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Najnowsze wiadomości i artykuły problemowe z działów News, Security, Networks i Open SourceIn the court case against Google about alleged patent infringements by Android, Oracle has withdrawn one patent claim, foregoing the entire patent. The company has also submitted a new expert report on the damages incurred
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Mozilla is asking certification authorities to revoke all subordinate CA certificates issued to third parties that can be used to eavesdrop on encrypted connections
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The Mac OS X version of the popular free video player has a new look. There have also been some major behind the scenes changes
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The Document Foundation has now been legally established in Germany, with boards of directors and trustees and a management committee
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The Document Foundation has now been legally established in Germany, with boards of directors and trustees and a management committee. Meanwhile, the foundation launched a new answer site for LibreOffice users.
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Java 6 gets an extra four months before being publicly end-of-lifed by Oracle. The company has also revised its end of life policy for future versions of Java
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Glyn Moody looks at calls to open up the source code of medical implants and finds they logically lead to recreating, in the image of open source, how we create new digitally controlled devices
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All panel elements are now applets that can be removed or repositioned as required, allowing even more flexibility in the up and coming alternative to the GNOME shell
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M86 Security reports that the infamous Cutwail botnet has been reactivated: the security specialists have registered several waves of infected HTML emails in the past few weeks
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Trend Micro's malware analysis tool is now available as open source, but the company will continue to maintain the Visual Basic application
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The free software project has put together an official position on patents and how the Debian community should handle patent related issues
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Google's Chrome may take away the problem of generating passwords by integrating a password generator in the browser, though when this feature will appear is not clear
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JavaFX's open source version, OpenJFX, now has a functional testing framework in the form of JemmyFX
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A new threading model allows the messaging platform to scale well on multicore systems; Apollo may be integrated into ActiveMQ in the future
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"Self Contained Mountable applications" (SCMs) can now be used to mount extensions for the lightweight distribution
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OpenStack community members are providing "156 cores, 1040GB memory and 59.1TB of disk storage" so that developers can get a feel for the OpenStack platform at no cost
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KWin's lead developer is considering dropping support for graphics hardware that is only capable of OpenGL 1.x if alternatives prove to perform well enough
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According to analysis by Microsoft, Google is exploiting a vulnerability in the P3P specification. Google says P3P is already widely exploited in this way
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With better scalability and numerous other improvements, the new release of the massively popular Apache HTTP Server is described as "ideally suited for Cloud environments"
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In the last seven days: the first "real release" of Wayland arrived, Debian was valued at £12.1 million, LibreOffice 3.5 and a security update for Mozilla software were released. Also, hackers had free rein at Nortel and Apple will streamline the CUPS printing system
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The EU parliament is currently consulting on draft European Commission legislation on European standardisation which would, according to critics, pave the way for standards which have poor compatiblity with open source software
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The JBoss 7 Application Server, which was previously only certified for the Web Profile of Java Enterprise Edition 6, has now achieved "Java EE 6 Full Profile" certification with the release of version 7.1
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Loss of access to a large compute cluster means the project is unable to create the more than 50 builds a day it makes of its open source Android platform. The project is now appealing for donations so it can acquire new hardware
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Loss of access to a large compute cluster means the project is unable to create the more than 50 builds a day it makes of its open source Android platform. The project is now appealing for donations so it can acquire new hardware
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Following a joint operation by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab last September to disrupt Kelihos, the spam-sending botnet is now said to be making a comeback and using new techniques
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