November 2018’s Best Open Source, Cybersecurity, and Web Development Content
We can never expect a dull moment this year. From the Microsoft buying GitHub to more data breaches, check out some good content in our round up! If you enjoy this collection of the web’s top articles, feel free to follow us over on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ for the same great content the rest of the year.
Open Source and Linux
- Widely used open source software contained bitcoin-stealing backdoor
“Users should assume that private keys on affected wallets may have been compromised, so they should move funds to new wallets (v5.2.0) immediately.” - Google open-sources AI that can distinguish between voices with 92% accuracy
Google’s AI research division has made promising progress toward a performance model. - Facebook open-sources its Horizon AI platform
The company believes the reinforcement learning platform can prove helpful in dealing with massive data sets. - Linus Torvalds: After big Linux performance hit, Spectre v2 patch needs curbs
“When performance goes down by 50 percent on some loads, people need to start asking themselves whether it was worth it.” - Microsoft is Porting Sysinternals Tools to Linux – ProcDump Released
The Linux version of ProcDump does not offer all of the same features that the Windows version does. - Samsung announce Linux on DeX with Ubuntu: for developers on the move
Samsung is announcing the beta launch of Linux on DeX which extends the value of Samsung DeX to Linux developers.
Design & Development
- Automate your Azure Database for MySQL deployments using ARM templates
If you are new to ARM templates and would like to try it, you can start by following these steps. - Meet TiDB: An open source NewSQL database
TiDB is an open source NewSQL database released under the Apache 2.0 License. - How to Fill Data in a ComboBox Using C# and MySQL Database
This method is so useful when you retrieve all the data in the column of the table in the database. - Google launches portal to help developers build modern web sites
The tool also aims at educating you on what steps you can take to improve your web site based on the audit.
- How IoT Is Changing Web Development
IoT brings changes to software development on many levels, including web development.
Cybersecurity
- Minister in Charge of Japan’s Cybersecurity Says He Has Never Used a Computer
He said, “I order my employees or secretaries” to do it. - BlackBerry in talks to buy cybersecurity company Cylance: Business Insider
They develop AI-based products to prevent cyber attacks on companies and recently considered filing for an IPO. - Hackers erase 6,500 sites from the Dark Web in one attack
All the data on those 6,500 sites are toast. - GDPR’s First 150 Days Impact on the U.S.
Roughly 150 days after the passage of one of the most significant data privacy laws ever, how has it impacted U.S. companies’ privacy efforts? - Another Facebook Bug Could Have Exposed Your Private Information
The vulnerability resides in the way Facebook search feature displays results for entered queries.
Interesting Technology Posts
- Who’s Teaching Who? AI-Enabled Learning Is Booming in China
Thanks to its AI-backed software, that personalization is also done at low-cost, helping students vault one of the major barriers to education. - Elon Musk’s Boring Company Caves in on West L.A. Tunnel After Activists Sue
Neighborhood activists sued, claiming the exemption broke state law. - A New Senate Bill Would Hit Robocallers With Up to a $10,000 Fine for Every Call
The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act, raises the penalty for robocalls from $1,500 per call to up to $10,000 per call. - Energy cost of ‘mining’ bitcoin more than twice that of copper or gold
One dollar’s worth of bitcoin takes about 17 megajoules of energy to mine.
