Learn how to permanently and securely delete files on Linux using shred, fstrim, secure-delete, and btrfs snapshot removal.

Linux kernel maintainers released a June 20 Linux 7.2 merge that removes the legacy C string-copy function strncpy from kernel code. Kernel-side is the key scope: strncpy remains part of user-space C ...

The Dell Pro Max 18 Plus wants to give you all the desktop-tier firepower in the world. In return, you must be ready to bear its sheer bulk and the cost burden.

Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that’s able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don’t often see: a single errant character inside the kernel.

Mike Darnay is a digital producer and photojournalist at CBS Pittsburgh. Mike has also written and produced content for Vox Media and the Mon Valley Independent. He often covers overnight breaking ...

Microsoft previewed Windows Subsystem for Linux 3 at its Build 2026 keynote in San Francisco on Tuesday, delivering the architectural overhaul that AI-focused developers on Windows have been waiting ...

The race to automate an ever wider range of workplace tasks is creating an army of inside would-be hackers, with cybercriminals hijacking companies’ internal artificial-intelligence agents to steal ...

Court records show a man is facing numerous charges after local news outlets reported he was accused of partially demolishing his Pennsylvania home with members of his family still inside. Erik ...

RALEIGH — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein signed an executive order Wednesday that bans state employees from using information that they’ve gained at work to place wagers on prediction markets, such as ...

A software engineer at Google unlawfully used confidential company information to make a series of bets that won him about $1.2 million on the online prediction market Polymarket, the Justice ...

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Catarina Buchatskiy, the co-founder and director of analytics at the Snake Island Institute, a Kyiv-based defense analytics center, and Viktoriia Honcharuk ...

Alpine Linux, one of the most recognizable non-systemd Linux distributions, is reportedly experimenting with an optional systemd compatibility layer, a move that has sparked intense discussion across ...