Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel after decades of debate
Now you can run your space laser or audio production without specialty patches.
Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
by Kevin Purdy
The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.
WaveCore runs right through a concrete wall with gigabit-speed network signal
by Kevin Purdy
Core drilling is tricky. Getting a 6 GHz signal through concrete is now easier.
Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”
by Kevin Purdy
How long can the C languages maintain their primacy in the kernel?
A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project
by Kevin Purdy
Mono had many homes over 23 years, but Wine’s repos might be its final stop.
Google’s threat team confirms Iran targeting Trump, Biden, and Harris campaigns
by Kevin Purdy
Another Big Tech firm seems to confirm Trump adviser Roger Stone was hacked.
Major outages at CrowdStrike, Microsoft leave the world with BSODs and confusion
by Kevin Purdy
Nobody’s sure who’s at fault for each outage: Microsoft, CrowdStrike, or both.
The next Nvidia driver makes even more GPUs “open,” in a specific, quirky way
by Kevin Purdy
You can’t see inside the firmware, but more open code can translate it for you.
Single point of software failure has hamstrung car dealerships for a second day
by Kevin Purdy
“Cyber incident” takes down CDK Global, serving more than 15,000 dealers.
Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model
by Kevin Purdy
Because of Swiss laws, there are no shareholders, and only one mission.
One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down
by Kevin Purdy
Selling “hard braking event” data seems less lucrative after public outcry.
Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has
by Kevin Purdy
Opinion: Actively searching without Google or Bing is harder than it looks.
Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running
by Kevin Purdy
A journey through busted tapes, the Internet Old Farts Club, and SPARCstations.
AWS S3 storage bucket with unlucky name nearly cost developer $1,300
by Kevin Purdy
Amazon says it’s working on stopping others from “making your AWS bill explode.”
UK outlaws awful default passwords on connected devices
by Kevin Purdy
The law aims to prevent global-scale botnet attacks.
Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap
by Kevin Purdy
Enlarge / Cans of Tab diet soda on display in 2011. Tab was discontinued in 2020. There has never been a soda named “Spaces” that had a cult following.
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Anybody can contribute to the Linux kernel, but any person’s commit suggestion can beco…
Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap
by Kevin Purdy
Enlarge / Cans of Tab diet soda on display in 2011. Tab was discontinued in 2020. There has never been a soda named “Spaces” that had a cult following.
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Anybody can contribute to the Linux kernel, but any person’s commit suggestion can beco…
Ivanti CEO pledges to “fundamentally transform” its hard-hit security model
by Kevin Purdy
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Ivanti, the remote-access company whose remote-access products have been battered by severe exploits in recent months, has pledged a “new era,” one that “fundamentally transforms the Ivanti security operating model” backed by “a si…
Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains
by Kevin Purdy
Enlarge / A person made of many parts, similar to the attorney who handles both severe criminal law and copyright takedowns for an Arizona law firm.
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If you run a personal or hobby website, getting a copyright notice from a law firm about a…
Microsoft blamed for “a cascade of security failures” in Exchange breach report
by Kevin Purdy
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A federal Cyber Safety Review Board has issued its report on what led to last summer’s capture of hundreds of thousands of emails by Chinese hackers from cloud customers, including federal agencies. It cites “a cascade of security …
Redis’ license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about
by Kevin Purdy
Enlarge / An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center under construction in Stone Ridge, Virginia, in March 2024. Amazon will spend more than $150 billion on data centers in the next 15 years.
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Redis, a tremendously popular tool for storing da…
Ubuntu will manually review Snap Store after crypto wallet scams
by Kevin Purdy
Former Canonical employee calls out the “Safe” label applied to Snap apps.
“MFA Fatigue” attack targets iPhone owners with endless password reset prompts
by Kevin Purdy
Enlarge / They look like normal notifications, but opening an iPhone with one or more of these stacked up, you won’t be able to do much of anything until you tap “Allow” or “Don’t Allow.” And they’re right next to each other.
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Human weakness…
Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts
by Kevin Purdy
Williams team leader may only be shocked because he hasn’t worked IT.
HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver
by Kevin Purdy
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Any Linux user trying to send the highest-resolution images to a display at the fastest frame rate is out of luck for the foreseeable future, at least when it comes to an HDMI connection.
The licensing group that controls the HDMI …