Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft has rebutted analysis that suggested its Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) technology could be exploited.

A Carnegie-Mellon CERT researcher has discovered that Microsoft broke some use-cases for its Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) mechanism, designed to severely hamper hackers’ attempts to exploit security bugs.

The Surface Book 2 is aimed at graphic pros, but with a stout NVIDIA 1060 GPU, it’s a tempting gaming machine, too. As we observed during our review, gaming drains…

Microsoft’s latest batch of software updates for Windows has been blamed for a mysterious ailment befalling some poor old Epson dot-matrix printers.

MICROSOFT-OWNED Skype has lost its appeal against a 2016 fine for failing hand over customer data in relation to a criminal investigation in Belgium. Last year, Microsoft was handed a…

Linux rules supercomputing. This day has been coming since 1998, when Linux first appeared on the TOP500 Supercomputer list. Today, it finally happened: All 500 of the world’s fastest supercomputers…

Thanks to an amendment introduced by Sen. Mike Rounds of (R-SD) and co-sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), this year the NDAA could institute a big change: should the bill…

Microsoft tackled 53 vulnerabilities with today’s Patch Tuesday bulletin. Remote code execution bugs dominated this month’s patches, representing 25 fixes. In total, 20 of Microsoft’s security fixes were rated critical.

Samsung teased the idea of Linux on its flagship phones in October 2017, promising that Linux would run in your hand or, if you use its DeX dock, in full…

More companies today are certainly going the open-source route, especially since the technology has officially won over closed-source, proprietary, off-the-shelf software.

Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26 billion last year, promising to closely link the service with its Office suite of applications. While we’ve seen a new Windows 10 app for LinkedIn,…

Microsoft has been investing in India as one of the company’s key growth markets. The company has spent millions of dollars building three cloud data centres in the country in…

Many businesses are clinging to older, pre-cloud and even unsupported versions of Office, going as far back as Office 2007, Office 2003 and Office XP, the latter of which was…

In a startling departure from the norm, Microsoft not only pulled the buggy Win7/Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 and Win 8.1/Server 2012 R2 patches, but it even eliminated the associated…

Google Chrome is continuing to dominate the desktop browser industry, while Microsoft, which once believed its Edge client would be the next big thing, is having a tough time keeping…