Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 3.8.1, 3.4.34, and 3.0.67 stable kernels. 3.8.1 and 3.4.34 contain the fix for the recent local privilege escalation, CVE-2013-1763 (3.0.x is not affected). As usual, there are also fixes throughout the tree and users should upgrade.

PhUSE, a non-profit community with the goal of furthering advances in clinical information technology, has opened a repository for open source software used in the analysis of clinical trial data.

Spring for Hadoop 1.0 allows developers to apply the template API design known from Spring to Hadoop application development. The software is now available, almost a year after it was announced...

The Firefox Add-on SDK will be integrated and synchronised with Firefox releases from Firefox 21 onwards, freeing the developers to deliver new toolbar integration and make the SDK the best way to rapid prototype future Firefox features...