Tech

Linux kernel team rejects University of Minnesota researchers’ apology

Posted on Author admin Comments Off on Linux kernel team rejects University of Minnesota researchers’ apology
A penguin stares menacingly at us.

Enlarge / Do not anger the penguin, for it is long of memory and slow to forgive. (credit: DJRPhoto36 / Flickr)

Last week, senior Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that all Linux patches coming from the University of Minnesota would be summarily rejected by default.

This policy change came as a result of three University of Minnesota researchers—Qiushi Wu, Kangjie Lu, and Aditya Pakki—embarking on a program to test the Linux kernel dev community’s resistance to what the group called “Hypocrite Commits.”

Testing the Linux kernel community

The trio’s scheme involved first finding three easy-to-fix, low-priority bugs in the Linux kernel and then fixing them—but fixing them in such a way as to complete what the UMN researchers called an “immature vulnerability”:

Read 8 remaining paragraphs | Comments

Related Articles
Tech

Lawsuit: Google employees were fired for upholding “Don’t be evil” code

Posted on Author admin

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | The Tonight Show) Three former Google software engineers who sued the company yesterday claim they were fired for following Google’s famous “Don’t be evil” mantra. “Google terminated each plaintiffs’ employment with it for adhering to the directive ‘Don’t be evil’ and calling out activity by Google that […]
Tech

The stormy relationship between solar power and the weather

Posted on Author admin

Enlarge / A hailstorm at a location like this could be really problematic. (credit: Barcroft Media / Contributor) Solar panels have a love-hate relationship with nature.They need to be placed in exposed locations that get a lot of sunlight, but cloudy weather obviously reduces their production. Less obviously, more extreme weather—from snowstorms to hurricanes—can damage […]
Tech

>1,000 Android phones found infected by creepy new spyware

Posted on Author admin

More than 1,000 Android users have been infected with newly discovered malware that surreptitiously records audio and video in real time, downloads files, and performs a variety of other creepy surveillance activities. In all, researchers uncovered 23 apps that covertly installed spyware that researchers from security firm Zimperium are calling PhoneSpy. The malware offers a […]