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Open Network Insight Project Builds On Big Data To Improve Security
The open-source effort, which is backed by Cloudera, Intel, eBay and others, is seeing early adoption, as organizations aim to gain the upper hand on attackers
Microsoft Is Bringing The Linux Command Line To Windows 10
Microsoft is launching a Windows Subsystem on Linux and has partnered with Canonical to deliver ‘Ubuntu on Windows’ for Windows 10
What Is Apache Spark And Why Choose It?
Tugdual Grall, technical evangelist at MapR Technologies, looks at the rise of Apache Spark and why everyone’s talking about it
Steve Ballmer: Linux Is No Longer ‘A Cancer’
Feisty ex boss of Microsoft ends hostility to Linux operating system and praises Satya Nadella's open source commitments
5 Ways To Get More Out Of Hadoop
Ashley Stirrup, CMO at Talend, shares his top tips for honing Hadoop skills
Google Joins Unicef’s Fight Against Zika Virus
Google partners UNICEF in the global fight against the Zika virus, with mapping data and more
Canonical Touts 64-bit ARM IoT Developer Platform
IoT developers offered powerful but tiny quad core platform to deliver Internet of Things solutions
How Linux Kernel Cgroups And Namespaces Made Modern Containers Possible
Computer service provider ElasticHosts offers insight into the underlying Linux Kernel technologies used by Docker, LXC and lmctfy
UNICEF Seeks World-Changing Open Source Technologies
United Nations to fund startups to develop open source tech to improve the lives of vulnerable children and civilians
Critical Linux Kernel Flaw Found
Security researchers urge Android users to manually patch a vulnerability that's existed for at least three years
Twitter Community Helps Create Improved Linux Encoder Ransomware
New version of dangerous ransomware has infected 600 Linux servers
IBM, Linux Foundation And Others Launch Blockchain Consortium
Linux Foundation oversees new Blockchain consortium to develop enterprise grade ledger framework
Simple Linux Flaw Exposed By Backspace Key
Hacking skills not required - just hit the backspace key 28 times to hack a Linux system
Microsoft Announces Linux On Azure Certification
When it comes to the cloud, the software giant extends its embrace of Linux to include a new certification for budding cloud administrators
Chakra Bleu! Microsoft Open Sources Core Edge Browser Component
By January 2016, Microsoft will have opened Edge’s ChakraCore repository onto GitHub
Open Source Developers Are ‘Too White And Too Male’
An Apache Software Foundation executive has slammed white men in the Open Source community for stifling diversity among project contributors
Firefox 42 Brings Private Browsing, Halts Online Trackers
Latest Firefox provides web surfers with a more private browsing experience with Tracking Protection
Canonical Targets OpenStack Deployments With Ubuntu 15.10
Latets version of open-source OS comes with OpenStack deployer to aid speedy rollout of Ubuntu OpenStack clouds
How To Take An Apache Hadoop Concept Into Production
Apache: Big Data Europe 2015 - Gary Richardson, UK head of data engineering, KPMG, shares his top Hadoop project tips
Mozilla Blames Bugzilla Hack For Firefox Attack
Bug reporting system compromised by hackers and used to attack on Firefox users, Mozilla admits
IBM Unveils Linux-Only Mainframe, Joins Open Mainframe Project
LinuxONE aims to help IBM drive mainframe adoption as firm dumps mainframe code into open source community
LibreOffice 5.0 Delivers Windows 10 Support
Alternative Office suite bundles Windows 10 support, improved source code, and 'cleaner' user interface
How ‘Democratic’ Open Source Can Aid UK Tech Growth
BLOG: Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange, explains how governments and the UK tech industry can learn from the democratic ethos of open source and startups
OpenSSL Delivers Patch To Fix Critical Vulnerability
New version of OpenSSL arrives to address a single ‘high severity’ vulnerability
‘Biggest Ever’ Linux 4.2-rc1 Has 1 Million New Lines Of Code
New AMD GPU driver accounts for almost half of all new Linux release candidate says Linus Torvalds
Has Google Been Eavesdropping On Chrome Users?
Privacy campaigners claim Google secretly installed voice recording service in Chromium browser, an accusation the search giant denies
Google, Microsoft, Amazon Unite Under Open Container Project
Linux Foundation's Open Container Project also sees Docker and CoreOS agree on the future of the container
Raspberry Pi Finally Gets Official Case
IN PICTURES: Raspberry Pi Foundation launches official enclosure after years of planning and production issues bear fruit
EMC Gives ViPR’s Bite To Open Source Community
EMC delves into open source with Project CoprHD based on EMC ViPR Controller