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Google has kicked off a special three-month bug bounty targeting flaws in the Linux kernel with triple the rewards for security researchers. The new bounty, announced this week, looks to harden the Linux kernel in specific edge cases. It's offering up to $31,337 (Leet) to security researchers who can exploit privilege escalation in Google's lab environment with a patched vulnerability; and $50,337 for anyone who can finds a previously undisclosed or zero-day flaw, or for discovering a new exploit technique.

There was a time, not quite so long ago, when a computer was a beige box that sat on your desk. Before that, computers were big enough to double as desks, and even farther back, they took up a whole room. Today? Well today it’s complicated. Single-board computers (SBCs) like the Raspberry Pi put a full desktop experience in the palm of your hand, for a price that would have been unfathomable before the smartphone revolution increased demand for high-performance ARM chips.

In this tutorial, we'll install FreeRADIUS on a server running Ubuntu 20.04, configure it to work with MySQL/MariaDB, and then install daloRADIUS, a RADIUS web management panel that is basically a GUI for FreeRADIUS.

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the NextArch Foundation. The new Foundation is a neutral home for open source developers and contributors to build next-generation architecture that can support compatibility between an increasing array of microservices.

S3 Bucket is the Object Storage Service of AWS but an AWS S3 Bucket can also be used to host a static website. This guide will show you step-by-step how to use Amazon Web Services S3 to host static website files.

This tutorial shows how to install and use GDU Disk Analyzer, a Linux command line-tool that helps you to get a better overview of your disk storage usage.

A virtual machine is created under certain assumptions about required memory, data storage, processing capacity, and so on. All too often, these assumptions need to be adjusted based on actual use practices, and additional configuration work by system administrator is required. Cockpit greatly simplifies and facilitates this work, especially for the Fedora Server editions, that themselves do not include a graphical interface.

Team pass is an open-source password manager that helps you to store and manage all your passwords from the central location. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the Teampass password manager with Apache and Let's Encrypt SSL on Debian 11.

The latest of the best-of-breed bleeding-edge Linux distributions, Fedora 35, is now available.

Fedora Linux 35 has been released! This step by step guide explains how to install Fedora 35 GNOME desktop with screenshots.

The latest stable version of the Firefox web browser, version 94, is now rolling out. There’s quite a bit going on with a couple of new features, some add-ons updates and a whole lot of performance fixes and improvements.

ProtonUp-Qt is a graphical tool that makes it easy to install and manage compatibility tools like Proton-GE and Luxtorpeda for Steam, and Wine-GE, Kron4ek Vanilla and Lutris-Wine builds for Lutris. Recently, the tool has also added support for Heroic Games Launcher.

Valve has released another update to the Steam Client Beta and they continue improving Remote Play for Linux players, likely for the upcoming Steam Deck support.

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the new Project OpenBytes spearheaded by Graviti. Project OpenBytes is dedicated to making open data more available and accessible through the creation of data standards and formats.

The world of cybersecurity is forever evolving at a rapid pace. Newer and more sophisticated attacks are emerging every day. Despite patching most of these threats, some of them continue to crawl around the web a lot longer. LemonDuck is one such example. It's a cross-platform malware that targets Windows and Linux devices and acts as an entry point for other malicious tools. So what exactly is LemonDuck? How does it work?

Mastodon is a great open source, decentralised social network. I use Mastodon every day, and it's probably most common to use Mastodon through its web interface (although being open source, there are many different ways to interact with it, including terminal-based applications and mobile apps), but I prefer dedicated application windows.

Adding robots or automating machines in old factories isn't as easy as it sounds. Retrofitting factories with new technologies for machines and robots to operate in sync requires a new system architecture. Many tech companies are trying to fill that gap with hardware and software. Cloud companies, chip makers, software companies and telecom providers are spitballing topologies for machines to communicate directly and analyze data.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Opera Browser on Fedora 35.

XWiki is an open-source and free wiki platform written in Java, which allows you to customize your wiki with a very simple and user-friendly web interface.

A VPS, or virtual private server, is a form of multi-tenant cloud hosting in which virtualized server resources are made available to an end user over the internet via a cloud or hosting provider.