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GNU/Linux



Free Software/Open Source



  • Organizations are Rallying Behind an Open Source Internet of Things
    If you've been reading about the Internet of Things (IoT) market, you may be noticing that it is picking up steam with powerful partnerships and big name companies launching initiatives. Red Hat put up an extensive post recently illustrating that it is very focused on the concept of networking objects of all types, and we've covered the backing that organizations ranging from The Linux Foundation to Microsoft are putting behind the IoT market.


  • Events



    • Ceph Developer Summit 2014 - Hammer
      The Ceph Developer Summit (CDS) for the next major Ceph release called Hammer started today some hours ago (2014/10/28). It's again a virtual summit via video conference calls.




  • Web Browsers



  • SaaS/Big Data



    • Hybrid cloud – the future is open source
      Among respondents to Computing’s recent data centre research programme, the hybrid cloud model is generating a lot of interest. Indeed, moving towards a hybrid model was the aim of 41 per cent of them (see figure 1).

      Hybrid cloud implies a close interconnectivity between a private cloud (i.e. a collection of physical and virtual systems used exclusively by one company) and the multi-tenant public cloud services exemplified by Google, Amazon and Microsoft Azure. This seamlessly integrated whole allows data, services and workloads to be moved between public and private clouds at will, with the administrator able to monitor and manage the whole system via a single dashboard.


    • Making cloud storage easy with OpenStack Swift
      When you want to learn about object storage in OpenStack, John Dickinson is the guy to ask. John is the Director of Technology at SwiftStack, a company which relies on the OpenStack Swift project to provide unstructured data storage to customers around the world. He also serves as the Program Technical Lead (PTL) for OpenStack Swift and has been involved in the development of Swift since 2009.


    • IBM Expands Global Cloud Footprint and Focus on OpenStack
      Despite a recent poor quarterly results report, IBM appears to be applying even more focus to its cloud services business. The company has announced an expansion of its global cloud network with a new cloud center in Mumbai, India and a new suite of cloud services for OpenStack. And these are just the latest components of IBM's $1.2 billion investment in cloud centers in every major market worldwide.


    • Chris Kemp: Nebula CSO. Cloud pioneer. Entrepreneur. Former NASA CTO.
      Chris Kemp spoke with TechRepublic about the founding of OpenStack and how he went from NASA's first CTO of IT to startup founder.




  • BSD



  • FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC



    • GCL 2.6.12 is released
      The GCL team is happy to announce the release of version 2.6.12, the latest achievement in the 'stable' (as opposed to 'development') series. Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl for downloading information.


    • [GNU IceCat] 31.2.0
      GNU Icecat is now available on Fedora repositories.




  • Project Releases



  • Openness/Sharing



  • Standards/Consortia



    • Survey probes accessibility of Member States’ transposing of EU legislation
      A survey is being conducted to see if the sharing of information on how the European Union Member States are transposing European legislation can be improved. The results of this survey could potentially contribute to increased interoperability of the ICT systems that provide access to European legislation.


    • W3C now endorses HTML5
      In addition HTML5 will see much more better games get developed for the web, Mozilla using various technologies have shown off desktop-like games in terms of graphics, if this were to become mainstream we may see a shift from people using traditional desktop and laptop to devices like Chromebooks, although post-Snowden privacy concerns make this a more distant reality than it was before. HTML5 also brings with it native support for scalable vector graphics (SVG) and math (MathML), anotations important for East Asian typography and features to enable accessibility of rich applications.






Leftovers



  • Health/Nutrition



  • Security



  • Defence/Police/Secrecy/Aggression



    • Army Says Only 30% of Americans Could Join
      The U.S. Army now says that seven out of 10 young people between the ages of 17 and 24 are ineligible to become soldiers.

      The alarming reduction in the pool of prospective soldiers worries Army brass and they largely attribute it to three issues: obesity or health problems; lack of a high school education; and criminal histories.

      "There's a reliance on an ever-smaller group of people to serve and defend the country," said Maj. Gen. Allen Batschelet, commanding general for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command at Fort Knox, Ky. "What do we do about that and how do we address that concern?


    • David Cameron jogger: 'How good is security if I managed to run between them?'
      The jogger who was manhandled to the ground after running into David Cameron, the Prime Minister, has said he had “no idea” why police officers jumped on him.

      Dean Farley, a 28-year-old hospital worker from Leeds, questioned the Prime Minister’s security arrangements.




  • PR/AstroTurf/Lobbying



    • The Washington Post's Putinology
      OK, so fiery anti-Americanism is the belief that the United States desires a unipolar world where it calls the shots. Does anyone doubt US elites think otherwise?




  • Privacy



    • Verizon’s ‘Perma-Cookie’ Is a Privacy-Killing Machine
      Verizon Wireless has been subtly altering the web traffic of its wireless customers for the past two years, inserting a string of about 50 letters, numbers, and characters into data flowing between these customers and the websites they visit.


    • Sharyl Attkisson’s computer intrusions: ‘Worse than anything Nixon ever did’
      That’s the noise that Attkisson’s Apple computer was making at 3:14 one morning. A Toshiba laptop computer issued by CBS News did the same thing a day earlier, around 4 a.m. All this goes down in October 2012, right in the midst of the Benghazi story. A person who’s identified as “Jeff” warns Attkisson: “I’ve been reading your reports online about Benghazi. It’s pretty incredible. Keep at it. But you’d better watch out.” “Jeff,” like several of the names in “Stonewalled,” is a pseudonym.


    • Report Reveals Wider Tracking of Mail in US
      In a rare public accounting of its mass surveillance program, the United States Postal Service reported that it approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly...




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