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Finnish-developed, open-source coronavirus vaccine nearly ready for testing
The team of professors developing the vaccine are foregoing [patents] to their work. In practice, they have gathered together research data in the field, refined it, added their own observations and are making it freely available.
This is much the same principle as that behind the open source Linux computer operating system, originally developed by Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki. Professor Saksela has described the goal of his team's project as the "Linux vaccine".
The downside is that it will be harder to generate profits off an open source vaccine. The profits of international pharmaceutical companies come from their patents and exclusive rights. This being the case, these pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to find the Finnish and free vaccine appealing, preferring to do their own proprietary R&D.
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Defcon Is Canceled
Defcon's more buttoned-up sister conference, Black Hat, which takes place in the days leading up to Defcon every year, has been called off as well. Both events will host online conferences instead that include research talks and social events. The founder of both conferences, Jeff Moss, who is also known by his hacker name the Dark Tangent, said in a forum post that the 28th Defcon will be known as "Safe Mode," referencing the name most operating systems use for their diagnostic and recovery mode.
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Hacker gains access to a small number of Microsoft's private GitHub repos
A hacker has gained access to a Microsoft employee's GitHub account and has downloaded some of the company's private GitHub repositories.
The intrusion is believed to have taken place in March, and came to light this week when the hacker announced plans to publish some of the stolen projects on a hacking forum.
While ZDNet has confirmed with multiple Microsoft employees that at least a small portion of the stolen files are authentic, we have been told that the hacker did not gain access to the source code of any major Microsoft core projects, such as Windows and Office.
Microsoft employees who commented on the leak have told ZDNet that such major projects are hosted internally at Microsoft and not on the company's public GitHub portal.
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Microsoft Warns Surface Laptop Owners: Your Screen Might Crack
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Student Developers Prefer Microsoft Windows Over Ubuntu And Arch Linux [Ed: This is pure nonsense or propaganda that comes up with Microsoft lies based on balkanisation or partitioning of GNU/Linux based on distros (that contain the same things anyway)]
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