Let’s see if he comes after me now, for posting this….
The man who claims to have invented email is taking legal actions, or threatening such, against anyone who publicly disagrees with his version of history.
Source: The Man Who Didn’t Invent Email Attacks Free Speech | FOSS Force
Samsung have finally revealed details regarding the battery explosions. It doesn’t stop me from keeping being a Samsung person – there’s not many other brands I trust out in the market at the moment. So I’ll keep with Samsung for now,
Two different production problems from two different suppliers killed the Note 7.
Source: Official Galaxy Note 7 investigation blames small battery cases, poor welding | Ars Technica
The horrific suicide video of Katelyn Nicole Davis, a 12-year-old girl from Cedartown, Georgia, has gone viral – and police say there is nothing they can do to stop it from being shared.
Despite being a library that most people outside of the technology industry have never heard of, the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL caught the attention of the mainstream press when it was uncovered in April 2014 because so many websites were vulnerable to theft of sensitive server and user data. At LinuxCon Europe, Rich Salz and Tim Hudson from the OpenSSL team did a deep dive into what happened with Heartbleed and the steps the OpenSSL team are taking to improve the project.
Source: OpenSSL after Heartbleed | Linux.com | The source for Linux information
Open source Android ROM project dies, developers launch fork.
Source: Cyanogen Inc. shuts down CyanogenMod in Christmas bloodbath | Ars Technica
So, CM is dead, but like with most things in the open source world, things will be forked, especially if there’s a disagreement between the two. In this case, rather than compete, it’s a desire to keep the project going.
Technology still has a way to go it seems.
I remember when trying to get back into Heathrow from Germany – and the automatic barriers wouldn’t let me in because I was wearing glasses :/
New Zealand man of Asian origin has “no hard feelings” after passport system said eyes were closed.
Source: New Zealander says passport photo rejection ‘not racist’ – BBC News
A lot of projects are corporate, but some, like NTP are small, or even solo projects. When these small projects become really important and still not have enough resource to maintain, the security issues can’t be patches as fast as, say Oracle, Microsoft or Google.
Everyone benefits from Network Time Protocol, but the project struggles to pay its sole maintainer or fund its various initiatives
Source: Time is running out for NTP | InfoWorld
Well… “stealing”? I guess it depends on how you interpret the GPL. Nonetheless bottom line is — if you are going to use GPL code, your code and product must follow the same license. i.e.
“… if you’re going to embed GPL stuff in your code and produce a derivative product, you’re going to have to make that derivative compliant with GPL—either by shipping the code with it or providing the code on request”
So, the headline of “stealing” GPL code? Can you actually “steal” code that is open source? Using open source in a closed source product would be a violation of the GPL (which I believe is what’s being talked about here), but is that “stealing”?
I’m not siding with either side here, I’m just not sure the word “stealing” is the right phrase to use in this headling here, quoted or not. Guess that’s clickbait for you….
Source: Wix gets caught “stealing” GPL code from WordPress | Ars Technica
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