Oracle’s patch with new tax updates just landed, MYOB says it’s in the mail

It looks like the conveyor belt’s broken at the Australian Taxation Office, because vendors of accounting and HR software are releasing their new financial year compliance patches rather late.…

Amazon blocks Kodi software, still flogs Kodi hardware

Efforts by the Kodi media player’s maintainers to keep pirates from sullying its good name haven’t been enough to satisfy the copyright cops at Amazon.…

Penguinista succession is secure, says Linux Lord

Just a few days after asking the Linux community to let him take a break, Linus Torvalds has said the project he kicked off 1991 can now get along without him.…

Browser snuck proprietary voice-snoop code into distro

The Debian Project thinks it’s fixed an issue where Google’s Chromium web browser snuck proprietary code into the fiercely Free Software oriented Debian Linux distro. That hasn’t stopped Debian users from wondering how the issue got past project maintainers in the first place.…

San Francisco upstart in series-B round

Code-sharing website GitHub is pursuing a new round of venture capital based on a US$2bn (£1.26bn) valuation.…

Clocks three billion sneaky searches a year.

Sleepy project hits nightly builds

Mozilla looks ready to revamp its Firefox web browser so tabs and user interfaces can run in separate processes.…

Keep your containers close and your data closer

ClusterHQ has inked an agreement that will see its Flocker container management code integrate with EMC’s flashy fare.…

Someday you’ll code for the web in any language, and it’ll run at near-native speed

Brendan Eich, the former CEO of Mozilla, has announced a new project that could not only speed up web applications but could eventually see the end of JavaScript as the lingua franca of web development.…

More polished, but a bit slow and buggy

First look  Microsoft has released Build 10136 of Windows 10 Mobile, part of the “One Windows” wave set to be released later this year.…