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Linux man pages 6.17 released

Version 6.17 of the Linux manual-page collection has been released. Along with a long list of updates to the man pages themselves, it includes some new...

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Is a secure AI assistant possible?

AI agents are a risky business. Even when stuck inside the chatbox window, LLMs will make mistakes and behave badly. Once they have tools that they...

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Proving What’s Possible

As a formal methods consultant I have to mathematically express properties of systems. I generally do this with two “temporal operators”: A(x) means that x is...

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Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year

Linux Mint developers are considering ending the distro’s six‑month release cycle, a change that could mean fewer updates and a slower release pace. You’re reading Linux...

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Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P

For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications...

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[$] Evolving Git for the next decade

Git is ubiquitous; in the last two decades, the version-control system has truly achieved world domination. Almost every developer uses it and the vast majority of...

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Monthly News – January 2026

Hi everyone, Before we start with the news, I’d like to thank you for your donations and for your support! We received donations from more than...

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Stable kernels for Wednesday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has unleashed six new stable kernels: 6.18.10, 6.6.124, 6.12.70, 6.1.163, 5.15.200, and 5.10.250. Each one contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised...

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Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel, linux-6.1, munge, and tcpflow), Fedora (accel-ppp, atuin, babl, bustle, endless-sky, envision, ettercap, fapolicy-analyzer, firefox, glycin, gnome-settings-daemon, go-fdo-client, greenboot-rs,...

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How Do You Define an AI Companion?

For a different perspective on AI companions, see our Q&A with Brad Knox: How Can AI Companions Be Helpful, not Harmful? AI models intended to provide...

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What Exactly Is the Zen of Python?

The Zen of Python is a collection of 19 aphorisms that capture the guiding principles behind Python’s design. You can display them anytime by running import...

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Prompt Injection Via Road Signs

Interesting research: “CHAI: Command Hijacking Against Embodied AI.” Abstract: Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to handle edge cases in robotic vehicle systems where data is scarce...

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What is RDMA?

Modern data centres are hitting a wall that faster CPUs alone cannot fix. As workloads scale out and latency budgets shrink, the impact of moving data...

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FTP Cheatsheet

Connect and Login # Start an FTP session and authenticate. Command Description ftp hostname Connect to server ftp 192.168.1.10 Connect by IP ftp hostname 21 Connect...

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The Complex Engineering of Runways

Airport runways seem pretty simple, just another strip of asphalt or concrete not unlike the roads that our cars drive upon every day. We can even...

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Making a Hidden Door Status Sensor

The door sensor in its new enclosures. (Credit: Dillan Stock) A common sight in ‘smart homes’, door sensors allow you to detect whether a door is...

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Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping six “zero-day”...

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Pi Pico Learns Morse Code

When [101 Things] didn’t want to copy Morse code, he decided to build a Pi Pico system to read it for him. On the face of...

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The hunt for truly zero-CVE container images

Vendors chasing “zero-CVE” container images on top of traditional Linux distributions are running into structural limits in upstream release models. CVEs remain a useful, but imperfect...

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Dave Farber RIP

From the NANOG list comes the sad news of the passing of Dave Farber. His professional accomplishments and impact are almost endless, but often captured by...

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TiDB and the rise of the AI-native database

When enterprises talk about artificial intelligence, the attention usually points to models: larger parameters, faster inference, cheaper tokens. But we at TiDB contend that this framing...

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Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (fence-agents, firefox, fontforge, freerdp, kernel-rt, keylime, libsoup, libsoup3, nodejs22, nodejs24, opentelemetry-collector, osbuild-composer, python3.12-wheel, qemu-kvm, resource-agents, thunderbird, and util-linux), Debian...

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How to Revert a Commit in Git

The git revert command creates a new commit that undoes the changes introduced by a specified commit. Unlike git reset , which rewrites the commit history,...

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Find Cheatsheet

Basic Search # Find files and directories by name. Command Description find . -name "file.txt" Find an exact filename find . -iname "readme.md" Case-insensitive name search...

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