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One of the major shifts in technology over the last few years has been the emergence and adoption of NoSQL databases. More and more firms are moving to NoSQL because it’s scalable, distributed, and flexible. Those are all elements that make NoSQL a good choice for today's big data applications.

After a pair of very public disclosures in the last two weeks, Netgear published new firmware for vulnerabilities in its routers that have been publicly exploited.

Siri may be your personal assistant. But your voice is not the only one she listens to. As a group of French researchers have discovered, Siri also helpfully obeys the orders of any hacker who talks to her-even, in some cases, one who's silently transmitting those commands via radio from as far as 16 feet away.

Windows 10 only is not a universal solution. Microsoft introduced the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) this year: applications that run across many device types, provided that they all run Windows 10.

An OpenStack partnership between Mirantis and Netapp brings new storage solutions to Mirantis's open source cloud operating system.

The Liberty release, the second major OpenStack update this year, includes a wealth of new projects and features, while core technologies continue to evolve.

Q4OS, a Linux distribution based on Debian that aims to provide users with a desktop experience that is similar to the one found on older Windows systems, has been upgraded by its developers to version 1.4.3.

Aaeon’s “AQ7-BT” COM runs Linux on dual- or quad-core Bay Trail SoCs, and offers onboard RAM and SSD, rich I/O, PCIe expansion, and -40 to 85°C operation.

We have just received an email from Animesoft International informing us about the availability for the final release of their Ubuntu-based Linux Mangaka Chu distribution.

BeagleBoard.org has provided some new details, including PCIe support, for its dual-core Cortex-A15 BeagleBoard-X15 SBC, which is due by December for $239. The open-spec BeagleBoard-x15 single-board computer was announced in Nov. 2014, with promises of shipments by February. In August when BeagleBoard.org announced the now-shipping BeagleBone Green, the Texas Instruments aligned community organization said that […]

Just in time for the 24th Birthday of the Linux Kernel, the Linux Foundation has released the first episode in a new web video animation series that shows us what a world without Linux might be like. For those who... Continue Reading →

ONOS and OpenDaylight will collaborate within the open source software-defined networking (SDN) space under the guidance of the Linux Foundation, OpenDaylight executive director Neela Jacques said.

Rust is a systems programming language that got it's start in 2010 with Mozilla Research. Today, one of Rust's most ardent developers and guardians is Steve Klabnik, who can you find traveling the globe touting it's features and teaching people how to use it. At All Things Open 2015, Steve will give attendees all they need to know about Rust, but we got an exclusive interview prior to his talk in case you can't make it. read more

In today's open source roundup: An Arch Linux user wonders if it's worth the bother to run it. Plus: Ubuntu 15.10 will ship with GNOME's overlay scroll bars. And Ubuntu phones will be able to run Linux apps.

How often do you come across a link to something that you want to save so you can read it later? What do you do? You can save the link to the likes of Pocket or Google Keep, you can email the link to yourself, or you can let an app like Basket - Bookmark & Read Later help you out. This free tool allows you save links from anywhere you can access your (free) account and view them at any time. It's incredibly simple to use (from both Android and a desktop web browser).

Gamers like myself should be excited about the idea of a cross platform currency. In-game purchases aren’t often transferable between consoles or even different game launchers. For example, if a user were to spend money while playing on a console, any remaining amount would be useless if that person primarily plays on Steam. With GameCredits, it’s possible to save money and avoid the hassle of buying from multiple sources every time.

That may sound like an odd threesome, but Jessie can run Firefox as a native Gnome 3 application. And why would you want to do that? Debian already comes with a perfectly good web browser --- Iceweasel, a rebranded version of Firefox. Why? Because of updates. Firefox updates much more often than Iceweasel. If you want the latest features and the latest bug fixes and security updates, you want Firefox.

The curl command is a versatile tool for working with web sites and web applications.

I'm not generally a privacy nut when it comes to my digital life. That's not really a good thing, as I think privacy is important, but it often can be very inconvenient. For example, if you strolled into my home office, you'd find I don't password-protect my screensaver.

It was late 2006 (if my memory serves me right), and I was still using Windows XP. Right around the corner, though, was the (now dreaded) Windows Vista. I really didn't like the thought of it, XP had been giving me grief, and I was just getting fed up with Windows' nonsense in general. read more