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Exploit kits infecting thousands of WordPress websites are setting their sights on the open-source content management system Joomla in a new campaign spotted by a researcher at the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center. "The group behind the WordPress 'admedia' campaign is now apparently targeting Joomla sites," said Brad Duncan, security researcher at Rackspace.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the new IoT project from the Linux Foundation, three big corporations releasing open source, and more.

Overlapping Mobile World Congress and Embedded World events last week brought news of some interesting new ARM and x86 chips for Internet of Things devices. In this article, I’ll look at several processors introduced at last week’s Mobile World Congress and Embedded World events, that address the growing market for the Internet of Things (IoT), ...

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at a new release of the Godot game engine, Factorio finally available on Steam, and new games out for Linux. Open gaming roundup for February 20 - 26, 2016 read more

Timesys released v5.0 of its LinuxLink embedded Linux distribution, adding full Yocto Project compatibility backed by a “Bakery” setup wizard. In recent years, Timesys has aligned its LinuxLink platform with Yocto Project code. Now, LinuxLink 5.0 promises full compatibility, bringing it in line with other major embedded distros. The company continues to provide , as […]

Eurotech’s rugged “ReliaGate 10-11” IoT gateway runs Linux on a TI AM3352, offers numerous options, and is supported with an updated ESF 3.3 framework. Eurotech, which is known here mostly for its Intel Atom-based Catalyst computer-on modules, has announced a new version of its ReliaGate Internet of Things gateway. The ReliaGate 10-11 runs on a […]

A Raspberry Pi 3 with WiFi and Bluetooth LE has been spotted on an FCC site. Meanwhile, a MagPi cover advert says the Pi 3 advances to a 1.2GHz 64-bit SoC. The Register spotted a Raspberry Pi 3 design on the FCC wireless test database. The documentation indicates a “Raspberry Pi 3” with 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n […]

In the past week, the conversation about encryption has reached fever pitch. Encryption, Apple, and the FBI are in headlines around the world.

Getting started, learning more, or even just finding the solution to your particular problem within the OpenStack universe can be quite an undertaking. The good news is that there are a number of resources to help you out....

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2 bridges was 'unnecessary' says dev platform VP. Microsoft has officially scrapped its Android to Windows 10 bridge, codenamed Astoria, but is forging ahead with its Objective C Windows compiler and tools for porting iOS applications.

This week's Top 5 we highlight an open source project management solution, Vagrant and Ansible for web development, how to add open source experience to your resume, tips for growing on GitHub, and how to choose a brand name for your project.

Apache Solr is an enterprise-class open source search platform written in Java which enables you to create custom search engines that index databases, files, and websites. This tutorial will show you how to install the latest Solr version on Ubuntu 14.04. The steps will most likely work with later Ubuntu versions as well.

I'm a space nerd. That's probably not a surprise, but just how deep my nerdery goes might be. I have just about every space photo NASA has ever released. I schedule NASA.tv mission briefings on my Google Calendar as if they were specifically for me. I used to make my kids watch Shuttle launches on our TV, even if they were doing homework!

Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each.

Learn to work with word signatures, and tackle programming problems by identifying simpler sub-problems

Sweet 127.0.0.1 Chicago The Chicago Public Schools district has become the first in the nation to make computer science training a requirement for high school graduation.…

The Eclipse Advanced Scripting Environment (EASE) project is a new but powerful set of plugins that enables you to quickly hack your Eclipse IDE. read more

Welcome back to the GPG series, where we are exploring how to make use of GPG with other applications to secure and protect your data. In the first installment, we covered the functions of GPG. You learned about integrity, non-repudiation... Continue Reading →

Software Freedom Conservancy Oracle's Gnuts ZFS licence is the problem The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) thinks Canonical, the curator of Ubuntu, has breached the Gnu Public Licence (GPL).…