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The employees even had a code name for the practice – "Love-int" – meaning the gathering of intelligence on their partners... Last week it was disclosed that the NSA had broken privacy rules on nearly 3,000 occasions over a one-year period.

If you read Techdirt, you're almost certainly familiar with Larry Lessig, the law professor at Harvard who (among many other things) has been an avid advocate for copyright reform and campaign finance reform, an author of many books about copyright and creativity, a well-known public speaker whose presentations are stunningly compelling, entertaining and informative, and the founder of some important organizations including Creative Commons. Of course, as an expert on copyright and creativity, and someone who's actually been involved in some of the key copyright legal fights over the past decade (tragically, on the losing side), you might think that a record label would think twice before issuing a clearly bogus threat to sue him over copyright infringement.

Who will be Microsoft's (MSFT) next CEO, succeeding Steve Ballmer? The shortlist of candidates likely includes executives from Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), IBM (IBM), Oracle (ORCL) and more. Microsoft's board has formed a CEO search committee, which will work with Heidrick & Struggles (a top executive recruitment firm) to find Ballmer's replacement. Who are some of the potential candidate names? Hmmm...

If you are testing Xen in your environment, you probably already have images native to other hypervisors which you might like to test. So a common question is, "How can I convert these images so I can use them in Xen?"

The X.Org Foundation has lost its 501(c)(3) non-profit status and is now seeking new options, including possibly joining a larger organization...

The Gallium3D LLVMpipe driver is capable of running some old OpenGL games on the CPU at low resolutions assuming your processor is powerful enough.

The new commercial Web server product bundles high availability and enterprise features on top of an open-source core. Nginx Plus provides a bundled package that delivers additional enterprise capabilities to organizations, including application health checking, load balancing and high availability.

A roundup of major Linux stories for this part week, including "Steve Ballmer retires: A dark day for Linux!" and "Find the Best Linux Distro for Your Computing Needs".

Acromag announced a ruggedized COM Express module based on Intel’s 4th Generation Core i7/i5 (Haswell) CPUs, clocked at 1.6 or 2.4 GHz. The COM Express Type 6 module runs Fedora Linux, supports up to 16GB onboard RAM, and boasts thickened PCBs, SODIMM lock-downs, and heat dissipation solutions to protect against shock, vibration, and temperature extremes.

Canonical's attempt to raise £20.5m ($32m) to create a Ubuntu Linux smartphone wasn't the failure it appeared to be: despite only managing two fifths of its fundraising target by its own deadline, the Edge handset project was a hugely successful advertisement for the Ubuntu distribution.

Mplayer(Movie Player) is free & open source multimedia software in UNIX like operating system. It can play all your favorite audio and video files.

Yesterday we passed along news of an XMir security issue where using Canonical's X11 transition layer in communicating with the Mir display server, when performing a VT switch the XMir session can still read input from devices. Fortunately, this issue looks to now be resolved...

Earlier this week I delivered results showing the AMD Radeon HD 6000 open-source driver becoming more competitive against the proprietary AMD Catalyst driver. The Gallium3D driver is still far from reigning supreme in most aspects that concern desktop Linux users, but much progress has been made in recent months.

Tor is a free software that enables you to completely hide your online communication via a large-scale anonymity network. Tor can be used for web browsers, VoIP, instant messaging, remote logins, etc. This tutorial describes how to set up Tor so that you can browse the web anonymously inside Google Chrome.

This render/mode-set node work comes down to allowing GPGPU compute support without needing a compositor/display active along with being able to perform multi-seat computing off a single display controller and efficient compositor stacking. The work basically comes down to splitting up the kernel drivers' mode-setting and rendering interfaces.

This week, we look at the end of the password, how to build a Windows 8 app in 10 minutes, and Lenovo dissing Microsoft by giving the people what they really want from Windows 8.

We are glad to announce the release of Antergos 2013.08.20 with a lot of improvements in the installation process for you to enjoy your system from the start. This new release comes after several months' working mostly on our graphical installer Cnchi and on Remendo. Openbox has been included as an option to be installed along with GNOME, Cinnamon, Xfce, Razor-qt or Base. You will end up with a lightweight desktop, while having up to date software. The software included with Openbox was chosen to be in the line of the Openbox spirit.

Leading provider of open-source support and tools is acquired by Rogue Wave Software. What does it means for enterprise software development and support?

A couple of months ago, I wrote the first draft of "A Free, Libre and Open Glossary." I am often frustrated by people using terms like "open source" and "free software" loosely, even though they have fixed and clear definitions. There is a web of terms, many of them using ambiguous terms like "open" or "crowd," that frequently confuse and blur the issue.

The National Security Agency paid millions of dollars to cover the costs of major internet companies involved in the Prism surveillance program after a court ruled that some of the agency's activities were unconstitutional, according to top-secret material passed to the Guardian.