A security firm has made a Windows exploit for a previously unknown security hole in Firefox 3.6 available to its customers. The exploit allows attackers to gain control of a PC
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Ralph Yarro wants to inject a loan of 2 million dollars into the financially stricken company. This is likely to ensure that the retrial in the Unix copyright dispute can go ahead
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The long running case of Jacobsen v. Katzer has been settled on terms favourable to Jacobsen, developer of the Java Model Railroad Interface project, and is being describes as a significant victory by legal observers
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The Transmission developers have released version 1.90 of their popular cross-platform BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing client, fixing a crashing bug on Mac systems and improving support for magnet links
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After two months work, the Spring developers have released Spring 3.0.1, the first maintenance release of the Java application framework, addressing over 170 issues
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Microsoft has confirmed that a rootkit is responsible for the crashing problems currently occurring with Windows XP following a recent update intended to fix a 17-year old security vulnerability in the virtual DOS machine
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The OpenSolaris community is worried by the silence from Oracle concerning future plans for the open source operating system
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In addition to the Servlet 3 and JPA 2 support, the newly integrated RESTEasy implementation of the JAX-RS 1.0 specification allows web services and Java applications to be developed according to the REST paradigm
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A new page on the Twitter microblogging service site links to Twitter’s own open source projects and to projects it contributes to
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A list of around 40 million benign programs in the US National Software Reference Library (NSRL) brings an alternative to traditional virus scans within reach or at least allows the prevention of many false alarms
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