News of Google’s employee survival benefit surfaced recently, much to the amazement of bloggers, who were all out on the prowl for some tech news. In an interview with Forbes Magazine’s Meghan Casserly, Google Chief People Officer Lazlo Bock spelled out the terms. If a Google employee dies, the company will give a surviving spouse or domestic partner half the employee’s salary for up to 10 years.

• OSI accepting individual memberships.
• OpenGL 4.3 and ES 3.0.
• License Protection
• Raspberry Pi ramps up production.
• FSFE protects licences when bankruptcy strikes.
• Gaming passwords secured with My1login.
• Web Apps new to Ubuntu.
• LPI Forum
• RSA Anti Rogue App.
• US Cell Phone Right-to-Know Act.

A choice of ultrasmall boards lets future developers learn how to create and program computers.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

Android's market share climbs to 64.1%– up 20.7 percentage points from 2011.

Free Software licenses could face legal challenges in some European jurisdictions.

Although the developers of GIMP version 2.8 have not achieved all their goals, they’ve awakened great expectations with some impressive new features.

• Red Hat Addresses Secure Boot
• FSF Addresses Secure Boot
• Android 4.1 Jelly Bean