Software Stories for 2014

Phoronix Lauds AMD's Open Source Radeon Driver Progress For 2014 44
Net Neutrality Comments Overtaxed FCC's System 32
Linux 3.19 Kernel To Start 2015 With Many New Features 66
How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us To Greater Harm 116
Docker Image Insecurity 73
NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development 164
Seattle Police Held Hackathon To Redact Footage From Body Cameras 93
Ask Slashdot: Is an Open Source .NET Up To the Job? 421
Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? 259
OpenMotics Offers Open Source (and Open Hardware) Home Automation 36
Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' 415
The Failed Economics of Our Software Commons 205
Chinese CEO Says "Free" Is the Right Price For Mobile Software 133
Openwashing: Users and Adopters Beware 96
CoreOS Announces Competitor To Docker 71
Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? 488
Firefox 34 Arrives With Video Chat, Yahoo Search As Default 237
Ask Slashdot: Objective C Vs. Swift For a New iOS Developer? 211
Windows 10 To Feature Native Support For MKV and FLAC 313
Firefox Will Soon Offer One-Click Buttons For Your Search Engines 101
Slack Now Letting Employers Tap Workers' Private Chats 79
Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Starting and Running a Software Shop? 176
Startup Assembly Banks On Paid, Open-Source Style Development 33
Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? 267
Apple Swaps "Get" Button For "Free" To Avoid Confusion Over In-App Purchases 103
The Software Big Oil's PR Firm Uses To "Convert Average Citizens" 110
HTML5: It's Already Everywhere, Even In Mobile 133
Ars Dissects Android's Problems With Big Screens -- Including In Lollipop 103
New Trial Brings Skype to (Some) Browsers 55
FreeBSD 10.1 Released 123
Multi-Process Comes To Firefox Nightly, 64-bit Firefox For Windows 'Soon' 181
Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads 327
Pitivi Video Editor Surpasses 50% Crowdfunding Goal, Releases Version 0.94 67
Microsoft Makes Office Mobile Editing Free As in Freemium 98
EFF Begins a Campaign For Secure and Usable Cryptography 96
Google Releases Open Source Nogotofail Network Traffic Security Testing Tool 36
Denuvo DRM Challenges Game Crackers 187
OpenBSD 5.6 Released 125
Kubuntu 15.04 Will Be Based On KDE5 45
Tao3D: a New Open-Source Programming Language For Real-Time 3D Animations 158
Slashdot Asks: Appropriate Place For Free / Open Source Software Artifacts? 46
Drones Could 3D-Map Scores of Hectares of Land In Just a Few Hours 94
Dangerous Vulnerability Fixed In Wget 58
Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line 230
Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux 863
Building All the Major Open-Source Web Browsers 106
Software Glitch Caused 911 Outage For 11 Million People 115
Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public 121
Ask Slashdot: Aging and Orphan Open Source Projects? 155
Samsung Acknowledges and Fixes Bug On 840 EVO SSDs 101
Ask Slashdot: Event Sign-Up Software Options For a Non-Profit? 104
Security Company Tries To Hide Flaws By Threatening Infringement Suit 124
GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today 156
Help ESR Stamp Out CVS and SVN In Our Lifetime 245
How Whisper Tracks Users Who Don't Share Their Location 39
Lead Mir Developer: 'Mir More Relevant Than Wayland In Two Years' 226
Python-LMDB In a High-Performance Environment 98
Mixing Agile With Waterfall For Code Quality 133
Mozilla Teams Up With Humble Bundle To Offer Eight Plugin-Free Games 67
KDE Releases Plasma 5.1 60
First Demonstration of Artificial Intelligence On a Quantum Computer 98
Apple Releases CUPS 2.0 178
The Subtle Developer Exodus From the Mac App Store 229
Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism 265
VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt -- and It's Better 220
WhatsApp's Next Version To Include VoIP Calls and Recording 65
More Details On The 3rd-Party Apps That Led to Snapchat Leaks 101
Snapchat Says Users Were Victimized By Their Use of Third-Party Apps 90
NVIDIA Presents Plans To Support Mir and Wayland On Linux 80
BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer 429
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Unresponsive Manufacturer Who Doesn't Fix Bugs? 204
Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems 774
Chrome 38 Released: New APIs and 159 Security Fixes 55
GNOME 3 Winning Back Users 267
Brown Dog: a Search Engine For the Other 99 Percent (of Data) 23
One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner 405
Internet Explorer Implements HTTP/2 Support 122
End of an Era: After a 30 Year Run, IBM Drops Support For Lotus 1-2-3 156
Four Charged With Stealing Army Helicopter Training Software 46
Interview With Facebook's Head of Open Source 29
Adobe Photoshop Is Coming To Linux, Through Chromebooks 197
