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Linux 3.3 delayed, other kernels arrive

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Tuesday, 13 March 2012 12:10

This week's expected arrival of Linux 3.3 failed to happen, as Linus Torvalds produced[1] a seventh release candidate. Torvalds said he'd hoped that the sixth candidate would have been the last, but a rush of many small fixes across networking, memory management, drivers and other subsystems has meant he felt the need for 3.3-rc7. He hopes not to have to do an eighth release candidate and thinks that the development is in fairly good shape for a release next week.

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'Jester' boasts of QR code-based smartphone hack

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Tuesday, 13 March 2012 10:23

An alleged hacker calling himself 'The Jester' claims to have exploited security vulnerabilities on smartphones to spy on members of terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda and activist network Anonymous. On closer examination, however, the story turns out to be bluff and bluster.

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TIOBE language index shows the rise of JavaScript

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Tuesday, 13 March 2012 12:28

The latest Programming Community Index[1], published by TIOBE Software[2] shows a recent rise in the popularity of JavaScript. For the first time since the index was established, JavaScript has surpassed both Python and Perl in popularity. In contrast, Google's JavaScript contender Dart is at position 78 in the ranking. Similarly, Google's Go language also dropped out of the top 50.

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