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We've had a number of articles covering the interesting news out of Intel's 2019 Open-Source Technology Summit (OSTS) held at Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington. Here's a look back at the news out of the open-source event as well as some other smaller bits of information shared during the event.

Cryptocurrency rumor mongers are likely to be dancing today as Amazon has successfully filed a patent for a Bitcoin-styled Proof-of-Work system. But dont get ahead of yourself, it doesn't look like the Seattle-based ecommerce giant will be accepting Bitcoin for payments.

Apples devices are far better defended against malware and viruses than other platforms, but does this mean they don't need anti-virus software?

Developers of the privacy-focused Brave browser have raised concerns last week about possible user privacy issues in Client-Hints, a new internet standard currently pending approval by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Opera will soon be adding native support for the TRON blockchain in its cryptocurrency-focused browser.

Microsoft has issued a patch for a vulnerability in its Remote Desktop Services that can be exploited remotely, via RDP, without authentication and used to run arbitrary code:

Equifax has incurred losses so far of over $1.35bn from a devastating 2017 breach which affected more than half of all Americans and millions of UK consumers, the firm revealed in its latest financials.

On Monday 13 May, Facebook revealed that an advanced cyber actor" has been spying on some users of its ridiculously popular WhatsApp messaging app, thanks to a zero-day vulnerability that allowed hackers to install spyware, silently, just by calling a victim's phone.

One of the oft-discused downsides of choosing an Android device is the phenomenon of pre-loaded bloatware."

The US thinks it knows whos behind the vast breach that siphoned off 78.8 million customer and employee records from US health insurer Anthem between 2014 and 2015.

Researchers have found a new way to defeat the boot verification process for some Intel-based systems, but the technique can also impact other platforms and can be used to compromise machines in a stealthy and persistent way.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and big data seem to be the buzzwords of the decade. Were not just talking robots or autonomous cars - AI and ML's reach will surely be beyond that. What that really is has been yet to be determined, but the technology will surely stretch across all that SDxCentral covers including 5G, IoT, security, SDN, NFV, and monitoring.

The Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) fined Facebook today 1.65 million Turkish lira ($270,000) for an API bug that exposed personal photos of 300,000 Turkish users.

New data has discovered that a minute percentage of data breaches closed by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) since the GDPR came into force have resulted in monetary punishments.

Mozilla is looking for a more efficient way of integrating Tor into Firefox, and the organization is willing to throw money at the problem.

A bug hunter has discovered and publicly disclosed details of an unpatched browser address bar spoofing vulnerability that affects popular Chinese UC Browser and UC Browser Mini apps for Android.

Google, the search giant which has made its business to make money off our digital habits, is getting serious about privacy.

A critical security flaw has been discovered in the TRON network which had the potential to render the ecosystem's blockchain useless.

A well-known Russian nation-state hacking group has been infiltrating the Microsoft Exchange email servers of its targeted victims since at least 2014 via a custom backdoor.

Kicking off Tuesday in Boston is Red Hat Summit 2019 where Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 could be released or at least hearing more about the company's plans for releasing this next major installment of RHEL.