By Paul Rubens Last month, BlackBerry announced that it was quitting the phone-making business, but the BlackBerry name will live on. That’s because the company has entered into a licensing agreement with …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: October 2016
IDG Contributor Network: Ubuntu versus Linux Mint: Which one is better?
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•By Jim Lynch Ubuntu versus Linux Mint Ubuntu and Linux Mint are two of the best known desktop distributions around. Both are extremely popular with Linux users, but which one is better? Since each …read more Source:: OpenSource
Project for porting C to Rust gains Mozilla’s backing
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The central appeal of Mozilla’s Rust language is that it provides a safe platform for fast systems programming — as fast as C but with safety features that C doesn’t …read more Source:: OpenSource
What if China or India was behind Yahoo spying order?
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•Lack of response from the US government about its Yahoo e-mail surveillance order is troubling and will have serious implications on cybersecurity for the rest of the world, including Asian …read more Source:: Legal
4 big changes coming soon to Firefox
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Mozilla’s ambitions are hard to ignore. An impressive new programming language, Rust, has emerged as a product of the group’s efforts to create Servo, a web rendering engine designed …read more Source:: OpenSource
Spark picks up machine learning, GPU acceleration
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Databricks, corporate provider of support and development for the Apache Spark in-memory big data project, has spiced up its cloud-based implementation of Apache Spark with two additions that …read more Source:: OpenSource
Australian government invests AU$4.8m into revenge porn reporting tool
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•The Australian government is building an online tool for victims of revenge porn to report cases where intimate images and videos have been shared without consent. …read more Source:: Legal
Vodafone fined £4.6m by Ofcom for £150k PAYG error
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•An IT system migration error cost Vodafone customers a collective £150,000 over a 1.5-year period, with the mishandling of complaints also costing the telecommunications carrier. …read more Source:: Legal
Dart’s not dead! Google retools JavaScript challenger
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Google’s Dart language hasn’t become the JavaScript-killer it was intended to be. That said, Google still uses it a great deal internally for web-app related projects, such as AdSense. Now, Google …read more Source:: OpenSource
Cython speedups borrow from Python playbook
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•By Serdar Yegulalp What’s faster than Python? C. What’s also far less convenient than Python? C. But for people who want the convenience of Python and the speed of C, the Cython …read more Source:: OpenSource