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Aside from the Intel Bay Trail unveiling today, exciting news out of the Intel Developer Forum today is a set of new Chromebooks thanks to Google and their partners. Being at IDF, these are Intel-based devices and using the latest-generation Haswell CPUs.

Radxa is accepting preorders for a compact, open, Android- and Linux-ready single board computer based on a 1.6GHz quad-core Rockchip RK3188 SoC. The $89 and $69 Radxa Rock and Rock Lite SBCs offer up to 2GB RAM and 8GB flash, WiFi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet connectivity, real-world ports for HDMI, Ethernet, USB, and S/PDIF, and numerous other interfaces on a pair of expansion headers.

The Pirate Bay has long been a thorn in the side of copyright holders, but when Britain's record industry trade association asked Google to remove the notorious file-sharing site from its homepage, the search engine refused to comply.

A buffer overflow in Snack could result in execution of arbitrary code or Denial of Service.

KO GmbH today presents Krita Gemini for Windows 8. Krita Gemini is a fusion between Krita Sketch and Krita Desktop: Krita Gemini switches seamlessly between the full-featured desktop/laptop user interface and the sketch interface, which is optimized for tablets.

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes four security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

It was discovered that exactimage, a fast image processing library, does not correctly handle error conditions of the embedded copy of dcraw. This could result in a crash or other behaviour in an application using the library due to an uninitialized variable being passed to longjmp.

ImageMagick could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

While Oracle is readying VirtualBox 4.3, VMware has released VMware Fusion 6 and VMware Workstation 10 as their latest desktop virtualization offerings. There's a great number of new features present...

Help us out here amateur psychologists: Linus Torvalds has just unleashed his second shouty rant in as many days. Do we need to worry, or is the moon in a particular phase that makes this kind of thing more likely? Has Portland's water supply taken a turn for the worse? Or are we simply seeing a frustrated middle aged man letting his psyche hang out?

Every year, a select group of university students and recent graduates join Red Hat’s North American summer intern program. The application and interview process is vigorous. In 2013, we received more than 5,800 applicants and hired only 71. But for those chosen, a Red Hat summer internship offers unique opportunities to learn, grow, and network.

Continuous delivery is defined as a process in which software development teams focus on deployment and refinement over and above any imperative to work on new features. As a technical discipline this is fine in principle, especially if we know where we want to head with the project in hand.

Gigabyte announced a Linux-friendly mini-PC that supports Intel’s 4th Generation (Haswell) Core processors clocked at up to 1.8GHz. The Brix comes in four different models, depending on the dual-core Core variant, supports dual HDMI/DisplayPort displays at up to 4K resolution, and offers and SPDIF, mSATA, four USB 3.0 ports, WiFi, Bluetooth, and gigabit Ethernet connections.

For some reason, Google seems to dislike Google Drive users who prefer Linux. I find this particularly strange, since Google's Chrome OS is based on Linux. Thankfully, the folks over at Insync not only provide Linux support for Google Drive syncing, they do it with style.

After facing a backlash from developers concerned that they wouldn't get early access to the latest versions of Windows, Microsoft has released builds of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 to its MSDN and TechNet subscription programs, more than a month ahead of the updates' official launch date.

Following the new EXT4 features and F2FS changes for the Linux 3.12 kernel, the XFS file-system update has now occurred.

Kate gets initial Vim macro support. Digikam sees more work on improved multicore support. KDE-PIM gains a new command line tool: kdepim/console/calendarjanitor that can scan all the calendar data for buggy incidences; adds a debug dialog for search. In KDE Frameworks, hotplug dataengine is ported to Plasma 2, and more. KWallet sees work on GPG backend, ready for real-life testing.

Experts on privacy and Internet security have blasted the National Security Agency over reports it has secretly been working with the British government to crack encryption technology that billions of Internet users rely upon to keep their electronic messages and confidential data secure.

In preparation for running Intel Haswell Gallium3D benchmarks, this weekend I ran some fresh Mesa 9.1.6 vs. 9.2.0 vs. 9.3-devel tests on an Intel Core i7 "Haswell" system with HD Graphics 4600...

After the kernel-side AMD Berlin APU support was merged for the Linux 3.12 while the user-space Mesa Gallium3D and Radeon X.Org driver support was just merged on Friday evening for this first HSA APU.