The controversial Omarchy distro is attracting both criticism and fans – and financial support, too. Omarchy is an opinionated respin of Arch Linux and a [...]
August 27, 2026
Omarchy distro gains serious backing
ATF responds to ‘major’ cybersecurity incident after ransomware gang’s claims
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said it’s responding to a “major” cybersecurity incident shortly after the Qilin ransomware [...]
August 27, 2026
Schrödinger’s backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT
Schrödinger’s Cat, the famous 1935 thought experiment, imagines a cat that, for reasons rooted in quantum physics we need not dwell on here, is [...]
August 27, 2026
Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data
The company behind three of the UK’s busiest airports says “a quantity” of data was stolen by an extortion group during a recent “cybersecurity [...]
August 27, 2026
Nvidia eyes $12.9 bn Hugging Face deal to expand AI platform control
Nvidia is moving to acquire AI platform Hugging Face in a deal valued at about $12.9 billion, a move that would extend its reach beyond chips into how AI [...]
August 27, 2026
AWS acquires DuckLabs, but what does it want from the team behind DuckDB?
Open-source software has given cloud providers a way to adopt popular technologies without having to own the companies behind them. AWS, however, has [...]
August 27, 2026
Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller
The UK’s data protection watchdog has fined a nuisance call blocking biz £190,000 ($258,000) for bombarding elderly people with hundreds of thousands of [...]
August 27, 2026
How to implement HMAC authentication in ASP.NET Core
Security is a major concern for web applications and services that use the HTTP protocol. Although HTTP is a versatile protocol that can be used in many [...]
August 27, 2026
Why digital twins need memory as much as AI agents
Digital twins began as virtual counterparts to physical systems. In aerospace, manufacturing, and other high-stakes environments, they gave engineers a [...]
August 27, 2026
AI coding agents vs. big balls of mud
Big balls of mud are inevitable, right? I’ve written about where these sprawling, difficult-to-maintain codebases come from and how you might deal with [...]
August 27, 2026
IPMI Security Patch Restores a Lost Linux RCU Grace Period
The Linux IPMI maintainer accepted a patch on Aug 26, 2026 that restores an RCU grace period before command-receiver objects are freed. The one-line change [...]
August 27, 2026
Debian xrdp Advisory DSA-6469-1 Multiple Threats CVE-2026-32105
August 27, 2026
Linux Uevent Leak Exposes Freed Memory in Synaptics RMI4
A Linux uevent can carry bytes from freed kernel memory when one object survives longer than the allocation behind its name. A new Synaptics RMI4 patch [...]
August 27, 2026
Rocky Linux 9 Ruby Important RLSA-2026-50827 Security Updates
August 27, 2026
Rocky Linux Ruby 3.3 Important Security Updates RLSA-2026-50828
August 27, 2026
Fedora 43 Rust-anstyle-hyperlink Security Fix for CVE-2026-5222
August 27, 2026
Fedora 43 BlueZ Moderate Out-of-Bounds Read CVE-2026-75032
August 27, 2026
Fedora 43 OpenSSH Important File Control Risk CVE-2026-59995
August 27, 2026
Fedora 43 openbao Security Fix Advisory 2026-ba51600ab3
August 27, 2026
Fedora 43 Knot Critical Security Fix Update 2026-4857ca6db8
August 27, 2026
Fedora 44 Emacs Important Integer Overflow CVE-2026-77219
August 27, 2026
FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks
The FBI on Wednesday said it disrupted a botnet and seized two platforms that Chinese-government cyberoperatives used to hack NASA, the US Senate, the [...]
August 27, 2026
DSA-6476-1 chromium – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6475-1 suricata-update – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6474-1 cockpit – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6473-1 libdbi-perl – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6472-1 bubblewrap – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6471-1 wireshark – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6470-1 gimp – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6469-1 xrdp – security update
August 27, 2026
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
OpenAI has published its technical report detailing “the Hugging Face incident,” the compromise of the eponymous LLM repository by unreleased, [...]
August 26, 2026
SUSE Important Update for util-linux Vulnerabilities 2026-3813-1
August 26, 2026
SUSE Buildah Important Security Update Vuln 2026-3817-1
August 26, 2026
SUSE Essential Security Patch for kubernetes-old 2026-3823-1
August 26, 2026
SUSE Kubernetes Vital Security Patch SUSE-SU-2026-3824-1
August 26, 2026
SUSE Kernel Security Update 2026-3810-1 Important Issues Fixed
August 26, 2026
DSA-6466-1 linux – security update
August 26, 2026
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks
The US government disclosed that crims targeted more than 100 internet-exposed water systems during July cyberattacks. That’s the first time the feds [...]
August 26, 2026
Linux Software Supply Chain & Security Workflows
A Linux system can be hardened, monitored, and carefully administered while still receiving untrusted code through a package, dependency, container image, [...]
August 26, 2026
Boston Scientific discloses ‘global disruption’ in ongoing cyberattack
Medical device maker Boston Scientific’s global operations have been disrupted by an ongoing cyberattack, the company disclosed on Wednesday. According to [...]
August 26, 2026
Linux Incident Response & Recovery
An alert suggests that a Linux server may be compromised. The first impulse is often to reboot it, stop a process, delete a suspicious file, or patch the [...]
August 26, 2026
Carhartt data breach affects 12.9M, half of what ShinyHunters claimed
Workwear and fashion retailer Carhartt’s data breach was about half as bad as ShinyHunters claimed, according to Troy Hunt, who reviewed the data dump [...]
August 26, 2026
Linux Security Monitoring, Logging & Detection
Linux security monitoring is useful only when it helps a team explain what happened. Collecting more events does not automatically provide better [...]
August 26, 2026
When an AI agent goes off the rails, file a bug to fix the documentation – then test the fix
Here is a mundane question that came up in an agentic coding session: How do I convert a select widget to a radio group? I was working on Bram, a desktop [...]
August 26, 2026
DSA-6468-1 emacs – security update
August 26, 2026
DSA-6467-1 freecad – security update
August 26, 2026
SUSE Containerd Important Security Update SUSE-SU-2026-3783-1
August 25, 2026
openSUSE Buildah Important Security Update SUSE-SU-2026-3784-1
August 25, 2026
SUSE Linux 15 SP7 Kernel Important Security Advisory 2026-3771-1
August 25, 2026
SUSE Kernel Important Security Update Advisory 2026-3774-1
August 25, 2026
openSUSE Kernel Important Security Issues Patch 2026-3775-1
August 25, 2026
openSUSE Kernel Important Security Update Advisory 2026-3777-1
August 25, 2026
SUSE 15 SP6 Kernel Important Security Update 2026-3777-1
August 25, 2026