The Apache Project has warned of a bug in versions 3.2.0 to 3.2.5 of SpamAssassin that triggers an excessive number of spam alerts by mails from 2010. Debian Lenny is also infected.

On the last day of the year part four of the gamers recommendations offer some adventure games, sports and action. Have fun!

BPython is an interactive Python command line interface with its own comfort functions. The program is now available in version 0.9.6.

A tiny script from U.S. network specialist Scott Iekel-Johnson extracts software licenses from source code. The oss-license-extract tool is now available in version 1.2.

In part 3 of our gamers recommandations we present more strategy games, puzzles, card games, language skill training and more. To be continued.

Initiator and main developer of the Milkymist project, Sébastien Bourdeauducq, showed a prototype of his visual synthesizer at the latest Chaos Congress and builds his own board for it.

The whistleblower project, protected by a cascade of tor servers, over the last months has made public a series of explosive documents. Now it wants to take a step further and plans a technical data model state in the north Atlantic.

More games for Linux and open source - a large choice for every taste. Strategy, chess, and more.To be continued.

Thorsten Muehlfelder and the Salix team have released a new version of the Slackware-based distribution Salix OS, available for the first time as 64 bit variation.

With an all plastic tablet in design, the story of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) can well continue. Yves Behar, designer and founder of the FuseProject has released the first concepts online.