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Fully developed HiddenWasp gives attackers full control of infected machines.

A Data Cleaner's Cookbook has a couple of pages on "broken" records and recommends a function that checks for "brokenness". This post describes a short script that does the same job more informatively.

Awk is a versatile programming language designed for pattern scanning and processing language and often used as a data extraction and reporting tool. It’s an excellent filter and report writer.

KUnit has been seeing a lot of use and development recently. It's the kernel's new unit test system, introduced late last year by Brendan Higgins. Its goal is to enable maintainers and other developers to test discrete portions of kernel code in a reliable and reproducible way. This is distinct from various forms of testing that rely on the behavior of the system as a whole and, thus, do not necessarily always produce identical results.

Intel previewed a “NUC Compute Element” with Y- or U-series Core chips, RAM, and storage that can be embedded in laptops and other devices via a proprietary connector. It also showed off several new technologies including a Honeycomb Glacier laptop with a secondary screen on the keyboard. Intel, which went to the Computex show in […]

News briefs for May 30, 2019.

The addition of Huawei to the US "Entity List" has created a flurry of confusion and concern among open source and open standards organizations wondering whether they need to kick the Chinese company out. The answer to that question will likely vary, depending on the transparency of the process of the specific organization.

When we think about gates, we think about having something to protect. Gates are most often used to provide a physical boundary for the sake of security. They are made of metal, or wood, or plastic, and even sometimes they are made of software. They save us from uninvited risks of damaging something important to us. read more

Imago’s “VisionBox Daytona” machine vision computer runs Linux on a Jetson TX2 and offers 4G LTE plus dual GbE camera ports with PoE and triggers. Other recent, Linux-based Imago systems include an octa-core VisionBox Le Mans and an EdgeBox cloud server. Imago Technologies has released a variety of Linux-ready VisionBox machine vision systems in recent […]

BoltWire CMS is an open-source content management system that runs on PHP – it’s easy-to-install, and comes with many features.

In the first three articles in this series, we explored the general requirements of a Source-to-Image (S2I) system and prepared and tested an environment specifically for a Go (Golang) application. read more

2DayGeek: Learn, how to view installed security updates on RHEL and CentOS system.

The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, a turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. It features both single player and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.

Looking to do something meaningful this summer? How about helping a few young people take their first steps in an IT career? Such an opportunity fell into my lap a few years ago, and I don't see why it can't be reproduced on a much larger scale. read more

Dell announced today three new Dell Precision mobile workstation Developer Edition models shipping with the Ubuntu Linux operating system.

Apache HTTP server is the most popular web server in the world. It is a free, open-source and cross-platform HTTP server providing powerful features which can be extended by a wide variety of modules.

In the early days of computing, hardware was expensive and programmers were cheap. In fact, programmers were so cheap they weren't even called "programmers" and were in fact usually mathematicians or electrical engineers. Early computers were used to solve complex mathematical problems quickly, so mathematicians were a natural fit for the job of "programming." read more

This comprehensive guide explains how to use FFmpeg multimedia framework to do various audio, video transcoding and conversion operations with 20+ practical examples.

With an Android emulator, you can enjoy the smartphone experience without the smartphone. Here are some of the best Android emulators for Linux.

The Fedora 28 Linux operating system has officially reached end of life (EOL) status on May 28th, 2019, which means that it is time for users to upgrade to a more recent release.