Control Center
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After a short delay caused by the need for a further release candidate, Qt 5.0 is now ready
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What happens next when you touch your browser's display is back in the spotlight as Microsoft raises the stakes by offering patches to Apple's WebKit engine so it can support the Microsoft-inspired W3C Pointer Events specification
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A slew of maintenance updates has arrived for VirtualBox, with fixes not just for the latest 4.2 branch, but also 4.1, 4.0 and 3.2
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The open source CMS Zurmo has seen its first official release. The application includes contact and activity management, deal tracking features, and scores and badges that can be managed through a built-in gamification system
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The Qt Quick enhanced KDE 4.10 reaches release candidate stage while openSUSE 12.3's latest milestone breaks with tradition and includes the beta of 4.10
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Wednesday, 19 Dec 2012
US-CERT has warned that a security hole exists in Adobe's Shockwave Player. The player uses a custom Flash runtime that is based on an obsolete, insecure version of Flash and represents a security threat
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The Piwik developers have announced that they are starting a crowdfunding drive to support new features they want to integrate into the open source analytics software for its next major version
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The German police authority warns that criminals have replaced payment terminals with manipulated devices in Hamburg retail outlets. Apparently, the attackers swap out the devices for legitimate ones after some time has passed
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ARM developers can now get the first preview release of Java SE 8 for ARM with a JDK release that can be run on the Raspberry Pi
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Perl, the language which started life as an attempt to replace the sed and awk Unix commands, is now over 25 years old and still very healthy, despite the delayed arrival of Perl 6
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The EU Commission expects the IT industry to deliver suggestions on how to improve access to copyright-protected online content. Cross-border data access is among the discussed topics
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A public consultation has been opened on the next version of the European Union Public Licence (EUPL). The EUPL 1.2 is aimed at making the licence compatible with the GPLv3 and AGPL licences
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Although there are not many infections, a simple botnet designed to send out SMS spam from Android phones whose owners have responded to spam offering free games could have dire consequences, for phone bills at least
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Version 9.1 of PC-BSD, the FreeBSD based Unix distribution, appears before the official announcement of FreeBSD 9.1, sporting a new server install, enhanced jails and more GUI based configuration
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The latest update to the Opera browser fixed several stability issues and a security hole that allowed attackers to execute code hidden in a specially prepared GIF file
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Though billed as a maintenance update, there's more to TomEE 1.5.1 than just bug fixes. One new feature is a Maven archetype to help users create TomEE projects
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Tuesday, 18 Dec 2012
A credit card payment processing service aided a crime ring by processing payments made by scareware victims. The man who provided the service has now been sentenced to a four year jail term and was fined $650,000
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Status.net, the company behind the open source StatusNet microblogging service, is rebranding itself under a new name and is launching a new, Node.js-based messaging server called pump.io
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The latest release of the open source audio framework includes ALSA Use Case Manager (UCM) support, support for Bluetooth sources out of the box, configuarble device latency offset and several other optimisations
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The Blekko search engine has contributed terabytes of ranking metadata to the Conmon Crawl Foundation to assist them in their mission of democratising the web through accessible search
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A US hacker who breached computers and email accounts belonging to a range of celebrities has received a ten year jail sentence. Among other things, his hacking netted private photos of actress Scarlett Johannson, which he then posted online
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Shockwave uses vulnerable Flash 
