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	Torvalds: ‘People who start writing kernel code get hired really quickly’  Now more than ever, the development of the Linux kernel is a matter for the professionals, as unpaid volunteer contributions to the project reached their lowest recorded levels in the latest “Who Writes Linux” report. Read More    WHITE PAPER: DomainTools Mapping Domain Ownership in Cybersecurity Investigations  As the Internet has matured, the tactics and networks of cybercrime have grown in sophistication. Using DNS Intelligence and Whois data, cybersecurity teams and threat investigators can establish verifiable connections and build a Forensic Domain Map, allowing for proactive measures to be taken. Learn more >> In this Issue Big data suite goes open source Facebook garners big gains from tighter management of open source Startup makes LibreOffice, OpenOffice available for Firefox smartphones Linus Torvalds bumps Linux kernel to version 4.x Apache Spark jumps on the R bandwagon HP latest to unbundle switch hardware, software How law enforcement monitors the Dark Web INSIDER R programming beginner's guide HP extends R programming language for big data use WHITE PAPER: DomainTools Domain Attribution: Piercing the Veil of Masked Ownership  Cybercrime organizations and threat actors have become increasingly more sophisticated in hiding their identities in Whois records. This guide will show you how DNS tools can be applied in an investigation to bypass this veil to identify the perpetrator and build a profile of a cyber-attack. Learn more >> Big data suite goes open source  Pivotal is releasing its data lake architecture components, including Greenplum DB, GemFire and HAWQ, to the open source community. Read More  Facebook garners big gains from tighter management of open source  Facebook is now contributing more to external open source projects and keeping closer tabs on its own open source efforts Read More  Startup makes LibreOffice, OpenOffice available for Firefox smartphones  People use their device's Web browser to access the software, which rollApp hosts. Read More  Linus Torvalds bumps Linux kernel to version 4.x  It's happening. Linux is getting a major version bump. Read More  WHITE PAPER: Kaspersky Lab, Inc. Security Technnologies for Mobile and BYOD  Read this whitepaper to assess the security technology options that are essential for protecting your network, systems, and data. Learn More Apache Spark jumps on the R bandwagon  The big data processing technology looks to draw in data scientists Read More  HP latest to unbundle switch hardware, software  HP has joined the disaggregation party through two partnerships that will produce a branded white box switch capable of running multiple network operating systems.HP has expanded a relationship with Accton Technology to offer two new switches initially, and more later this year. The switches will be low-cost, software-independent white box hardware targeted at Web scale data centers supporting cloud, mobile, social media and big data workloads.Under a second arrangement, HP will offer Cumulus Networks’ Cumulus Linux network operating system on the Accton switches. Cumulus Linux runs on a variety of white box and branded switching hardware based on merchant silicon, and is intended to make the software side of networking hardware independent.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click hereRead More  How law enforcement monitors the Dark Web  In today's open source roundup: Law enforcement is keeping an eye on the Dark Web. Plus: Is LibreOffice 4.4 the best version yet? And FreeBSD versus Linux. Read More  INSIDER R programming beginner's guide  With so much emphasis on getting insight from data these days, it's no wonder that R is rapidly rising in popularity. R was designed from day one to handle statistics and data visualization, it's highly extensible with many new packages aimed at solving real-world problems and it's open source (read "free").If you're ready to learn, we have just the ticket.Included in this 45-page guide: Introduction: First steps, including downloading R and RStudio, setting your working directory and installing and using packages. Get your data into R: Importing local and remote files, copying data from your clipboard, saving after import. Easy ways to do basic data analysis: Examining a data object, seeing basic stats with one line of code, slicing/subsetting your data. Painless data visualization: Base R graphics, ggplot2, adding color, exporting graphics. Syntax quirks: A few ways in which R is most unlike other programming languages -- learn these and you'll be ready to tackle R's idiosyncrasies. Plus: How to use SQL syntax within R. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More  HP extends R programming language for big data use  Hewlett-Packard has devised a way to run programs written in the R statistical programming language against data sets that span more than one server, potentially paving the way for large-scale, real-time predictive analytics.“Historically, big data has been focused on the past,” said Jeff Veis, HP vice president of marketing for the company’s big data business group. The new software will allow organizations to “anticipate breaking trends” by using very large data sets, he said.While various commercial packages offer ways to run R on computer clusters, HP’s new Distributed R is the first to offer this capability in an open source package, Veis said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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