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Intel continues to push out more open-source kernel code for enabling their next-generation Haswell processors to be properly supported under Linux. Haswell, the successor to Intel's Ivy Bridge processors, isn't due to be released for a number of months still but Intel Open-Source Technology Center developers have already been working on Haswell Linux enablement for a number of months.

Google could be poised to roll out new Nexus tablet offerings at next Monday's press event in New York City. The search giant is also likely to introduce a new smartphone, the LG Nexus 4, powered by Android 4.2. The timing of the event is certainly interesting, as it comes later on the same day that Microsoft is holding a Windows Phone 8 event in San Francisco.

Hardware Hacks is the section on The H that collects stories about the wide range of uses of open source in the rapidly expanding area of open hardware. Find out about interesting projects, re-purposing of devices and the creation of a new generation of deeply open systems. In this edition, the Gertboard starts shipping, the open source-powered R10 quadcopter reaches its funding goal, the Arduino Due ARM-based board is now available for purchase, and using a Rasperry Pi as a Tor relay.

The latest version of the distributed version control system Git adds several new features and options to the open source package, including the ability to access keyrings under Windows and GNOME

With the acquisition of the open source backup software Zmanda, Carbonite, which specialises in mobile device and desktop backups, has ventured into the server and database areas

Researchers find 1,000 insecure apps, pinch credit card and other data More than 1,000 out of a sample of 13,000 Android applications analysed by German researchers contained serious flaws in their SSL implementations.…

OpenGL support is becoming an increasing hard requirement on the Linux desktop. Even if your hardware comes up short, more desktops are requiring GL support, which means falling back to the CPU-based LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver...

For those not over in the Czech Republic this weekend for the Linux events going on here, here are some more data points for the AMD A10-5800K "Trinity" APU to look at under Linux...

Consider how far we have come as a communications-driven society since the days of the messenger pigeon and telegraph. It's about 150 years since the Pony Express rode in the West. From horses to microwave, one of life's mysteries is that battery technology is still dead-ending us. Portable power chemistry hasn't been conquered.

Ben Skeggs of Red Hat pushed a number of new DRM commits into the Nouveau driver development repository today, including new support for Z compression...

Developers at a university in China have developed their own Java version of LLVM. Their reasoning for re-implementing LLVM is that they prefer Java to the C++ language...

Determined to foster a culture of continuous feedback, enable coaching relationships outside traditional hierarchies, and encourage meaningful recognition among his engineering team, Gilt Groupe's John Quinn began experimenting with Rypple—a disruptive social performance management platform. Usage spread rapidly and organically, HR took notice, and Gilt soon rolled out Rypple companywide.

After the change yesterday to now hide early Intel hardware support by default to fend off early driver issues for new graphics hardware -- such as mode-setting just outright failing to work -- Intel has commented a bit more on the driver support for the forthcoming "Haswell" hardware...

After yesterday publishing the first extensive benchmark results for the Calxeda EnergyCore ECX-1000 ARM Servers in the form of the 1.1GHz and 1.4GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 nodes running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10, here are more benchmarks to share today from the "5-Watt ARM Server" on Linux...

Windows 8 concentrates the mind The 25th of October is an auspicious date on the Microsoft calendar. It's not just the date Redmond intends to release Windows 8; it's also the same date that Microsoft released Windows XP, back in 2001.…

With new support for the IETF Opus audio format, improved support for Blu-ray and HTTP Live Streaming, and fixes for numerous regressions, the minor update to VLC is a major improvement to the free software media player

The Open Source Initiative and the Open Source Hardware Association have signed a joint agreement on the use of their respective logos. The agreement hopefully puts to rest any dispute between the organisations

With a background on negotiation theory, David brings a fresh and interesting perspective on the behavioral norms of open source communities.

Dot Categories: Community and EventsBilbao will host Akademy 2013 from the 13th to 19th of July next year. Kaixo KDE! In the Basque language, the letter K is used to change verb case and also to make plurals of some words. For the hard C sound, Basque uses the letter K. 

The LLVM project has announced that they will be turning to Facebook's "Phabricator" project for handling code review...