You do need shell access for a user that has sudo’d before, but still, easy way to get root.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/unpatched-mac-bug-gives-attackers-super-user-status-by-going-back-in-time/

In normal situations, when a call or SMS is sent over the network, a cellular tower “pages” nearby devices to find the one that should receive it. Normally, only the proper phone will answer—by, in effect, saying “It’s me,” as Seifert puts it. Then the actual call or SMS goes through.

The rewritten firmware can block calls because it can respond to paging faster than a victim’s phone can. When the network sends out a page, the modified phone says “It’s me” first, and the victim’s phone never receives it.

“If you respond faster to the network, the network tries to establish a service with you as an attacker,”

via Software Update to $20 Phones Could Topple 2G Cell Networks | MIT Technology Review.

The researchers managed to control an $80 million 210 foot yacht using a cheaply built spoofer. Aircraft were a definite possible target too.

EXCLUSIVE: GPS flaw could let terrorists hijack ships, planes | Fox News.

A US company called Emerging Objects researches different materials to use in 3D printers, apart from plastic. So far they can use paper, salt, cement polymer, nylon, wood and acrylics.

emerging objects » Materials.

Just like Red October this has been going on for a long time and the antivirus / malware community has been caught with their pants down. They did this by sunberting TeamViewer. They were detected because after 10 years of impunity, the team has been getting sloppy. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/21/teamspy_cyber_espionage/