Scammers find a way to bypass Mozilla’s fix for login prompt spam to launch lock screen attacks. …read more Source:: oss watch
Month: November 2019
A cure for unfair competition in open source
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•By Dries Buytaert In many ways, open source has won. Most people know that open source provides better quality software, at a lower cost, without vendor lock-in. But despite open source being widely …read more Source:: OpenSource
3 suggestions for stronger open source projects
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•By Dries Buytaert In part 4 of this article, I covered how economic theories of collective action can be applied to open source from a conceptual perspective. In this final part, I’ll …read more Source:: OpenSource
3 models for open source governance
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•By Dries Buytaert In part 3 of this article, I detailed several economic theories on common goods management. In this part, we’ll explore how to apply these theories to the issue of …read more Source:: OpenSource
Cloudflare: Here’s how we defeated a law firm trolling us over a $1 tech patent
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•How one tech company used the community to hit back at a law firm asserting a broad patent against it. …read more Source:: oss watch
Alleged Capital One hacker released from federal custody
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•The alleged hacker is banned from accessing the internet or using computers, cellphones, or any other electronic device. …read more Source:: oss watch
LG enters US patent dispute against Hisense
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•The patents in question affect the majority of TVs sold by Hisense in the United States, LG alleges. …read more Source:: oss watch
Unfriended: Australian MP Andrew Wilkie calls biocops on Facebook
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•While it was an attempt to spread festive cheer, Facebook’s floral arrangements ended up breaching Tasmanian biosecurity laws. …read more Source:: oss watch
Ethical and legal guardrails will help avoid an AV nightmare
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•Without the right policies autonomous vehicles, cities will have the same pollution and congestion problems that exist now. …read more Source:: oss watch
Microsoft rebrands Flow to ‘Power Automate’; adds no-code Power Platform virtual agents
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•Ignite 2019: Microsoft is continuing to add more features to its Power Platform, the collection of low-code and no-code tools including Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate. …read more Source:: it-priorities