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Short Bytes: Microsoft’s HR department has poached the man who turned Oracle into a Linux-dominated company. Wim Coekaerts, commonly known as Oracle’s “Mr. Linux”, has joined Redmond folks to head up its Linux and open source efforts. This is an established fact that Microsoft loves Linux and open source technologies. The recent developments at Build […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft and Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, are partnering to allow you to use Ubuntu on Windows 10. The official announcement is expected to be made at Microsoft’s BUILD 2016 developer conference later today. This partnership is expected to integrate Windows and Linux on the developer desktop. Microsoft is kicking off its BUILD […]
Short Bytes: VoCore is an open hardware that runs OpenWRT Linux. This tiny computer comes with Wi-Fi, USB, 20+ GPIOs that will help you to make a smart home automation system or use it in other embedded projects. Read more to know about this device and grab one for yourself. With each passing day, mini […]
Short Bytes: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is known to be a long-time advocate of free and open source software. Speaking at an event via video conferencing, he said that transparency of free software convinced him to use TOR, Tails, and Debian, that helped him to expose the secrets of American government. At the Free Software […]
Short Bytes: While Microsoft is expressing its love for open source and Linux by releasing tons of code on GitHub and making Linux-based products, it’s unable to win the trust of open source community. Showing its darker side, the company has extracted some Android and Linux-based patents from smaller companies. If Redmond really cares about […]
Short Bytes: To answer your security related concerns, Subgraph OS is here as a free, secure, open source Linux operating system for the non-technical users. This security-focused distro comes with complete TOR integration, full-disk encryption, OpenPGP mail integration, system hardening and other features. Know more about the OS and make your system secure. In the recent […]
Short Bytes: There’s a new programming language in town and it’s the happiest language you’ll ever meet. Emojicode, an open source and multi-paradigm language, uses all type, method, class method and initializer names are Emojis. Know more about it and make your code merrier. Emojicode is a new open source, multi-paradigm, object-oriented, high-level programming language […]
Short Bytes: It seems that potential hackers are taking more interest in open source malware codes these days because they are easily available. We are also seeing a lot of open source codes being used for hacking and one such incident has happened with Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan. Last year on December 24, 2015, a potential […]
Short Bytes: IoT (Internet of Things) is going to get a major boost in the coming years. 48 hours ago, the Linux Foundation announced the Zephyr Project which will be a small scalable real-time operating system. This operating system will be targeted at resource-constrained systems. Being an open source project, Linux Foundation’s Zephyr will drive […]
Short Bytes: Up until recently, the Linux Foundation allowed the individual members to elect two board members and ensure that the voice of Linux community is considered at the board meetings. In a shocking change, the Foundation has erased this clause and decided to benefit the corporate companies rather that whole community. The Linux Foundation […]
Short Bytes: Annoyed by GitHub’s outdated Issues Tracker feature, a CloudFlare developer has written an open letter to GitHub, suggesting the website to address the issues. Notably, the Issues Tracker feature is very rigid in nature and lacks the ability to pass a feedback on the service itself. At the moment, 1192 users have signed this open later. […]
Short Bytes: A home-made ransomware open source code on GitHub, which was supposed to work for the educational purposes, has spread in the wild. It seems that the intention of the maker was something different along the way. Hidden Tear ransomware was open-sourced by a Turkish security group Otku Sen. This ransomware infects users by encrypting their […]
Image | fossBytes Short Bytes: OS.js is a free and open source operating system that runs in your web browser. Based on Javascript, this operating system comes with a fully-fledged window manager, ability to install applications, access to virtual filesystems and a lot more. Read more to know about the OS in detail. Did you ever […]
Image | GCHQ Short Bytes: NSA’s British counterpart GCHQ has just open sourced its spying tool named Gaffer. The software is written in Java and serves the purpose of a mass-scale graph database. Read more about the software below and find the link to its code on GitHub. At fossBytes, we love open source technologies and […]
Short Bytes: IBM is taking the parts from its JVM project by separating it from Java and making them usable for any other language runtime. This is being done under a new open source OMR project that will soon boost Python and Ruby languages. The OMR project, a new soon-to-be open source project from IBM, […]
Short Bytes: WebTorrent is a BitTorrent client written for the web in JavaScript. It uses WebRTC for P2P transport and you don’t need any installation or plugin in your browser to use it. It’s a combination of BitTorrent technology and online video streaming with an aim to re-decentralize the web. BitTorrent is a widely used communication method […]
Short Bytes: The world’s fastest cracking tool Hashcat is now open source. The company has called it a very important step and listed out the reasons that inspired them to take this step. If you are into password cracking, you might be aware of the fact that Hashcat is one of the most popular CPU-password recovery […]
Short Bytes: Apple has made good on its promise to make Swift an open source programming language under the Apache License. The iPhone maker has also launched a dedicated website as Swift community’s main hub. Apple’s Swift programming language has become very popular among the programmers in recent years and managed to earn a respectable […]
Short Bytes: After facing tons of criticism over the new proposed rules governing the 5GHz spectrum devices (basically your WiFi routers), the FCC has decides to remove the controversial wordings from the proposal. The FCC has modified the proposal and cleaned the air, telling that it allows the use of open source firmware. Some months […]
Short Bytes: OpenFace, the open source face recognition technology developed by the researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University, has been rolled out. The OpenFace holds ground against the much-advanced proprietary face-recognition technologies by private endeavours. Open-source technology is usually at par with the proprietary technology but in certain cases such as the face-recognition, the open-source lags far […]
Short Bytes: Driven by the open source philosophy, two Facebook interns won $5,000 at a Facebook Hackathon. They performed a codeless hack and made a tool to debug the failed Battery Backup Units (BBU). Read more to know their story. This is an article telling you the story of a codeless hack performed by Andrew Andrade and […]