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How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel

The Verge

I’ve spent the past week digging into this world — the players, the jargon, the university’s turbulent history with open-source software, the devoted and principled Linux kernel community. Lu’s research, per his website , concerns “the intersection of security, operating systems, program analysis, and compilers.”

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

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Best IT and Tech Blogs – Must Read Information Technology Resources 2019

Galido

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Help Net Security. Help Net Security has been a valuable resource for information security news since 1998. CIO Dashboard.

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what every open source project needs

SPF13

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. spf13 Chief Operator @ Docker? Open Source is taking over the world. Transcript.

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Tech Blogs – Best Must Read Tech Resources 2019

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Galido

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Help Net Security. Help Net Security has been a valuable resource for information security news since 1998. CIO Dashboard.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Chrome Sandbox

ForAllSecure

And in between contracts, we like to do vulnerability research on open source software or major high-impact software targets. The most notable example I can think of would be like Windows, or maybe iOS, where large parts of the source code are not open source, but they impact billions of users. That makes sense.