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A computer scientist has uncovered weaknesses in the application verification service Google recently rolled out to help users detect malicious apps on their Android smartphones and tablets. "By introducing this new app verification service in Android 4.2, Google has shown its commitment to continuously improve security on Android," Xuxian Jiang, a professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, wrote in a brief report published Monday. "However, based on our evaluation results, we feel this service is still nascent and there exists room for improvement."

When someone wants to switch to Linux, one of his concerns is that he has to give up his favorite applications in the old platform. To solve this problem, Wine was developed to help the former Windows users be able to use Windows apps on Linux. Unfortunately there isnt any such tool for former Mac users.

SparkleShare is an open-source file synchronization and collaboration tool that's powered by Git. After being in development for a long time, SparkleShare 1.0 was released on Sunday...

Ubuntu phones and tablets may not be a reality yet, but Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth says Ubuntu is "close" to running on everything from smartphones to supercomputers.

This article highlights 4 lessons I have learned since obtaining a Raspberry PI including the things I take for granted.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

SUSE is now comfortable officially supporting the Btrfs file-system and considering it a "production ready" Linux file-system...

AMD's Ben Sander shares details about the heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) and how it will change the way people program in the future.

An evaluation of Android 4.2's new app verification system finds it somewhat lacking in detection capabilities when compared with existing AV engines in the cloud

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a few hours ago, December 10, the immediate availability for download of the tenth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.6 kernel series.

Revenge of the Titans which is quite frankly an awesome game and my complete favourite from the Humble Bundles 2&3 has received an update which you can find either on your Humble Accounts if you purchased those bundles or via their own website of course.

GraphBuilder is an application that makes it easy to discover (hidden) structures in Big Data. It is an Intel-sponsored project released under the Apache 2 license.

For those that are new to open source, understanding the intricacies of how open source communities share, communicate, and govern themselves may take a while to understand. Each community is different, but there are a few commonalities between them that lay the foundation for a successful project. If you’re just getting into open source, be sure to read more about the different tools that organize communities of practice in The Open Source Way book.

With tmux, you can create a monitoring system allowing you to check on your server remotely and get the perfect overview of what’s happening. Joey Bernard explains how…

Clement Lefebvre proudly announced a minutes ago, December 10, the immediate availability for download of the OEM installation images of the recently released Linux Mint 14 operating system.

The GNOME 3/Cinnamon edition is still too unstable. The MATE edition is much better than in version 13 LTS "Maya", and I can now recommend it as much as I was past editions of Linux Mint with GNOME 2.

Overall, I’ve developed a preference for using open source tools and components whenever it’s feasible. Here are some of the reasons why I prefer to develop with open source code.

After posting a rapid personal rebuff to Richard Stallman's criticism of Ubuntu's Amazon Lens and its search servers, Jono Bacon has apologised for calling Stallman's position "childish"

Dropbox has announced that Python creator Guido van Rossum will be joining the company. Dropbox has been built using Python from the beginning and its design was influenced by the language's design philosophy

Among major computer hardware makers, Dell continues to show growing signs of having a cohesive, far-reaching strategy surrounding open source. We've reported on the company's work with Canonical to bring Ubuntu-based systems to both India and China, including an expansion of this effort. Dell also recently announced its Ubuntu laptop, part of its "Project Sputnik" effort, targeted at developers. And, Dell is offering new laptops with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) pre-loaded. According to the latest reports, we're going to see more open source-friendly moves from Dell going forward.