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• AMD/OpenJDK/Oracle explore use of GPUs
• Smartphone security
• ASF Airavata
• Slackware 14 release
• Shuttleworth funds Inktank/Ceph
• New Apache toplevel project
• Zentyal 3.0 small business server reveals major release
• Keccak wins NIST
• SHA-3 competition

Could Mozilla’s announcement of the Boot to Gecko roadmap, along with the continued development of other web-based operating systems, make the Linux distro you’re running less important than the desktop environment?

Microformats add generally accepted tags, such as social network connections or geodetic coordinates, to HTML pages. Automated scripts collect them and help represent the data in graphically appealing ways – for example, geodata for vacation destinations.

The World Wide Web Foundation has launched the Web Index – a new global study that “measures the impact of the Web on the world’s people and nations.”

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) sends out last call for public review of HTML5 specifications.

The Call for Papers (CFP) for ApacheCon 2011 ends this Friday, April 29 and event organizers are encouraging those from outside the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to submit proposals.