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The President of Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (patent troll) leaves and the founder of Intellectual Ventures, Microsoft's largest peripheral patent troll, joins Sherpa Technology

In the months leading up to political elections, public debate intensifies and citizens are exposed to a proliferation of information around policy options. In a data-driven society where new insights have been informing decision-making, a deeper understanding of this information has never been more important, yet the public still hasn't realized the full potential of public policy modeling.

GitHub's Ian Olsen announced the release of Atom 1.13, the newest stable version of the acclaimed open-source and multiplatform hackable text editor, for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows platforms.

Arne Exton informs us about a new release of his Ubuntu/Debian-based ExLight 64-bit Live Linux operating system, bringing us some of the latest technologies and open-source software projects.

The southern African country of Mozambique suffers under the most extreme challenges for resource-poor countries: economic instability, political strife, civil unrest, corruption and crime, unreliable infrastructure (such as transportation and telecommunications), and a large-scale HIV epidemic that has yet to be declared under control. read more

The LF posted the schedule for the Embedded Linux Conference in Portland, Feb. 21-23. Keynotes include Guy Hoffman, Imad Sousou, and Linus Torvalds. Registration is open for the Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) and OpenIoT Summit. Early bird prices end Jan. 15. The Linux Foundation also posted a full schedule for the show, which will run […]

A researcher has published a tool for finding secret keys with varying cryptographic strength in git repositories. The tool, dubbed TruffleHog, is able to search for and locate keys containing high-entropy strings by digging deep into commit history and branches, according to developer Dylan Ayrey.

After many years of practicing marketing in the B2B tech world, I think I've heard just about every misconception that engineers seem to have about marketers. Here are some of the more common: "Marketing is a waste of money that we should be putting into actual product development." "Those marketers just throw stuff against the wall and hope it sticks. Where's the discipline?" "Does anyone actually read this stuff?" "The best thing a marketer can tell me is how to unsubscribe, unfollow, and unfriend." And here's my personal favorite: read more

As many deployments of open cloud computing platforms are maturing, integrating and managing container technologies and platforms is a very high priority. Container management and automation tools represent a hot area for development as companies race to fill the growing need to manage highly distributed, cloud-native applications.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds will speak at Embedded Linux Conference and OpenIoT Summit again this year, along with renowned robotics expert Guy Hoffman and Intel VP Imad Sousou..

How about turning your Linux system into an arcade system? Making your computer into an arcade system can make for some interesting fun. Actual arcade games that everyone had to pump quarters into all day and get nowhere, you can now do it at home without the need for quarters.

A tutorial on how to get 2FA (Two Factor Auth) working on both your smartphone and Linux desktop

I'm a big Evernote user. It's a powerful commercial program that allows you to sync text, photos and documents across multiple devices. Sadly, there's no native Linux client. Also, it's a proprietary software package, and that bums me out.

For those of you who like your reality virtual and your software open, there are options -- such as this nifty headset our Phil Shapiro found while searching YouTube.

It’s been a bit of a ride, but we now have it confirmed for sure that Civilization VI is coming to Linux, and the release isn’t far off.

Ceph-dash is is a WSGI application based on the Flask framework for monitoring of Ceph clusters. In this tutorial, I will show you to install Ceph-dash and configure it to run under an apache web server with SSL and mod_auth support.

cp is one of the very basic Linux/Unix command to copy files and folders/directories from one location to another location.

The Raspberry Pi, a small motherboard, has a special Operating System (OS) for it. Raspbian is a Debian based Linux distribution optimized for the hardware. For a beginner, Raspbian is a very powerful OS to use for learning the Raspberry Pi (RPi).

Using GOTO in your code is awesome and you should do it more

There. I said it. It needs to be said. Given the plethora of "GOTO is evil. Never use it" that goes around from your professors teaching you to code through to colleagues and coding guidelines, someone has to take the side of the poor maligned GOTO

Amazon launched their Simple Storage Service (S3) service about 10 years ago followed shortly by Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). In the past 10 years, Amazon has learned a few things about running these services. In his keynote at LinuxCon Europe, Chris Schlaeger, Director Kernel and Operating Systems at the Amazon Development Center in Germany, shared 10 lessons from Amazon.