Reproducible binary project 83% complete
Debian is on its way to becoming what could be the first operating system to prove the origin of its binaries, technologist Micah Lee says.…
Apple: 100,000 lucky people can test our flaky iOS 8.3 code – report
Hey fanboi, help squash our bugs
In a shock falling-in-line-with-industry-practice move, Apple is to conduct a public beta test for iOS 8.3.…
Wake up! BlackBerry QUIETLY updates BB10
Lots to admire, but 10.3.1 overhaul made some sleep through alarms
Some BlackBerry users have enjoyed an unexpectedly peaceful weekend for once. Late last week, the Canadian company rolled out its biggest update for a year, but the otherwise technically impressive upgrade left some sleeping through alarms and missing phone calls.…
I’m the wire starter: ARM, IBM tout plug ‘n’ play Internet of Stuff kit
Hook board to the router, control it from other side of the planet
Pics ARM and IBM today hope to lure a few more engineers, tinkerers and the like into their Internet of Things (IoT) world with a cloud-connected development kit bundle.…
Microsoft to store deleted Exchange Online mails FOREVER
Admins take heed: Redmond’s new policy will apply by default
Microsoft has changed its data retention policy for Office 365 email and the upshot is that deleted items will never disappear, unless you set up a policy to bin them.…
May the fourth be with you: Torvalds names next Linux v 4.0
Linux Lord declares all internet polls bad, follows result of own effort anyway
Linus Torvalds has decided it’s time for version 4.0 of the Linux kernel.…
Google unleashes tame botnet to hunt XSS in cloudy code
Security scanner spawns hordes of attackers to probe you in all sorts of ways …
Google has unleashed its own application security scanner, potentially rescuing admins from ‘fiddly’ existing offerings.…
Don’t touch me up there! Photoshop creator appeals for ‘ethical’ use
Also, why subscription pricing is good for you
Adobe Photoshop inventor Thomas Knoll spoke to the press on the 25th anniversary of the pic-mangling programme, which dominates the market for professional image processing.…
Linux clockpocalypse in 2038 is looming and there’s no ‘serious plan’
Worry now, because 23 years from now will be TOO LATE
The year 2038 is still more than two decades away, but LWN.net editor and longtime Linux kernel chronicler Jon Corbet believes software developers should be thinking about that date now, particularly in the Linux world.…
(Re)touching on a quarter-century of Adobe Photoshop
The next person to use the Twirl filter deserves a kicking
Feature Nothing proves the popularity of a star product more than its name being used as a verb. Rival companies hate it, but carpets get Hoovered, wrapping paper gets Sellotaped. And what do you do to a photo?…