Using Big Data for Tactical Security Networks: SafeNet

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October 18, 2012

Networks that use big data to automatically adapt and reconfigure themselves in response to attacks could be just around the corner.

New Features Coming Up For The GCC 4.8 Compiler

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Phoronix

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October 18, 2012

Aside from greater C++11 compliance and early C++1y support, GCC 4.8 as the next major Free Software Foundation compiler release will also have many other interesting features…

Business Process as a Service: Next Phase

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ZDNet

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October 18, 2012

Can business processes be packaged up and offered as application programming interfaces? Many such services are now emerging.

Acer’s 7-Inch Android Tablet Will Cost $230

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October 18, 2012

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We’ve known it was coming for months, but the Acer Iconia Tab A110 finally has a due date and a pricetag. It’s going on sale October 30th, and it’ll only cost you $230. That puts it squarely in Nexus 7 territory. More »

Should Linux Take a Lesson From Apple?

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LinuxInsider

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October 18, 2012

The Secure Boot saga may seem like it’s been dragging on forever here in the Linux blogosphere, but the truth is that it’s a mere babe in Redmond arms compared with the never-ending Apple v. Samsung drama. It seems safe to say that most FOSS fans are sick to death of hearing about both of them, but recently the always-insightful team over at TuxRadar posed yet another interesting question: “What can Linux really steal from Apple?” was the title of the latest Open Ballot poll posted on the thought-provoking site, and there’s no doubt it’s provoked a lot of thinking.

Miniconf: Gentoo on the OLPC XO-1.75

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October 18, 2012

At the Gentoo Miniconf 2012 in Prague we will install Gentoo on the OLPC XO-1.75, an ARM based laptop designed as an educational tool for children. If you are interested in joining us, come to the Gentoo booth and start hacking with us!

—Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

Whose Cloud is the Open-Sourciest… Who Cares?

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The Register

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October 18, 2012

Open … and Shut Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, the thought police are back. For years, the open source community was torn apart by fractious debates over what “open” meant and who was open enough. As we’ve moved beyond name calling to focus on getting work done, the same old debate has shifted to cloud computing, with a new crop of pundits and evangelists wrangling over who is the cloudiest of them all.â€¦

Nokia Reports $754 Million Operating Loss and Sliding Lumia Sales

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October 18, 2012

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Nokia has just announced a total operating loss of $754 million for the third quarter of 2012, a drop in its net cash from $6.6 billion last year to $5.5 billion now, and declining Lumia sales. Oh dear. More »

Apple Vs Samsung: U.K. Appeal Court Upholds ‘Galaxy Tab Not Cool Enough To Copy iPad’ Ruling

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TechCrunch

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October 18, 2012

Apple has lost an appeal against a ruling in a U.K. High Court that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab does not infringe the iPad’s design. The original ruling by Judge Colin Birss said Samsung’s tablets were not cool enough to be confused with Apple’s because they lacked the “extreme simplicity” of the iPad. That ruling has now been upheld by the Court of Appeal.

The original ruling also stated that Apple must run adverts on its website and in newspaper saying Samsung did not copy the iPad. Reuters reports that the Court of Appeal’s Judge Kitchin said today the notices must be in a font size no smaller than Ariel 14.

NetBSD 6.0 Released With Initial Raspberry Pi Support

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The H

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October 18, 2012

Version 6.0 of NetBSD brings scalability improvements on multi-core systems, a rewritten disk quota system, a new packet filter and updates to several ports including ARM, PowerPC, Xen and MIPS.