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An anonymous reader shares a report on BetaNews: Red Hat — fresh from celebrating a historic $2 billion in annual revenue — releases a developer-focused gift to the world. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite is totally free, including an RHE… Continue reading Red Hat Expands Red Hat Developer Program With No-Cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux
An anonymous reader shares an article on Ars Technica: The teenager who grabbed headlines earlier this week for hacking a fake game listing on to Valve’s Steam store says there are “definitely” more vulnerabilities to be found in the popular game distr… Continue reading Steam Hacker Says More Vulnerabilities Will Be Found
New submitter somebearouthere writes: Skype for Linux was updated in 2014 to v4.3 and has since sat there without an update while its counterpart on other platforms has been receiving updates. Sometime in 2015, Microsoft quietly abandoned that version … Continue reading Skype For Linux: Dead? Or Just Resting?
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a recall for over 100,000 Toshiba laptop battery packs after several serious reports. Toshiba, which says it shipped the affected battery module in 39 models of T… Continue reading Toshiba Recalls More Than 100,000 Faulty Laptop Batteries
An anonymous reader writes: Apple, on Thursday, rolled out a minor update to iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices. The update, dubbed iOS 9.3.1, brings with it a fix for a software glitch that caused many apps — including Safari, and Chrome — to freeze and… Continue reading Apple Releases iOS 9.3.1 With Fix For Unresponsive Links
An anonymous reader shares a report on The Register: A bug in its software meant that Trend Micro accidentally left a remote debugging server running on customer machines. The flaw, discovered by Google’s Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy, opened t… Continue reading Patch Out For ‘Ridiculous’ Trend Micro Command Execution Vulnerability
Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker, Michael Bachelard, and Daniel Quinlan report on a widespread corruption in the global oil industry for The Huffington Post: In the list of the world’s great companies, Unaoil is nowhere to be seen. But for the best part of… Continue reading Leaked Emails Reveal Widespread Corruption in Global Oil Industry
Russell Brandom reports for The Verge: Apple’s San Bernardino fight may be over, but the government is still seeking both Apple and Google’s help in unlocking phones. New research from the American Civil Liberties Union shows 63 different cases in whic… Continue reading ACLU Shows How the Apple-FBI Fight Was About Much More Than One Phone
An anonymous reader shares a report on VentureBeat: Microsoft today is introducing the Bot Framework, a new tool in preview to help developers build their own chatbots for their applications. Using this, anyone can create a text program that they can c… Continue reading Microsoft Launches Bot Framework To Let Developers Build Their Own Chatbots
Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch: Apple today announced it’s expanding its efforts in the area of web development, with the launch of a new version of its Safari web browser, designed specifically for developers. Called Safari Technology Preview, the… Continue reading Apple’s New Safari Technology Preview Browser Is Aimed At Web Developers