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Face it, the cloud isn't going anywhere because we sure as heck aren't going back to carrying 3.5 in floppies even if our devices had such a slot. Just as Danny and the Juniors once sang about rock and roll, the cloud is here to stay. It will never die. So can we stop the cloud viability discussions once and for all, please?

Today in Open Source: Should Bill Gates be fired? Plus: Android tablet sales beat Apple, and five fun Linux racing games.

The latest release of libbluray, the open-source Blu-ray library used by VLC, MPlayer, and XBMC among other multimedia projects, has better support for Blu-ray Disc Java and Blu-ray menus.

First person shooter set in the Wild West times. Take part in frenzy team versus shootouts or play cooperative missions against AI managed enemies. Most of the classic black powder guns are available in single or dual wield setup.

The PixelJunk developers emailed this one in and I had to keep quiet about it until the official announcement, but no more! PixelJunk Shooter is on its way to Linux.

Apple has released the Golden Master (GM) verion of its upcoming OS X 10.9, aka Mavericks, to its developers, along with the GM version 5.0.1 of its development environment (IDE), Xcode.

Today in Apple: The 64-bit A7 chip improves audio and video in games and apps. Plus: iPhone 5s and 5C top carrier sales charts, and OS X Mavericks golden master released to developers

A round up of a number of events relevant to the Linux world for the past week.

Patent-holding giant Intellectual Ventures (IV) has been making the rounds seeking investors for a new patent-purchasing fund, according to a Reuters report. The company is apparently out of money, having spent the $6 billion it has raised since its inception in 2000. For the time being, it has stopped buying new patents.

According to new revelations from data pilfered by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency has for years been going after users of Tor. The Tor onion router project is used by countless numbers of users around the world in a bid to protect their privacy and provide a degree of anonymity. According to new revelations published today by the Guardian newspaper from data pilfered by whistleblower Edward Snowden, Tor users have been specifically targeted by the National Security Agency for years.

After last week announcing Steam Machines as the Valve-backed Steam "living room consoles" (a.k.a. Steam Box) powered by the Linux SteamOS, today Valve has released the prototype hardware details that they will be shipping to 300 beta testers.

BitTorrent Sync by BitTorrent, Inc is a proprietary peer-to-peer file synchronization tool available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS and BSD. It can sync files between devices on a local network, or between remote devices over the Internet via secure, distributed P2P technology, so in short you can setup your own cloud storage and share your files among your devices.

Thirteen alleged members of the loosely organized hacker collective known as Anonymous were indicted Thursday in connection with a series of online attacks on US companies and trade groups.

Dax OS 2.0.2 is available. Dax OS is an Ubuntu-based distribution which aims to provide users with innovative software concepts and be intuitive and easy to use.

Bill Ray is not convinced by hide-us-in-ROM claims Microsoft has asked HTC to install Windows Phone as a user-selectable option on its Android handsets, according to a recent report.…

On any file system, deleting a file doesn’t necessarily mean that it is gone for good. When a file is removed, its meta data is gone, but actual file data is untouched inside the file system, until the location of the data is overwritten by other file data. This means that if you accidentally deleted a file, there is a chance that you can recover the file. This tutorial describes how to recover deleted files on Linux.

The Arduino project announced a third-generation Arduino single board computer featuring a dual-processor architecture, and able to run a “full Linux” OS. The Arduino TRE features both a 1GHz 32-bit TI Sitara AM335x 32-bit ARM Cortex-A8 processor, for running Linux, and an 8-bit Atmel ATmega microcontroller, for AVR-compatible control of “shield” expansion modules. As Zoe […]

Mozilla has pushed their open-source "Shumway" Flash/SWF player into the latest Firefox nightly builds...

arkOS is a Linux distro designed for the Raspberry Pi. The aim is that running a home server should be as easy as using a smartphone.

I recently had the honor of being a guest on the JBoss Asylum podcast, hosted by Red Hat's Emmanuel Bernard and Max Rydahl Andersen. We discussed various topics at the intersection of law and software (particularly in relation to open source), including the