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Researchers have discovered a Java flaw that would let hackers bypass critical security measures in all recent versions of the software. The flaw was announced today by Security Explorations, the same team that recently found a security hole in Java SE 7 letting attackers take complete control of PCs. But this latest exploit affects Java SE 5, 6, and 7—the last eight years worth of Java software.

“The impact of this issue is critical—we were able to successfully exploit it and achieve a complete Java security sandbox bypass in the environment of Java SE 5, 6, and 7,” Adam Gowdiak of Security Explorations wrote, claiming the hole puts "one billion users" at risk.

The Nagios 2012 World conference starts today and one of the major events of the conference will be the demonstrations of the Nagios 2012 interface by Ethan Galstad. I have been running the beta for several weeks in the Nagios Training classes and the response has been very favorable about the new features. Here is a list of a few to look for.

On September 25th, Google has unleashed the stable and final release of the Google Chrome 22 web browser, supporting the Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Chrome Frame platforms.

Yesterday was released Nvidia 304.51, the new release comes with many bug fixes rather than new features or significant improvements. Simply put, 304.51 driver is the stable version of the 304.48 beta.

Google has announced the launch of its third Code-in event for pre-university students. The goal of the contest is to introduce them to the world of open source development by having them complete tasks for various open source projects

A modified version of the database management tool that contained a backdoor was temporarily hosted on an official download server

'Java can fit in THAT?' Oracle has announced two new Java products for embedded systems, with the aim of getting the object-oriented language running on as wide a range of devices as possible, including ones with very limited resources.…

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.2 on a headless OpenSUSE 12.2 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

The Linux distributor has reported a 15% rise in revenues compared to the same quarter last year, but a 12.5% fall in net profit. The company is nonetheless among the top five in Forbes magazine's most innovative companies list.

Recently there was the NVIDIA graphics comparison under Windows 7 and Linux providing new data at how the cross-platform NVIDIA driver is comparing between Ubuntu 12.10, Kubuntu 12.10, and Windows 7 Pro. Aside from Ubuntu's Unity desktop with Compiz impairing the performance, the results were competitive. Next up now is a look at Intel Sandy Bridge and Intel Ivy Bridge graphics when comparing the performance of the three operating systems.

Intel has been working on a tablet shell for Wayland's Weston compositor. Work on this reference tablet shell continues to move forward...

Ubuntu is among the most popular and user-friendly Linux operating systems you will find. That said, Ubuntu can be intimidating and frustrating to computer users just stepping out of the World of Windows. Nothing beats learning how to use the Linux operating system like hands-on discovery. Having someone to coach you through the questions does a lot to remove frustrations and shorten the learning curve.

Unity Dark 12.04.1is available. Unity Dark is a respin of Zorin Linux with a new wallpaper collection, extra applications, tons of new icons and window themes, all pre-loaded and ready out of the box.

Samsung has rolled out the first official Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updates for its Galaxy S III smartphone. Customers in Poland are reportedly getting the update first. Samsung will apparently roll out the update to customers in other countries later this month. A slew of Android devices that are ready for Jelly Bean are being released before the end of the year.

Upgrade to the latest version of GStreamer now for bug fixes and plenty of new optimization tweaks

"In some ways Linux is dead, if you judge a liveliness of a platform by how much relevance it has to the mainstream consumer. That doesn’t, however, mean that a revival isn’t possible. And amidst all these death proclamations a few key trends are emerging that could actually signal a rebirth."

With no major release in more than 2 years, many thought Exaile, once a pretty popular music player (it was even the default Xubuntu music player), was dead. But it turns out that's not the case and a new version - 3.3.0 codenamed "jump" -, has been released a few days ago.

So for the 9th time out of 16 total bundles we Linux folk have contributed more money in total than Mac users!

Good design captures the Zeitgeist, and sometimes leads the way in forming and informing popular taste. But it should not be the subject of patent or intellectual property spats, or be allowed to spread the notion that the rights to ideas and tastes or look and feel can be owned. When one company, or one technology, is allowed to lock down the market and own the way we do things, the result is ossification.

It seems like every technology company on the planet is releasing a tablet these days, and we use the phrase "technology company" loosely. Even Toys"R"Us decided it had to make a tablet of its own, recently making the Tabeo 7 inch Kids Tablet available for preorder at the sub-Kindle Fire price of $149.99. But Toys"R"Us is now facing the same problem as just about every other tablet maker—it's being accused of ripping off another company's intellectual property.