Big changes on the IoT malware scene. Security researchers have spotted a version of the Mirai IoT malware that can run on a vast range of architectures, and even on Android devices. This Mirai malware strain is called Sora, a ...
The bug can’t be squashed due to the boot ROM hardcoded onto Nvidia’s chip HACKERS HAVE CRACKED into the Nintendo Switch and figured out how to get the hybrid console to run Linux. According to hacker group fail0verflow, who posted a ...
Brief: Linux may not have a decent market share in desktop, but it rules the supercomputers with 498 out of the top 500 supercomputers running on Linux. Linux is still running on more than 99% of the top 500 fastest ...
Last week computer giant IBM unveiled it’s own, bespoke typeface. The font is called IBM Plex. It’s designed by IBM designers, and will (say FastCoDesign) be “be used almost everywhere letters appear”, from software and websites, to press releases, visitor passes, and ...
Samsung wants to bring the full power of desktop Linux to its smartphones. The mobile giant has this week announced the ‘Linux on Galaxy’ project that, it says, will give smartphones the capability to “run Linux-based distributions on mobile devices”. So if you dream ...
OSLS Linus Torvalds believes the technology industry’s celebration of innovation is smug, self-congratulatory, and self-serving. The term of art he used was more blunt: “The innovation the industry talks about so much is bullshit,” he said. “Anybody can innovate. Don’t ...
Almost two years ago, The Document Foundation announced it was going to bring LibreOffice to the cloud. With the release of LibreOffice 5.3, that day has finally come. LibreOffice’s new MUFFIN-based interface gives users a more flexible document creation experience. ...
Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation. No, you don’t need to rub yours eyes: we did just write that. The company says it is “joining the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member to better collaborate with the open source community.” ...
Microsoft just open-sourced PowerShell, making it available for both Linux and Mac. The command-line shell and scripting platform is just the latest open-source friendly software from Microsoft. Microsoft software on Linux All the “Microsoft loves Linux” talk can be a ...
A momentous milestone Aug. 25 marks the 25th anniversary of Linux, the free and open source operating system that’s used around the globe in smartphones, tablets, desktop PCs, servers, supercomputers, and more. Though its beginnings were humble, Linux has become the ...
One of the many things I love about the Linux community is how ridiculously helpful it can be. Like a lot of us, Børge A. Roum has bought a lot of Humble Bundles over the years. And, also like a lot of us, says he was ...
Is the Skype Linux app refusing to connect for you? If so I can tell you that you’re not alone. We’ve received multiple reports from readers who say they’ve been unable to log in to Skype using the older Qt-based Skype for Linux ...
When Microsoft introduced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) the common refrain was that you could use it to run Linux’s beloved Bash tool but full Linux desktops were out. Turns out that wasn’t exactly true. It didn’t take long for ...
Pop a cushion on the floor to break your jaw crashing from the following news: for the release of GNOME 3.22 later this year GNOME has actually added a new feature! I’m being a little facetious, of course. But news of ...
Automotive Grade Linux could be the answer to today’s woefully fragmented, often frustrating automotive operating-system landscape. A project of the Linux Foundation, AGL is currently focused on providing an operating system for in-vehicle infotainment consoles. But its backers envision an OS that can ...