The H Roundup - Bogus leap seconds, EFI rootkits and cloud cracking
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
Plans for Fedora 18 took shape this week with the addition of the MATE desktop, dodgy leap seconds gave a rerun of last month's leap second CPU hogging, and an EFI rootkit made use of a Thunderbolt adapter.
- Fedora 18 to get MATE desktop, Samba 4 and ownCloud
- Bogus leap second disrupts Linux systems
- EFI rootkit for Macs demonstrated
Meanwhile, MATE got an update, a cloud cracking service took on VPN passwords in a day, new stable Linux kernels came with a performance boost, and Huawei's routers turned out to be somewhat holesome.
- MATE 1.4 desktop improves Caja file manager
- Cloud service cracks VPN passwords in 24 hours
- New Linux kernels bring performance improvements
- Huawei's routers of vulnerability
Finally, NVIDIA's Linux driver raised privileges, Debian Jessie will come after Wheezy which still has many bugs to fix and Valve were pleased to find Left 4 Dead 2 running faster on Linux.
- Vulnerability in proprietary NVIDIA driver for Linux
- Debian: Wheezy still has many critical bugs
- Valve says Left 4 Dead 2 runs faster on Linux
Featured Articles
This week, The H took a look at a cloud-based open source IDE for Arduino programming and Thorsten Leemhuis checked out the start of Linux 3.6 development.
Open Source Releases
- Calculate Linux 12 arrives with seven editions
- Warsow 1.0: free fast-paced comic-style shooter
- Using Kinect with Adobe AIR
- Netflix releases Chaos Monkey
- Miro 5 update also opens Olympic streams
- ScummVM 1.5.0 adds support for 11 new games
- Chrome 21 arrives with new API for video and audio communication
- Gradle build tool improves usablity
- CentOS gets a desktop remix with Stella 6.3
- Apache Deltacloud adds EC2 and reaches 1.0 milestone
- KDE SC 4.9 now available
- PacketFence 3.5.0 adds new web-based configurator
- Open WebOS: No (official) support for existing devices
- New Linux kernels bring performance improvements
- Complete rewrite for SocketStream 0.3.0
- Adobe open sources its first font family
- Final stretch for openSUSE 12.2 with second release candidate
Security Alerts
- Ubisoft DRM opens backdoor
- Huawei's routers of vulnerability
- Avira now affected by Oracle's file converter hole
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