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Upmarket Chinese restaurant chain PF Chang's became the latest prominent company to have its name linked with a data breach and stolen customer information.

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Do you ever look at your computer's screen and think, “How on Earth did we get here?” Windows, Mac, GNOME, KDE, and Ubuntu's Unity are all born from a common history of desktop environment design stretching back to the 1960's.

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The sorry state of Windows 8.1 Update 1/KB 2919355 installation problems has turned a bit

Google has started an open source project for a PDF software library, which developers will be able to incorporate into applications designed for a variety of platforms.

The project, called PDFium, will also be wrapped into Google's Chrome browser, replacing closed-source code, according to a post from Google's Chromium project evangelist, François Beaufort.

Google has started an open source project for a PDF software library, which developers will be able to incorporate into applications designed for a variety of platforms.

The project, called PDFium, will also be wrapped into Google's Chrome browser, replacing closed-source code, according to a post from Google's Chromium project evangelist, François Beaufort.

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These 12 historically insidious backdoors will have you wondering what's in your software -- and who can control it Dek:  These 12 historically insidious backdoors will have you wondering what's in your software -- and who can control it External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/155947

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Of all the news that's come out this week around app containerization system Docker's 1.0 release, the details abut what's inside Docker may be most crucial.

This week, I'm stepping aside to let Jonathan Freeman, a developer at my company, take center stage. The topic is Django, the Python Web framework, and how to scale it.

Two months on, the Heartbleed vulnerability is still worth talking about. One thing that needs to be discussed is that you and I are partly to blame for the problems Heartbleed caused. But we can also talk about some common-sense ways we can help protect ourselves in the future.

Node.js, the JavaScript-based server that commands a strong developer audience, has been open source from the beginning. It's about to open up a little more.

Apple cited speed as a key attribute of its Swift programming language when it was introduced last week.

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