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As Bruce Schneier spent the past decade watching the growing rash of phishers, malware attacks, and identity theft, a new Internet threat has emerged that poses even greater risks, the security expert said. Unlike the security risks posed by criminals, the threat from government regulation and data hoarders such as Apple and Google are more insidious because they threaten to alter the fabric of the Internet itself. They're also different from traditional Internet threats because the perpetrators are shielded in a cloak of legitimacy. As a result, many people don't recognize that their personal information or fortunes are more susceptible to these new forces than they ever were to the Russian Business Network or other Internet gangsters.

I found this over at TechDirt, where they gave this comic a great new title, and provided a couple more worthwhile links. And hey -- it's The Oatmeal, good for an end of the week chuckle.

This guy has the Ubuntu logo tattooed to his arm ... many times. He makes Maddog's Tux (next one pictured) look well, not mad at all.

The GNOME Project announced a few minutes ago, February 24th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the first Beta release of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment, which brings assorted improvements and features.

This release brings big changes to Linux Mint so be ready for something different. The DVD version offers users the ability to choose between the new Gnome 3 interface with the Mint Gnome shell extensions, Gnome classic, or the new MATE desktop.

OS X inspired distro plagued by installation and boot time issues, stable release pulled

This week, we look at choosing between apps and HTML5, private cloud haters and the growing open academic journal movement (think open source journals).

We’ve now gone through all the steps of self-publishing a book, so this week is summing up time: I’ll try and pull together the most important things I learned along the way, and especially those that I wished I’d known before I started. 

As you might already know that Motorola has already done the trick with its Atrix early last year, thus the idea to merge mobile and desktop computing is not new or unique to Ubuntu. However what makes the news noteworthy is the tight integration of two closely linked Oss, Android and Ubuntu, both sharing the same Linux Kernel and expectantly emerging ecosystem (that Apple has and Google doesn’t).

Our latest interview is with Amit Saha, responsible for Fedora Scientific, a Fedora based distribution geared towards scientists, students and professionals alike. The distribution is packed with software like GNU Octave, R, Maxima and many more. Give Fedora Scientific a spin! Enjoy the interview!

One day after putting out the Intel 12.02 package, Intel released the xf86-video-intel 2.18.0 DDX driver...

This tutorial is a companion to any of the Perfect Server tutorials. ISPConfig 3 will not work with the Xeround Cloud database service by default. With minor modifications from this tutorial you will be able to run your Perfect Server without having to manage a database server.

Android has left Apple behind when we talk about the market share. There is, however, one area where Android is catching up fast -- apps. A new study shows an interesting aspect of Android vs iOS market.

I keep reviewing [formerly] Arch-based Chakra with KDE, but this is the first time I'm trying Arch-based KahelOS with GNOME. I'm happy to say that it measures up to the positively awesome Chakra.

From the folks that brought you SOPA, ACTA, and the Patriot Act:

The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new online bill of rights intended to protect consumers' privacy when they surf the Web.

This is about Internet rights..not politics..keep the conversation clean people - Scott

There are many articles covering the subject of trashware. You do not know what is this phenomenon? Trashware is when you use a PC, perhaps obsolete, to do something useful, especially using Open Source software with low requirements, with regard to system resources. Today we will not speak about media center or navigation station. We’ll talk about something much more concrete and useful! A download center … You really got it right! You will use your computer from the network to download all the files you want using the system “.torrent”. Naturally download only legal files, this is clear.

It’s funny how through small daily tasks sometimes it happen to find new features or commands that you do not knew not, and today this thing happened to me. In particular, I had to do something trivial on the shell of a server, run : command1 | tail-n 2 i use tail to keep, from a significant long output, only the last 2 lines which then i use in another function, but beyond this, I needed to understand if command1 was terminated with an exit code of 0 or if the code was not 0 which number it was.

You can do almost anything with Linux but have you ever considered it for a role as an “automation host?”

I'm sure I don't need to explain SOPA or ACTA to regular readers of Free Software Magazine. They're toxic. End of. But RWA? It stands for Research Works Act. It's not the big sexy beast of the other two but it is, in its way, just as insidious and as harmful to the freedom of scientific publishing as SOPA and ACTA are to internet freedom and it's all interconnected. Here's why.

Earlier this week I shared a pleasant surprise in Mesa 8.1 Radeon Gallium3D with some significant performance improvements to be found in the current Mesa Git code-base for the "R600g" driver in some OpenGL games. In this article is a more diverse look at the current state of Mesa 8.1 development for R600 Gallium3D and comparative benchmarks from every major release going back to Mesa 7.10.