The H is closing down
The H is closing its doors four and a half years after heise online UK was redesigned as a open source and security news and features web destination    

Hardware Hacks: Fire, alarms, touchable boards and NFC rings
In this edition of The H's Hardware Hacks: A programmable NFC ring gets kickstarted, a touchscreen development board, an alarming Pi project and a Pi with real fire power    

GitHub gets smart over open source licences
GitHub has taken steps to make it easier to set a licence on a new project and to select an open source licence following criticisms that it was making it too easy to leave unlicensed, copyright code in public    

NSS 3.15.1 brings TLS 1.2 support to Firefox
Network Security Services (NSS), the collection of cryptographic libraries which is used, among others, by Mozilla's Firefox browser, now supports TLS 1.2. This enables the use of TLS with HMAC-SHA256 ciphers    

Second Android signature attack disclosed
A second hole in Android's signature validation has been disclosed, though there are greater limitations to the new technique. Google and CyanogenMod have patched the holes but how other vendors will handle it is to be seen    
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Mozilla Taps New CEO
The company looks to John Lilly to grow its business while ex-CEO Mitchell Baker focuses on Mozilla's vision.

Old-School SUSE Executives Take Over Open-Xchange
Two of pre-Novell SUSE's top executives are taking the open-source groupware company Open-Xchange.

Torvalds Still Will Not License Linux Under GPL v3
The Linux creator said copyright owners would have to agree to licensing changes, and those who didn't would have to rewrite code.

OpenVZ to Release Pre-made Ubuntu VMs
OpenVZ, the open-source community arm of SWsoft, will soon be releasing ready-to-run Ubuntu server and desktop virtual machines.

After SCO Dies
Opinion: Could Novell open-source Unix? What will OpenServer customers do? Can Sun claim some customers for OpenSolaris?
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Court: Open Source Project Liable For 3rd Party DRM-Busting Coding (TorrentFreak)
TorrentFreak writes about a potentially troubling court decision in Germany. A company called Appwork has been threatened with a large fine for functionality committed to its open-source downloader (JDownloader2) repository by a non-employee: "?In... Read more

Thursday's security updates
Debian has updated ruby1.8 (three vulnerabilities) and ruby1.9.1 (code execution). openSUSE has updated horde5 (12.3: privilege escalation) and ibus-pinyin (13.1: password disclosure).

McCloskey: Multiprocess Firefox
Bill McCloskey has posted an extensive writeup on the work to decompose Firefox into a multiprocess application. "Multiprocess Firefox depends on a new Firefox feature called off main thread compositing (OMTC). In brief, each Firefox window is bro... Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 5, 2013
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 5, 2013 is available.

Stable kernel updates
Greg KH has released stable kernels 3.12.3, 3.10.22, and 3.4.72. All contain the usual set of important fixes.
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Friday Funnies : Amazon Drones

Inforce IFC6410: Quad-Core Snapdragon SBC for $150

Linux Likely to Run Google Robots and Amazon Drones

Testing the New ZaTab Open Hackable Android Tablet

Are Cloud Operating Systems the Next Big Thing?

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Oracle releases VirtualBox 4.1.16
Today Oracle released VirtualBox 4.1.16, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.1: The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_ACCESS_DENIED with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247) VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_PAGE_T... Read more

First tarball release of the new GNU Portable Threads Library: nPth version 0.90
The first tarball release of the New GNU Portable Threads Library: nPth version 0.90 has been made. nPth is a non-preemptive threads implementation using an API very similar to the one known from GNU Pth. It has been designed as a replacement of GNU Pth f... Read more

OpenOffice 3.4 Released
The first version of OpenOffice under the governance of the Apache Software Foundation has been released. Apache OpenOffice 3.4 is available for download free of charge. OpenOffice 3.4 features: word processing, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, databa... Read more

Jury in deadlocked on copyright issues in Oracle vs Google???
The copyright part of Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over possible infringement of the Java intellectual property in Android is moving into its final phase and there are indications that, for the copyright part of the lawsuit, the jury might be dea... Read more

Does Android?s open source status make it better in terms of privacy?
Does Android?s open source status make it better in terms of privacy? Find out here.
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Mars Needs Women
Linux is pretty much an all-male project. Let's change that. more>>

IBM Will Minimize Impact of Future Disasters
Not even Mighty Big Blue can stop a hurricane. But. IBM and Marist College are testing a new cloud computing innovation that could help prevent disruptions in voice and data communications servic... Read more

Readers' Choice Awards 2013
This year's Reader's Choice issue was truly fun to put together. No, not just because you do all the work (voting), but because it's great to get a feel for what our community is buzzing about. Ba... Read more

December 2013 Issue of Linux Journal: Readers' Choice
As we wave a fond farewell to 2013, we close out the year with one of our favorite issues. more>>

The NEW SUSE Catalog is in!
Ahhh??tis the start of the holiday season! Time for turkey, good cheer, frantic shopping?and the SUSE Partner Catalog? Well, for all of you SUSE aficionados/users out there, this is a big deal. Thi... Read more
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BridgeIt 1.0 Released by ICEsoft - Mobile Web Apps, Meet Native Device...
Easily add native features to your HTML5 mobile web apps.(PRWeb December 05, 2013)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/bridgeit/web-meet-native/prweb11394671.htm

SaltStack to Launch Certified Engineer Program at SaltConf 2014
SaltStack today announced it will launch the SaltStack Certified Engineer program at SaltConf 2014.(PRWeb December 05, 2013)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/SaltStack/Certified-Engineer/prweb11395330.htm

?Opening Your Business to Open Source? Subject of Interactive @Duo...
Free continuing education and networking event on December 12 from 6PM to 8PM will explore how open source software solutions provide an attractive option for developing web-based solutions such as...(PRWeb December 05, 2013)Read the full story at http... Read more

Silex Wins Editor's Choice Award for Linux Software Development...
Editors of Embedded Computing Design Note Importance of Adding Wireless to Embedded Devices(PRWeb December 05, 2013)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/silex-wins-editors-choice/linux-SX-580-2700DM-SDK/prweb11395000.htm

HostMySite Announces The World?s Fastest $99 Server
HostMySite, a leading provider of shared, dedicated, and VPS hosting solutions for small businesses and Resellers, announced a new milestone in the amount of raw performance and throughput available...(PRWeb December 05, 2013)Read the full story at htt... Read more
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