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Google Summer of Code 2012 is on!
From the Start Your Coding dept.:
This will be the 8th year for Google Summer of Code, an innovative program dedicated to introducing students from colleges and universities around the world to open source software development. The program offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects with the help of mentoring organizations from all around the globe. Over the past seven years Google Summer of Code has had 6,000 students from over 90 countries complete the program. Our goal is to help these students pursue academic challenges over the summer break while they create and release open source code for the benefit of all.
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 2 Released
From the Release Early dept.:
Pre-releases of Precise Pangolin are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.
Alpha 2 is the second in a series of milestone images that will be released throughout the Precise development cycle.
This is the first Ubuntu milestone release to include images for the armhf architecture, for the ARM CPUs using the hard-float ABI.
New packages showing up for the first time include:
* Linux Kernel 3.2.2 (3.2.0-12.21)
* Upstart 1.4
* Unity 5.0
* LibreOffice 3.5 beta 2
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EU regulators: Google should âpauseâ privacy changes
From the Whoah dept.:
In a letter to Googleâs chief executive Larry Page, Europeâs âData Protection Working Partyâ wrote that âwe call for a pause in the interests of ensuring that there can be no misunderstanding about Google's commitments to information rights of their users and EU citizens, until we have completed our analysisâ.
The committee gave no indication of how long it would like the pause to be.
A senior source at Google expressed surprise at the move, but noted that there was a month for the committee to examine its concerns. The source also said that while the committee had no legal authority to require any delay, the tone of its letter was significantly less aggressive than those Google has received in the past.
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Google Starts Scanning Android Apps for Malware
From the Taking it Seriously dept.:
Today weâre revealing a service weâve developed, codenamed Bouncer, which provides automated scanning of Android Market for potentially malicious software without disrupting the user experience of Android Market or requiring developers to go through an application approval process.
The service performs a set of analyses on new applications, applications already in Android Market, and developer accounts. Hereâs how it works: once an application is uploaded, the service immediately starts analyzing it for known malware, spyware and trojans. It also looks for behaviors that indicate an application might be misbehaving, and compares it against previously analyzed apps to detect possible red flags. We actually run every application on Googleâs cloud infrastructure and simulate how it will run on an Android device to look for hidden, malicious behavior. We also analyze new developer accounts to help prevent malicious and repeat-offending developers from coming back.
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Red Hat extends Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle to ten years
From the Makes Sense On a Server dept.:
...Red Hat. The company has just announced that it is extending the production lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years in response to enterprise customer demand and Red Hatâs hardware original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners.
For any company, upgrading to a new version of an operating system requires detailed advance planning. Red Hat has extended the Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle so customers can remain on their current version longer. With the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle, customers will benefit from continued feature enhancements while Red Hatâs application binary interface (ABI) and application programming interface (API) compatibility for their existing application.
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