open source
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The United States Army Just Open-Sourced Its Security Software
The US Army is open-sourcing a code it uses to analyse cyberattacks. For the past five years, whenever a Department of Defence network has been compromised, the US Army has used the Dshell framework to do forensic analysis on the attacks.
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The Project To Let Anyone Download And Print Their Own House
If you could go online, select a home, print the plans for free and build it yourself for less than $US80,000 in a few days, would you? That’s the dream behind WikiHouse, an open source home design project that just finished construction of its fourth prototype, a two-storey home that snaps together in just a…
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Saucy Coder Scheduled His Github Activity To Spell Out ‘BUTTS’
Github, a wildly popular social network for coders and their open-source creations, likes to keep track of what you’re doing around its little corner of the internet. And one Belgian coder took advantage of this fact in the most phenomenal way possible — by spelling out “BUTTS”.
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NASA’s About To Release A Mother Lode Of Free Software
If you’ve been thinking about getting started on the rocket project that’s been on your mind for ages, now is a good time to get serious. Next week, NASA will release a massive software catalogue with over 1000 projects. It’s not the first time the space agency’s released code, but it is the first time…