The H Roundup for the week ending 17 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

The week's most read news was about the arrival of a second beta of GNOME 3.2 and the return of trojans that hide inside a PC's BIOS and survive even the hard disk being changed. A tool appeared which automated social engineering on Facebook and the Linux Foundation and BitTorrent's uTorrent servers both suffered security breaches. We also had the latest on the Raspberry Pi ARM-based computer, Qt's independence, Ubuntu application development, Wine and Google's most recent bulk patent purchase.

• Second beta of GNOME 3.2
• Return of the BIOS trojans
• Facebook tool helps out stalkers
• Security breach at Linux Foundation
• uTorrent server delivered malware for two hours on Tuesday
  

• Raspberry Pi warms up
• Qt gets a bit more independence
• Ubuntu web site launched to encourage application developers
• Wine 1.3.28 uses OpenGL renderer for DirectDraw
• Google buys another thousand IBM patents

Featured Articles

This week saw the latest installment of CSI:Internet as the forensic experts dived into the RAM of a PC to find evidence of tampering. The H also had Thorsten Leemhuis's latest Kernel Log looking at the x32 ABI, Andrea Müller talked with the openSUSE community, and Richard Hillesley looked at Arch Linux and its philosophy.

• CSI:Internet - A trip into RAM
• Kernel Log: x32 ABI gets around 64-bit drawbacks
• Fresh wind for openSUSE
• Arch Linux – "It is what you make it"

Open Source Releases

• Apache Wicket 1.5: new event system and HTML5 components
• jQuery Mobile beta 3 released
• digiKam 2.1 includes new panorama tool
• Django updates address security bugs
• PostgreSQL 9.1 with synchronous replication
• NoSQL database MongoDB 2 ups the tempo
• Lexis-Nexis finally releases source code to HPCC
• Add-on SDK for Firefox updated
• Scientific Linux 5.7 released
• Lucene and Solr updates fix index corruption bug
• Spring Roo to be up to 10 times faster and without GPL
• Omaha 3: Updating Google style
• Version 2.2 of the Zentyal Small Business Server released

Security Alerts

• Microsoft closes holes in Windows and Office
• Adobe closes 14 holes in Reader and Acrobat
• Cisco patches critical vulnerabilities

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