Trump pardons stealing ex-Google employee
President Trump has given back his freedom to a former Google employee. Anthony Levandowski had been in prison since August last year. The Brussels-born 40-year-old tech was sentenced to 18 months in prison for industrial espionage.…
Red Hat to Offer RHEL Free to Small Developer Teams
Red Hat is giving away Red Hat Enterprise Linux for free for small production environments. The organization is doing this after it decided last month to stop working on CentOS 8. Developers can now use RHEL on 16 machines.RHEL, or Red…
EU fines Valve and ZeniMax €1.6 million each for geo-blocking
The Commission fines game publishers for breaking competition rules through geo-blocking. Valve and ZeniMax have to pay 1.6 million euros and Focus Home 2.8 million euros. Bandai Namco, Capcom and Koch Media were also fined.According to…
Download OPNsense 20.7.8
The package OPNsense is a firewall with extensive opportunities. It is based on the FreeBSD operating system and is originally a fork of m0n0wall and pfSense. The package can be set up completely via a web interface and has support for…
Evaluation committee: Wiv needs more guarantees for collecting bulk data
The Intelligence and Security Services Act does not provide sufficient guarantees for the careful handling of bulk data. There is too much difference in different types of interceptions of such data. An evaluation committee recommends…
Kids at play discover bug that could unlock Linux Mint
Linux Mint contained a vulnerability that allowed the screen lock to be bypassed. The vulnerability was in the libcaribou library in the Cinnamon interface. Remarkably, the bug was discovered after a few kids played with it.The issue is…
Download VirtualBox 6.1.18
Oracle has released the ninth update for VirtualBox version 6.1. VirtualBox can be used to install other operating systems in a virtual environment on a computer. In this way it is possible to use different operating systems on the…
Download Firmware OpenWrt 19.07.6
A new update for version 19.07 of OpenWrt has been released. OpenWrt is an alternative open source firmware for a large number various routers and embedded devices. By means of the opkg package management system there is the…
Auto Chess Publisher Releases Mobile Moba Game Based On Own Chess Game
Dragonest, the publisher of the previously popular game Auto Chess, is coming with its own moba game. That game will have some similarities with Dota 2 and League of Legends. The characters from Auto Chess, among others, will be found in…
GameMaker Studio creator is believed to have been sold to Opera for 8 million euros
Developer Playtech has sold the company behind GameMaker Studio, YoYo Games, for 8.24 million euros. The buyer is most likely Opera Software, the maker of the Opera browser, although that company has not yet officially confirmed the…