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The VideoLAN Project has released version 1.1.3 of its VLC Media Player, a maintenance and security update that addresses a critical vulnerability that could lead to a possible denial of service attack or the execution of arbitrary code...

Rails 3.0 has been underway for a good two years, so it’s with immense pleasure that we can declare it’s finally here. We’ve brought the work of more than 1,600 contributors together to make everything better, faster, cleaner, and more beautiful.

This third generation of Rails has seen thousands of commits, so picking what to highlight was always going to be tough and incomplete.

When I wrote disparagingly of Illumos yesterday, I got some well-deserved pushback.So it may be useful to discuss what Illumos is, and is not.Illumos is a fork of Open Solaris, but it’s a fork of a special type.A normal fork takes today’s code and goes off in a new direction with it. Gradually the forked program and the root diverge.Illumos isn’t going to be like that.

The latest 3.3.5.1 and 2.11.10.1 releases of the phpMyAdmin database administration tool address one critical and several serious security vulnerabilities, including an issue that could allow unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary code...

Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) warned a packed house Thursday night in Minneapolis that the corporate takeover of our media, and the government's failure to stop it, is one of the most important issues of our time.
Franken said our media system is at risk everywhere we turn -- from our free speech online to the growing power of companies who own a massive number of media outlets.
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Ever had a source package fail to build due to a missing file? If so, apt-file, a tool that searches online repositories for a specific file, may be the answer.

The ClamAV project has updated its open source virus scanner toolkit to version 0.96.2, addressing several bugs from the previous release and closing various memory leaks...

The Linux Foundation has announced that compliance and IP management specialist Palamida has become its newest member. Palamida will collaborate on and contribute to the non-profit organisation's new Open Compliance Program...