How Tech Is Transforming Teaching In a South African Township 26
OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1 Released 30
PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB In New Round of Tests 147
Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop 403
jQuery.com Compromised To Serve Malware 103
Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd 469
KDE's UI To Bend Toward Simplicity 184
Android Apps Now Unofficially Able To Run On Any Major Desktop OS 101
Dropbox and Google Want To Make Open Source Security Tools Easy To Use 24
TrueCrypt Gets a New Life, New Name 270
Alice Is Killing Trolls But Patent Lawyers Will Strike Back 92
An Open Source Pitfall? Mozilla Labs Closed, Quietly 112
Logitech Aims To Control the Smart Home 115
Torvalds: No Opinion On Systemd 385
Digia Spins Off Qt As Subsidiary 33
FBI Completes New Face Recognition System 129
Browser To Facilitate Text Browsing In Emergencies 40
New Release of MINIX 3 For x86 and ARM Is NetBSD Compatible 93
Industry-Based ToDo Alliance Wants To Guide FOSS Development 54
KDevelop 4.7.0 Released 48
City of Turin To Switch From Windows To Linux and Save 6M Euros 249
Software Patents Are Crumbling, Thanks To the Supreme Court 118
The State of ZFS On Linux 370
Google Hangouts Gets Google Voice Integration And Free VoIP Calls 162
Ask Slashdot: What Smartwatch Apps Could You See Yourself Using? 471
Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx 326
Ask Slashdot: Remote Server Support and Monitoring Solution? 137
Why Munich Will Stick With Linux 185
Can ISO 29119 Software Testing "Standard" Really Be a Standard? 152
Google Serves Old Search Page To Old Browsers 152
Firefox 32 Arrives With New HTTP Cache, Public Key Pinning Support 220
Ask Slashdot: the State of Free Video Editing Tools? 163
Apple Reveals the Most Common Reasons That It Rejects Apps 132
Tox, a Skype Replacement Built On 'Privacy First' 174
Raspberry Pi Gets a Brand New Browser 107
Post-Microsoft Nokia Offering Mapping Services To Samsung 67
Ask Slashdot: Best Phone Apps? 167
IEEE Guides Software Architects Toward Secure Design 51
PHP 5.6.0 Released 118
Mozilla Rolls Out Sponsored Tiles To Firefox Nightly's New Tab Page 171
Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support 113
MediaGoblin 0.7.0 "Time Traveler's Delight" Released 73
Munich Council Say Talk of LiMux Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated 190
A New Homegrown OS For China Could Arrive By October 93
The Making of the Making of Nihilumbra 16
Virtual Machine Brings X86 Linux Apps To ARMv7 Devices 61
Researchers Hack Gmail With 92 Percent Success Rate 87
Apple CarPlay Rollout Delayed By Some Carmakers 76
What's After Big Data? 87
Future Hack: New Cybersecurity Tool Predicts Breaches Before They Happen 33
Microsoft Lobby Denies the State of Chile Access To Free Software 159
Kolab.org Groupware 3.3 Release Adds Tags, Notes, and Dozens of Other Features 26
Operating Systems Still Matter In a Containerized World 129
C++14 Is Set In Stone 193
Microsoft's Windows 8 App Store Is Full of Scamware 188
Companies That Don't Understand Engineers Don't Respect Engineers 371
Knocking Down the Great Firewall of China 167
Apple's App Store Needs a Radical Revamp; How Would You Go About It? 249
Google Expands Safe Browsing To Block Unwanted Downloads 106
Ask Slashdot: Should You Invest In Documentation, Or UX? 199
New Watson-Style AI Called Viv Seeks To Be the First 'Global Brain' 161
Ask Slashdot: Why Are Online Job Applications So Badly Designed? 278
Skype Reverses Decision To Drop OS X 10.5 Support, Retires Windows Phone 7 App 99
Google Fit Preview SDK Arrives For Android Developers 13
Valve Discloses Source 2 Engine In Recent DOTA 2 Update 97
Ask Slashdot: Best PDF Handling Library? 132
2D To 3D Object Manipulation Software Lends Depth to Photographs 76
Skype Blocks Customers Using OS-X 10.5.x and Earlier 267
The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi 188
Critics To FTC: Why Do You Hate In-App Purchasing Freedom? 171
Comparison: Linux Text Editors 402
"ExamSoft" Bar Exam Software Fails Law Grads 100
Is the App Store Broken? 258
Which Is Better, Adblock Or Adblock Plus? 436
Put Your Code in the SWAMP: DHS Sponsors Online Open Source Code Testing 67
Popular Android Apps Full of Bugs: Researchers Blame Recycling of Code 150
Valencia Linux School Distro Saves 36 Million Euro 158
Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Get (or Share) News About Open Source Projects? 85
Switching From Microsoft Office To LibreOffice Saves Toulouse 1 Million Euros 296
UK Cabinet Office Adopts ODF As Exclusive Standard For Sharable Documents 164
Open-Source Blu-Ray Library Now Supports BD-J Java 94
Firefox 31 Released 172
Researchers Test Developer Biometrics To Predict Buggy Code 89
Exodus Intelligence Details Zero-Day Vulnerabilities In Tails OS 132
Google To Stop Describing Games With In-App Purchases As 'Free' 139
