Most breaches don’t start with malware or zero-day exploits. They start with a login.  An attacker gets hold of a password, maybe through phishing, reuse, or a leaked credential dump. They test it ...

Companies are spending enormous sums of money on AI systems, and we are now at a point where there are credible alternatives ...

FreeBSD 14.4 simplifies notebook use with WLAN firmware in the installer, integrates more easily into the cloud, and prepares for FreeBSD 15.

Someone spent a couple of hours with the AI-generated vibe-coded operating system Vib-OS, and it's about as bad as you'd expect, probably worse.

Through the looking glass: When software historians talk about preserving the roots of modern computing, they usually mean source code or documentation. Now, they can mean the computers themselves – ...

An old book about an even older operating system.

A lot of people come to Linux because they think it's magic, but they also make a lot of mistakes. Here are some things you want to avoid if you want to get the most out of Linux. Thinking Linux is ...

If you were to read the README of the Vib-OS project on GitHub, you’d see it advertised as a Unix-like OS that was written from scratch, runs on ARM64 and x86_64, and comes with a full GUI, ...

Over the course of nearly 300 posts, Jonathan Bennett set a very high bar for this column, so we knew it needed to be placed in the hands of somebody who could do it justice.

The fact that chief executive officer Hock Tan, who was running Avago Technologies when he took a shining to chip maker ...

Unix has launched its new UX-1519 Neom power bank in India, featuring a compact, retro-industrial design and a 10,000 mAh battery. This portable charger supports 22.5W PD fast charging and includes a ...

The Rust implementation sudo-rs now shows asterisks by default when typing passwords. A break with long Unix tradition.