Armed with a Chinese guillotine and a scanner with an automatic document feeder, Mike Schilli gives his books some special treatment, courtesy of Google Drive, which offers 5GB of storage space – room enough to start an online PDF collection.

• Linux Foundation reports Secure Boot solution
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Plasma Active 3
• Android OS Tops
• Linaro Enterprise
• Group formed for ARM architecture
• Android installed on 3 of 4 smartphones

Stop re-inventing the wheel and build your web applications with the excellent tools already available.

Many web attacks are the result of programmer error. Sloppy code testing leaves a door open for the uninvited.

A human observer can register clusters in a two-dimensional set of points at a glance. Artificial intelligence has a harder time getting it done; however, the relatively simple k-means method delivers usable results.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

• AMD/OpenJDK/Oracle explore use of GPUs
• Smartphone security
• ASF Airavata
• Slackware 14 release
• Shuttleworth funds Inktank/Ceph
• New Apache toplevel project
• Zentyal 3.0 small business server reveals major release
• Keccak wins NIST
• SHA-3 competition

Kotlin, a small island in the Gulf of Finland, is also the name of a new programming language that aims to become a modern alternative to Java.