Tag: Linux

April 6, 2022

As one of the leading cloud computing companies, Microsoft uses AMD’s data center GPUs as well as Linux on the servers it uses. Sometimes those GPUs need to be installed into running machines or replaced, but that requires shutting down […]

April 1, 2022

Visual Studio Code 1.66, also identified as the March 2022 release of the code editor, has just been published by Microsoft. The new release brings improvements to JavaScript heap profiles, CSS code formatting, and local history. Visual Studio Code 1.66 […]

April 1, 2022

Git is a software platform mainly used by computer programmers for collaboration. At its core, Git keeps track of changes to files and allows multiple users to coordinate updates to those files. The most common use case for Git is […]

February 16, 2022

An exploitable bug sitting in a popular Linux kernel module, has been found after five years, researchers have claimed. Detailing the findings in a blog post, researcher Samuel Page from cybersecurity firm Appgate said the flaw was a stack buffer […]

December 23, 2021

A flaw in Microsoft’s Azure App Service has been exposing customer source code for years, security researchers have discovered. According to cloud security providers Wiz.io, Microsoft’s platform for building and hosting web apps has contained insecure default behavior in its […]

December 6, 2021

Amidst all the news from AWS re:Invent last week—mainframe modernization, database updates, ARM-based Graviton3, etc.—one thing might have slipped your notice yet deserves the spotlight: Amazon Linux 2022. AWS CEO Adam Selipsky didn’t mention it in his keynote, though it […]

November 12, 2021

Visual Studio Code 1.62, the latest monthly release of Microsoft’s popular code editor, is available with capabilities centering on areas such as the workbench and search icons. Published November 4, Visual Studio Code 1.62, aka the October 2021 release, is […]

November 1, 2021

Linus Torvalds, the principal developer of the mainline Linux branch, released version 5.15 of the open source kernel over the Halloween weekend, and it has just been tagged as the next Long Term Support (LTS) release. The kernel designates one […]

July 23, 2021

Intel has begun to add support for its codenamed Lunar Lake platform to Linux drivers. So far, the company has added support for network controllers that will be used for its CPUs in the coming years, but the addition clearly […]

June 28, 2021

The latest Linux kernel release, version 5.13, has become the first official kernel to support Apple M1-powered devices. In the works for two months, the larger-than-usual release had a relatively uneventful development cycle. For reasons that continue to remain a […]

May 26, 2021

Google’s Chrome browser and operating system has been updated to version 91, bringing with it a wide variety of features, mainly announcing that Linux support is now official for ChromeOS, alongside being able to copy and paste a file onto […]

March 29, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed two new vulnerabilities in Linux-based operating systems that, if successfully exploited, could let attackers circumvent mitigations for speculative attacks such as Spectre and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Discovered by Piotr Krysiuk of Symantec’s […]

February 22, 2021

Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core has become a popular way to build high-performance, modern web applications that can run on Windows, Linux, or MacOS. An important way to ensure high performance and reliability in applications that experience high volumes of requests is […]

January 28, 2021

Security researchers have discovered that a notorious threat group has upgraded its arsenal with a new tool that enable its malware to avoid detection in Linux. Researchers at AT&T’s Alien Labs report that the TeamTNT cybercrime group, known for its […]

January 8, 2021

Experienced Linux porter Hector Martin has kicked off work on bringing Linux to the new Apple M1 Macs. His endeavor is named Asahi after the Japanese name for the McIntosh apple. Martin has been porting Linux to other devices for […]

August 31, 2020

FaunaDB founder Evan Weaver has a crazy thought. Even as open source projects like Linux and Kubernetes continue to thrive, he suggests that maybe, just maybe, “As long as you give developers an API that’s open and a cost model […]

August 17, 2020

Running large numbers of containers to deploy an application requires a rethink of the role of the operating system. Google’s Container-Optimized OS and AWS’s Bottlerocket take the traditional virtualization paradigm and apply it to the operating system, with containers the […]

April 13, 2020

Microsoft announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004. WSL2 was released into the Insider Program last year. With the move to general availability, WSL2 can now be automatically updated via […]

October 18, 2019

A vulnerability has been discovered in the RTLWIFI driver, which is used to support Realtek Wi-Fi chips on Linux system. A flaw in the driver could be exploited to either crash your device, or even allow an attacker to take […]

September 16, 2019

Huawei has launched a new range of its popular MateBook series of laptops powered by Linux but unfortunately, you’ll have to be in China to pick one up. The launch of the last MateBook in the US was canceled following […]