The H Roundup for the week ending 24 September

Welcome to The H Roundup, your rapid review of the week with the most read news on The H, the security alerts and open source releases, and the essential feature articles – all in one quick-to-scan news item.

Top News

Researchers published a report on how electricity usage data from smart meters can be used to determine what TV programmes consumers are watching, the CyanogenMod Team announced that it now has Wi-Fi, sound and accelerometer support working in its Android port for the HP TouchPad, and security researchers previewed BEAST, a tool for cracking SSL cookies in just minutes. Linux creator Linus Torvalds released an open source dive tracking application and a new bot builder tool surfaced on underground forums for just €10.

• Smart meters reveal TV viewing habits
• Android for HP TouchPad gains WiFi, sound and accelerometer support
• Tool cracks SSL cookies in just ten minutes
• Linus releases dive tracking application
• Malware for everyone - Aldi Bot at a discount price
• Arduino begins going ARM
• Adobe announces emergency patch for Flash Player
• OpenIndiana's fork of OpenSolaris sees new Illumos based release
• Paint.NET clone Pinta is "Alive and Well"
• Poke disables Oracle's database auditing

Featured Articles

In the lead up to Linux 3.1, Thorsten Leemhuis took an in-depth look at what's coming for architecture, infrastructure, virtualisation and drivers in the next version of the kernel which is slightly delayed due to the troubles at kernel.org.

• Kernel Log: Coming in 3.1 (Part 3) - Architecture, infrastructure, virtualisation
• Kernel Log: Coming in 3.1 (Part 4) - Drivers

Open Source Releases

• Chrome 14 arrives with native code and web audio
• OpenIndiana's fork of OpenSolaris sees new Illumos based release
• Linux Mint Debian 201109 arrives
• Knoppix 6.7.1 brings new features
• 0 A.D. Alpha 7 arrives as developers push towards 1.0
• GeeXboX Media Center distribution reaches 2.0
• Pardus Linux 2011.2 released
• WordPress for Android gains follow functionality
• Banshee 2.2 add support for eMusic store
• PacketFence NAC 3.0 brings new features, hardware support
• Linus releases dive tracking application
• Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Beta 2 arrives for testing
• Chrome 15 enters beta, brings revamped New Tab page
• FFmpeg updates close security holes

Security Alerts

• Adobe publishes emergency patch to fix critical Flash vulnerabilities

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