Previously, I looked at using the Linux video loopback system from the command line. The basic trick was simple enough: capture video from a real camera, process it with something like ffmpeg, and ...

If you've ever broken your phone's screen but still wanted to get data or files from it, you know how painful that can be, ...

Within the span of three weeks, Linux administrators have been handed their third root-level privilege-escalation ...

Cyber security vendor Qualys has found a logic bug in the Linux kernel which, if exploited, can be abused to escalate standard user privileges to those of the root superuser with full administrative ...

A nine-year-old logic flaw in the Linux kernel's process trace (ptrace) path has been discovered that could let unprivileged ...

By the power of Redmond!

Microsoft shipped Intelligent Terminal 0.1 at Build 2026 on June 2 — a separate, open-source application that puts an AI agent pane inside a forked version of Windows Terminal. The project, authored ...

Microsoft's Build 2026 Windows developer announcements point to a broader platform strategy for agentic AI, spanning terminal workflows, local models, app-building skills, Cloud PCs and operating ...

Microsoft used Build 2026 to position Windows as a platform for building and running AI agents, expanding its developer focus beyond AI-assisted apps and into agents that can act across local devices, ...

Bash vs. Fish? I've tried both Linux shells, and one makes using the command line much easier ...

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Additional Linux privilege escalation exploits related to long-existing bugs have been disclosed, so patch ASAP.