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The Internet of Things is changing the world around us, with new use cases, experiences and technologies emerging every day. As we continue to experiment in this space, we wanted to take a moment to share more details around our … Continue reading

Reaction from the industry pours in The discovery of a serious HTTPS encryption vulnerability, dubbed DROWN, again proves that supporting tired old protocols weakens modern crypto systems.…

The SCO Group vs. IBM lawsuit over Linux and Unix code and copyright looks to be finally over due to SCO's lack of money.

Most everyone reading this, to at least some point, is computer proficient. Whether we’ve written scripts for macros to make our typing tasks simpler, or created entire websites, we perceive our skills as part of our daily lives. Not a big deal. It’s simply the tools we’ve accrued to facilitate our work. Ctrl+A? Nothin’ to it. Ctrl+V? Same same. Vi vs Emacs? Don’t start it.

Mozilla's open source operating system for TVs continues to hold its ground. This week, Panasonic announced a new series of smart TVs that will run Firefox OS.

Now We're the Cool Kids! I wish I could go back and tell eight-year-old me that someday it would be a point of pride that I wrote BASIC programs on a TI-99/4A connected to a black-and-white TV.

Also in today's open source roundup: Transmission 2.9 has been released, and is Microsoft neglecting Linux users of Skype?

Interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project.

Marshall McLuhan predicted that “the age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.’” Such is the spirit of Linux

In the continuing line of security vulnerabilities with cute names like Heartbleed or Shellshock, today we have “DROWN.”

Boundary Devices has announced an I/O-rich “Nitrogen7” SBC that runs Linux on NXP’s i.MX7 SoC and features WiFi and Bluetooth wireless, plus PCIe expansion. The Nitrogen7 is the first fully-integrated SBC we’ve seen based on the NXP i.MX7 SoC. The only other i.MX7 SBCs we’ve seen to date are sandwich-style boards that build upon computer-on-modules. […]

It is a five minutes' exercise to increase security on an IPv4 addressed machine. The purpose of the setup described in this tutorial is to lock out port scanners and malicious port openers for a period of time.

Being an open leader means creating the context others need to do their best work. That's a relatively short sentence, but for anyone wishing to lead a group in the 21st century, its implications are enormous. And if you're hoping to be one of those people—if you're hoping to have a career leading an open organization—then you must not only understand what it means, but also recognize ways you can put it into practice, so you can build a culture that creates a strategic, competitive advantage for your organization. read more

DROWN, a new vulnerability that could potentially expose millions of sites to risk, was disclosed and patched. Plus, it's less widespread than Heartbleed

To have some level of consistency in my cross-platform workflow I choose applications that I can run on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Here are some more of the best open source and free apps I've found for my heterogeneous environment.

A sign of the maturation of a movement is when careers in it become a possibility. This seems to be the case with open source software. read more

The Odroid-C2 64-bit quad-core single board computer is now released. The C2 features 2GB memory, Gigabit ethernet, infrared receiver, 40-pin GPIO connector, OpenGL Mali-450 GPU and with AVE support for H264/H265 HDMI 2.0 4K/60Hz display.

Network strings for Linux, an ipv4/ipv6 portscanner, ipv4 passive scanner and packet dumper has a new release. Some of the improvements are: faster (way faster), new isup option, and passive scan actually works (although it is still fuzzy).

There are many cases when you want to help either yourself or another people with working with the spreadsheet you composed. For example, you want to advise that certain cells can only contain a pre-defined set of values and nothing else. The best way to do so is to give users a drop-down list to choose from.

Linux is all around us. It's on our phones in the form of Android. It's used on the International Space Station. It provides much of the backbone of the Internet. read more