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    The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons.

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    A government-funded initiative aims to boost code review of open-source software to prevent security holes.

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    A government-funded initiative aims to boost code review of open-source software to prevent security holes.

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    The latest version of the popular OpenBSD (Berkley Software Distribution) was released today, and is available for download from FTP sites.

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    Researchers claims to have developed software that can repair a database that has been attacked, even as it continues to process transactions.

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    Mesh technology allows new wireless networks to be created, or existing WLANs to be extended, without needing a wired connection to each base station. Additional reading: WLAN Resource Centre

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