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Samsung Rumored to Be Eyeing AMD Acquisition

The tech vendor could gain IP, graphics expertise and traction in the ARM server market if it bought AMD, which has been challenged in recent years.

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Cloud Foundry Summit: Speakers and Agenda Arrive

If you’re anywhere near Silicon Valley in mid-May, there is a good cloud-focused event coming up. Cloud Foundry Foundation, whose leader Sam Ramji we recently talked to here, has announced the program, sessions and keynotes for the Cloud Foundry Summit.

The Summit takes place May 11-12, 2015 in Santa Clara, Calif. at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Here are more details on the excellent program that is planned.

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Car Hacking Is Well on Its Way to Become Easier and More Affordable

An embedded systems developer created and published the design for an open-source tool for easier hacking into cars by connecting to the controller area network (CAN) of the modern vehicle.

CAN relies on multiple buses for communication between different controllers in the car, such as those for the engine, the brakes or the electric windows.

Car hacking tool not designed for remote attacks

At Black Hat Asia security conference held this week at Marin… (read more)

Read more at Softpedia News

Gestures & Other GTK3 Features For LibreOffice

The GTK3 port of LibreOffice is finally taking shape and gaining new functionality…

Read more at Phoronix

It’s Now Easier To Try PHP 7 On Fedora & RHEL

For those interested in PHP 7, it’s now easier to try out the development version of the next-generation PHP on Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux based operating systems…

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Hands-On: Linux UEFI Multi-Boot, Part Two

I covered the general layout and operation of UEFI boot in my part one. Now it’s time to get down to brass tacks, and see what my multi-boot configuration looks like.

Read more at ZDNet News

LibreOffice Now Toward Cloud Based Package, Get Ready To Welcome LibreOffice Online


LibreOffice online cloud based release announcement

LibreOffice has been competing with the two giant companies Microsoft Office and Google docs. Here is another step from this open source community to make LibreOffice in reach of every platforms’ users. LibreOffice has announced the release of LibreOffice Online soon in near future. Open-Source fans are ready to welcome the efforts of The Document Foundation including IceWarp and Collabora Companies.

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Firefox OS Ported to MIPS on Ingenic Tablet

Imagination is hosting a raffle for a 9.7-inch, MIPS-based Ingenic tablet that runs a MIPS port of Firefox OS, which will also support its Creator C120 SBC. An “experimental” version of Firefox OS has been ported to the MIPS architecture in the form of an unnamed Ingenic reference tablet announced by Imagination Technologies. Imagination designs […]

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Intel’s Upcoming Xeon Phi Will Include 384GB of DDR4 Memory

The Knights Landing chip will offer 3 teraflops of performance and three times the single-thread performance of the current Knights Corner chip.

Read more at eWeek

Microsoft Frees Code for .NET Build Engine

MSBuild is now just another GitHub project as Redmond continues its path to the light.

Read more at Linux Magazine