In a letter to a local legislator, Uber’s Asia head said the US taxi-hailing service provider will soon terminate its businesses in Macau due to the escalating crackdown through local …read more Source:: Legal
Month: August 2016
Red Hat Virtualization 4 woos VMware faithful
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•By Serdar Yegulalp It’s easy for a virtual machine user to feel left out these days, what with containers dominating the discussion of how to run applications at scale. But take heart, VM …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Linux breathes new life into old Mac computers
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•By Jim Lynch Linux and old Mac computers Apple is known for its planned obsolescence strategy that encourages customers to upgrade their Macs every so often. This can result in older Macs that can’t …read more Source:: OpenSource
Open source 25-core chip can be stringed into a 200,000-core computer
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•By Agam Shah Researchers want to give a 25-core open-source processor called Piton some serious bite. The developers of the chip at Princeton University have in mind a 200,000-core computer crammed with 8,000 64-bit …read more Source:: OpenSource
Google readies next-gen RPC protocol to replace JSON
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•By Serdar Yegulalp With the 1.0 release of its gRPC protocol, Google aims to provide a next-generation standard for server-to-server communications in an age of cloud microservices. Originally unveiled early last …read more Source:: OpenSource
Singapore to review VPN role in copyright infringement
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•Government seeks public feedback on proposed changes to the country’s copyright laws to keep pace with technological developments, including a review of VPN’s role in circumventing geo-blocks. …read more Source:: Legal
Another day, another 4,600 lines of Linux kernel code
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•By Katherine Noyes The Linux kernel is improving faster than ever, gaining 7.8 patches per hour and 4,600 lines of new code every day. That’s according to a new report published Monday …read more Source:: OpenSource
Victoria soon to make Uber legal
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•The Victorian government will introduce draft legislation this year as part of a two-year move to overhaul regulations governing the commercial passenger industry. …read more Source:: Legal
IDG Contributor Network: Why did Gentoo Linux fade into obscurity?
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•By Jim Lynch Why did Gentoo Linux fade into obscurity? Gentoo Linux was fairly well known at one point, with many tech-savvy Linux users opting to run it on their computers. But Gentoo …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux at 25: An ecosystem, not only an OS
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•By Eric Knorr I discovered Linux the way most people did, though word of mouth in the 1990s, when rumors spread of a free “hobbyist” OS designed to run on x86 PCs. For …read more Source:: OpenSource