McAfee Labs report says 244 new threats are detected every minute – and that Android is the target in a boom in ransomware attacks. …read more Source:: Open Source S
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Cisco to acquire data analytics team from software firm Saggezza
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•The deal comes just three days after Cisco announced that it was paying $610 million to buy SD-WAN startup Viptela. …read more Source:: Open Source S
SAP Australia posts AU$22.5m loss as cloud and software revenue tip AU$557m
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•The local arm on the German software giant raked in AU$557.7 million from its cloud and software-related products for the 12-months to December 31, 2016. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Microsoft buys Intentional Software; Simonyi to rejoin Microsoft
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•Microsoft is acquiring Intentional Software, a Bellevue, Wash.-based productivity-app vendor whose well-known founder is a programming expert and former Microsoft manager. …read more Source:: Open Source S
IDG Contributor Network: Why do Linux distributions have software bugs?
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•By Jim Lynch Linux distros and software bugs Linux is one of the best operating systems around, but no OS is perfect. All operating systems end up having bugs of one kind or another, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Out of this world! 5 stellar NASA software freebies
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Earlier this week, NASA opened up a bunch of its internal software to the public: physics simulations, operational management, embedded systems control, and many other tasks you’d associate …read more Source:: OpenSource
Technology of the Year 2017: The best hardware, software, and cloud services
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•By Doug Dineley Looking over the winners of the 2017 Technology of the Year Awards, you can’t help but be struck by the startling number of open source projects. For several years …read more Source:: OpenSource
Google goes ‘fuzzy’ to combat insecure software
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•By Serdar Yegulalp It may sound like something you do to a sweater, but “fuzzing”—testing applications against random input to detect potentially fatal errors—has become a major weapon in the arsenal against insecure …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux Foundation doubles down on support for tamper-free software
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) is renewing its financial support for a project that ensures binaries produced from open source software projects are free of tampering. The …read more Source:: OpenSource
US government’s Code.gov software sharing website launched
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•By John Ribeiro Code.gov, a U.S. government website for promoting the sharing of custom-developed software code, was launched Thursday with listings of nearly 50 open-source projects from various government agencies. The move follows the …read more Source:: OpenSource