According to Slashdot.org (NFN STM: Linux) the popular manufacturer Broadcom made his GNU/Linux devide drivers open source. Experts estimate this will significantly reduce problems with current WiFi hardware and GNU/Linux distributions that offer WiFi support.

Canonical officials today also published in their Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (UWN) that Broadcom announced the initial release of its new open source wireless drivers for Linux. The drivers, which are built using the kernel's own native SoftMAC framework, are currently in the kernel staging tree and are expected to eventually be merged upstream. According to a Canonical's Jeremy Foshee, the new drivers will be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 10.10 release and may be backported to the current stable version. The driver currently supports BCM4313, BCM43224, and BCM43225, but it can be extended in the future to support additional Broadcom hardware components.

All the people out there want security; however not only people but especially intelligence agencies and other public authorities. It is a fact that the government has a role to play in the cyber world.

The N.S.A. for example wants security, but it also wants to get to capture as much as it can. Listening in is what gets the agency a whole lot of security. That brings us to the Internet and its family of about 500 protocols. An important one among them is the IP (Internet Protocol) which was once created for address identifying computer systems on a higher level. The problem with that protocol, and thus with large parts of the known Internet itself, is though that it was meant for communication among non-friends. The point however it that a) one could want to know who someone else is talking to and b) the design of the net is the primary problem of vulnerability to network attack.

Things have changed recently in an unexpected way, when people thought they had realized "Anonymous" would be a loosely formed movement, often falsely seen as a hacker group and may not be what it pretends to be.
 
In a useful and forthright manner reporters on slashdot.org have repeatedly echoed out that they have no idea who is behind so called "Anonymous". Thus for quite some time the governments and feds gave credence to the myth that the Web is under the threat of unruly teenagers maybe even a semi-terroristic organization. All that has changed on 18th of December when Anonymous apparently attacked The Spamhaus Project as a result of a press release out of the sudden. Within the release Spamhaus basically warned the public not to connect with fake Wikileaks servers especially wikileaks.info and wikileaks.org, whereat the latter was the former Wikileaks main website.

This is one of the stories GNU/Linux, OSS and FOSS veterans don't want to hear in the first place. The last days the news spread all over the world that an effort in migrating government systems ultimately failed.

In that attempt Microsoft Windows had to be migrated to some kind of GNU/Linux distribution in Solothurn/Switzerland. According to some newspapers CTO Kurt Bader who has been responsible for the whole migration effort resigned this summer when 10% of the aprox one thousand government officials constantly complained about minor problems that came along with the migration process. Some employees mentioned ongoing problems with printing and some others said they were more productive when working with their systems at home.

Quite a few months ago writers from various GNU/Linux related websites like the well known "Phoronix" have published articles stating Valve Corporation was working on a GNU/Linux version of the well known Steam application.

Undoubtly this had a lot of people in the GNU/Linux community very excited. That excitement gowever has now come to an abrupt end when Valve ultimately killed the rumor. According to Slashdot.org Doug Lombardi, the Marketing VP of Valve Corporation, in an interview, has put an end to all the rumors by saying that they are not working on Steam for GNU/Linux right now. Considering the ill-fate of GNU/Linux gaming this is actually bad news the community now has to deal with, at least for some time.

We don't think so. Jason Slater published an article on his website jasonslater.co.uk last year basically telling that, according to Facebook itself, roughly 200 million users log on to their accounts in any given day.

Further he suspects that a number of people have unused accounts registered with Facebook. In pursuance of Mr. Slater's article some others may also have multiple accounts for various different reasons like keeping interests separated from each other or acting within different groups. As a closing quote Mr. Slater says: "I guess it depends on whether you consider a member as being an account that exists on the system or a unique individual?" and finally: "Presently, it is far too easy to create an account as all that is really needed is a valid email address [..]". We think these estimations are correct in general and allegorize an inherent problem to all websites on the internet; especially social community portals (SCP) which allow users to register themselves easily with the system.

According to a slashdot.org article Glibc has been incompatible with the Open Source Definition and thus non-Free according to Debian and the FSF until August 18 this year.

Due to the fact this affected nearly all of todays GNU/Linux distributions this seems to be a major breakthrough for the whole community. Finally software appearing under the 3-clause BSD license including glibc, portmap and NFS are no longer "tainted" states WebMink. We at TRON-DELTA.ORG think this is really great news especially when considering there was once a time when the Qt-framework was not GPL'ed and the FSF saw the danger that the whole Linux desktop would be dependent on exactly that piece of non-free software, and tried to "kill" KDE as a result.

The collection of information via intelligence appliances with the aid of modern technical procurement operations is one of the essential tasks of TRON-DELTA.ORG.

For this reason, the ongoing search for new technologies to achieve this goal is essential. During this search our organization makes use of a large amount of diverse information sources, including thousands of RSS feeds, newsletters and forums of various websites. Also, different information search systems, mainly in the form of specific person, image, or metasearch engines, are taken into account. Using these machines includes inter alia looking for a number of key words in various combinations, and using search engine compatible queries with logical conjunctions and Boolean operators. During a search realized lately, members of staff found an article on the website "Politically Incorrect", which primarily focuses on political issues.

In an effort to get one of its most popular software more widely accepted, Microsoft entrusted TÜV TRUST IT Ltd. from Austria to determine the security characteristics of the Internet Explorer 8 and 9 – with questionable results.

Company representatives reported about a check of Internet Explorer 8, on Microsoft's official website microsoft.com, which took place from Dec. 2009 to March 2010. It has been pointed out repeatedly that a neutral instance had been given the mandate to run this exhausting investigation. According to these representatives data security, privacy and compliance aspects, based on a broad catalog of requirements, have been taken into account. Detlev Henze from TÜV TRUST IT Ltd. finally summed it all up with, quote: "The Internet Explorer 8 convinced us." and further "In comparison to the previous version (Internet Explorer 7) it contains significant improvements in safety and sets the standard for browser security." Later, in May 2011, a news report about the successful certification of Internet Explorer 9 also appeared in the media.

If you've read anything at all about Web Content Management Systems (wCMS), you'll probably know at least one thing: wCMS can be really, I mean really, complicated - period.

Joomla! SE is not set to change all this since Joomla! SE is even more different from the normal models for portal software, and as such it has not been developed for the masses! It's licensed under the GNU/GPL and TDL 2010 license, hard to install and administer but reliable. Joomla! SE does require the user or administrator of the system to know how to code because it's paramount to success/to operate the system once it's up and running. The SE part has been added recently and is part of our organizations strategy to security enhance every piece of software used in day to day operations.