Month: December 2025

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Linux App Release Roundup (December 2025)

I roundup a crop of December’s smaller Linux app releases, including the Clapper media player, QEMU virtualisation tool, Scribus DTP and ONLYOFFICE. You’re reading Linux App...

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Teen Develops Flood-Detecting CubeSat

High school sophomore Abigail Merchant has made it her mission to use technology to reduce flood-related deaths. The 15-year-old lives in Orlando, Fla., a state where...

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Shadow-utils 4.19.0 released

Version 4.19.0 of the shadow-utils project has been released. Notable changes in this release include disallowing some usernames that were previously accepted with the --badname option,...

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Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (mediawiki), Fedora (duc, golang-github-projectdiscovery-mapcidr, and kustomize), Slackware (wget2), and SUSE (cheat, duc, flannel, go-sendxmpp, python311, python312, python313, and trivy).

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The Top 6 AI Stories of 2025

Artificial intelligence in 2025 was less about flashy demos and more about hard questions. What actually works? What breaks in unexpected ways? And what are the...

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Top 10 Most Read Articles of 2025

Discover the top 10 most read and most helpful articles of 2025 on ostechnix.com. A curated list based on real reader data and search performance. The...

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LinkedIn Job Scams

Interesting article on the variety of LinkedIn job scams around the world: In India, tech jobs are used as bait because the industry employs millions of...

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Why inventing new emotions feels so good

Have you ever felt “velvetmist”?  It’s a “complex and subtle emotion that elicits feelings of comfort, serenity, and a gentle sense of floating.” It’s peaceful, but...

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ReScript 12.0 Released with New Build System

ReScript 12.0 has launched, marking a milestone in modernizing the language with a rewritten build system, improved performance, and enhanced syntax. Key features include modular architecture,...

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Chris Lamb: Favourites of 2025

Here are my favourite books and movies that I read and watched throughout 2025. § Books Eliza Clark: Boy Parts (2020)Rachel Cusk: The Outline Trilogy (2014—2018)Edith...

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kpcyrd: 2025 wrapped

Same as last year, this is a summary of what I’ve been up to throughout the year. See also the recap/retrospection published by my friends (antiz,...

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Stenberg: No strcpy either

Daniel Stenberg has written a blog post about the decision to ban the use strcpy() in curl: The main challenge with strcpy is that when using...

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The Top 8 Semiconductor Stories of 2025

This year’s top semiconductor stories were mostly about the long and twisting trips a technology takes from idea (or even raw material) to commercial deployment. I’ve...

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Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjpeg2, osslsigncode, php-dompdf, and python-django), Fedora (fluidsynth, golang-github-alecthomas-chroma-2, golang-github-evanw-esbuild, golang-github-jwt-5, and opentofu), Mageia (ceph and ruby-rack), and SUSE (anubis,...

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The ascent of the AI therapist

We’re in the midst of a global mental-­health crisis. More than a billion people worldwide suffer from a mental-health condition, according to the World Health Organization....

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The Great Big Power Play

US support for nuclear energy is soaring. Meanwhile, coal plants are on their way out and electricity-sucking data centers are meeting huge pushback. Welcome to the...

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Russ Allbery: Review: Dark Ambitions

Review: Dark Ambitions, by Michelle Diener Series: Class 5 #4.5 Publisher: Eclipse Copyright: 2020 ISBN: 1-7637844-2-8 Format: Kindle Pages: 81 Dark Ambitions is a science fiction...

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Happy 16th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com!

KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge “thank you” to all of our readers — newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this past...

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Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (kodi, pgbouncer, and rails), Fedora (duc, fluidsynth, gdu, singularity-ce, and tkimg), Slackware (vim), and SUSE (buildah, duc, gnutls, python39,...

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The Top 7 Energy Stories of 2025

Powering the AI data center boom dominated the conversation in the global energy sector in 2025. Governments are racing to develop the most advanced AI models,...

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The Worst Hacks of 2025

From university breaches to cyberattacks that shut down whole supply chains, these were the worst cybersecurity incidents of the year.

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Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc3

Linus has released 6.19-rc3 for testing. “Another week, another -rc release. Except the past week has obviously been the holiday week, and this rc release is...

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CrunchBang Linux Lives on With GreenBang

CrunchBang was a Debian-based Linux distribution that was minimal and pretty popular among hard-core users. CrunchBang eventually ended, but gave way to the likes of CrunchBang++...

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First Air Taxi Service to Launch in Dubai in 2026

Summary Joby Aviation is realizing Uber’s original “Elevate” dream, moving electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft from science fiction toward commercial reality. By 2026, Joby...

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Jonathan Dowland: Our study, 2025

We’re currently thinking of renovating our study/home office. I’ll likely write more about that project. Embarking on it reminded me that I’d taken a photo of...

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Trends That Defined JavaScript in 2025

The year 2025 proved to be a transformative period for the JavaScript ecosystem, marked by a shift toward performance optimization and “post-React” exploration. We look back...

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Camouflage

New research: Abstract: Coleoid cephalopods have the most elaborate camouflage system in the animal kingdom. This enables them to hide from or deceive both predators and...

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Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (gst-plugins-good1.0, postgresql-13, and python-urllib3), Fedora (chezmoi, docker-buildkit, ov, and subfinder), Oracle (httpd:2.4), Slackware (net), and SUSE (apache2, buildah, kernel,...

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IoT Hack

Someone hacked an Italian ferry. It looks like the malware was installed by someone on the ferry, and not remotely.

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