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This is work by Fabrice Bellard, the author of a long list of technically impressive projects that includes FFMPEG and QEMU. It makes heavy use of typed arrays in order to achieve acceptably fast x86 emulation. Consult the technical notes for more details: http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html.
Another epic Linus tirade.
Teodora Baluta, an intern in Gnome's Outreach Program for Women, submitted a patch which allows kernel Oops messages to be encoded as QR codes so that they can be more easily recorded and shared.
Explaining operating systems fundamentals through poetry.
For context, see http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/777473-linux-poetry-explains-the-kernel-line-by-line
CVE-2014-7284 (NGRO Bug): Lack of randomness in Linux kernel network secrets
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