In fairness, it does involve some HTTP, so it's not a pure TCP DoS. Anything other than apache on the same system is unaffected.
Yes, but since it's Apache, anything like this is big news.
It was big news 10 years ago (literally, 2001ish) when these kind of attacks were initially discussed. Nowadays it's more of a big yawn as the script kiddies rediscover old playgrounds.
10 years ago was literally, 1999ish.
Well, I know I have seen tools released in 2001. And I'm quite sure the discussion was older than that. Anyways, put 8 years if you want, this isn't news either way.