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A flaw in systemd, the init system used on many Linux systems, can be exploited using a malicious DNS query to either crash a system or to run code remotely.

Serious security bugs have been exposed, some of which can lead to remote code execution.

A developer who worked with the Ubuntu Phone project has outlined the reasons for its failure, painting a picture of confusion, poor communication and lack of technical and marketing foresight.

TC39 means Technical Committee number 39. It’s part of ECMA, the institution which standardizes the JavaScript language under the “ECMAScript” specification.

Google is helping smartphones better recognize images without requiring massive power consumption, thanks to a new set of models the company released today.

The Battery Open-Source Software (BOSS) Index highlights the increasing reliance on freely available, open-source technology by big and small enterprises alike, and also the challenges in building commercially viable companies on top of these projects.

Netcraft believes that if the trends continue in 2017, NGINX could possibly overtake Microsoft as the second largest vendor in the second half of the year.

NodeSource, the Node.js company, has announced the release of NodeSource N|Solid for Alpine Linux, the newest addition to its enterprise-grade Node.js platform that enables a secure, reliable and extensible platform for Node.js applications.

MapD Technologies, a GPU-powered analytics company, has released their Core database to the open source community under the Apache 2 license, seeding a new generation of data applications.

Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.