"Two of Australia’s most prominent Drupal strategy, design and development companies, Code Drop and PreviousNext, have merged to form a single company."
"Drupal.org users can now use Two factor authentication to increase the security of their accounts. It can be enabled via Security tab of your user profile page."
This week Brian Lewis announced that he is moving to a sponsorship business model and all of the Drupal tutorial videos on his site will be free to view. Brian is a great guy and he put care into his high quality videos. Be sure and check them out.
The API module may be one of the most used modules you don't even think about. The long time maintainers are stepping down after a long time of great contributions so if you are up to the task and want to contribute check this out.