China could be firing a shot across the leading US tech giant’s bows that suggests: if your government plays its cards wrong, your future will exclude China’s lucrative 1+ billion […]
archived 9 Sep 2019 18:02:17 UTC Source: R.I.P. Python 2: October 16, 2000 — January 1, 2020 Python is a popular scripting language for multiplatform devices. Version 2.x is going […]
To commemorate the nearly 30 years that Linux has been available, we compiled a shortlist of ways Linux has fundamentally changed our lives. Source: 5 ways Linux changed our lives […]
In the beginning, there was machine languages and assembler. Neither was easy to use, but then along came COBOL, and everything changed. Source: COBOL turns 60: Why it will outlive […]
Digital law expert José Antonio Castillo thinks this is Facebook acknowledging its platform isn’t free, as users pay when they hand over their data. Source: Facebook quietly ditched the ‘It’s […]
A bug in an obscure legacy Windows protocol can lead to serious real-world privilege-escalation attacks. Source: 20-Year-Old Bug in Legacy Microsoft Code Plagues All Windows Users 20-year-old Windows code contains […]
The Linux Journal shuts down the publication. Magazines are dead now that nobody reads them anymore. Everything is on the Internet now and print is dead. It was a wild […]
This trivially-exploited security allows any user root—er, LOCALSYSTEM—privileges. Source: Severe local 0-Day escalation exploit found in Steam Client Services LOCALSYSTEM privileges give access to the file system and system files. […]
WORLD—There’s good news for the internet: studies show it’s now just a few bans away from finally only having good opinions on it. Much of social media had become dominated […]
Let’s face it, learning to write computer programs is hard. Doing so involves picking up a lot of specialized skills and jargon, most of which is unfamiliar, and it also […]