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Microsoft will be releasing an out of band update to Windows to address the LNK vulnerability which exploits malformed shortcut icons
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Community relations and free software strategy specialist Nearly Consulting has published the results of its GNOME Census analysing developer participation in the GNOME project and looking for patterns within the project itself
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Developer Andrew Wafaa has created a LiveCD of openSUSE with the MeeGo desktop at its current state of integration and made it available to download for interested users
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Canonical has donated engineering time to get the Dell server administration tool natively packaged for Ubuntu 9.10
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Mozilla has released maintenance updates for its Firefox Home iPhone application and the Firefox Sync add-on, addressing in each the top three problems reported by users
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At the Black Hat Conference, security experts warn that numerous smartphone applications send more sensitive data to third parties than users realise. Millions of users have reportedly already fallen victim to a popular malware app
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In the future, Microsoft and Adobe will collaborate as part of the Microsoft Active Protections Program to provide information to security vendors on the safety of Adobe’s products
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Following a recent beta for its existing customers, CodeWeavers has released version 9.1 of its CrossOver products for Linux and Mac OS X, all of which are based on the latest stable release of Wine
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NoScript creator Giorgio Maone has released version 2.0 of his open source extension for Mozilla’s Firefox browser, adding several new changes and improving its overall reliability
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Novell’s SUSE Gallery has completed beta tests and has now been released. It provides an opportunity for SUSE Studio users to release their own appliances and to browse the appliances of others
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