2015

Version 2.6.10 of GnuCash has been released. GnuCash is a cross platform and open source accounting program for individuals and small businesses. It uses the double-entry bookkeeping system and is able to easily keep track of, for…

The Document Foundation has released the first release candidate of version 5.1 of LibreOffice. This open source office package originated as a fork of OpenOffice and comes with the word processor Writer, spreadsheet program Calc,…

Version 2.0.11 of Suricata has been released. Suricata is an open source network intrusion detection system (IDS), intrusion prevention system (IPS), and network security monitoring engine. It can be used to monitor network traffic and…

Google is testing a login method that will no longer require the user to enter their password. Instead, they log in with the smartphone to which the user must already be logged in, and receive a confirmation prompt.The new login method…

Google is testing a login method that will no longer require the user to enter their password. Instead, they log in with the smartphone to which the user must already be logged in, and receive a confirmation prompt.The new login method…

Twitter seems to have plans to link drones to its social network, according to a patent that the company behind the site has received. It states that users can control the drone, for example to take pictures with it.The patent in question…

A security researcher has found a way to crash WhatsApp by bombarding a victim with emoji. For example, the software appears to crash if more than 4000 emoji are sent in a message.The bug was discovered by Indrajeet Bhuyan, who describes…

The first update for version 4.00 of the media player AIMP has been released. This free Russian-made lightweight media player has support for the most popular music formats. The appearance resembles the well-known Winamp and can be…

Ritlabs has released version 7.1.18 Christmas Edition of its email program The Bat! released. The program supports several pop3 and imap4 accounts, and has a Bayesian spam filter and extensive search and filtering capabilities. Since…

Version 3.2.2 of WinUAE has been released recently. This Windows port of the UAE Amiga Emulator is able to emulate a Commodore Amiga perfectly. All models, from the very first Amiga 1000 to the Amiga 4000, are supported. However, you…