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Over the past few years, a new type of computer has arrived on the block: the quantum computer. It's arguably the sixth type of computer: Humans: Before there were artificial computers, people used, well, people. And people with this job were called "computers." Mechanical analogue: These are devices such as the Antikythera mechanism, astrolabes, or slide rules.

As an attorney running an open source program office for a Fortune 500 corporation, I am often asked to look into a product or component where there seems to be confusion as to the licensing model. Under what terms can the code be used, and what obligations run with such use? This often happens when the code or the associated project community does not clearly indicate availability under a commonly accepted open source license.

Today Denelle Dixon, Mozilla’s Chief Operating Officer, sent a letter to the European Commission surfacing concerns about the lack of publicly available data for political advertising on the Facebook platform.

News briefs for January 31, 2019.

Learn about how the cutting-edge, free software Heads project detects BIOS and kernel tampering, all with keys under your control.

Canonical is updating Ubuntu 18.04 to the 4.15.0-44.47 Linux kernel to fix several security bugs.

Linux distro image seeks USB drive for private liaison. Discretion assured. The Linux distro for the security-conscious has been updated with a fresh USB installation method.…

Portwell’s fanless, Linux-friendly “RICH-61D0” embedded PC is built around its “WUX-N” NUC board with an Apollo Lake SoC, SATA III, GbE, HDMI, DP, M.2-based wireless, and 4x USB ports. Portwell has launched a wireless-ready industrial mini-PC built around its WUX-N series eNUC boards. We covered the WUX-3455 model a year ago, which is equipped with […]

ApostropheCMS is a free and open source content management system based on Node.js and MongoDB. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install ApostropheCMS on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server.

Welcome, young initiate. Do you have what it takes to become a full-fledged mage?

There seems to be a mad rush at the beginning of every year to find ways to be more productive. New Year's resolutions, the itch to start the year off right, and of course, an "out with the old, in with the new" attitude all contribute to this. And the usual round of recommendations is heavily biased towards closed source and proprietary software. It doesn't have to be that way. Here's the 18th of my picks for 19 new (or new-to-you) open source tools to help you be more productive in 2019. read more

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ has arrived with a wider temperature range and eMMC options ranging from 8GB ($30) to 32GB ($40). When the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ arrived last March, Raspberry Pi Trading said it would be the last 40nm fabricated Raspberry Pi SBC. They did not say anything about computer-on-modules, however. […]

Linux should be spelled L-I-N-U-C-S. Linucs. To make my case for why I believe this, with every fiber of my being, let's start by understanding why "Linux" has that X in the first place. It happened back in the early 1990s, when the first snapshot of Linucs (ahem) code was first uploaded to an FTP server.

If you want to boost your tech skills and knowledge in 2019, the books on this list can help you achieve your goals. If nothing else, they'll give you a lot to think about as you chart your future.

There are a number of utilities that enable you to view text files when you're at the command line. One of them is more. more is similar to another tool I wrote about called less. The main difference is that more only allows you to move forward in a file.

Allwinner and Shenzhen Kepuhao have teamed up on a 96Boards CE Extended compatible “Hichips-Parrot” SBC for Alexa voice prototyping that runs Linux on a quad -A53 Allwinner R18 SoC and offers an external 3-mic array board. We missed the Allwinner SoC-Only 3-Mic Far-Field Dev Kit (BPI-R18-AI) when it shipped for $129 earlier this year from […]

So you want to sell products or services online, but either can't find a fitting software or think customization would be too costly? Scipio ERP may just be what you are looking for.

Keep your podcasts synced across your devices with gPodder, the 17th in our series on open source tools that will make you more productive in 2019.

Mender is an open-source (Apache 2.0) project to address over-the-air (OTA) software update management for Linux-based IoT devices. When we researched this five years ago, there were no open-source end-to-end (device-to-server) options to manage the lifecycle of OTA updates for connected devices. Some open-source options were available, but they either had a proprietary management server, or they were client-only and required integration with another back-end server.

Privacy. While it’s the buzzword for 2019, it has always been a core part of the Mozilla mission, and continues to be a driving force in how we create features …