Planet Computers’ clamshell phone can dual-boot Android and Linux

Posted on 24/02/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Planet Computers' laptop-like Cosmo Communicator phone just became that much more useful to its audience of very particular power users. The Cosmo now supports a promised multi-boot function, letting you run Android (both regular and rooted), Debian...

Chromebooks will soon be able to run your favorite Linux apps

Posted on 08/05/2018 by Engadget RSS Feed

Chromebooks have always generally been cheap and accessible, but now they're about to get a lot more capable. Google announced today that Chromebooks will soon be able to run native Linux apps in addition to the Chrome web apps and Android apps that...

Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs

Posted on 22/12/2016 by Engadget RSS Feed

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released an experimental version of its Linux-based Pixel OS for Windows and Mac PCs. The OS, originally designed to run only on the Raspberry Pi hobby board, comes with the Chromium web browser and a suite of producti...

Log into most any Linux system by hitting backspace 28 times

Posted on 18/12/2015 by Andrew Tarantola

Security researchers have discovered a ludicrously simple way to hack into a number of Linux distributions: Just tap the backspace key 28 times in a row. A team from the Cybersecurity Group at Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) in Spain found t...

OnePlus One gets delayed over ‘security issues’

Posted on 11/06/2014 by ahmed

If things had gone the way they had been planned, the OnePlus One would have been sold off to a greater number of customers than we could have thought possible but unfortunately this is not the case...

New OpenSSL Defects: Is this another Heartbleed?

Posted on 06/06/2014 by forbes

OpenSSL is the same software that recently hit the headlines for the Heartbleed vulnerability. The 6 software defects (details available here) range in severity and impact and can allow an attacker...

Ubuntu Edge Smartphone Misses $32 Million Crowdfunding Goal

Posted on 22/08/2013 by sumayah

The goal all along had been the creation of a new smart phone that was able to interface with a personal computer. But unfortunately the allotment of funds by donation never amounted to the required...

Trojan targets Linux desktop users, steals web banking info

Posted on 09/08/2013 by Jon Fingas

Malware certainly exists for Linux, but it's more frequently targeted at servers than everyday PCs. Unfortunately, regular users now have more reason to worry: a rare instance of a Linux desktop trojan, Hand of Thief, has surfaced in the wild. The code swipes banking logins and other web sign-in details, creates a backdoor and prevents access to both antivirus tools and virtual machines. It's known to work with common browsers like Chrome and Firefox as well as 15 Linux distributions, including Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu. Thankfully, Hand of Thief is partly neutered by its limited attack methods; it relies on social engineering to fool victims into installing the software themselves. Even so, the trojan is a reminder that we shouldn't be complacent about security, regardless of which platform we use.

[Thanks, Dreyer]

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Canonical’s Ubuntu Edge Gets $80,000 in Support from Bloomberg

Posted on 08/08/2013 by sumayah

Canonical wants to take Ubuntu Edge to the heights of success. That is why it began a program to raise $32 million per month. However, up until now only $8.5 million have been collected and there are...

Google AirShow streams I/O live from several RC blimps (hands-on video)

Posted on 16/05/2013 by Myriam Joire

Yes, there's a fleet of camera-equipped, remote-controlled blimps live-streaming a bird's-eye view of Google I/O on YouTube, right now. It's called Google AirShow and it's taken over the airspace within Moscone Center. We briefly chatted with Chris Miller, a software engineer with AKQA (the company that put the dirigibles together for Google), about the technology used in each aircraft. It all begins with an off-the-shelf model airship that's flown manually via standard a 2.4GHz radio. Each blimp is outfitted with a servo-controlled USB camera and 5GHz USB WiFi dongle which are both connected to a Raspberry Pi board running Debian, VLC and Python. A custom-designed Li-polymer battery system powers the on-board electronics. The webcam encodes video as motion-JPEG (720p, 30fps) and VLC generates a YouTube-compatible RTSP stream that's broadcast over WiFi. Python's used to pan the servo-controlled camera via the Raspberry Pi's PWM output. The result is pretty awesome. But don't just take our word for it -- check out the gallery and source link below, then watch our hands-on video after the break.

Gallery: Google AirShow at I/O 2013