Open Source
Google to appeal €4.34bn EU antitrust fine
Least surprising news of the year so far
Berners-Lee launches startup to commercialise his Solid decentralised web project
New startup to drive adoption of decentralised web project aimed at passing control from tech giants to users
Linus Torvalds apologises for 'unprofessional' rants over Linux
Torvalds' blunt but entertaining emails likely to become a thing of the past
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter team up on data portability project
Tech giants collaborate to reduce lock-in - yes you read that right
Nvidia adds nine supercomputing containers to its GPU cloud
Signals the firm's increased push of GPU accelerated high-performance computing and AI
Of Slack and Snapcraft: collaboration and containerisation are changing the way software works
Developers from Slack and Canonical discuss the coder's burden
Confirmed: Microsoft buys GitHub in $7.5bn deal
A deal GitHub founders and backers could scarcely refuse
Open source at Spotify: engineer describes his efforts to increase collaboration
'Engineers find software very easy but speaking to people really hard', says Dave Zolotusky
Netflix warning over Intel's latest Meltdown fix that could cause CPU latency spikes of 800 per cent
New Meltdown patches from Intel still have "issues"...
Barcelona gives Microsoft the boot in move to open source
By spring 2019 office software, email and operating systems used by the city will be open source
What's new in Firefox Quantum?
Released next week, Firefox 57 is the first to feature a major Servo component, Quantum CSS
SCO versus IBM (and Linux) springs back to life after court ruling
SCO wins appeal against IBM over claims 'Big Blue' incorporated purloined Project Monterey code into AIX
City of Munich poised to migrate back to Windows, throwing out both Linux and Libre Office
"The operation of the non-uniform client landscape can no longer be made cost-efficient," admits German city council
Linux overtakes Mac OS in global market share
Latest figures from netmarketshare reveal sudden surge in Linux install-base
GDPR: Privacy must be designed in to every system, says Chef
Chef encourages IT leaders to automate GDPR automation, and break the cycle of ensuring compliance at the time of every audit, and forgetting about it the rest of the time
Apple Macs and Linux the target of three CIA hacking tools released from Wikileaks' Vault 7 cache
Think you're safe because you use Macs or Linux? Think again...
Ubuntu Linux lands in Microsoft Windows 10 Store for Insiders
Ubuntu for Windows to run in a Sandbox environment, with SUSE and Fedora also expected to get similar treatment
How open source software took over the world
Open source software now dominates vast swathes of computing
Building a better bank: IBM's blockchain secures cross-border trade
Blockchain makes transactions visible and secure for SMEs
Nine-tenths of Windows development now done on GIT, reveals Microsoft
Closed-source software developed on open-source
Red Hat to purchase Codenvy
Open source solutions and support company makes purchase in effort to enhance cloud development tools business
Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth hits out at free software 'muppets' after company ditches Unity
'The whole Mir hate-fest boggled my mind - it's free software that does something invisible really well,' wrote Shuttleworth
Dimnie Trojan targeting open source developers publishing on Github
Trojan targeting developers steals passwords, exfiltrates files, takes screenshots and can even self-destruct when it has served its purpose
City of Munich IT head rejects need for City to return to Windows
Everything's working just fine, claims IT@M's Karl-Heinz Schneider
