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Intel offered new details about its 22nm “Silvermont” architecture “Bay Trail-T” system-on-chip, targeting affordable Android and Windows 8 tablets. The Intel Atom Z3000 family SoC will be offered in dual- and quad-core models, offering up to twice the performance of current Atom chips while providing up to 10-hour battery life, says Intel.

Rorschax is a simple yet challenging puzzle game where you must create the mirror image of a pattern by manipulating a grid of squares.

Today in Open Source: Microsoft makes big money from Android! Plus: Mageia 4 Alpha 2 screenshot tour, and Virtualbox tips for Linux

Just because software is free doesn’t mean it’s free software.

This may confuse those who only know the Windows world, where the software animal known as “freeware” is readily available but truly free software is a bit more scarce. They may be excused for thinking, when we Linux users talk about “free software,” that they use free software too. After all, doesn’t a free antivirus program qualify as free software? Or what about that gee-whiz free password manager that’ll generate and store five or six passwords–more if the “pro” version is purchased?

The Stones once lamented in It's Only Rock and Roll, what did they have to do to satisfy our teenage lust --suicide right on the stage? Apple may be wondering just what it needs to do to satisfy our tech lust because no matter what it does, it won't be able to recreate the excitement of 2008.

Do you remember the Indie title Amnesia the Dark Descent? A great Survival-horror game released in 2010 that has had a lot of success, and if you don’t know it, check it on the net, it’s probable that with the release of the new game you can find it at a discounted price. But I’m here to talk about Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, from the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes this new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness, sound interesting enough?

Thunderbird, the mysteriously abandoned (sort-of) open source mail client makes its return on September 17th. Faithful users have been marooned on version 17, receiving only maintenance tune-ups along the way, but that’s all set to change.

We're happy to announce that LinuxQuestions.org recently crossed the one million post and five million thread thresholds. With over 500,000 members, LQ remains one of the most active Linux communities on the web. We'd like to thank each and every LQ member, without whom the site wouldn't exist.

Aside from the Intel Bay Trail unveiling today, exciting news out of the Intel Developer Forum today is a set of new Chromebooks thanks to Google and their partners. Being at IDF, these are Intel-based devices and using the latest-generation Haswell CPUs.

Radxa is accepting preorders for a compact, open, Android- and Linux-ready single board computer based on a 1.6GHz quad-core Rockchip RK3188 SoC. The $89 and $69 Radxa Rock and Rock Lite SBCs offer up to 2GB RAM and 8GB flash, WiFi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet connectivity, real-world ports for HDMI, Ethernet, USB, and S/PDIF, and numerous other interfaces on a pair of expansion headers.

It's our pleasure to announce the immediate release of the fifth stable release of Semplice Linux. Semplice Linux is a simple, fast and lightweight distribution based on Debian's unstable branch. It includes a small collection of up-to-date applications running on top of the Openbox window manager.

A review of the games in The Humble Indie Bundle 9.

The Pirate Bay has long been a thorn in the side of copyright holders, but when Britain's record industry trade association asked Google to remove the notorious file-sharing site from its homepage, the search engine refused to comply.

A buffer overflow in Snack could result in execution of arbitrary code or Denial of Service.

KO GmbH today presents Krita Gemini for Windows 8. Krita Gemini is a fusion between Krita Sketch and Krita Desktop: Krita Gemini switches seamlessly between the full-featured desktop/laptop user interface and the sketch interface, which is optimized for tablets.

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes four security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

OpenTeacher is an opensource application that helps you learn a foreign language vocabulary. Just enter some answers and questions in your native and foreign language or download them from internet, and OpenTeacher tests you.

It was discovered that exactimage, a fast image processing library, does not correctly handle error conditions of the embedded copy of dcraw. This could result in a crash or other behaviour in an application using the library due to an uninitialized variable being passed to longjmp.

ImageMagick could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

To install software on Linux systems, users will be using one of many installation-file formats. However, each Linux distribution only supports one or more types of installation files. For instance, RedHat-based systems use RPM files for installing new applications. A Debian-based system cannot read an RPM file. So, what if a RedHat user finds an application that they want to install, but the installation-file is a DEB file? Thankfully, there is a program called Alien that can convert installation-files.