LibreSSL PRNG Vulnerability Patched 151
Australian Electoral Commission Refuses To Release Vote Counting Source Code 112
Apple and IBM Announce Partnership To Bring iOS + Cloud Services To Enterprises 126
Is the Software Renaissance Ending? 171
Source Code Leaked For Tinba Banking Trojan 75
Plasma 5 Release Candidate Announced 50
Google Reader: One Year Later 132
Qualcomm Takes Down 100+ GitHub Repositories With DMCA Notice 349
WebODF: JavaScript Open Document Format Editor Deemed Stable 91
Automotive Grade Linux Released For Open Source Cars 88
The New 501(c)(3) and the Future of Open Source In the US 228
Apple Kills Aperture, Says New Photos App Will Replace It 214
Are the Hard-to-Exploit Bugs In LZO Compression Algorithm Just Hype? 65
Why The Korean Government Could Go Open Source By 2020 64
Why Software Builds Fail 279
Nest Announces New Smart Home API 38
San Francisco Bans Parking Spot Auctioning App 404
The Supreme Court Doesn't Understand Software 263
Overeager Compilers Can Open Security Holes In Your Code 199
Research Project Pays People To Download, Run Executables 76
3D Windowing System Developed Using Wayland, Oculus Rift 72
US Supreme Court Invalidates Patent For Being Software Patent 220
TrueCrypt Author Claims That Forking Is Impossible 250
Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' 192
Freecode Freezeup 62
Amazon's Android Appstore Coming To BlackBerry 76
Android Needs a Simulator, Not an Emulator 167
The Nightmare On Connected Home Street 186
The Profoundly Weird, Gender-Specific Roots of the Turing Test 136
Docker 1.0 Released 88
Auditors Release Verified Repositories of TrueCrypt 146
Was Turing Test Legitimately Beaten, Or Just Cleverly Tricked? 309
Mesa 10.2 Improves Linux's Open-Source Graphics Drivers 58
Driver Study: People Want Fewer Embedded Apps, Just Essentials That Work Easily 148
Xanadu Software Released After 54 Years In the Making 90
Pixar To Give Away 3D RenderMan Software 147
GnuTLS Flaw Leaves Many Linux Users Open To Attacks 127
After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out 166
Imparting Malware Resistance With a Randomizing Compiler 125
NYC Councilman (and Open Source Developer) Submits Bill Establishing Open Source Preference 105
Next IE Version Will Feature Web Audio, Media Capture, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2 173
Google Starts Blocking Extensions Not In the Chrome Web Store 225
Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets For Important Work 422
DARPA Unveils Hack-Resistant Drone 107
Wayland 1.5 Released 179
Fixing the Pain of Programming 294
Adobe Creative Cloud Is Back 74
Ask Slashdot: Easy-To-Use Alternative To MS Access For a Charity's Database? 281
Adobe Creative Cloud Services Offline (Again?) 164
Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS 522
Do Embedded Systems Need a Time To Die? 187
Take a Picture: Snapchat Settles With FTC Over "Dissapearing" Claims 51
Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? 533
Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions 394
Anti-Virus Is Dead (But Still Makes Money) Says Symantec 254
Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking 219
Foursquare Splits To Take On Yelp 24
Google Shifts Editing From Drive to Docs and Sheets In 'Confusing' Switch 89
OpenBSD 5.5 Released 128
After a Long wait, GNU Screen Gets Refreshed 77
Firefox 29: Redesign 688
GNU Mailman 3 Enters Beta 57
Amazon Turns Off In-App Purchases In iOS Comixology 244
Groove Basin: Quest For the Ultimate Music Player 87
Ask Slashdot: Professional Journaling/Notes Software? 170
OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week 379
MediaGoblin and FSF Successfully Raise Funds For Federation, Privacy Features 22
Samsung's Position On Tizen May Hurt Developer Recruitment 93
Bug Bounties Don't Help If Bugs Never Run Out 235
Linux Voice is a New Magazine for Linux Users — On Paper (Video) 72
Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr Released 179
OpenBSD Team Cleaning Up OpenSSL 304
Princeton Students Develop Open Source Voice Control Platform For Any Device 34
Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP 641
Linux Developers Consider On-Screen QR Codes For Kernel Panics 175
Ask Slashdot: User-Friendly Firewall For a Brand-New Linux User? 187
Illustrating the Socioeconomic Divide With iOS and Android 161
Nest Halts Sales of Smart Fire Alarm After Discovering Dangerous Flaw 128
.NET Native Compilation Preview Released 217
Interview: Ask Bruce Perens What You Will 129
App Developers, It's Time For a Reality Check 161
New Apache Allura Project For Project Development Hosting 43
OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights 1482
Subversion Project Migrates To Git 162

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C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas l'Informatique. -- Bosquet [on seeing the IBM 4341]