The solar eclipse has come and gone and we’re all still here. So onto the August edition of our monthly roundup! Let’s take a quick sneak peek at the last thirty days of news. Highlights include a .fish website that was actually a phishing site, the split of Bitcoin, and the emergence of Whoppercoin. Interest piqued? Feel free to jump into the roundup and enjoy the rest of August’s best content. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s top articles, feel free to follow us over on 
It’s time for July’s edition of our monthly roundup! Let’s take a quick sneak peek at the last thirty days of news. Highlights include an introduction to getting started on Open Source Friday, a look at the development of Silicon Valley’s HotDog/Not HotDog app, and an interesting visualization that shows what happens after a ransomware victim makes a Bitcoin payment. We’ll refrain from spoiling the entire roundup and let you jump right into July’s best content. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s top articles, feel free to follow us over on 
It’s time for June’s edition of our monthly roundup! Let’s take a quick sneak peek at the last thirty days of news. Highlights include a new Girl Scout’s badge for cybersecurity, Let’s Encrypt issued certificate number one-hundred million, and GitHub introduced a new weekly way to contribute to open source. What are you doing this Friday? We could keep going, but we’ll let you jump right into June’s best content. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s top articles, feel free to follow us over on 
It’s time for May’s edition of our monthly roundup! Highlight of the last thirty days include a neural network creating new paint colors with names like Stanky Bean and Dorkwood, a court ruling that open source licenses are enforceable contracts, and a ransomware attack the likes of which the world has never seen. We could keep going or you could jump right into May’s best content. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s top articles, feel free to follow us over on 
It’s monthly roundup time! April’s edition takes a trip through the open source galaxy, from the aerospace industry to a new social network. In other news, Unity is no more, Hollywood has been hacked again, and the Internet of Things is ready to play some cricket. With a preview like that, we know you’re ready to jump right into April’s best content. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s top articles, feel free to follow us over on 
It’s monthly roundup time! March’s edition takes you into the mind of the open source contributor, looks at recent security issues, and even has an article about the Commodore 64. Ready to read? Jump into March’s best below. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s top articles, feel free to follow us over on 
From Munich’s impending breakup with Linux to the disclosure of the Cloudbleed vulnerability, February was definitely a month for broken hearts. In the positive news category, over half of the web is encrypted, which is a major step forward and in no small part thanks to Let’s Encrypt. We don’t to spoil the entire roundup for you, so without further ado, jump into the rest of February’s best below. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s top articles, feel free to follow us over on 
Cybersecurity was a pretty central theme around the world in 2016 and, in many ways, that will continue to be true in 2017. With that in mind, we’ll be adding a cybersecurity section to our monthly roundup, which should help you stay up with the constantly changing security landscape. Additionally, this roundup is pretty full of suggestions and projects for 2017. It’s not too late to get started on your New Year’s resolution to learn to code or start an open source project. Without further ado, jump into the rest of the roundup below. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s best, feel free to follow us over on 
Wow. 2016 was quite a year. In the good category, we saw the 25th anniversary of Linux and the continued rise of open source. In the not so good, we saw the birth of the Internet of Things enabled DDoS attack. This month’s roundup looks back at the year that was and ahead to the year that will be. Is 2017 the year that chat takes over. That Linux finally dominates the desktop? We shall see. Without further ado, jump into the rest of the roundup below. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s best, feel free to follow us over on 
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Be forewarned that this roundup of November’s best content does not include any turkey, mashed potato, or stuffing leftovers. It does include a look at the future of native apps, a timely look back to 1992 when Presidential campaigns first went online, and an update from BFFs Microsoft and Linux. That’s the quick roundup. Jump into the rest of it below. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s best, feel free to follow us over on 
October was National Cyber Security Awareness Month and, boy, was it a doozy. The biggest story of the month was an IoT botnet powered 
The biggest news this month had to have been the discovery of a Commodore 64 running an auto shop in Poland. Or it might have been the fact that Chipotle started testing drone delivery of burritos. Or it just might have been the release of a new version of Vim after over a decade. Pretty exciting, right Vim enthusiasts? Or we can just let you jump right into our roundup of September’s best and let you decide what was newsworthy. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s best, feel free to follow us over on 
The big news from August was Linux’s 25th birthday. Even Linus Torvalds had no clue how he was going to change the world. In other major internet events, we celebrated the 25th Internaut Day on August 23rd, but is the holiday based in fact? And finally, we may have an end to the tabs or spaces debate. It only took fourteen terabytes of code to get there. With the ten second roundup complete, we’ll let you get to the rest of the biggest stories and best articles from last month. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s best, feel free to follow us over on 
There was really only one story this summer. And that was obviously the arrival of Pokémon Go, which took the world by storm and was the most downloaded app ever in a first week. Developers take notice. Okay, so maybe some other things happened. Like Bulgaria requiring the use of open source in all government projects, Linux 4.7 came out, and oh yeah, Pokémon Go!! That’s the five second roundup. Feel free to check out the unabridged edition below. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s best, feel free to follow us over on 
