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One of the biggest threats it faces is the rise of smartphones as the dominant personal computing device. A recent Pew Research Center report found that 39 of the top 50 news sites received more traffic from mobile devices than from desktop and laptop computers, sales of which have declined for years.

Undetected for nearly a year, the Chinese intruders executed a sophisticated attack that gave them “administrator privileges” into the computer networks at the Office of Personnel Management, mimicking the credentials of people who run the agency’s systems, two senior administration officials said. The hackers began siphoning out a rush of data after constructing what amounted to an electronic pipeline that led back to China...

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at OSVR's support of Android, Linux games at E3, and more!

Learn how to keep your system and your online life as secure and private as possible with our digital special.

Zettaly’s portable, “Avy” wireless speaker runs Android 4.4 and features a 7-inch touchscreen, 10W speakers, a web cam, and up to 40GB of storage.

Power up your own virtual Linux instance on EC2 and run it free for a year.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at LinkedIn and Facebook open sourcing tools, IBM giving Apache Spark a boost, and more!

In the two years since the details of the NSA's deep penetration of the Internet infrastructure began to emerge, there has been a major movement afoot among Web companies to encrypt more and more of their resources and services. The latest large property to make this move is Reddit, which by the end of the month will move to an HTTPS-only model for its sites.

Every day, the security team at network services provider Level 3 Communications monitors approximately 1.3 billion security events; mitigates roughly 22 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks; and removes, on average, one control and command (C2) server network.

This week, we highlight NY State's open data portal, how to be a Docker contributor, an exclusive interview with Robyn Bergeron of Elastic, the latest release of Blender and it's cool new features, and and interview with Jen Krieger, an Agile coach at Red Hat.

Fedora 20 End-of-Life Imminent The Fedora Project keeps three versions of the OS active at any given time — the current release, the release before that, and a new one in development. With last month’s release of Fedora 22 and... Continue Reading →

If you're a cord cutter (and a nerd), you most likely have a server or two dedicated to serving and possibly retrieving videos from the Internet. Programs like Kodi and Plex are awesome for media delivery; however, there's more to a complete system than just playing the videos.

Not too long ago, I was working at an art organisation that offered university classes, low-cost membership for facility usage, and just an all-round creative space where people could come and look at and create art. It was very nearly my ideal organisation. It was non-profit, creative, and as open as it could be to anyone who wanted to learn. read more

The UK's only dedicated Postgres user event has two new speakers, along with a great line up of technology and other experts

Swappiness is the kernel parameter that defines how much (and how often) your Linux kernel will copy RAM contents to swap. This parameter's default value is “60” and it can take anything from “0” to “100”. The higher the value of the swappiness parameter, the more aggressively your kernel will swap.

Intrinsyc’s tiny “Open-Q 410 SOM” module has a quad-core, Cortex-A53 Snapdragon 410, offers WiFi, BT, GPS, 8GB of eMMC, and supports both Android and Linux. Vancouver, Canada based Intrinsyc Technologies Corp. has expanded its line of Qualcomm Snapdragon based Open-Q computer-on-modules with a tiny module that taps Qualcomm’s 64-bit, Snapdragon 410. The Open-Q 410 is […]

Keep your containers close and your data closer. ClusterHQ has inked an agreement that will see its Flocker container management code integrate with EMC's flashy fare.

Design and user experience (UX) can often be an afterthought for open source projects. But that’s changing. PatternFly is a project helping to bridge the gap between developers and designers.

Security, networking, virtualisation, multibooting, troubleshooting, amazing FOSS, the best distros and more inside this fantastic new bookazine

Dropbox synchronizes folders in your PC with a virtual hard disk in the cloud. This tutorial shows the installation of Dropbox on Ubuntu 15.04