kernel

This is a little confusing, especially their headline, but apparently there has been a serious vulnerability in the Linux kernel that allowed unprivileged users (i.e. any user) to run exploit code that could give the user root privileges. The most likely vector would be a website that passed along the code in a web browser, I guess.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/critical-linux-vulnerability-imp...

According to ITWorld, Linus Torvalds has announced the 3.0 release (release candidate, really) of the Linux kernel. He goes to great pains to point out this isn't a dramatically new kernel. It's basically, the next point release of the same kernel. He just though that 2.6.40 was getting a little bit unwieldy.

"So what are the big changes?