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Apple has blocked its News app for iOS iPhones and iPads in China, presumably in response to government censorship. It's the latest example of Apple's lack of respect for user privacy or freedom.

A new OTA update for Ubuntu Touch is set to release in just a couple of days, but developers have unveiled it by mistake only for a short while. A few users got the notification and even managed to install it before it was pulled, but it shouldn't be a problem.

Backbox Linux is a free, open-source Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. Backbox is one of the most popular Linux distros designed to perform security assessments and penetrations tests. The team recently released the new version 4.4. The version includes all the latest packages that have been recently released and some of the new features that improve BackBox strength.

Windows has often been the harborer of Malware of all kinds and from all sources, but when your getting it from Microsoft, it becomes a worry.

In last month's article, we learned the finer points of exporting video for a sound mix. If you're at the point of a sound mix in your production, you should have these assets: read more

After taking a two week break, Kovid Goyal comes today with hot news from the Calibre world, as he just published details about the 2.41 version of the open-source, free and cross-platform ebook library management software.

For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic key exchange as a defense against surveillance from the US National Security Agency and other state-sponsored spies. Now, researchers are renewing their warning that a serious flaw in the way the key exchange is implemented is allowing the NSA to break and eavesdrop on trillions of encrypted connections.

Unlike Ubuntu server, installation of Ubuntu desktop is pretty much auto-pilot, not leaving much room for customization, such as custom disk partitioning, manual network settings, package selection, etc. While such simple, one-shot installation is considered user-friendly, it leaves much to be desired for those users looking for "advanced installation mode" to customize their Ubuntu desktop installation.

GLnemo2 is a 3D particle visualization program with various capabilities and support for OpenGL rendered objects.

df (disk filesystem) command is used to display disk usage of the file system. By default df command shows the file system usage in 1K blocks for all the current mounted file system.

Red Hat product manager Burr Sutter, Java Champion, always seems to find himself in a space of cutting edge innovation. It's no surprise that he is one of the mad geniuses behind the show-stopping on-stage demos at Red Hat's annual Summit. At All Things Open this year, Burr will highlight technology that links the physical world to the Internet and showcase how the Internet of Things (IoT) will change the way we think. Hopefully his talk will inspire you to not only figure out where to start, but also to do your own awesome things. read more

We've been putting that entire ecosystem through its paces for a few days now, and while some of those pieces work better than others, all have some trouble living up to the promise of a seamless, hassle-free, PC-on-a-TV-console experience. It's early, and Valve's attack on the living room is far from a vaporware failure, but it's not a shock-and-awe knockout blitz either.

A jury has found Apple's A7 and A8 chips violate a patent belonging to the licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin, and the world's richest smartphone maker is now on the hook for up to $862 million in damages.

Torch and pitchfork time after Redmond force-feeds update. Did you notice Microsoft being a bit too eager to push its Windows 10 update onto your PC lately?

An important security issue on Ubuntu phone that has been revealed this morning has been fixed by the Canonical team. This the first major issues revealed on Ubuntu Touch, and the developers have been quick to repair it.

YouTube's CEO Susan Wojcicki delivered a powerful keynote this morning to thousands of attendees at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which is being held this week in Houston. She started with, "My daughter told me she doesn't like computers."

USB sticks have long been a mechanism for delivering malware to unsuspecting computer users. A booby-trapped flash drive, for instance, was the means by which the US and Israel reportedly infected Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility with the Stuxnet worm........ last year's Bad USB proof-of-concept exploit delivered a highly programmable attack platform that can't be detected by today's defenses.

Epic Games, through Alexander Paschall and Stephen Ellis, has had the great pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of the first Preview build of the highly anticipated Unreal Engine 4.10 game engine.

And you thought big Unix was dead! Well it ain't. And it wants upgrading inside a year. As well as the range of Linux servers it released last week, Big Blue also announced version 7.2 of its venerable AIX operating system.

Pentobi is a board game in which players have to place pieces that are similar in shape with tetrominos on a square grid board, while trying to block the opponent from doing the same. The winner is the player who places the most number of pieces on the board when no more pieces can be placed.