More than a month after Mozilla came out with Firefox 32, the company has updated the web browser for Android, Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms, bumping it to version 33.0. Aside from bug fixes, the update also brings some new features as well as performance improvements. One of the notable features of the update is…
Category: Open Source Software
Open Source Software
Laura Poitras on the Crypto Tools That Made Her Snowden Film Possible
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•As a journalist, Laura Poitras was the quiet mastermind behind the publication of Edward Snowden’s unprecedented NSA leak. As a filmmaker, her new movie Citizenfour makes clear she’s one of the most important directors working in documentary today. Source: Tech
Hackers shake confidence in free software idealism of the 1980s
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•Several high-profile attacks in recent months exploited security flaws found in the “open-source” software created by volunteers collaborating online, building off each other’s work. The YGS Group provides digital and printed reprint services for Daily Herald. Source: Tech
Linux Foundation Announces Open Source Dronecode Project
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•Drones have a ton of potential and not just for warfare. It can be used to make deliveries , record videos from heights and places which might not be reachable, and it is a pretty fun hobby as well, so safe to say that the future of drones is looking very promising. Source: Tech
Internet of Things 2015 @ThingsExpo New York 'Call for Papers' [#IoT]
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•The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo – to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY – announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web…
Medallia Selects Dell's Open Networking Solutions to Accelerate…
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•Dell today announced that Medallia , a global leader in Software-as-a-Service Customer Experience Management solutions, has selected Dell’s Open Networking solutions to enable faster networking speeds and improve its customer experience. Medallia runs the Linux network operating system from Cumulus Networks on Dell Open Networking switches. Source: Tech
What Network Function Virtualization means for OpenStack and open source
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•Last week’s launch of OPNFV is a good opportunity to think about a simmering debate in the OpenStack developer community for a while now-what exactly does NFV have to do with OpenStack, and is it a good thing? My own “journey” on this started exactly one year ago today when I visited a local Red…
docker-forklift 0.2.34
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•Forklift – when you need to handle just one container ===================================================== Utilities to develop a containerised application. The standard containers at InfoXchange require a number of environment variables to run properly. Source: Tech
Systemd Dev Slams FOSS Culture
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•The open source community is “quite a sick place to be in,” Red Hat engineer and Systemd developer Lennart Poettering said Monday in a post on Google+. “The open source community is full of [assh*les], and I probably more than most others am one of their most favorite targets,” Poettering added. Source: Tech
Xceedium Enhances Xsuite with Real-Time Shellshock Vulnerability Detection
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•Xceedium, Inc., the premier provider of privileged identity management for enterprise environments, today announced that its flagship product, Xsuite, now has the capability to alert privileged users of servers susceptible to the Shellshock vulnerability. At login time, Xsuite can now dynamically perform a panel of tests to determine if a server or other asset has…