Just viewing –not running– a malicious .desktop or .directory file inside a file browser can run malicious code on a user’s system. …read more Source:: Linux
Tag: Twitter
AWS vs. open source: DocumentDB is the latest battlefront
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•By Matt Asay You’ve probably missed it, but there’s a religious war being fought on Twitter. (No, really!) On one side is an array of data-infrastructure companies (MongoDB, Confluent, and Redis Labs) that …read more Source:: OpenSource
On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories, study finds
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•A new study has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does — and by a substantial margin. Moreover, the spread of …read more Source:: Science
Social network App.net to shut down, open source its platform
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•By Serdar Yegulalp App.net, the microblogging service launched as a paid-subscriber alternative to ad-supported systems like Facebook and Twitter, has decided to close its doors and release its software as open source. In a …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Ubuntu Core has the keys to IoT security
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•By Swapnil Bhartiya In October, a DDoS attack on Dyn’s infrastructure took down a big chunk of the internet, making sites like Amazon and Twitter inaccessible. It was the first major attack …read more Source:: OpenSource
Review: Storm’s real-time processing comes at a price
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•By Steven Nunez Storm, a top-level Apache project, is a Java framework designed to help programmers write real-time applications that run on Hadoop clusters. Designed at Twitter, Storm excels at processing high-volume message …read more Source:: OpenSource