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A controversial draft law, which one senator called a "surveillance bill by another name," has passed the Senate. CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (S. 754), will allow private companies to share cyber-threat data with the federal government, including personal user data, in an effort to prevent cyberattacks... Companies that share data with federal agencies, including the National Security Agency (NSA), will be given legal and liability protections...

Over the last week, many Linux users on Steam were left in a state of confusion when noticing that some Linux games have had their SteamOS icon removed. For those unaware, the SteamOS icon certifies that a title is playable on Linux, including SteamOS, and soon, on Steam Machines.

When the business software company Pegasystems got sued in 2013 by a mysterious shell company called "YYZ LLC," Pegasystems' head of IP licensing, Ayaz Hameed, got ready to tell his boss that they had been hit by a patent troll.

Hameed looked at the two patents in the complaint (PDF), numbered 7,062,749 and 7,603,674, and read their examination histories. The patent focused on creating "monitoring messages" and storing them into a central database using what's called a "message broker."

We've been informed earlier today, October 28, by Arne Exton that there's a new version of his RaspEX GNU/Linux distribution, updated to the recently released Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) operating system.

The US Library of Congress today issued a set of exemptions to an infamous provision in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), establishing a victory for consumers who like to tinker with devices without running afoul of copyright law. The exemptions were far-reaching, extending from movie and television files used in an educational context for criticism to installing third-party software — in other words jailbreaking — tablets and smart TVs.They will however only last for three years.

The i3 tiling window manager is minimalist, but also represents a great way to get a solid experience out of older, sluggish hardware. It's the desktop for times you don't actually want one.

We reported a few days ago news about the Cinnamon 2.8 desktop environment and the massive amount of features it includes, but it looks like the first point release is already available for download.

In my last article, I continued looking at the Django Web framework, showing how you can create and modify models. As you saw, Django expects you to describe your models using Python code. The model description is then transformed into SQL and compared with any previous version of the model that might have existed.

Tapping into data from a range of sources, including user surveys, the new online Project Navigator tool from the OpenStack Foundation is designed to help firms pick through open-source cloud components

We've already reported last week news regarding the upcoming Unity 8 convergence features that will land for all Ubuntu Phone users as part of the Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 software update on November 18, 2015.

Raspberry Pi devices can now run all versions of Ubuntu Linux thanks to porting tools developed originally for Ubuntu MATE. The catch: GNOME, KDE and Unity won't run on Raspberry Pi, but LXDE and Xfce do.

What is globalization? In software, globalization means two ways to make software useful globally:  internationalization and localization. Because technical folks don't enjoy typing long words, these are often abbreviated.

Different ‘Ubuntus’ come with different desktop environments that have different sets of applications pre-packaged. But there are certain things that all Ubuntu users should do to get most out of the distro.

Ashes of the Singularity is a new RTS game from a studio named Oxide Games with Stardock as its publisher. As it stands right now, this is the first game to be developed to take advantage of DirectX 12, but the makers of the game are also involved with the Vulkan API.

Ubuntu 15.10 was released recently with many missing dependencies due to which several applications are unable to install, including VirtualBox and Bracket text editor. We wrote about how to install VirtualBox in Ubuntu 15.10, let's see how to install Adobe Bracket text editor in Ubuntu 15.10.

Codenamed "Wily Werewolf", 15.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

There's more to Ubuntu than, well, Ubuntu. Here are the 9 official flavors that make up the Ubuntu family.

We've been listening news of adopting Open-source by several countries, organisations and companies. This time it's UK. The UK Government announced the deal with an open source company Collabora Office provides LibreOffice based Office suit "GovOffice".

This tutorial shows the installation of a Ubuntu 15.10 minimal server in detail with many screenshots. The purpose of the guide is to show the basic installation of Ubuntu 15.10 that can be used as basis for our other Ubuntu 15.10 tutorials here at howtoforge like our perfect server guides.

Acrosser’s latest rugged vehicle-PC runs Linux on a 5th Gen Core Broadwell processor, offering sufficient power to run multiple, simultaneous vehicle apps. The Acrosser “AVI-QM97V1FL” vehicle-PC is aimed at systems integration projects like telematics, data recording and fleet and logistics management. A pair of DDR3-1333/1600 SO-DIMM sockets hold up to 16GB of non-ECC RAM. Supported […]