IBM may be buying Red Hat, but Fedora, its community Linux distribution, has been released on schedule. | Continue reading
Red Hat and IBM explain how Red Hat, its people and open-source technology, will work as part of IBM. Red Hat employees, up-stream developers, and customers have nothing to worry about. | Continue reading
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy Joe Cannataci has called for Australia's proposed encryption-busting Bill to be set aside. | Continue reading
Researchers in machine learning at Facebook developed a new neural network model to come up with captions for photos that are more "engaging" to people, with a variety of tones and expressions such as "It was such a nice day at the game" for a ballpark image, or "This house and t … | Continue reading
Many county election websites also found to be lacking HTTPS support. | Continue reading
Developer finds a Universal Windows Platform privacy bug after Windows 10 1809 breaks his app. | Continue reading
After user reports, Microsoft has pulled a fake Bing ad that was serving up deceptive content to those seeking to download Google Chrome. | Continue reading
Github ranked its top open source projects as well as fast growing developer languages. | Continue reading
One package contained a clipboard hijacker that replaced victims' Bitcoin addresses in an attempt to hijack funds from users. | Continue reading
Issue is only a privilege escalation flaw but it impacts a large number of systems. | Continue reading
Hacker was released on parole from Romanian prison this week and is now eligible for a second US extradition to serve 52 months in a US prison on a 2016 sentence. | Continue reading
Chinese government turned to local ISP for intelligence gathering after it signed the Obama-Xi cyber pact in late 2015, researchers say. | Continue reading
Mozilla gives back to the Tor Project after it embedded multiple Tor Browser features into Firefox. | Continue reading
In the aftermath of Microsoft joining the Open Invention Network Linux-friendly patent consortium, many questions remained, and at Open Source Summit Europe, some of them were answered. | Continue reading
Zero-day impacts Windows 10, Server 2016, and Server 2019 only. | Continue reading
Hackers stole over 50 million TIO tokens. Have already withdrawn 1.3 million tokens. | Continue reading
Over the past few years, Microsoft has embraced the Android operating system with surprising enthusiasm. With a large collection of apps for business available in the Google Play Store, you now have everything you need to turn an Android device into a Microsoft phone. | Continue reading
While in Edinburgh, I caught up with Linus Torvalds. He confided his thoughts about returning to Linux, the Code of Conduct, and some software, BPF, which is fundamentally changing how the Linux kernel and user space work together. | Continue reading
German researchers find that only seven of 45 browsers block TLS Session Resumption tracking. | Continue reading
IBM, yes IBM, has been giving its workers the choice of moving to Macs and they've been moving to them quickly. This, in turn, has led IBM to create, and now open source, a Mac system administration program: Mac@IBM code. | Continue reading
Small farmers can now tell what their neighbors are planting with AI-aided satellite maps. | Continue reading
Red Hat and F5 Networks acknowledge that some products are vulnerable to the libssh authentication bug. | Continue reading
CMS officials says open enrollment period won't be negatively impacted by recent breach. | Continue reading
The firm is reportedly aiming to patch up its tattered reputation with the purchase of external expertise. | Continue reading
How the new paradigm makes business sense | Continue reading
After a few weeks off to reconsider his role in the Linux community, Linus Torvalds is back in the saddle. | Continue reading
Scientists of AI at Google's Google Brain and DeepMind units acknowledge machine learning is falling short of human cognition and propose that using models of networks might be a way to find relations between things that allow computers to generalize more broadly about the world. | Continue reading
The number of developers hosting projects built with Google-backed Kotlin is surging. | Continue reading
Samsung Electronics has opened its latest AI centre in Montreal, its seventh globally and fourth in North America. | Continue reading
The Australian Parliament's own human rights watchdog committee has identified a raft of concerns with the Assistance and Access Bill 2018, and is 'seeking additional information'. | Continue reading
The new system could potentially prevent similar memory-based attacks from risking our PCs and global services. | Continue reading
A fix is out but the plugin is used in hundreds, if not thousands, of projects. Patching will take ages! | Continue reading
Google's Retpoline fix for the Spectre Variant 2 flaw helps minimize performance hit on Windows 10 machines. | Continue reading
Chengdu Aerospace Science is planning to launch its illumination satellite in 2020, which it says will be be eight times brighter than the moon and bright enough to replace street lights. | Continue reading
Like living dangerously? Keep running Windows. Like to take a little risk? Give the new version of Ubuntu Linux 18.10 a try. | Continue reading
Atlassian has updated its signature product so it's more in alignment with modern software development practices. | Continue reading
"RID Hijacking" technique lets hackers assign admin rights to guest and other low-level accounts. | Continue reading
These attacks cost the average organization millions and SMBs are the worst affected. | Continue reading
Chrome 70 also comes with support for the final version of the TLS 1.3 standard and the AV1 video format. | Continue reading
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner seeking greater transparency and judicial oversight to Australia's proposed Assistance and Access Bill. | Continue reading
This wasn't Oracle's biggest patch ever. That title goes to the July 2018 CPU. | Continue reading
Vulnerability not as bad as it gets, as most servers use the openssh library to support server-side SSH logins. | Continue reading
The RAT software was a popular choice for cyberattackers. | Continue reading
Seller is asking $42,200 for all 19 US state voter databases. | Continue reading
UPDATE: The big four --Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla-- announce end of support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 standards. | Continue reading
Bad passwords, non-encrypted communications, and a lot of unpatched bugs. | Continue reading
Microsoft cites problems with the latest update package deleting user files. | Continue reading