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Millions of Android devices are at risk yet again after researchers found a new way to exploit an older vulnerability that was previously patched by Google.

In an exclusive interview with TIME, Cook discusses your privacy, America’s security, and what’s at stake in the battle over encryption

Manjaro LXQt 16.03 has been released and announced by the developers of the Manjaro community. this release shipped with the latest build of the next-generation LXQt desktop environment (LXQt 0.10) and powered by the long-term supported Linux kernel 4.4.x.

Named after the really fast bullet train. Geddit? Google will open-source its super-duper load balancing Maglev tool to developers – a move that will also bolster its own infrastructure developments.…

UNIGINE Corp. announced the release and general availability of version 2.2 of its beautiful 3D game engine UNIGINE for all supported platforms, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Portwell’s “NANO-6050” Nano-ITX SBC offers a 5th Gen Core CPU, plus SATA, mSATA, mini-PCIe, and dual GbE, and is available in the form of an industrial PC. Portwell’s NANO-6050 is very similar to its Atom E3800-based NANO-6060 SBC, but instead offers a choice of dual-core, 5th Gen Intel Core U-series i5 and i3 processors. Both […]

ClearOS 7.2.0 Final for all editions has arrived! ClearOS 7 is available in three editions: Community, Home, and Business. All editions can be installed from the same ISO, but each edition provides access to different repos with a mix of apps, support, and services to meet different environment needs. This release is the second in the ClearOS 7 series and provides primarily maintenance and bug fixes.

Evince, the open-source document viewer used by default in a GNOME desktop installation for viewing all sorts of documents, including PDF, has just been updated today to version 3.19.92.

The Linux Foundation and edX are offering free training for open source cloud and container technology, such as OpenStack, Docker and Kubernetes.

Sometimes you have to quit cleaning your code long enough to clean your room. The people at the FreeBSD Foundation have already been doing some spring cleaning. They've even called the decorator.

GNOME Project has just announced that the highly anticipated GNOME 3.20 desktop environment is now officially in Release Candidate (RC) stage of development.

When you are writing a shell script, there are cases where you need to compare two version numbers, and proceed differently depending on whether one version number is higher/lower than the other. For example, you want to check for the minimum version requirement (i.e., $version ? 1.3.0). Or you want to write a conditional statement where the condition is defined by a specific range of version numbers (e.g., 1.0.0 ? $version ? 2.3.1).

The developers of Substance Painter 2 have announced they will be releasing a Linux beta of their 3D painting software.

Here's how to nuke this persistent menace Microsoft uses techniques similar to aggressive malware to promote its “Get Windows 10” offer.…

One of the most important resources that an open source project can provide to potential contributors is contributor guidelines. When eager new contributors rush over to your project to make their first open source contribution, they rely on your contributor guidelines to be their guiding hand. That means that contributor guidelines should be easy to read, thorough, and friendly. You'll find a template for contributor guidelines for a particular git workflow below. In case you are interested in developing your own, here are some tips and tricks: read more

Researchers are tracking a massive spam campaign pelting inboxes with Locky ransomware downloaders in the form of JavaScript attachments. The huge spike, reported by security firm Trustwave, represents an extraordinary uptick in the attempted distribution of the Locky ransomware.

For small businesses and consumers without enterprise deployment tools, a clean install of the aging Windows 7 can take a full day. And the problem's getting worse.

This tutorial shows how to install and configure a TYPO3 (version 7) web site on a Debian 8 (Jessie) server that has Nginx installed as web server and MariaDB as the database server. Typo3 is an enterprise class CMS system written in PHP which has a large user and developer community.

While I was putting together slides for my lightning talk at Great Wide Open (happening March 16-17), Not that Weird: Open Source Tools for Creatives, I remembered that in the last half of 2015 we had a bit of a loss from our open source creative toolbox. read more

Richard Clarke tells NPR that the FBI just wants precedent and could have data already.