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With the Mirai botnet still wreaking havoc, and other IoT botnets appearing, security researchers are looking for ways to discover the insecure devices that are being targeted by attackers before they can be compromised.

Back in August, the Obama Administration announced a new policy that requires 20 percent of the federal government's software projects be open source. To make all of that material easily accessible, there's now a place for you to view all of the code.

Rejoice Linux fans; the OS will work on laptops with Intel’s Kaby Lake chips.

In the summer of 1976, Daniel Kottke was looking for a job while off from college. He found one from his old buddy and the man he spent time with in India just years prior: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Microsoft has open sourced PowerShell, it’s automation tool and command line shell. That’s not all, PowerShell is also coming to Linux.

Guys, gals, aardvarks, fishes: I'm running out of ways to say this. Your Android device is not in any immediate danger of being taken over a super-scary malware monster.

The US is responding to China’s new Sunway TiahuLight system that was announced Monday, and fast.

As many as 10 million PS3 console owners will be eligible for payment.

Smartphone maker and display manufacturer Samsung is believed to launch a pair of smartphones in early 2017, each with a bendable OLED display.

The PC’s DIY hardware ethos is both a blessing and a curse on computing. On one hand, the open ecosystem fuels innovation and serves as a major selling point for enthusiasts. On the other, the basic design of PCs hasn’t really changed in decades.

SolydX and SolydK are Debian-based distributions with the Xfce and KDE desktops respectively.

Google is stepping up its game of open-sourcing tools for improved language parsing in smart AI, and Parsey McParseface is the latest name on the list.

The popular Steam computer game network has started accepting bitcoin in a move aimed at making it easier for players in countries like Brazil and China to make payments.

At the OpenStack Summit, the OpenStack Foundation announced the general availability of its Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) exam.

This week marks the annual North American OpenStack Summit, this year being held back where it all began, in Austin, Texas. When OpenStack began, half a dozen or so years ago, it was focused on giving service providers and large enterprises the ability to compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Using the open source OpenStack operating system, organizations could build themselves an "Amazon-like" cloud of their own.

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Cloud Suite and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8, helping to bridge the gap between development and operations teams at the scale of cloud computing.

Vivaldi 1.0 recently rolled out, and the full live version of the browser has a lot of reasons to get power users excited.

The $35 computer can transform into a virtual assistant thanks to Amazon’s detailed instructions.

Toonz, the software that animators at Studio Ghibli used for classics like Princess Mononoke, is going open source. Italian studio Digital Video made a deal with Japanese media company Dwango, enabling Dwango to produce and release a free version of the tool, called OpenToonz, for the international animation community.

It’s been a big month for Microsoft and open source. The company joined the Eclipse project and open-sourced some plug-in code. It announced SQL Server will be made available for Linux (presumably for the benefit of Azure). It now has a range of Android apps available. The news keeps flowing in, and plenty of people are impressed by the efforts.