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Unboxing the latest Linux laptop from System76

May 25, 2020
Written by Opensource.com
Category: News
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I've been on a journey from Mac to Linux since joining the staff at Opensource.com almost two years ago. In a huge step for me, I finally...

Thousands of enterprise systems infected by new Blue Mockingbird malware gang

May 25, 2020
Written by ZDNet
Category: News
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Thousands of enterprise systems are believed to have been infected with a cryptocurrency-mining malware operated by a group tracked under the codename of Blue Mockingbird.

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Discovered earlier this month by malware

The May Issue - The Joomla Community Magazine

May 25, 2020
Written by Joomla!
Category: News
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May is about to end and it's being a period very rich of news in the Joomla sphere.

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Our passionate volunteers are working to make the Joomla 4 Beta release happen within this month, as well as

Three Steps to a Better-Performing About Page

May 25, 2020
Written by the Moz Blog
Category: News
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Somehow, many businesses I’ve come across online have one glaring problem in common: a very weak and unconvincing About Us page.

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This doesn’t make any sense in my mind, as the About page is one of the

How Redis scratched an itch — and changed databases forever

May 25, 2020
Written by InfoWorld
Category: News
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Why would you ever write a new database? Particularly an in-memory database, which, back in 2009, made zero sense to the ruling database class of the time. Salvatore Sanfilippo didn’t really care. He wasn’t...

Is it possible to run a conference using only free software?

May 24, 2020
Written by Opensource.com
Category: News
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The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) annual conference LibrePlanet went fully virtual in 2020 due to ongoing issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In...

Singapore looking at wearable devices to support COVID-19 contact tracing

May 24, 2020
Written by ZDNet
Category: News
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Contact tracing apps unsafe if Bluetooth vulnerabilities not fixed

To address concerns about battery life and the use of Bluetooth in its contact tracing app, Singapore currently is looking to develop wearable devices to help drive the adoption of such technologies and boost its efforts to contain...

IBM and Facebook boost accessibility, Microsoft's apology, and other open source news

May 23, 2020
Written by Opensource.com
Category: News
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In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we share accessibility updates from Facebook and IBM, Microsoft's admission that it was wrong about open source, and...

APIs published, APIs consumed: mainstream enterprises increasingly behave like software vendors

May 23, 2020
Written by ZDNet
Category: News
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The phrase "every company is now a software company" has been a talking point for several years, and now data from a recent industry survey bears this out. The proliferation of APIs -- both consumed and published --...