Summer has started, which makes these roundups of ours even more necessary. You do your job and enjoy the sun and we’ll find the best content from around the web, so that you can peruse it from the comfort of your beach chair. June’s roundup includes a nice post from Dries Buytaert on the “long path to [open source] being understood, a look at the importance of code review, and Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends Report. That’s the five second roundup, check out the unabridged edition below. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s best, feel free to follow us over on 
MajQa’ Dub! If you’re confused, that means welcome back in Klingon. What’s that got to do with the best web development content, you say? Keep reading to see how this fictional language could have a major impact on the future of programming. In other news, Linux 4.6 is out, Apple is promising to approve apps faster, and a really cool interactive website came out that documents the history of chart topping music. That’s the five second roundup, check out the unabridged edition below. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s best, feel free to follow us over on 
If the big Windows-Linux announcement had happened on April Fools’ Day, people would have thought it was a incredibly well-orchestrated trick. That’s not the case though. Twenty-five years after the world was introduced to Linux, open source has definitely made its mark. So has Minecraft. Check out last month’s in-depth post from The New York Times and if you’re a Minecraft user, definitely visit the world they created. In the past month, we have also published a few posts around the web that we’ve included in a new section of the roundup below. If you enjoy this collection of the web’s best, feel free to follow us over on 
Since our last roundup, there have been a lot of celebratory days. Leap Day. Pi Day. St. Patrick’s Day. And now it’s roundup. It’s been an interesting March so far, with Microsoft’s big Linux decision, the results of Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey, and even a story about hackers and piracy on the high seas. Feel free to check out those posts and peruse the rest. If you enjoy the roundup, feel free to follow us over on 
It’s that time again. Our monthly roundup of the best content from around the web. We have posts looking at how as open source becomes the norm, the community will expand and evolve in many ways. Looking to improveme your programming skills this year? We got you covered. And don’t forget to take a trip to the Malware Museum, a cool new project from the Internet Archive. If you enjoy the roundup, feel free to follow us over on 
Who’s excited that it’s 2016? We are!! And if the content already hitting the web is any indicator, it’s going to be a great year all around. In this first roundup of 2016, we address some of the big questions for the year ahead. After a big 2015, will open source and Linux continue to dominate the tech world in 2016? Will the proliferation of apps continue? Will we finally get drone delivery? For the answers to these questions and more, check out our collection of January’s best content here. If you enjoyed the roundup, feel free to follow us over on 
Have you seen the new Star Wars movies yet? This is a no spoiler zone, but let’s just that it’s glorious. And, while it may seem like it, the force awakening was not the only thing to happen since our last roundup. Swift went open source, and frankly, so did the rest of the world. And in a big development, humans finally outnumber bots on the web again. So that’s nice. You can check out the rest of the best from November and December below. If you enjoyed the roundup, feel free to follow us over on 
We’re just going to say it now. This is a fun roundup. The big news of the month had to have been the disclosure that cats sitting on keyboards are causing bugs all over the 
Since our last roundup, there’s been a lot of action in the world of open source, including the news that open source is now a 5-billion dollar industry. In other news, GitHub has big plans for the future, fake traffic is throwing a wrench at online advertisers, and Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated to honor the pioneering spirit of women in tech. For the rest of the best from September and October check out the rest of the roundup below. If you enjoy this collection of industry articles, feel free to follow us over on 
Since we last gathered for a roundup, there have been a number of significant and newsworthy events. Linux turned 24. Happy Birthday to our favorite open source kernel. In other open source news, Let’s Encrypt issued their first free SSL certificate, hopefully ushering in a new era of online security. From the land of the fun and interesting articles, we have the story of Twins.com, the website Major League Baseball can’t by. For the rest of the best from August and September check out the rest of the roundup below. If you enjoy this collection of industry articles, feel free to follow us over on 
Will Windows 10 finally be able to put down this pesky Linux uprising? That’s to be determined, but in the links below you will a Linux user’s perspective on the new Windows OS. So that may provide you a clue. In other news, IBM is teaming with Ubuntu and getting into the Linux mainframe business, and the legendary Amiga computer turned 30. For the rest of the important and the interesting from July and August, check out the rest of the roundup below. If you enjoy this collection of industry articles, feel free to follow us over on 
Now that the fireworks and Fourth of July are in the rearview mirror, it’s back to business. And for us, that means getting you your regular roundups of the previous month’s best web hosting, open source, and generally interesting content. That doesn’t mean you can’t do your work from the beach though. Getting to the big news from June, Apple announced plans to open source Swift 2, Github released Atom 1.0, and one man started printing Wikipedia. For the rest of the important and the interesting from last month, check out the rest of the roundup below. If you enjoy this collection of industry articles, feel free to follow us over on 
