When Windows fails, this tiny USB drive takes over.

ESET telemetry traced real activity to 2023 and 2024, mostly against government bodies in Honduras, Taiwan, Thailand and ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

TL;DR Introduction At the start of this year, I wrote a blog on how 2025 was the ‘year of the infostealer’, and it doesn’t ...

Let's stop Windows from gaslighting you and show you your Linux files.

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft ...

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Microsoft Defender is investigating a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) affecting multiple major Linux distributions including Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and AWS ...

I've been using Ubuntu for decades. Whether you're new to the OS or returning to it after a while, these are the essential apps, hidden settings, and useful tweaks you need to know about. I've been ...

I spend more time today than ever before interacting with terminal windows, which is something I don’t think Past Me would have believed in the early ’90s. Back then, poor MS-DOS was the staid ...

PCWorld reports that a critical Linux vulnerability called ‘Copy Fail’ (CVE-2026-31431) allows unprivileged users to hijack system privileges by altering cached files. This straight-line logic flaw ...