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DIY biology is a hot topic and has piqued the interest of the Wellcome Trust and NESTA in the UK and the FBI in the US. What has it got to do with open source and hacking? Quite a lot as it happens and those curious could get their hands dirty, metaphorically speaking, at a series of workshops held in Manchester over the weekend of 3 and 4 November 2012.

Release pushed back until 2013 Delays continue to plague development of the popular Fedora Linux distribution, with Fedora 18's original November ship date now pushed back to January 2013 at the earliest.…

Microsoft has added several vendors to the list of electronics manufacturers that are paying it licensing fees for using Google's Android operating system and/or Linux in their products. The company has long-claimed that Linux and Android, a Linux derivative, violates Windows patents, and in the past has threatened to sue alleged infringers that don't pay up.

Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth - a friend and my former boss at Canonical - has never had much love for rival Linux vendor Red Hat. So when he labelled Red Hat Enterprise Linux "legacy" technology during his keynote at LinuxCon in Barcelona, Spain, this week, aligning it with Solaris' faded glory, it was perhaps not surprising.

So it's been a while since I personally did a question time with anyone, this week the developers behind the Interstellar Marines are up! Interstellar Marines is an in development FPS for Linux, Mac and Windows currently on Kickstarter.

Eight years ago today, Mozilla launched the first version of Firefox. We had the audacity to believe that we could change things. We believed that a community of people who understood the power of the Web, and who put people above profits, could build something amazing.

I realized this morning that this week marks two years since Mark Shuttleworth shared his plans for Ubuntu's Unity to run on Wayland. Even after two years, Ubuntu's engagement with Wayland hasn't advanced much and it's consummation of Wayland is still likely at a minimum another year out...

The maker movement is gathering steam around the nation and around the world. To help bring makers and DIY enthusiasts together in the Washington D.C. area, the D.C. Public Libraries has announced a free DIY Fair that will be taking place in the Great Hall of Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library—located at 901 G St, NW, in downtown. The event will be held on Saturday, November 17th from 10am to 3pm and on Sunday, November 18th from 1:30pm to 4:30pm.

Matthias Clasen on the behalf of the GNOME Release Team has announced that they have decided to eliminate GNOME's "fallback mode" with the upcoming 3.8 release that allowed a "GNOME classic" mode that didn't depend upon OpenGL/3D rendering and was more like the GNOME2 traitional desktop...

Crossover XI 11.3.0 has been released.

The traffic anonymisation tool TOR can leave confidential data like passwords in the system memory due to usage of a function that is not always used by all compilers

Beer is truly the most democratic, egalitarian, and open source of all beverages. It is for both common folk and connoisseurs. It is for the masses. And, from my experience as a homebrewer and beer geek, you will rarely find a beverage that can be so liberating (in more ways than one).

I've gone a bit mad for smartphone GPS and everything that goes with it, including back country topo maps, tablet mounts and in-car mode screen assistant widgets. If you've been reading some of my TechNewsWorld and LinuxInsider columns lately, you already know that. I've also been kitting out my phone with some highly sophisticated GPS tools and getting good results.

Mozilla, Nesta and Nominet Trust announce new digital literacy partnership in the UK ? Today, on the eve of the Mozilla Festival in London, Mozilla is proud to announce a new partnership aimed at spreading digital literacy in the UK. … Continue reading

SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY") is a new networking protocol whose goal is to speed up the web. It is Google's alternative to the HTTP protocol and a candidate for HTTP/2.0. SPDY augments HTTP with several speed-related features such as stream multiplexing and header compression. To use SPDY, you need a web server and a browser (like Google Chrome and upcoming versions of Firefox) that both support SPDY. mod_spdy is an open-source Apache module that adds support for the SPDY protocol to the Apache HTTPD server. This tutorial explains how to use mod_spdy with Apache2 on Ubuntu 12.10.

"Razer makes gaming devices. Expensive gaming devices. The problem is, when you buy a number of Razer gaming mice, you are required to have an online connection in order to "configure" the mouse. Those configurations are stored in "the cloud", so ideally, you have your pre-sets available to you regardless of where you game or where you go.

The problem is, you cannot use the mouse without "registration". It's not just simple registration. It's the information Razer wants in order to register. But nowhere on the box does it say that it requires an online connection to get the mouse to work. That's only one of the pleasant surprises that await you after the unboxing."

This week, the link between Hooters and a cutting edge eDiscovery ruling, and why developers would do well to follow designers and step away from their computers before they write a single line of code.

Festering hacks, endlessly copied and pasted - thanks Eric! Analysis Does one of the biggest-ever revolutions in software, open source, contain the seeds of its own decay and destruction?…

Let's get ready to Humbleeeeeeee.... It's time for a new Humble Indie Bundle, and this time it's again a bundle for Android!

This guide is an introduction to Tahoe-LAFS, a distributed, redundant, and encrypted storage system - some may call it 'cloud storage'. Tahoe-LAFS is a Free and Open cloud storage system. It distributes your data across multiple servers. Even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to function correctly, including preservation of your privacy and security. This guide will help you with installing and configuring your own distributed, redundant, and encrypted storage system!