[$] An update on the UMN affair

On April 20, the world became aware of aresearch program conducted out of the University of Minnesota (UMN) thatinvolved submitting intentionally buggy patches for inclusion into theLinux kernel. Since then, a paper resulting from this work has beenwithdrawn, various letters have gone back and forth, and numerous patches from UMN have beenaudited. It's clearly time for an update on the situation.