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Next Wave of Desktop Environment Innovations
The journey of Linux DEs has been a remarkable evolution, from rudimentary window managers like twm to sophisticated, feature-rich environments such as GNOME, KDE, and XFCE. Each step in this evolution has brought more intuitiveness, customization, and efficiency, catering to a broad spectrum of user preferences and system capabilities. As of 2023, the Linux DE… Read more
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How Kali Linux Helps Network Security
If you’re serious about finding out just how secure your network, website, system, or application is, you’ll want to know Kali Linux. Penetration testing (aka “pentesting”) is a great way to uncover vulnerabilities on your network and the attached systems. Pentesting is also known as ethical hacking, which helps explain exactly what it is… using… Read more
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Five things to consider when switching to Linux Mint
Linux was once the standard but only partially helpful answer when asked what to do with an old computer. For many, it was an academic exercise: something you tinkered with when you’d moved to a new machine and could afford to corrupt your old workhorse. There was no guarantee that a Linux machine would play… Read more
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Tune Linux kernel with AI -ByteDance
Linux works well for most jobs, but to get it to work great requires kernel tuning, and that’s never easy. ByteDance has a proposal to make this easier. At the Linux Plumbers Conference, the invite-only meeting for the top Linux kernel developers, ByteDance Linux Kernel Engineer Cong Wang, proposed that we use artificial intelligence (AI)… Read more
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Crypto Keys Stolen: New Attack
An error as small as a single flipped memory bit is all it takes to expose a private key. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to complete compromise when naturally occurring computational errors occur while the connection… Read more
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OpenAI’s Chief Scientist’s Worries
Rogue superintelligence and merging with machines: Inside the mind of OpenAI’s chief scientist.An exclusive conversation with Ilya Sutskever on his fears for the future of AI and why they’ve made him change the focus of his life’s work. Ilya Sutskever, head bowed, is deep in thought. His arms are spread wide and his fingers are… Read more
