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Mozilla postpones by-default cookie blocking in Firefox

Company reiterates its committment to user privacy but says it needs another six weeks to work out some kinks

Google's open video proposal closes door on software freedom

Google/MPEG-LA deal showed promise, but Google's requirement for user licenses may bring a backlash

There's no shortage of data science smarts

Powerful new big data tools demand analytics expertise -- but a growing body of shared knowledge and a new generation of self-taught experts will fill the gap

Here's to 20 years of the Web -- may it stay open and free

CERN first made available the Web's source code 20 years ago. We can still learn from that spirit of openness today

Highly critical vulnerability fixed in Nginx Web server software

Nginx 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 address a remote code execution flaw that could lead to compromised servers

The Linux desktop is already the new normal

We're so busy seeking release from Windows that we overlooked all the ways Linux had already freed us

Wikipedia dumps MySQL, hooks up with MariaDB

Driven by preference for open source software 'without bifurcated code bases,' Wikipedia embraces MariaDB, a MySQL fork free of Oracle baggage

Big movies, big data: Netflix embraces NoSQL in the cloud

With billions of reads and writes daily, Netflix relies on NoSQL database Cassandra to replace a legacy Oracle deployment

Who nailed the principles of great UI design? Microsoft, that's who

A 12-year-old MSDN article still rings true -- and provides excellent guidance when JavaScript may be giving us too much to play with

Facebook's big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics

An engineer reveals during an industry conference how the social networking site is working to make its back-end data processing more efficient

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Google's open video proposal closes door on software freedom
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