Now available to download as in-development snapshots or source, JetBrains' Kotlin language aims to address the same issues as Scala, but be easier to use…

The Password Reuse Visualizer is Mozilla's way of drawing attention to a security problem which is as familiar as it is widespread…

NVIDIA this morning formally released the 295.20 display drivers for Linux x86/x86_64…

Miguel de Icaza presented this weekend at AltDevConf where he heavily promoted Mono and using C# for game developers…

There’s been a great deal of discussion lately around the topic of government innovation, especially here in San Francisco, with the appointment of a new chief innovation officer, a new “civic accelerator,” a new venture with a consortium of Bay Area technology companies and a new technology and innovation task…

Anke Boersma has announced the release of Chakra GNU/Linux 2010.02, one of the first distribuitons featuring the recently released KDE 4.8 desktop: "The Chakra development team is proud to announce the first release of the KDE 4.8 series, code name 'Archimedes'. With this release KDE is updated to….

Adding to the already existing Linux schedulers, including the out-of-tree Brain Fuck Scheduler (BFS), is now a proposal to integrate a new scheduler… The Barbershop Load Distribution scheduler…

One of the many items that Intel developers have been working on for the rapid ascent of Wayland is GPU video decoding support…

EnterpriseDB is trying to pump up the PostgreSQL database to do battle with Oracle 11g and, to a lesser extent, IBM's DB2 and Microsoft's SQL. So the database upstart is upgrading its Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.1 – and kicking it onto Amazon's EC2 compute cloud…

JavaScript Licence Web Labels are a proposal from the FSF to label every JavaScript file used on a site so that automated tools can confirm the site is all free software…