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Microsoft has drastically overhauled the network running its Skype voice-over-IP service, replacing peer-to-peer client machines with thousands of Linux boxes that have been hardened against the most common types of hack attacks, a security researcher said.

The following FLOSS for science related books were published during the months of March and April 2012.

More of a mosey, or perhaps a stroll LG is denying it has lost interest in Windows Phone following reports in the Korea Herald which claimed an "insignificant" number of Microsoft-bearing handsets had been sold.…

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Meet the gKrypt engine, the world's first package to employ general purpose graphics units (GPGPUs) for data encryption. It uses an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) based 256-bit block cipher. This is the second article in a two-part series on AES encryption and the gKrypt engine. Part 1 introduced gKrypt and explained the AES algorithm in detail, its parallel breakdown and how to map it on a massive GPU architecture using the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). Part 2 looks at how AES is implemented on CUDA.

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I've just released a new version of my debian respin named Terrible Linux. New/changed features include: added Terrible Start, Audacious replaced exaile, added Zenmap+Nmap, Debian updates, LibreOffice updates, kernel updates, Some handy keyboard shortcuts enabled, Varous little bugfixes

A popular Firefox add-on appears to have started leaking private information about every website that users visit to a third-party server, including sensitive data which could identify individuals or reduce their security.

In New York's Financial District, Linux is your MAMA. The Linux Foundation rang the closing bell at the NYSE yesterday. The Linux Foundation is in NYC for their End User conference, which also served as a backdrop for an OpenMAMA announcement.

When Linus Torvalds sneezes the Linux world gets a cold. The father of Linux has praised Google Chrombooks for being more useful than Gnome 3 She

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the May 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

Thanks to Monday’s joint announcement of Microsoft’s $300 million investment in a new Barnes & Noble’s digital and college textbook subsidiary, we will never know who actually won the patent showdown between the software and bookselling giants. An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission last week put off an initial determination in Microsoft’s patent infringement case against B&N, which was tried in February. Now that the two are partners in the e-book business, the patent litigation will end without a ruling on the merits from the ITC or from the U.S. district judge overseeing Microsoft’s parallel infringement suit in Seattle federal court.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about which side won the case.

Many of my Linux friends have no plans whatsoever to buy an iPad. I've chosen to buy an iPad and plunge headlong into creating multimedia iBooks for the iPad. Here are the reasons why.

Mozilla is planning to hold a series of free events throughout the month for hackers and developers to celebrate the opening of their new London offices...

I have decided to review the new Ubuntu 12.04 ‘Precise Pangolin’ because after hearing mixed opinions of it I was very intrigued to try it for myself, will it's apparent improvements persuade me to go back to it?

Next in our series of Python modules you should know is Pwtools. The package is used to generate and test passwords in Python programs.

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In this illustrated tutorial I will show you how you can get Trust No One encryption on ANY cloud backup service. So that the Google, Dropbox, Box.net, Carbonite, backblaze or any other cloud provider are not able to see or access your private files. Works on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X!

While it's improved a lot recently, in the past setting up a multi-seat computer has been a pain in the ass with a lot of manual configurations needed and other peculiar steps to get the hardware/software combination working right. What if the process were a lot simpler? What if new seats could be added to a computer at a very low cost and the setup was effectively "out of the box" to the point that it's truly plug-and-play? Well, we are now effectively at that point on the Linux desktop and there is a new Kickstarter effort to help in that initiative.

Canonical announced that the Ubuntu Open Week for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) will take place between 2nd to 4th May, 2012, on the usual Ubuntu IRC channel, #ubuntu-classroom.