If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

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How I learned to stop worrying and love systemd.

With Microsoft's new Dev Configs, a Windows installation becomes a ready-to-use developer workstation with a single command – including WSL and Ubuntu.

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and a new ...

I spend more time today than ever before interacting with terminal windows, which is something I don’t think Past Me would have believed in the early ’90s. Back then, poor MS-DOS was the staid ...

On April 29, 2026, security researchers at Theori and Xint Code publicly disclosed CVE-2026-31431, a Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability they named Copy Fail. Any unprivileged local user ...

Facepalm: Security researchers recently unveiled "Copy Fail," a bug that could potentially bring the entire Linux ecosystem to a screeching halt. The flaw can be reliably exploited across all ...

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 ...

An exploit has been published for a local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “Copy Fail” that impacts Linux kernels released since 2017, allowing an unprivileged local attacker to gain root ...