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Facebook Discards Rumors About Suing Employers

Social Media Facebook was not exactly precise on the nature of the legal action they would take, and everyone thought it was wise to assume the worst. Seeing this publicity go the absolute wrong way, Facebook has come with a clarification. It has now issued a second statement discarding any possibility of it suing employers. Read More »

Redditor Uncovers the Mystery Behind the DuQu Trojan

Online Security It is interesting to note that the mystery man why demystified DuQu is none other than Igor Skochinsky, who reverse-engineered the Kindle in early 2008. Read More »

Firefox 14 to Come with Built-in PDF Support

Internet Browsers PDF.js is a well known script that renders PDF files with HTML and JavaScript successfully. It can be installed as an extension but the latest nightly version of Firefox 14 ships with PDF.js built in. Read More »

Shuttleworth Highlights the Growth of Ubuntu in the Enterprise Server Business

Open Source Software Ubuntu is preferred on the server because of its LTS releases, which are supported with updates for long years. Moreover, it has a large base of zealots who participate closely in the state of affairs. Read More »

Nouveau Moves out of Staging, Releases Same-Day Driver for the First Time

Open Source Software Usually, work on Nouveau drivers starts once the binary drivers are out and available for update. This involves months of reverse engineering the binary drivers. However, to everyone's surprise, Ben Skeggs from RedHat has managed to reverse engineer the binary driver and commit the reverse engineered code to the Nouveau DRM repository, hours after the launch of the official GPU. Read More »