This is a guest post by Alexander Sverdlov who is the founder of a Cyber Security Startup – NoPasara – http://nopasara.com specializing in managed security services and training. He is an international security conference speaker on the topic of cyber forensic investigations and has published several articles focusing on preventing cyber e...
Aleb or Qaleb is a new the programming language that uses Arabic script for its source code developed by computer scientist Ramsey Nassr during his fellowship at Eyebeam.
The language is called قلب – roughly pronounced "alb," after the Arabic word for "heart" – and as Nasser explained to AnimalNewYork, he developed it as much for its...
Egyptian open source activists organized a silent demonstration against Egyptian government plan to spend $43 million on Microsoft licenses and asked the government to adapt open source instead which will save money and help the local IT industry and the local economy.
The activists said in a statement that the deal is considered as wasting ...
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When learning one of the common programming languages like C++, English language in most cases is a barrier for young Arab kids to learn software programing at a young age.
Kalimat comes to bridge the gap by offering an Arabic educational programing language for kids in which developers write the code using Arabic letters.
According to Moham...
Wikileaks has published its full archive of 251,000 secret US diplomatist cables in an easily accessible and searchable manner. The site is here wikileaks says over Twitter, due to huge demand the site is experiencing difficulties and is asking for donation to buy more capacity.
The cables are very important because they reveal many crimes, ...
Hacktivists group Anonymous has organized a protest against USA San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART ) for shutting down cell phone service to four stations in downtown San Francisco in response to a planned protest. The protest was planned against killing an innocents man by BART police.
EFF called the action Pulling a Mubarak in ...
Hacktivist groups Lulz Security and Anonymous have issued a statement asking the public to boycott PayPal for refusing to release Wikileaks funds.
The statement also slammed the FBI for arrest raids against sympathizers and in not differentiating between “those who are involved in ethical, modern cyber operations.”
Lulz Security an...
Wonder why the U.S Government attacked Wikileaks? they claimed it is national security, but the truth is that they did not want the world to know about their crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries, whether it is the number of civilians including children and women the US army and the CIA killed, or to know about illegal torture and rap...
Richard M. Stallman (“RMS”), founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, confirmed his visit to Palestine after receiving an invitation from the free software and open source communities in Palestine.
Stallman’s visit to "Israeli"-occupied Palestine means a lot to Palestinian techies, free software advocates, and supporter...
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