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Linux 6.10 Kernel released
What’s New With the Just-Released Linux 6.10 Kernel ?This mid-year 2024 kernel upgrade brings a host of exciting features and improvements that enhance performance, security, and hardware support across various platforms. The latest Linux kernel, 6.10, is out. Linus Torvalds wasn’t happy about how the last days running up the Linux 6.10 release went. In…
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New Firefox Available for Download
Mozilla has pushed today the final build of the Firefox 128 open-source web browser, which will be officially announced on July 9th, 2024, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements. Firefox 128, which is the new ESR (Extended Support Release) series, includes a revamped dialog to clear user data,…
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Memory UE Handling and HWpoison Injection
This blog covers userspace memory Uncorrectable Error(UE) handling by the Linux kernel, userspace handler, as well as the test strategy on Intel/AMD platforms. Kernel memory UE handling, memory scrubbing methods, and device memory UE are out of scope. Suppose during the life time of a mission critical application process, a DIMM cell suddenly goes bad,…
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10 Billion Passwords Leaked
The largest password compilation with nearly ten billion unique passwords was leaked on a popular hacking forum. The Cybernews research team believes the leak poses severe dangers to users prone to reusing passwords. The king is dead. Long live the king. Cybernews researchers discovered what appears to be the largest password compilation with a staggering…
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Making a Linux-managed Network Switch
Sometimes the custom 5-port gigabit switch_is_the solution. Network switches are simple devices, packets go in, packets go out. Luckily people have figured out how to make it complicated instead and invented managed switches. Usually this is done by adding a web-interface for configuring the settings and see things like port status. If you have more…
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Dev runs Linux… on Google Cloud?!
Purdue University computer science student, Sambhav S. has achieved an extraordinary technical feat: getting a full Linux distro to boot directly from Google Drive. It all started when a friend managed the already impressive feat of booting Linux from a Network File System. But being a self-proclaimed competitive soul, Sambhav decided to go bigger. In…
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