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E3 2013: Mad Catz Project M.O.J.O. Android Games Console Revealed

Linux Today - Mon, 2013-06-10 14:00

IGN: With devices like Ouya drumming up interest in open-source gaming platforms, Mad Catz is jumping into the fray with a system of its own — Project M.O.J.O.

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What Android Has That iOS Has Not (Yet)

Linux Today - Mon, 2013-06-10 13:00

TechCrunch: Here we'll look at some Android options Apple could unlock for iOS.

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Red Hat: 2013:0911-01: kernel: Important Advisory

LinuxSecurity.com - Mon, 2013-06-10 12:27
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More...]
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EdX Goes Open Source To Woo MOOC Developers

Linux Today - Mon, 2013-06-10 12:00

Information Week: Will edX's decision to release its full source code attract more contributors to the Harvard/MIT-backed massive open online course platform?

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Kernel Log: Coming in 3.10 (Part 1) Networking

Linux Today - Mon, 2013-06-10 11:00

The H Open: Linux 3.10 sees improvements in the way lost packets at the end of TCP transactions are handled, speeding up HTTP data transfer.

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Introduction to MapReduce with Hadoop on Linux

Linux Today - Mon, 2013-06-10 10:00

LinuxJournal: When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits.

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Ubuntu: 1871-1: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com - Mon, 2013-06-10 09:53
LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in xserver-xorg-video-openchrome.
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The People Who Support Linux: Giving a Public System a Web Interface Lift

Linux Today - Mon, 2013-06-10 09:00

Linux.com: As an IT manager for the Mt. Lebanon Municipality near Pittsburgh, PA, Nick Schalles recently faced a familiar but difficult problem for those maintaining public infrastructure.

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Debian: 2706-1: chromium-browser: Multiple vulnerabilities

LinuxSecurity.com - Mon, 2013-06-10 08:43
LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2013-2855 [More...]
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Debian: 2705-1: pymongo: denial of service

LinuxSecurity.com - Mon, 2013-06-10 08:00
LinuxSecurity.com: Jibbers McGee discovered that pymongo, a high-performance schema-free document-oriented data store, is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. An attacker can remotely trigger a NULL pointer dereference causing MongoDB [More...]
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Ubuntu 13.10 to Bring Vastly Improved Unity Dash with 50 New Scopes

Linux Today - Mon, 2013-06-10 06:00

 HotHardware: The "Unity Dash" in Ubuntu has always been designed around the goal of delivering relevant information to the user, but come version 13.10, due out in October, things are about to become vastly improved.

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Government Secrets and the Need for Whistle-blowers

LinuxSecurity.com - Mon, 2013-06-10 03:54
LinuxSecurity.com: Yesterday, we learned that the NSA received all calling records from Verizon customers for a three-month period starting in April. That's everything except the voice content: who called who, where they were, how long the call lasted -- for millions of people, both Americans and foreigners.
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Testing the Faith of the Linux Masses

LinuxSecurity.com - Mon, 2013-06-10 03:51
LinuxSecurity.com: Just how committed are Linux users to their operating system? Would they ever switch back? That depends who you ask. "I could see myself switching to BSD," offered Chris Travers, a blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project. "I have found hardware support remarkably unreliable on Linux." Of course, that's "part and parcel of the constructive chaos that is Linux," he said.
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NSA snooping bolsters opponents of U.S. Internet control

LinuxSecurity.com - Mon, 2013-06-10 03:44
LinuxSecurity.com: The National Security Agency's massive data gathering from the world's largest Internet companies could bolster arguments that the United States should have less control over the Internet, an expert says.
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Back Up Route53 To S3

Linux Today - Sun, 2013-06-09 22:00

 HowToForge: r53dump is a shell script that will connect to AWS Route53 service and dump all zones in Bind format for the specified account.

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How to Activate Wireless on Arch Linux

Linux Today - Sun, 2013-06-09 18:00

 Softpedia: So, now that you've installed the Arch Linux distribution, and you also know how to install third-party applications, we will teach you how to activate the wireless network on your Arch Linux powered computer.

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Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week

Linux Today - Sun, 2013-06-09 14:00

InternetNews: PRISM

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Debian: 2704-1: mesa: out of bounds access

LinuxSecurity.com - Sun, 2013-06-09 12:54
LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that applications using the mesa library, a free implementation of the OpenGL API, may crash or execute arbitrary code due to an out of bounds memory access in the library. This vulnerability only affects systems with Intel chipsets. [More...]
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VLC: How to Download Subtitles Using VLSub

Linux Today - Sun, 2013-06-09 10:00

 unixmen: VLSub is an extension that searches and downloads subtitles from opensubtitles.org using the hash of the video currently playing or its title.

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IPv6 Under Attack?

Linux Today - Sun, 2013-06-09 08:00

eSecurityPlanet: Although IPv6 is still not widely adopted, the Internet is seeing the first signs of IPv6-based attacks.

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