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Threat actors have long leveraged typosquatting as a means to trick unsuspecting users into visiting malicious websites or downloading booby-trapped software and packages.

Back in 2022 were a set of patches that allowed compiling the ARM64 Linux kernel from Apple macOS hosts. The intent was for developers just wanting to do some build/smoke testing from under an Apple Silicon device running macOS to see at least any kernel changes are successfully compiling on macOS with its LLVM/Clang-based toolchain.

PlasmaTube lets users watch YouTube videos on a phone or desktop using a user interface designed to be integrated with KDE Plasma. Of course, the software also runs on other desktop environments.

Immich 1.114 self-hosted photo and video backup solution now with hierarchical tags, better EXIF handling, and fresh UI updates.

This tutorial will show you the best and most used Linux server distros in 2024. A Linux distribution (distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and package management system.

Learn how to easily disable the SSH welcome message on your Ubuntu server to improve your SSH experience with this step-by-step guide.

Problems also afflict the Pi Pico 2's chip. Fedora 41 is approaching the home stretch, but is currently beset by problems around Raspberry Pi support.

KDE e.V. announced the availability today of their annual report for covering 2023. While they made a lot of accomplishments and worked a lot on KDE Plasma 6 development, it was another year they unfortunately operated in the red funding wise.

Vulnerability scanning is an essential activity for enterprise security. We recommend the best free and open source vulnerability detection tools.

Last week, the first point release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS arrived, and upgrades from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to the newest one officially enabled. However, those upgrades didn’t go smoothly for everyone who attempted them.

Coming with Native Linux support on September 30th is The Throne, a 2.5D styled metroidvania from BeByte. The developer already sent over a key to our Steam Curator, so I'll be taking a look shortly and will have more to say closer to release.

If you have to do research online you might want to bookmark this set of online tools that make exploring Mastodon’s federated world easy.

Learn how to install Ollama on Linux in a step-by-step guide, then install and use your favorite LLMs, including the Open WebUI installation step.

Seeing a security-focused application tailored for a specific Linux distribution is like spotting Windows being non-intrusive when delivering its updates; you don't get to see such occurrences often.

After years of development effort and community discussion, the open-source Apache Cassandra 5.0 database is finally generally available. The new database update offers enterprises the promise of improved performance, AI enablement and better data efficiency.

Last year to much excitement in our community was the new AMD project announcement of openSIL as an open-source CPU silicon initialization project that is an advancement for open-source firmware and to eventually replace AMD's AGESA across both client and server processors.

Packed with improvements, version 47 of the GNOME desktop environment will be launched on Sept. 18, 2024. We spun up the beta preview release so you’ll know what to expect when it lands.

Kernel drivers are the bridge between the Linux operating system and the hardware components of a computer. They play a crucial role in managing and facilitating communication between the OS and various hardware devices, such as network cards, storage devices, and more.

Auto-cpufreq 2.4 CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux adds platform profiles, Gentoo & Dinit init system support.

There's a limit to how much abuse to me and to my family I can tolerate for the act of merely reporting on corporate corruption