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A group of Russian-speaking hackers that has targeted politicians, state entities, and companies over the past eight years is continuing to develop its skills, according to an analysis by security researchers.

The Plasma team has been working on an early Christmas present: a live image running Plasma on Wayland. Being able to run a full session of Plasma with applications is a major milestone in our aim of moving from the 30 year old X Window System to its replacement.

In this week's Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight our 10 editor's picks from the most popular projects of the year, an open letter to parents on FOSS, what's in a sys admin's toolbox, avoiding burnout at work, and Blender for surgery. 

Adlink unveiled COM Express Type 6 Compact and Basic modules based on Intel’s 6th Gen Core “Skylake” CPUs, with up to 32GB DDR4 RAM and -40 to 85°C support.

MEAN.JS is a full javascript stack that contains MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install MEAN.JS on ubuntu 15.04. We will install MongoDB from the Ubuntu repository and install Node.js and the npm package manager with the nodesource script.

I spent my career in a school system that had a high number of socioeconomically disadvantaged youth. These young people were talented, but often lacked the resources to afford both computers and software to use at home and to share their work with teachers when they came to school. read more

Is contributor doing it for the LULs Y/N? Input = Y Wikipedia is to put artificial intelligence to the enormous task of keeping the free, editable online encyclopaedia up-to-date, spam-free and legal.…

Short history of Fedora OpenID In March 2013, we introduced an entirely new and rewritten OpenID provider: FAS-OpenID. This has since become the basis for logging in to almost every web service the Fedora Infrastructure runs as well as some... Continue Reading →

It was indeed just 'comedy wallpaper in a techie's lappie' Britain's new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers will be Windows XP-free zones, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed to The Register.…

Code has launched a compact “PixiePro” SBC that runs Linux on a 1GHz i.MX6Quad SoC, and offers extensive I/O including WiFi, BLE, NFC, GPS, and 3G. At first glance, $130 may seem a lot these days, for yet another SBC based on the well-worn NXP (formerly Freescale) quad-core i.MX6. Yet, the PixiePro SBC stands out […]

Cube-Controls has launched a “Pi Cubes” home automation and HVAC kit that runs Ubuntu Snappy on a Raspberry Pi. Having furnished its Kickstarter backers with its Pi Cubes home automation system, Kitchener, Canada startup Cube-Controls has opened sales to the general public. The Raspberry Pi-driven system is designed like a commercial building HVAC automation system, […]

I'm just starting out in the world of development, and many of the projects I'm interested in exploring are written in Node.js. If you're an old hand at such things, you already know that which version of Node you use on a particular application is vitally important.

Blockchain technology makes cryptocurrency like bitcoin possible, but it has a lot of potential beyond tracking currency transactions. The Linux Foundation wants to tap into that potential and is spearheading a collaborative effort to develop an enterprise-grade open source distributed ledger called Hyperledger.

Pressing the backspace key 28 times can bypass the Grub2 bootloader's password protection and allow a hacker to install malware on a locked-down Linux system.

Netflix announced today that their HTML5 video player now supports Firefox on Windows Vista and later using Adobe’s new Primetime CDM (Content Decryption Module). This means Netflix fans can watch their favorite shows on Firefox without installing NPAPI plugins.

Drupal is a well-known open source content management system based on PHP. It is available free of charge and released under the GNU General Public License. In this tutorial, we will install Drupal 8 with Nginx web server, MariaDB as the database server and PHP-FPM to handle PHP requests.

Genealogy, the study of family histories, is a popular pastime for millions of people worldwide. Individuals seeking to learn more about their pedigree or simply discover more about their family's past have built vibrant communities of like-minded (and possibly related) individuals to help each other play historical detective and track down the missing links in their chain of ancestry. read more

Mumble is a popular, free and open source VoIP (Voice over IP) client used by various communities across the world. Mumble is particularly well-known among gaming communities, especially games that take advantage of its positional audio feature. Mumble is useful... Continue Reading →

When I talk to college students who are working on their first open source projects, the message I emphasize over and over and (yes, one more time) over again is the importance of working openly. And yet, as I discovered myself while writing this post, working openly is harder than it sounds. read more

Software has been eating the world for far longer than four years. But developers think of software a little differently. Insofar as we're solving real-world problems, we're not thinking mainly of the metal. And as the problems get bigger and the solutions more complex, pragmatic (and not-too-leaky) abstractions become more important than ever. read more