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NoScript, Firebug, and other popular Firefox add-on extensions are opening millions of end users to a new type of attack that can surreptitiously execute malicious code and steal sensitive data, a team of researchers reported.

If you pick up a Samsung Smart TV this year, you'll be certain to find "Linux Inside" in many ways. Samsung continues to build on its Tizen-powered Smart TV UI, which this year it will enhance with integrated SmartThings IoT hub technology, enabling the TV as the control center for a smart home.

Zoe Landon describes herself as a front-end web developer, entrepreneur, and general oddball. When she's not doing design and research for Marketo, she works on the music discovery project RCRDList, plays drums, and writes stories. Her first novel, The Latte Segment, was released in February. read more

In this tutorial, I will guide you trough the installation of a MariaDB Galera cluster on CentOS 7 which has an HAProxy load balancer in front. The total setup consists of 4 servers. I will use 3 CentOS 7 servers for the database nodes, 2 nodes will be active and 1 acts as the backup node. The fourth server will be used for the HAProxy load balancer. For the balance algorithm, we use leastconn (but you can use other algorithms).

What does open source software mean? When you are explaining it to someone else, how do you convey the value and essense of open source without reinventing it? There have been many hard won lessons in open source since the phrase was first coined in 1997, and we should not forget those lessons. To help with that, I've collected 12 memes that are meaningful to me to help share the history, set the stage, and provide context for what open source software is and what it means to the software industry at large. read more

Welcome back to our mini-series of articles on the Files app, also known as Nautilus. Files is part of the GNOME desktop, which ships in the Fedora Workstation edition. Previously we covered sorting to show your recent work at the top... Continue Reading →

A few months ago Google announced a new open source project called Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) that promised to "dramatically improve the performance of the mobile Web," and now Google features AMP content at the top of mobile search results. read more

Under the hood of the HPC, AI workhorse ... which'll be coming to a desk near you GTC16 So there it is: the long-awaited Nvidia Pascal architecture GPU. It's the GP100, and it will debut in the Tesla P100, which is aimed at high-performance computing (think supercomputers simulating the weather and nuke fuel) and deep-learning artificial intelligence systems.…

Adlink announced the “AmITX-BW-I” SBC, featuring Intel’s Braswell SoCs, a slim, embeddable “thin Mini-ITX” profile, dual GbE, and 4K triple-display video. Adlink’s “Thin Mini-ITX” form-factor AmITX-BW-1 SBC features a low profile design, consumption in the range of 4 to 6 Watts, and is offered with a range of dual- and quad-core, 14nm Intel Pentium, Atom, […]

An important but often underestimated part of software development is testing. Testing is, by definition, challenging. If bugs were easy to find, they wouldn't be there in the first place. A tester has to think outside the box to find the bugs that others have missed. In many cases, understanding the business domain of an application is more crucial for effective testing, as is detailed knowledge of the application itself. read more

The person who has a big hand in building the MongoDB developer community over the past six years is Meghan Gill. She was the open source NoSQL database's first marketing hire, and will be speaking at this year's OSCON about creating and nurturing open source advocates.

Microsoft says Windows 10 is on 270m devices. Just a billion to go, then! In a falling market. Microsoft last week updated its Windows 10 usage data, claiming 270 million devices now run its newest operating system.…

After months of collecting ideas and holding open discussion across our community, we have united around a simple statement of what we want to achieve: A world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy. This is our vision.

The teenager who grabbed headlines earlier this week for hacking a fake game listing on to Valve's Steam store says there are "definitely" more vulnerabilities to be found in the popular game distribution service. But he won't be the one to find them.............

While modern GNU/Linux distributions don't require any use of the terminal, or any knowledge of the bash to offer 100% of their functionality and usability, it is often the case that doing things from the terminal is preferred for a set of reasons.This post is aimed at the people who just want to perform practically useful tasks right from their terminal without having to learn much about command lines.

Introduction We’re trying to focus more on developer experience in the Red Hat ecosystem. In the process we’ve started to incorporate the Vagrant tool into our standard offerings. As part of that effort, we’re seeking a shared folder solution that doesn’t... Continue Reading →

Arduino LLC debuted a $35 IoT focused MKR1000 board, supported with an Arduino IoT site, and soon, an Arduino Create code editor and Arduino Cloud platform. At Arduino Day this week in Berkeley, Calif., Arduino LLC’s cofounders Massimo Banzi, David Mellis, and Tom Igoe hailed the company’s new MKR1000 board as combining the functionality of […]

The conversation around "open" in higher education has been happening for some time—but as open source has become mainstream in the software industry the conversation in the educational space has exploded. From universities offering degree programs in open source software, to MOOCs from top tier colleges providing open enrollment courses, to universities around the world creating their own open source software projects, open is rapidly becoming a standard in higher ed. read more

There's the Internet of Things -- DVRs, refrigerators, and cars -- and then there's the Internet of civic things -- electrical power grids, oil and gas production facilities, and highway traffic management. Linux has a role to play in both.

Jess Portnoy is a prolific PHP developer and open source geek with lots of helpful data and web data on SourceForge and GitHub. I was vaguely familiar with Jess's work from various tech talks that she's given, which usually attracted my attention because of her affiliation with the web multimedia platform Kaltura. read more