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Unattended upgrades can be a double-edged sword. While they keep your system up to date automatically, they might also unexpectedly change the system’s state or introduce new issues without your prior knowledge. In certain environments, especially in production or where stability is a must, it might be preferable to disable these automatic updates. This guide will walk you through the steps necessary to disable unattended upgrades on your Ubuntu system.

A web application firewall (WAF) is a type of application firewall that lets you see and analyze HTTP traffic to and from a web application. It has the objective of preventing attacks that seek to deny service and steal data

PuTTY's security flaw (CVE2024-31497) in ECDSA P521 keys risks private data exposure. Urgent update is needed.

The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.0.4 as the fourth of five maintenance updates to the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment series bringing fixes for bugs and crashes, as well as performance and UI improvements.

Adriaan de Groot released today Calamares 3.3.6 as a new maintenance update in the latest Calamares 3.3 series of this popular graphical installer for Linux-based operating systems.

In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to use the restart command on Linux and how to restart (reboot) your system via the command-line interface (CLI).

The paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handling Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has made the use of indentation in kernel config files more ambiguous – intentionally, to weed out inferior parsers.…

Do you have a Linux system overflowing with files? Perhaps old documents or remnants of past projects are cluttering your storage. This guide will show you how to efficiently find and delete files bigger or smaller than X size in Linux.

Today, Oracle released VirtualBox 7.0.16 as a new stable update to its open-source, free, and cross-platform virtualization software bringing quite a few interesting changes for Linux users.

fwbackups is a backup program that allows you to protect your files and folders. The software offers a simple but powerful interface that permits you to perform backups with ease.

A good PR move opines community member. AI-generated and assisted code contributions are no longer allowed in the Gentoo Linux distribution.…

(To read the complete Mozilla.ai publication featuring all our OSS contributions, please visit the Mozilla.ai blog) Like our parent company, Mozilla.ai’s founding story is rooted in open-source principles and community collaboration. Since our start last year, our key focus has been exploring state-of-the-art methods for evaluating and fine-tuning large-language models (LLMs). Throughout this process, we’ve […]

Levente Polyák continues as Arch Linux Project Leader and wins the 2024 election unopposed. Here's more on that!

VirtualBox 7.0.16 adds support for Linux kernel 6.9, addresses UBSAN warnings, updates Windows guest additions, and more.

KDE Plasma 6.0.4 rolls out packed with new translations and minor but crucial bug fixes. Here's more on that!

An interview with a true Linux Legend, Jon "maddog" Hall. Those of you who know this name already know you'll love this episode but those who don't know Jon, you are in for a treat.

While Mozilla is still working on releasing Firefox 125, which was delayed due to a last-minute blocker bug, they’ve already promoted the next major release, Firefox 126, to the beta channel for public testing.

Faircamp is designed to offer the best featured of Bandcamp, an online and app music distribution service for musicians. The service lets artists sell their music. Faircamp is free and open source software.

Learn how to enhance your productivity in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions by customizing and managing keyboard shortcuts.

Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has flipped the switch on its Venado supercomputer – a machine capable of bringing ten exaFLOPS of performance to bear on AI workloads for the Department of Energy.…