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While an open industry standard, the leading open-source compilers still lack support for the OpenACC parallel programming standard...

Dot Categories: KDE Official NewsToday KDE released the second beta for its renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. Thanks to the feedback from the first beta, KDE already improved the quality noticably. Further polishing new and old functionality will lead to a rock-stable, fast and beautiful release in January, 2013. One outstanding freeze is the artwork freeze, which is planned to bring an updated look to Plasma workspaces.

A new MariaDB Foundation is being created in the US with a million euros already pledged by sponsors. The Foundation will take over the development and release process of new versions of MariaDB

EMC and VMware have made the rumoured reorganisation of the companies official with the announcement of the Pivotal Initiative, a new company which will focus on the cloud and big data analytics and include SpringSource, Gemfire and Cloud Foundry

One week after NVIDIA published 2D open-source driver code for their Tegra 2 ARM SoCs, which is applied to the Tegra DRM driver that will premiere with the Linux 3.8 kernel, code has now emerged for supporting the NVIDIA Tegra driver within the libdrm component...

It's all in the fine print Feature I'm not a very good liar, I haven't got the memory for it, which is why it always pricks my conscience whenever I tick the yes box to the prompt "I have read and understood…" when installing software. I am, of course, fibbing. I never read a word. In fact, even though we all tick yes to these agreements every day, unless you're a legal bod, I doubt you could find anyone you know who could quote a single line from any of them.…

Which gadget from our Gift Guide are you most likely to give? Raspberry Pi Arduino MaKey MaKey BeagleBone Ice Tube Clock SparkFun Inventor's Kit i-Racer NanoNote Flora MintyBoost Other (tell us in the comments!) It's getting really close to the holidays. Hopefully you've seen our gift guide and giveaway, and we'd love to know which gadgets you're most excited about.

Top app earners carve up $60m pie Apple's App Store and the Google Play store each claim to offer over 700,000 apps to choose from, but only a tiny fraction of them bring in significant revenue for their developers, according to research from analyst firm Canalys.…

The hacker Kingcope, has demonstrated how to more efficiently brute force passwords on the MySQL database and all it takes is an unprivileged login for the database

After almost eight years, the developer of the PHP Gift Registry web application has finally responded to a notice regarding a serious security vulnerability. Apparently, the problem has now been fixed

Linux developer Matthew Garrett has released a version of his Shim Secure Boot bootloader that has been signed by Microsoft and allows any Linux distribution to be launched on Secure Boot systems

Mozilla's Chief of Innovation Todd Simpson has shown video calling and data transfer features based on WebRTC that will soon be available in Firefox. Users can already try some of the video calling features in Firefox Beta

The developers of the MySQL clone MariaDB have fixed a recently discovered security vulnerability in the open source database. Another bug, they say, is actually just a result of server misconfiguration

We, along with many other Internet denizens, have serious concerns about the World Congress on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12), which the International Telecommunications Union will convene today in Dubai. Our concerns stem from the core belief that openness, innovation, and opportunity … Continue reading

The ET: Legacy project is an open-source initiative that seeks to create a fully-compatible client and server for the award-winning Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory...

Marek Olšák has fixed up the HyperZ support within the R300 Gallium3D driver so that it's working properly for more applications. R300 HyperZ is finally in a state where he may be looking to enable the feature by default...

A software research project being funded by the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) with its Cyber Fast Track program is looking at ways for providing a flexible and integrated security infrastructure by using LLVM for dynamic and static security tasks...

Developer Alex Gavrishev's free, widget-oriented app lets you assign home screens specifically to be used in the car, and it lets you create large, easy-to-punch buttons for six shortcuts per screen. The buttons render well at tablet-strength high resolutions, unlike other car apps I've tried.

Dot Categories: DeveloperThis week KDE Commit-Digest introduces QML containments. Additionally, the list of changes includes :

For the past several months there has been work on vhost-blk, an in-kernel virito-blk device accelerator. This kernel-based accelerator can provide measurable speed-ups for disk/block device access by virtualized guest machines...