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Well researched news from technology and related politics.

News about programming and operating systems including some less popular ones

News about open source.

Community regulated news site

The infamous community regulated news site

Encyclopedia which is editable by everyone. Suprisingly good quality, but don't use if your life depends on it.

One of the best sources of missinformation.

Seems like this in not the usual abandonware site, no commercial games downloadable unless they are really released as freeware.

Largest collection of C64 games I have seen. Site owner has not contacted the copyright owners (if it's in all cases even possible), so downloading is actually illegal, but nobody doesn't care.

Large collection of games that are not sold anywhere anymore. Most of the games are still copyrighted, so downloading is actually still illegal.

"a weekly trunkload of open source"

"Talking about the BSD family of free operating systems."

How-to about technical topics such as MythTV or building high quality A/V cables.

No time for reading Digg? Best stories from the Digg.

Show about various technical topics, twice a week.

Were do all that pirated material come from? Find out at The Scene.

Fresh news and heated discussions.

Every problem is solvable with a cocktail, at least in this show.

Interested in modding or security? Then this one is for you.

Information about which applications include spyware like features.

Blog with security news and half true stories about security investigations.

Scan suspicious files with number of anti-virus scanners.

Quite good list of Windows security software and some other useful utilities not related to security

Good place to start looking, if you're interested in open source.

Good place to start looking for suitable Linux distributions.

Detailed comparisons of open source operating systems.

Goolge have created a new HTTP-based protocol "SPDY" (pronounced "Speedy") to solve the problem of the client-server latency with HTTP. "We want to continue building on the web's tradition of experimentation and optimization, to further support the evolution of websites and browsers. So over the las ...

We're in the middle of the distribution release frenxy, or so it seems. After Ubuntu 9.10 and Mandriva Linux 2010.0, it's OpenSUSE time now: the team has pushed out OpenSUSE 11.2. A minor version number, but there's enough in there, still.

Intel and main (and only?) rival AMD have long been embroiled in legal battles regarding antitrust and patent issues. On top of that, antitrust regulators all over the world are investigating Intel for possible antitrust violations, so it looks like Intel needed to close off at least one flank: the ...

According to a message on one of the development mailing lists, Google seems to be planning a beta of Chrome to appear sometime in December. There isn't any set date, and the message wasn't even addressing the release of a beta for Mac, but Nick Baum, a Google Chrome product manager, also the author ...

An up-and-coming networking chip company is buying one of the first companies to commercialise embedded Linux. Cavium has agreed to pay $50M for MontaVista, which has operated independently for ten years. The deal is the second this year to shake up the embedded Linux OS, tools, and service market. ...