By Gregg Keizer After years of spinning its wheels, Mozilla recently stepped up work on separating page rendering from content in Firefox to make the browser more secure and more stable. Dubbed Electrolysis, or …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: June 2015
Software applications have on average 24 vulnerabilities inherited from buggy components
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•By Lucian Constantin Many commercial software companies and enterprise in-house developers are churning out applications that are insecure by design due to the rapid and often uncontrolled use of open-source components. Even worse, these …read more Source:: OpenSource
IBM fires up Spark with Bluemix, machine learning contributions
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•By Serdar Yegulalp How much does IBM love Apache Spark? Enough to make it part of Bluemix — and enrich it with its own contributions. These aren’t any old contributions: Among them is an …read more Source:: OpenSource
Google has to apply right to be forgotten everywhere, says France
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•The French data protection authority has put Google on notice that the right to be forgotten isn’t just for Europe. …read more Source:: Legal
It’s alive! Microsoft to let Live Writer live on as open source
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•By Gregg Keizer Microsoft will breathe life into Windows Live Writer by open sourcing the eight-year-old blog-publishing tool, a company manager said earlier this week. “We are going to open-source Live Writer, so don’t …read more Source:: OpenSource
Amazon’s ebooks deals to be investigated in competition probe
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•The European Commission is once again opening an antitrust investigation into the ebook market, and this time its putting Amazon under the microscope. …read more Source:: Legal
Cascading big data framework gets Apache Tez support
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•By Thor Olavsrud After about a year-and-a-half of development, big data application platform specialist Concurrent today released a new version of the open source Cascading …read more Source:: OpenSource
Questions loom over ‘open source’ Swift
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•By Simon Phipps Apple’s decision to open-source Swift at WWDC surprised some people (though others described it as “table stakes”). What does it mean for a programming language to be …read more Source:: OpenSource
Apple open-sources Swift to draw more developers to iOS
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•By Serdar Yegulalp At its annual WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) today, Apple announced it will be making its Swift programming language — widely regarded as a successor to Objective-C — into an …read more Source:: OpenSource
SourceForge: The end can’t come too soon
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•By Paul Venezia Fifteen years ago, the deep tech side of the Internet was a vastly different place. Geek news aggregator Slashdot was the place to go for all the latest IT and …read more Source:: OpenSource