The H Roundup for the week ending 11 February
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
Fixes for power-saving issues arrived in the Linux kernel and a backdoor was discovered in TRENDnet IP cameras. German researchers cracked the encryption algorithms used in satellite phones and a man-in-the-middle certificate was issued by Trustwave, a certificate authority. Following feedback from its customers, SDG Systems added an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS option for its rugged tablet computer, which previously only shipped with Windows 7 Professional.
- New Linux kernel fixes power-saving issues
- Backdoor in TRENDnet IP cameras
- Satellite phone encryption cracked
- Trustwave issued a man-in-the-middle certificate
- Trimble Yuma: a rugged Ubuntu-based tablet
- Sandbox applications quickly with KVM or LXC
- ReactOS 0.3.14 brings improvements with help from GSoC students
- pcAnywhere code on the internet after "hush money" ruse fails
- Google wants to do away with online certificate checks
- HP releases Android kernel source for TouchPad tablet
Featured Articles
This week, Andrew Back took a look at five open source projects that could change the world.
Open Source Releases
- Firefox 11 enters beta, brings add-on sync
- Joomla! updates close information disclosure holes
- Apache Commons updates Configuration and Validator
- Perl Data Language gets auto-parallelisation
- Netty 3.3.1 adds SPDY protocol support
- ReactOS 0.3.14 brings improvements with help from GSoC students
- Sabayon 8 released with Cinnamon desktop
- Chrome 17 brings improved speed and security
- CrunchBang 10 update split into two editions
- HP releases Android kernel source for TouchPad tablet
- Chrome 18 Beta brings graphics improvements
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