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Back to the Future
What's new in Ubuntu 17.10
Ubuntu is back to the first letter of the alphabet – and back to the Gnome desktop. But you'll also find lots of new stuff in the latest release.
Too Clever
Smarter with open source
Making the city of Messina, Italy, smarter with open source and IoT.
In the Can
Record screencasts with Peek on Gnome
A screencast shows what happens on the desktop. Peek lets you create screencasts in the blink of an eye and export them to popular formats.
Pi FM Radio
Build an FM radio using an RTL-SDR dongle
Low-cost RTL-SDR dongles can read frequencies between 24 and 1,766MHz. We built a simple FM radio with a Raspberry Pi, a USB dongle based on the RTL2832U chipset, an LCD HAT, and some Python code.
Sure-Fire Success
Developing an AI system with Markov chains
Markov chains model systems that jump from state to state with predetermined probabilities, but can they help write new columns like this one after learning from previously written articles?
Trusted Computing
Security with the Trusted Platform Module
The Trusted Platform Module on your computer's motherboard could lead to better security for your Linux system.
Janitorial Services
Convenient system clean-up with Stacer
Stacer is a handy graphical tool for cleaning up your Linux system.
Master Class
Learning about web security with Web Security Dojo
Protecting your own websites from attack either costs a lot of money or requires a lot of expertise. Web Security Dojo helps you learn to think like an expert.
Shielded
Providers that protect against DDoS attacks
To ward off DDoS attacks, websites and services often seek the protection of Internet giants, such as Amazon, but you have other ways to protect your connectivity.
Horse Power
Developing concurrent programs with Pony
Pony, an object-oriented programming language with static typecasting, trots down well-mapped paths to deliver secure, high-performance code for concurrent applications.
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Canonical Releases Ubuntu 24.04
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XZ Gets the All-Clear
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Linux Usage Increases in Two Key Areas
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Vulnerability Discovered in xz Libraries
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Canonical Bumps LTS Support to 12 years
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Fedora 40 Beta Released Soon
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