The Chess “Italian Game” Handbook: Traps for White
A chess game is usually divided into three phases: the opening, middlegame, and endgame. In the opening phase, each player develops and sets up their pieces....
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[$] Compact formats for debugging—and more
At the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo, Stephen Brennan gave a presentation on the debuginfo format, which contains the symbols and other information needed for...
Read moreFour stable kernels for Monday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.19.1, 6.18.11, 6.12.72, and 6.6.125 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users of...
Read moreLinux 7.0 Better Segregates Legacy CardBus Code To Avoid On Modern PCs
The PCI subsystem updates for Linux 7.0 are aplenty as usual and contain a wide assortment of different fixes and code improvements…
Read moreReverse Engineering Linux Distro REMnux Marks 15 Years With Major v8 Release Featuring AI Agent Support
Malware analysis Linux distro gets Ubuntu 24.04 base, a new installer, and many new tools.
Read moreSecurity updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, pdns-recursor, python-django, and wireshark), Fedora (gnutls, linux-sgx, mingw-expat, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, p11-kit, python-aiohttp, vim,...
Read moreThis Former Physicist Helps Keep the Internet Secure
When Alan DeKok began a side project in network security, he didn’t expect to start a 27-year career. In fact, he didn’t initially set out to...
Read moreTinyDB: A Lightweight JSON Database for Small Projects
TinyDB is a Python implementation of a NoSQL, document-oriented database. Unlike a traditional relational database, which stores records across multiple linked tables, a document-oriented database stores...
Read moreI Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child
Often debates about education are framed as non-tech versus AI approaches, but too often, AI ed tech just magnifies the same failures of traditional school.
Read moreSwitch 2 pricing and next PlayStation release could be impacted by memory shortage
It may take Sony another three years to give the PS5 (pictured) a successor. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony and Nintendo are...
Read moreThe Download: unraveling a death threat mystery, and AI voice recreation for musicians
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Hackers made death threats...
Read moreFirmware Upstreamed For Supporting The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2’s Adreno GPU
Upstreamed last week to the linux-firmware.git repository by Qualcomm was the GPU firmware files needed for enabling the Adreno GPU on the new Snapdragon X2 Elite...
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