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Red Hat product manager Burr Sutter, Java Champion, always seems to find himself in a space of cutting edge innovation. It's no surprise that he is one of the mad geniuses behind the show-stopping on-stage demos at Red Hat's annual Summit. At All Things Open this year, Burr will highlight technology that links the physical world to the Internet and showcase how the Internet of Things (IoT) will change the way we think. Hopefully his talk will inspire you to not only figure out where to start, but also to do your own awesome things. read more

Torch and pitchfork time after Redmond force-feeds update. Did you notice Microsoft being a bit too eager to push its Windows 10 update onto your PC lately?

YouTube's CEO Susan Wojcicki delivered a powerful keynote this morning to thousands of attendees at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which is being held this week in Houston. She started with, "My daughter told me she doesn't like computers."

USB sticks have long been a mechanism for delivering malware to unsuspecting computer users. A booby-trapped flash drive, for instance, was the means by which the US and Israel reportedly infected Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility with the Stuxnet worm........ last year's Bad USB proof-of-concept exploit delivered a highly programmable attack platform that can't be detected by today's defenses.

And you thought big Unix was dead! Well it ain't. And it wants upgrading inside a year. As well as the range of Linux servers it released last week, Big Blue also announced version 7.2 of its venerable AIX operating system.

As you can tell by my Wi-Fi focus in The Open-Source Classroom this month, I really love wireless networking. I've implemented wireless solutions for schools on a shoestring budget, and I've helped plan campus-wide rollouts of redundantly controlled enterprise solutions.

Although there are countless different GNU/Linux distributions out there for people to choose from, you may not find exactly what you're looking for and that is perfectly normal. In this tutorial, we will explore how to use SUSE Studio to generate a highly tailored Linux system based on the latest openSUSE.

At last - Americans finally get to parallel park Updated Tesla has offered to make its customers more confident drivers by allowing them to hand over control of their vehicles to software.…

In today's open source world, there are a number of very large communities that have tangible incentives for contributing to projects. Commits that make it into the master branch of Docker can attract tips, and once you become an Active Technical Contributor for OpenStack you get a number of perks, including free entry to the next OpenStack Summit. read more

NGINX, an open source, high-performance HTTP server, reverse proxy, and IMAP/POP3 proxy server, has gained popularity as a load balancer. I caught up with Sarah Novotny, head of Developer Relations at NGINX, ahead of her All Things Open session later this month, and asked her to explain NGINX's growing popularity. read more

This article covers the case study to find the comparison between IBM AIX and Linux on Power processor utilization with the help of network workload. The article also explores why there is a considerable difference between the overall system-level processor utilization reported on the IBM Power hardware while running the same workload on AIX and Linux on Power platforms.

TI has released its Sitara AM57x SoCs, with one or two 1.5GHz Cortex-A15 cores and C66x DSPs, plus two Cortex-M4 MCUs, a PowerVR GPU, and a quad-core PRU. The Linux-ready Sitara AM57x SoC family is part of the larger Texas Instruments AM5x family announced in early 2014. More information was supplied In Nov. 2014 when […]

Bundling – what’s changed, and what’s the big deal? I’ve talked about bundling and unbundling in the previous 5tFTW, and a month ago as well, and we’ve been debating the issues on the Fedora devel list, in a gigantic thread... Continue Reading →

The 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) started out like any other, with a giant room filled with thousands of women with a passion for technology and computing. This year's welcome keynote opened with green lights strobing over a dark room. What a way to highlight the rows and rows of women ready to learn, connect, and join new communities. Telle Whitney, founder of GHC, was first to the podium and offered a heartfelt and sincere welcome message that brought a tear to my eye. She spoke of the women who built GHC from their vision of a better future, where women and men take equal part in technology, and of her diagnosis of an auto immune disease. But she's doing well she says, and thanked everyone for their thoughts and concern. read more

Early builds unbootable on PCs this week, warns Microsoft. Those who downloaded many Windows 10 preview editions will have to upgrade by Thursday or face an unbootable PC.

One of the major shifts in technology over the last few years has been the emergence and adoption of NoSQL databases. More and more firms are moving to NoSQL because it’s scalable, distributed, and flexible. Those are all elements that make NoSQL a good choice for today's big data applications.

After a pair of very public disclosures in the last two weeks, Netgear published new firmware for vulnerabilities in its routers that have been publicly exploited.

Siri may be your personal assistant. But your voice is not the only one she listens to. As a group of French researchers have discovered, Siri also helpfully obeys the orders of any hacker who talks to her-even, in some cases, one who's silently transmitting those commands via radio from as far as 16 feet away.

Windows 10 only is not a universal solution. Microsoft introduced the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) this year: applications that run across many device types, provided that they all run Windows 10.

Aaeon’s “AQ7-BT” COM runs Linux on dual- or quad-core Bay Trail SoCs, and offers onboard RAM and SSD, rich I/O, PCIe expansion, and -40 to 85°C operation.