Hadoop 1.0 Released
Monday, January 9, 2012
From the Big Data dept.: The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache⢠Hadoop⢠v1.0, the Open Source software framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. The p.. .. read more..
U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare
Monday, January 9, 2012
From the From the Internet dept.: Congress has recently authorized the use of offensive military action in cyberspace. From the December 12th conference on the National Defense Authorization Act, it states, \'Congress affirms that the Department of Defense has the capability, and upon direction by t.. .. read more..
Gnome Forked for Mint Linux
Monday, January 9, 2012
From the Fix dept.: Clement Lefebvre, the Linux Mint founder, has started working on a GNOME Shell fork called Cinnamon, which tries to offer a layout similar to GNOME 2, with emphasis on \"making users feel at home and providing them with an easy to use and comfortable desktop experience\": .. read more..
CentOS 6.2 Released
Monday, January 9, 2012
From the Download some centos dept.: We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.2 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. Release Notes for 6.2 are available at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.2 - we recommend everyone looks through those once. .. read more..
Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox
Monday, January 9, 2012
From the Staying Alive dept.: Weâre pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years. .. read more..
Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved
Monday, January 9, 2012
\"Firefox 9 is now available â but unlike its previous rapid release forebears where not a lot changed, a huge feature has landed with the new version: the JavaScript engine now has type inference enabled. This simple switch has resulted in a 20-30% JS execution speed increase (PDF), putting Jaege.. .. read more..
Saudi Prince Pumps $300 Million Into Twitter
Monday, January 9, 2012
From the Agent Orange for Arab Spring? dept.: In an unexpected move, a member of the Saudi royal family has invested $300 million in social networking company Twitter. This morning, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, founder and CEO of Kingdom Holding Company and one of the wealthiest .. .. read more..
BT Sues Google Over Android
Monday, January 9, 2012
From the Yet Another dept.: British Telecom is claiming billions of dollars of damages from Google in a lawsuit filed in the US which says that the Android mobile operating system infringes a number of the telecoms company\'s key patents. The lawsuit, filed in the state of Delaware in the US, relate.. .. read more..
Universal Music claims it has a private deal with Google to take down YouTube vi..
Monday, January 9, 2012
From the Fruitcake dept.: ... a court filing in the matter from Universal claims that the takedown wasn\'t issued because Universal claims a copyright in the Mega Song, but rather, they claim that they have a private contract with Google giving them the power to take down videos they dislike, regard.. .. read more..
Canonical, Ubuntu, Removing Sun JDK Packages
Monday, January 9, 2012
From the Secure dept.: Canonical will remove all Sun JDK packages from the Partner archive. This will be accomplished by pushing empty packages to the archive, so that the Sun JDK will be removed from all users machines when they do a software update. Users of these packages who have not migrated t.. .. read more..