Each month we put together a roundup of the most interesting, most important, and, sometimes, most fun content from the open source, web hosting, and technology communities. This past May saw the release of both Debian 8 and Fedora 22, so there was much rejoicing in the Linux community. Read up on the new releases below. One of the more interesting posts from last month was a photo-mining project that creates motion capture videos only with photos publicly available on the Internet. It’s definitely a fascinating look at the sharing world we live in. For the rest of the important and the interesting from last month, check out the rest of the roundup below. If you enjoy this collection of industry articles, feel free to follow us over on 
It’s been a busy time in the web hosting industry since our last roundup. WordPress released version 4.2 and then promptly announced 
Since our last roundup, quite a bit has happened. WHMCS recently announced that version 6.0 is on the way, which is all the more exciting when considering 
For this first mid-month roundup of the year, we have the pleasure of being able to present you some of the best articles from the end of 2014 as well as a few that have gotten 2015 off to a good start. By all accounts it was a great year for Linux and open source, and we can only imagine that 2015 will be even better. It’s also going to be a great year around Future Hosting, and the entire team is very excited to announce our own partnership with WHMCS that will be beginning in 2015. So without further ado, check out the roundup below and catch up on all the rest of the major happenings from December. If you enjoy this collection of industry news, feel free to follow us over on 
This November, the Linux Foundation announced that over 300,000 people signed up for the “Introduction to Linux” MOOC that they partnered with edX to offer. Don’t worry if you didn’t catch it this time around, they are offering it again this winter (the link is included in the post below). Since our last roundup, Microsoft also open sourced .net and EFF announced that sometime in 2015 SSL certificates will be free for everyone. As we’re getting toward the end of the year, there are starting to be a few “best of” lists popping up, a couple of which we shared. So without further ado, check out the roundup below and catch up on all the rest of the major happenings from November. If you enjoy this collection of industry news, feel free to follow us over on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Enjoy!
Since our last roundup, there have been a lot of news stories that impact the worlds of open source and web hosting. Little battles continue to rage in the Linux and open source communities that are challenging the camaraderie of these groups. The discovery of Shellshock and SSL 3.0 vulnerabilities are just a continuation of what has already been a rocky year for security. It’s not all bad though. Last month’s best articles also included the news that you can get a college scholarship for playing video games. Without further ado, check out the roundup below and catch up on all the rest of the major happenings from September and October. If you enjoy this collection of industry news, feel free to follow us over on 
In the month or so since our last roundup, there’s been a lot going on in the world of open source, web hosting, and technology. There’s currently a spirited debated happening in the Linux community over systemd and the future of the Linux desktop, which a couple of articles below touch on. In news of general interest, the web passed one billion websites recently, a feat that took nearly twenty-four years. It will be interesting to see how much faster the next billion are created. To catch up on all the rest of the major happenings from August and September, check out the rest of the roundup below. If you enjoy this collection of industry news, feel free to follow us over on 
Since our last roundup, it’s been a busy month for open source, web hosting, and general tech news. The big story from August thus far has to be that the free 
It’s time for another monthly roundup, which means you’ve come to the right spot for July’s most relevant news from the Linux/open source communities as well as the web hosting industry. Additionally, we also like to share the most interesting tech stories we come across from around the web, which are highlighted by the revelation that an Arnold Shcwarzenegger programming language exists and that people are still using DOS. We hope you find these posts fun and informative. If you like what you see here, feel free to follow us the rest of the month on 
So it’s already been thirty or so days since our last roundup. If you’re new to this, here’s the deal. Knowing it would take a lot of time and effort to continually hunt down the best stories floating around the internet, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to round up the best stories for you each month. This time around we’ve shared the usual assortment of great articles that we’ve come to expect from the Linux and open source communities, news from the web hosting industry, and a handful of stories that are just generally interesting and relevant to the technology world. We hope you find these posts valuable and informative. If you like what you see here, feel free to follow us the rest of the month on 
In our last roundup, the biggest news involved the OpenSSL heartbleed bug as well as the end of Windows XP support. Thirty days later, these two subjects are still a major part of the news cycle, but it’s the recent FCC decision to abandon net neutrality that has been causing the biggest waves. In addition to those recent stories, we’ve shared a handful of our favorite open source and web hosting articles from the end of April and the beginning of May. We hope you find these posts valuable and informative. If you like what you see here, feel free to follow us the rest of the month on 
In the month since our last roundup, there has been a lot of important news in the tech industry. Some of the biggest stories from the last thirty days include the OpenSSL security bug, the end of Windows XP support, and the announcement that the IRS will classify Bitcoin as property, not currency. In addition to those current news stories, we’ve shared our favorite open source and web hosting articles from the end of March and the beginning of April. We hope you find these posts valuable and informative. If you like what you see here, feel free to follow us the rest of the month on 