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You can’t say we weren’t warned. We’ve known for a long time that IPv4 addresses were an endangered species.
I remember reading about the problem before the turn of the century, and Cisco Systems issued a report by Tony Hain in 2005 saying that “the remaining pool ... will be exhausted in about 5 years.” So Hain was a tiny bit generous, but here we are, and now? They’re gone.
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KDE Announces Software Compilation 4.13
New release comes with better semantic search and improvements to Kontact.
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Coverity: Open Source Code has Fewer Defects
Annual code quality report shows FOSS is more secure at all project size levels.
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An Even Smaller Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced an even smaller version of the tiny computer that will fit into a DIMM slot.
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Freaky Privilege Escalation Attack
A new class of problems lets a malicious app pre-configure an invisible privilege update.
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Facebook Rolls Out New PHP-like Programming Language
New Hack language adds static typing and other conveniences.
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Fedora Announces Innovative Crytography Policy System
New crypto policy system will offer easier configuration and more uniform security.
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Shuttleworth Calls for Declarative Firmware
Ubuntu founder denounces insecurity in proprietary, close-source software blobs.
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New TLS Attack Takes the S out of HTTPS
Vulnerability affects many Linux web servers
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Munich Adopts Kolab
The Bavarian capital shuns Microsoft, Google, and other alternatives to implement an open source groupware solution.
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Canonical Announces Ubuntu Smartphones
Phone vendor partnerships bring Mark Shuttleworth's dream of Ubuntu on a phone a step closer to reality.