By Serdar Yegulalp In truth, 2016 wasn’t The Year of the Container. That was 2015, when the possibility and promise of containers came along and knocked IT for a loop. But not everyone …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: December 2016
Qualcomm fined $865m by South Korean antitrust regulator
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•Calling the regulator’s decision to fine the chip maker 1 trillion won ‘unprecedented and insupportable’, Qualcomm has said it will appeal the decision to the Seoul High Court. …read more Source:: Legal
Machine learning: From science project to business plan
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•By Serdar Yegulalp 2015 was the year machine learning emerged from the academic closet. No longer was it an esoteric discipline commanded by the few, the proud, the data scientists. Now it …read more Source:: OpenSource
Exim gives Linux admins a security fix for Christmas
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Linux administrators will have to change their holiday plans, because Exim is still releasing a security update on Christmas Day, and not earlier as had been hoped. An information …read more Source:: OpenSource
Donate here! 9 better causes than Wikimedia
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•By Andrew C. Oliver It’s that time of year where Wikipedia activates those obnoxious ads. They’re even more obnoxious on mobile. They tell you that without your contribution, Wikipedia will go off the ‘net. Last …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Android: Beware Super Mario Run malware
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•By Jim Lynch Super Mario Run malware for Android When Nintendo decided to release Super Mario Run for iOS devices only, it caused quite a lot of disappointment among Android users. Unfortunately, some sleazy …read more Source:: OpenSource
Small is beautiful: Raspberry Pi’s Linux comes to the x86 world
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Pixel, the tiny but useful Linux distribution originally launched in September for the ARM-powered Raspberry Pi, is now available in an experimental build for x86 architectures. The current version is …read more Source:: OpenSource
SoleNet, Sure Telecom engaged in unconscionable conduct: Federal Court
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•The Federal Court has said SoleNet and Sure Telecom and their director James Harrison engaged in unconscionable conduct and undue harassment of customers between 2013 and 2015. …read more Source:: Legal
Open source challenger takes on Google Translate
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Researchers have released an open source neural network system for performing language translations that could be an alternative to proprietary, black-box translation services. Open Source Neural Machine Translation (OpenNMT) …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: How can Linux get 5 percent desktop market share?
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•By Jim Lynch How can Linux get 5% desktop market share? Many people have been predicting the “year of the Linux desktop” for quite a while now, but it’s never happened. A redditor recently …read more Source:: OpenSource