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A Dating Site for Algorithms
On September 3rd, 2014 with 8 comments
AnonTechie writes:A startup called Algorithmia wants to connect underused...
Fedora: Goodbye Gparted, Hello blivet-gui
On September 9th, 2014 with 48 comments
gewg_ writes:TheMukt reports Developer Vratislav Podzimek announced the...
PlayOnLinux Team Announces Updates, Experimental BSD Support
On September 10th, 2014 with 6 comments
gewg_ writes:Phoronix reports The PlayOnLinux open-source project that's a...
UK National Health Service Dumps Oracle For FOSS NoSQL
On September 11th, 2014 with 22 comments
gewg_ writes:Ulitzer's Business Wire reports: The Spine -- a collection of...
New Chinese Facial Recognition Software Claims 99.8 Percent Accuracy
On September 16th, 2014 with 38 comments
Frequent contributor gewg_ writes:Darren Pauli at El Reg reports Chinese...
Another Italian City Switches to OpenOffice
On September 17th, 2014 with 21 comments
francois.barbier writes: ZDNet reports:The latest in what is becoming an...
Enlightenment E19 Officially Released With Its Own Wayland Compositor
On September 19th, 2014 with 23 comments
gewg_ writes:The Enlightenment desktop's development team reports:The E19...
The Future of Mozilla After the Shutdown of Mozilla Labs
On September 20th, 2014 with 163 comments
An Anonymous Coward writes:Ian Bicking has confirmed that Mozilla has quietly...
maddog: I Will Never Again Talk About The Benefits Of Free Software
On September 21st, 2014 with 73 comments
gewg_ writes:Jon maddog Hall blogged: I am never again going to tell people why...
Wasteland 2 Officially Launched Today, Including For Linux Gamers
On September 20th, 2014 with 10 comments
The Mighty Buzzard writes:Michael Larabel over at Phoronix has this little gem...
Android Apps now Unofficially able to be run on any Major Desktop OS
On September 21st, 2014 with 17 comments
kaszz writes:A developer that goes by the handle Vladikoff has tweaked...
Watch Out, Digg is BAAACK (Modestly)
On September 22nd, 2014 with 29 comments
An Anonymous Coward writes:Like the vampire at the end of a horror flick, Digg...
Microsoft Gets Flack over "Rubbish" UK Data
On September 23rd, 2014 with 40 comments
lhsi writes: Poor encoding by Microsoft blamed for problems in a UK initiative...
Ello (unfacebook)
On September 28th, 2014 with 69 comments
hemocyanin writes:As a longtime (very longtime) Facebook Objector, I've been...
Dubious 'Internet Safety Software' that Hundreds of Police Agencies have Distributed to Families
On October 2nd, 2014 with 13 comments
chromas writes:The EFF has an article today about ComputerCOP, a poorly...
So Long Lotus 1-2-3: IBM Ceases Support after over 30 Years of Code
On October 3rd, 2014 with 28 comments
AnonTechie writes:On Tuesday, with no fanfare, IBM closed the last chapter in...
New Frontier in Error-Correcting Codes
On October 3rd, 2014 with 4 comments
AnonTechie writes:A coding scheme for interactive communication is the first...
Voice Activated Software Still Distracts Drivers
On October 8th, 2014 with 19 comments
lhsi writes:...
Another German Town Says It Has Completed Its Switch To FOSS
On October 9th, 2014 with 13 comments
gewg_ writes:The European Union's interoperability site reports:The German town...
Pale Moon 25 Will Release Friday with Major Changes
On October 10th, 2014 with 44 comments
gewg_ writes:Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports Pale Moon is a popular web...
Why Bother Writing the Manual for Your Software App? No One is Going to Read It.
On October 11th, 2014 with 57 comments
microtodd writes:In my experience it seems like most developers don't like...
Reactions when Users Find Bugs in Your Software
On October 11th, 2014 with 51 comments
microtodd writes:Some of the worst moments of my day happen when I get an...
Netscape Navigator, Twenty Years Later
On October 14th, 2014 with 30 comments
An anonymous coward writes:Twenty years ago today (13 October 1994), Mosaic...
Monetising Open Source: The Experience of LocomotiveCMS
On October 14th, 2014 with 14 comments
tonyPick writes:There's a blog posting up on the LocomotiveCMS site on their...
It's 2014 and You Can Still Pwn a Box Using a Word File, a TTF Font, or Flash
On October 16th, 2014 with 35 comments
gewg_ writes:Shaun Nichols at El Reg notes the latest Patch TuesdayMicrosoft...
XBMC Continues to Live-on in the Original Xbox
On October 17th, 2014 with 7 comments
bornagainpenguin writes:In beta since December of 2013, the XBMC4Xbox Project...
USPTO Rejection Rate For Software Patents In July: 78 Percent
On October 18th, 2014 with 4 comments
gewg_ writes:TechDirt reports:The impact of the Supreme Court's ruling in Alice...
Multiple Emulators via your Web Browser
On October 20th, 2014 with 7 comments
The bwFLA Emulation as a Service (EaaS) Project at the University of Freiberg...
Why Pro-systemd and Anti-systemd People Will Never Get Along
On October 22nd, 2014 with 143 comments
novak writes:The Initfinder General (uselessd author) discusses why the...
Dutch Parliament Urges Increased Use of Open Source by Government
On October 22nd, 2014 with 8 comments
gewg_ writes:The European Union's interoperability page reports:The Dutch...
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