The H Roundup for the week ending 21 January

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

The US National Security Agency released its security-enhanced version of Android, Linux developers addressed a networking problem that could be used to crash systems with a recent kernel and Google fired contractors who were vandalising OpenStreetMap while using Google's network. Canonical changed its mind about deleting Oracle's Sun Java packages from users' systems, and the CyanogenMod Team released an alpha build of its Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" port for HP's TouchPad tablet.

• NSA releases security-enhanced Android
• Linux developers fix a homemade network problem
• OpenStreetMap claims map vandalism traced to Google IP range
• Canonical backtracks on deleting Oracle's Sun Java
• Alpha of Android 4.0 ICS port for HP TouchPad released
• Critical hole in McAfee products still open after more than 180 days
• Bug fix release LibreOffice 3.4.5 is out
• Apache Tomcat developers advise updates to avoid DoS
• Node IDE Nide gets 0.2 release, now also native on Mac
• T-Mobile USA hacked

Featured Articles

This week, Thorsten Leemhuis took a look at the recently launched site for GNOME 3 extensions and detailed some of the more useful ones, and Glyn Moody examined the world of open source domotics. In a new edition of The H Half-Hour, Greg Luck talked about bringing back JSR 107.

• Tuning GNOME 3
• The H Half Hour: Cache back - Greg Luck and the return of JSR 107
• Welcome to the world of open source domotics

Open Source Releases

• Skrooge 1.2.0 gains new features
• Node IDE Nide gets 0.2 release, now also native on Mac
• Bug fix release LibreOffice 3.4.5 is out
• New and revised modules in JBoss Seam 3.1
• NSA releases security-enhanced Android
• Apache Tomcat developers advise updates to avoid DoS
• Phishing toolkit exposes human vulnerability
• OpenNebula 3.2 adds out-of-the-box VMware support
• Hudson gets first milestone release as an Eclipse project
• Version 4.0 of the YAML modular CSS framework arrives
• OpenSSL fixes DoS bug in recent bug fix
• jQ.Mobi: new JavaScript framework for mobile development
• Wikipedia launches official Android app

Security Alerts

• Linux developers fix a homemade network problem
• X.org server allows anyone to unlock computer
  

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