Earlier today I wrote painful stories about painful memories of EPO SLAPPs in light of this week's DDoS attacks and our latest "episode" about EPO lobbying in San Marino. I then went to statCounter to ...

The Linux Foundation Does Not Work for Linux, Definitely Not for Free Software. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 03, 2026, updated Jul 03, 2026. The Linux Foundation (LF) works fo ...

Kali Linux 2026.2, the second release of the year, is now available for download, featuring 9 new tools and numerous Kali ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...

A new vulnerability dubbed Pack2TheRoot could be exploited in the PackageKit daemon to allow local Linux users to install or remove system packages and gain root permissions. The flaw is identified as ...

Over the years, Java has proliferated in Alibaba. Many applications are written in Java and many our Java developers have written more than one billion lines of Java code. Alibaba Dragonwell, as a ...

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux has become an important tool for developers and power users since it was introduced in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update back in 2016, giving them access to a ...

It’s been an incredible year for the data business at Microsoft and an incredible year for data across the industry. This Thursday at our Data Driven event in New York, we will kick off a wave of ...

The WebKit rendering engine used in many Linux applications is a complete security mess. That’s the takeaway from a blog post by Michael Catanzaro, who works on GNOME’s WebKitGTK+ project. He’s ...

Linus Torvalds, father of the Linux kernel (and thus a lot of the software you use) had a meltdown last week — and it was epic. Someone who (apparently) made a pull request for Linux version 4.3 ...

OpenOffice was the first big, mainstream free software competitor to Microsoft Office, and because of that, it still has mainstream name recognition—which is a problem. Developers have almost all ...