The H Roundup for the week ending 9 June

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

Linus Torvalds published the first release candidate of Linux 3.5, LinkedIn confirmed that some of its user passwords were compromised and posted online, and Mozilla released version 13 of its Firefox web browser. Security researchers figured out how the Flame superspy worm managed to compromise Windows Update, and the first beta for Samba 4 arrived after more than six years in development.

• Significant improvements coming in Linux 3.5
• LinkedIn passwords in circulation
• LinkedIn confirms that user passwords were compromised
  
• Firefox 13 released – now using SPDY by default
• Windows Update compromised
• Samba 4 beta 1 brings Active Directory support

• AMD drops proprietary Linux drivers for older graphics hardware
• AnchorFree launches Hotspot Shield VPN app for Android
• Flame alleged to have infected systems via Windows Update
• Tomorrow is World IPv6 Launch Day
• Flame worm was signed by forged Microsoft certificate
• Btrfs inventor Chris Mason leaves Oracle

Featured Articles

This week, Glyn Moody asked if open source hardware and software can rejuvenate computer education, and Jürgen Schmidt commented on the security breach at LinkedIn and its password problems. Christopher von Eitzen spoke to FlightGear project coordinator Curtis Olson about where the open source flight simulator began, clones, and where he sees the simulator going.

• Beyond the BBC Micro
• Comment: LinkedIn and its password problems
• Taking to the skies with FlightGear
  

Open Source Releases

• openSUSE 12.2 beta arrives with Linux 3.4
• Piwik web analytics now with Do Not Track by default
• Facebook open sources internal C++ library
• Kotlin M2 now runs on Android too
• RailsInstaller makes tracks to Mac OS X
• PostgreSQL security updates released
• Snapshotting backup tool Obnam 1.0 released
• PouchDB's Couch in the browser goes alpha
• Samba 4 beta 1 brings Active Directory support
• Firefox 13 released – now using SPDY by default
• Thunderbird 13 arrives with Filelink for large attachments
• Sourcefabric's Airtime 2.1 introduces live rebroadcasting
• Stabilising update for BIND DNS server
• KDE 4.9 enters beta testing
• X.org Foundation releases X11 release 7.7
• SeaMonkey 2.10 released, closes security holes
• Easier collection maintenance in digiKam 2.6.0
• Zipkin: Twitter's new open source distributed tracing project
• Microsoft releases Node.js driver for SQL Server
• First Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" alpha arrives
• KDE SC 4.8.4 delivers monthly stabilisation update

Security Alerts

• Stabilising update for BIND DNS server
• Multiple security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox and Thunderbird
• LinkedIn passwords in circulation
• Millions of Last.fm passwords leaked

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