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Microsoft apparently processes hundreds of these requests monthly in a process that appears to be just another order of business – a stark contrast from its vehement public outcries against bulk National Security Agency surveillance programs that collect similar user data.

This is just magical, Crypt of the NecroDander is a hardcore dungeon crawling (roguelike) rhythm game. It features an epic sound-track and the ability to play with your own music.

You use LibreOffice for your documents, perhaps Scribus for making a company brochure, and edit most documents online. You’ve heard of TeX – in the context of mathematical equations, mostly – but why would you use it to lay out everything from invoices to 100-page PDFs? Quite simply, because it produces beautiful-looking documents that are easy to maintain, and using a simple markup that makes keeping track of document evolution and changes far simpler than it is with word processors and desktop publishing packages.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Amarok merges advanced track statistics importers (a GSoC project) KDevelop allows language plugins to provide styles to formatters Konsole stores terminal size in the profile, each profile can now set desired column and row size; allows users to specify css file for tab bar style (this can be used to set minimum width of the tabs, distinguish active tab, etc) Kwallet replaces SHA with PBKDF2-SHA512+Salt Porting to Qt5 and Frameworks 5 continues, we have initial ports of kfind and konq. Read the rest of the Digest here. Dot Categories: Developer

CRYENGINE one of the most advanced game engines around powering a ton of games has finally announced official Linux support, so Crytek how about some Crysis on Linux?

Adlink is readying four PC/104-style SBCs using Intel Atom E3800 SoCs, and offering SATA, GbE, USB, and multimedia ports, plus stackable PCI and ISA buses. Despite having absorbed PC/104-creator Ampro, Adlink isn’t the first embedded boardmaker out with Bay Trail on the PC/104 form-factor. That distinction appears to belong to ADL, which demonstrated its new […]

A new book on open source education teaches school leaders and parents why kids need to see coding as more than cool. Energizing Education through Open Source: Using Open Source Software to Enhance Learning by Christopher Whittum makes a strong case for deploying the Linux OS and its academic software in schools. This book should be required reading for developing computer-driven curricula.

Starbound the really fantastic 2D universe sandbox game has pushed out a small content update into its stable branch on Steam, including some wild weather!

According to a secret document provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the agency tracks down the private email and Facebook accounts of system administrators (or sys admins, as they are often called), before hacking their computers to gain access to the networks they control.

Web servers running a long-outdated version of the Linux kernel were attacked with dramatic speed over two days last week, Cisco Systems said on Thursday.

ZTE’s ZTE9 joint venture unveiled a Tegra 4-based media player and game console, and ZTE announced an IPTV/OTT STB, both featuring Android and video chat. Like Huawei, ZTE is a major Chinese telecom equipment provider that has more recently moved aggressively into mobile devices. They primarily serve up Android phones and tablets, but ZTE has […]

Some financial services companies are looking to migrate their ATM fleets from Windows to Linux in a bid to have better control over hardware and software upgrade cycles.

In this chapter I review how a tiny software company achieved dominance on the desktop

In today's open source roundup: The media makes money by exaggerating Linux security problems. Plus: Is Android too much like a PC? And Linux Mint 17 name and release date announced.

Docker, the container-based virtualization platform, has introduced its first paid service, private repositories.

Calibre 1.29, the eBook reader and management software developed for multiple platforms, including Linux, has been released with even more features for the editing function.

The Docker open-source virtualization container technology project celebrated its one-year anniversary on March 20, as the project stands on the precipice of significant growth in 2014.

Before we dive into using Btrfs, how is it pronounced? Lots of ways, like Bee Tree Eff Ess and Bee Tee Arr Eff Ess. That's too many syllables, so I favor Butter Eff Ess. It sounds nice, and everyone likes butter. In this two-part series we'll build a three-node Btrfs storage pool and learn all about managing snapshots, rollbacks, and subvolumes. Part 1 covers installing Btrfs, creating a simple test lab, creating a storage volume, and what commands to use to see what's in it. In Part 2 we'll create and manage subvolumes, snapshots and rollbacks.

Need a technology podcast to add to your queue? Check out Dave and Gunnar's show at dgshow.org. Dave is a Chief Technologist for Red Hat's US Public Sector group and a self-described drum playing, motorcycle riding computer geek, husband, dad, and catechist. Gunnar is also a Chief Technologist for Red Hat's US Public Sector group whose ears perk up around discussions about cross-domain security, edge innovation, and interagency collaboration through the open source model.

Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most critical services in the Internet. Without DNS, we would not be able to access the web. Before going into the details on how DNS works, a little on the background may be helpful. When you are accessing, say, Google, your traffic originates from your computer, goes through the backbone of your ISP, and then their own upstream provider and so on; until it reaches Google's network.