September 23, 2013
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It’s official. Security researchers Nick DePetrillo and Robert Graham have confirmed Germany-based Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hackers’ claim that they bypassed the fingerprint reader in Apple’s iPhone 5s, called “Touch ID”. Apple iPhone fingerprint reader confirmed as easy to hack. … Continue reading
September 23, 2013
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Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve and its Steam game platform, wasn’t kidding when he said at LinuxCon in New Orleans that “Linux is the future of gaming.” Valve is releasing, in advance of the expected announcement of its SteamBox Linux-powered gaming … Continue reading
September 23, 2013
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Will Cyanogen, the newly minted commercial company behind the alternative CyanogenMod Android firmware, actually help fragment Android? Hmmm… Here’s the one word answer: “No.” Cyanogen: Helping to unify Android. More >
September 18, 2013
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People love their Android smartphones and tablets. They hate waiting for their hardware manufacturer or carrier to give them the latest Android releases… if they ever do. For tech-savvy users there were always alternative Android firmwares from groups such as … Continue reading
September 18, 2013
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New Orleans: The Sept. 18 LinuxCon keynote sessions were kicked off by Intel Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist and Linux kernel developer Dirk Hohndel who said that client computing today is mostly Linux. Thanks to Android on smartphones and tablets, plus … Continue reading
September 17, 2013
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New Orleans: Canonical, in conjunction with Microsoft, announced at Linuxcon that it is bringing its Juju cloud orchestration program to Windows Azure. With it, cloud managers can easily deploy Web and network services on Ubuntu Linux in an Azure cloud. Ubuntu on … Continue reading