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We've talked a lot about the tax on innovation that patent trolls create, which is well-known inside startup circles but often misunderstood by the broader public, thanks to the pro-innovation rhetoric of high-profile trolls like Intellectual Ventures. The conversation is getting more attention lately, especially with the recent news of Senator Schumer's patent reform bill which specifically aims to fight the patent troll problem, and this interview with an anonymous developer from a tech startup offers some perspective from someone who is directly affected by the issue.

Valves rather popular puzzle game Portal is now officially available on Linux in Beta form, thanks Valve!

ITTIA DB SQL's Machine to Machine connectivity allows developers of smart devices to build applications that collect and transfer device data across a diverse ecosystem, ensuring permanent data availability.

A new version of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) operating system has been released. The Fedora-based Linux distribution now supports the forthcoming OLPC XO-4 Touch laptop...

Dot Categories: KDE Official NewsKDE has released May updates for its Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. These are the third monthly stabilization updates to the 4.10 series. The 4.10.3 updates bring bugfixes and translation updates on top of the 4.10 release and are recommended updates for everyone running the 4.10 series. It will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone.

Cinnamon, the popular GNOME Shell fork developed by the Linux Mint crew, has released a major update to their software stack...

Intel announced its long-awaited Silvermont overhaul of the Intel Atom core, based on 22nm-fabricated, Tri-Gate 3D transistors. Aimed primarily at smartphones and tablets, the Silvermont supports up to eight cores per SOC (system-on-chip) and promises to offer about 3x the peak performance of the current Atoms or up to 5x the power efficiency at the [...]

Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) and EMC (NYSE:EMC) updated their respective Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Storage (SDS) strategies today. One common thread: OpenStack cloud support.

Defense Distributed has unleashed the first open source, fully 3D printed, gun. Is the world ready for it?

When the Space Shuttle program shut down, I have to admit, it deflated my excitement about space exploration just a bit. Although it's not fair to pin the future of manned missions to space on a fleet of aging crafts built in the 1980s, the Space Shuttle represented the latest step in a process that would get us to other planets.

Red Hat OpenStack, the open source company's next big product, will grab a massive spotlight during Red Hat Summit (June 11-14, Boston). For channel partners and cloud services providers (CSPs), the summit could provide new clues about when Red Hat OpenStack will actually launch, and which CSPs and enterprises will be among the first customers to embrace the new platform.

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz shares a breathtaking National Geographic 'Photo of the Day' of a Penguin on South Georgia Island in the Antarctic. Use it as your Desktop Wallpaper.

Roboteq launched a Kickstarter project to build an I/O add-in card for robotics navigation that stacks atop a Linux-based Raspberry Pi board. The RIO (Raspberry IO) is based on a 32-bit STM32 microcontroller, and includes a 3A DC/DC converter, several serial interfaces, a CAN interface, 21 GPIO, and an optional module with an accelerometer, gyroscope, [...]

A full review of Debian 7 Wheezy.

It's long been possible to run Windows instances on a Linux-based cloud and Linux instances on a Windows-based cloud. What's not so common is for Linux companies and Microsoft to work together to make this happen. But that's exactly what Microsoft and SUSE have been doing. And dogs and cats can live together! No, really, they can.

The International Space Station's laptops are moving from Windows to Linux and R2,the first Linux-powered humanoid robot in space, is now under-going in-flight testing.

Mozilla released its first fully-baked simulation engine for Firefox OS, while the first Geeksphone “Keon” development phones for the open source Linux-based mobile operating system remain sold out. Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 adds rotation and geolocation API simulations, faster boot-times, and a push-to-device feature that lets users transfer apps to a developer phone. Firefox OS [...]

Descent|OS is going through a new phase in development, where it will run under an 8-month release cycle, with one service release halfway through the cycle. This will allow for a more stable system, and bug fixes to be deployed quicker while development for Descent|OS 5 goes on.

We've seen a lot of hysteria around Google Glass and the belief that people can secretly record you. I spoke to the project's technical lead, someone who has been working on wearable computers since the 90s, and I'm here to tell you that hysteria is completely misplaced. If someone wants to secretly record you, there are a lot more sneaky ways than Google Glass (which is sitting on your face in plain sight).

Michel Dänzer of AMD has provided a set of patches that should provide for the necessary patterns and intrinsics for AMD to round out GLSL 1.30 support within their RadeonSI open-source Gallium3D driver for Radeon HD 7000/8000 series graphics cards...