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How to break out of PRISM

NSA scandal has exploded fears of being watched on the Internet, but a new website lists ways to escape the Panopticon

How to break out of PRISM

Berlin won't migrate to open source, looks to open standards instead

A proposal to switch the German city's workstations to open source software was denied by the state's parliament

HP to end support for OpenVMS

An operating system that won much praise for its reliability and break-through features could soon shuffle away

7 patent reforms the White House should have proposed

The president's follow-up to his frank condemnation of patent trolls is welcome, but we need more

ISC patches denial-of-service vulnerability affecting BIND 9

Vulnerability affects recent versions of the widely used BIND 9 software and can be exploited by remote attackers to crash DNS servers

Apache CloudStack 4.1.0 emerges from incubation

More contributors are lining up to support to the open source project, improving its odds against rival OpenStack

Google's VP8 codec license is OK after all

Google caused confusion with talk of patents, but it turns out company's VP8 video codec is safe for open source use

Opera Next: Minimalist design, engine switcheroo

Norwegian browser maker ships the beta of a browser overhaul that includes a move to the open-source WebKit rendering engine

Ubuntu 'superphone' needs a superstrategy

In an interview, community manager Jono Bacon reveals strength -- and risk -- of Canonical's bold challenge to Google and Apple

Open source development surges for Android and, surprisingly, iOS

Android's openness and growing popularity is attracting mobile developers to the platform, says a Black Duck VP

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