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: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 06 March 2019; Hits: 525

News briefs for March 6, 2019.

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Purism announces that PureOS is now convergent ^[1], which means "being able to make the same application code execute, and operate, both on mobile phones and laptops—adapting the applications to

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No one's better at hacking than the NSA. And now one if its powerful tools is available to everyone for free.

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Moz's Domain Authority is requested over 1,000,000,000 times per year, it's referenced millions of times on the web, and it has become a veritable household name among search engine optimizers for a variety of use cases, from determining the...

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A report by Check Point Research has been brought to our attention relating to a security vulnerability that was patched back in December 2015. This report has also been picked up by Threat Post....

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According to a new survey^[1] by Sonatype, IT professionals are reporting an increase in security breaches in Open Source software.

According to the survey, breaches tied to open source software components increased 71% over...

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Google's RankBrain: Clearing up myths and misconceptions

It’s been nearly 3½ years since Google first announced their usage of RankBrain (October 26th 2015, but it had started being rolled out early 2015, in multiple languages).

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In that time, there’s been little

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 05 March 2019; Hits: 478

As countless schools, libraries, and families have proven, the Raspberry Pi is a great way to expose kids to programming. In the first four articles in this...

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Japanese police have brought in, questioned, and charged a 13-year-old female student from the city of Kariya for sharing browser exploit code online.

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The code was a mere

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 05 March 2019; Hits: 608

News briefs for March 5, 2019.

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LibreSignage, "a FOSS digital signage solution for managing a network of digital signage clients...anything from small advertisement displays to larger commercial billboards", is looking for beta testers for LibreSignage v1.0.0

Synaptic Web News

Purism Announces PureOS Is Now Convergent, LibreOffice 6.2.1 Now Available, Security Patch for Ubuntu 18.0.4 LTS, Bugfix Update for Plasma 5 and KaOS 2019.02 Recently Released

The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source

A Comprehensive Analysis of the New Domain Authority

A Statement on the Recent Report by Check Point

Is Open Source Becoming More Insecure? » Linux Magazine

Google RankBrain: Clearing up the myths and misconceptions

5 ways to teach kids to program with Raspberry Pi

Japanese police charge 13-year-old for sharing 'unclosable popup' prank online

LibreSignage Looking for Beta Testers, OpenNebula v. 5.8 "Edge" Now Available, New SPOILER Attack Affecting Intel CPUs Discovered, Bug Found in Android TV OS and GNU Linux-libre 5.0-gnu Released