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Name your favorite open source project, and the odds are good—very good—that a small handful of contributors account for the vast majority of significant development thereof. The odds are just as good that most of those...
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Joomla 3.8.6 is now available. This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla addressing one security vulnerability and including over 60 bug fixes and improvements....
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Since version 1.5, the Joomla CMS contains a Gmail authentication plugin. Its main purpose was to illustrate how you can build a Joomla authentication plugin for an external service with a ‘real world’ example. The web has...
Read more: Removal of the Gmail Authentication Plugin as of Joomla 4.0
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Twenty years ago, even staunch proponents of free and open source software like Richard Stallman questioned the social imperative for free hardware designs[1]. Academics had...
Read more: Mainstream academia embraces open source hardware
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News briefs for April 6, 2018.
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Linux kernel developer, free software activist and Google engineer Matthew Garrett discovered that Symantec is using a Linux distro based on the QCA Software Development Kit (QSDK) project: "This is a- Written by: J D
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Docker founder Solomon Hykes has announced that he is leaving the company's daily operations. Docker sprang to life in 2013, when Hykes rebranded dotcloud as Docker Inc. and appointed a new CEO with the goal of successfully monetizing...
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Last week, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed for the first time that it is aware of unauthorized cell-site simulators, the surveillance tools often called stingrays or IMSI Catchers, in various parts of Washington DC.
While...
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Abandonware is a term used for a piece of software that is no longer developed or supported by the original author. In the Joomla-world, abandonware can include third party extensions such as components, modules, plugins, templates and/or libraries. ...
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