Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

The lean SSH server Dropbear is closing a privilege escalation vulnerability with an updated version, among other things.

Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and ...

QEMU 10.2 revises security policies, modernizes the crypto subsystem, and accelerates asynchronous I/O under Linux.

Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process The latest release of FreeBSD contains a lot of crucial under-the-hood changes – and drops 32-bit support on both x86 and ...

The research reinforces a dual-use reality. Offensive security tools can strengthen defense when used responsibly but also ...

OpenAI's latest Codex 5.2 reviews every code submission and flags issues, helping your team ship cleaner features faster with ...

UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also ...

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at ...

Unix permissions control who can read, write or execute a file. You can limit it to the owner of the file, the group that owns it or the entire world. For security reasons, files and directories ...