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Amutable Foundations is a Linux system with no SSH and no package manager
Amutable opened signups for the private preview of Amutable Foundations, a Linux system in which each machine sends a signed report of the software and configuration it runs, …
Kali Linux 2026.3 ships kernel 7.1.5, brings wardriving to the TicWatch Pro 3
The Kali Linux team released version 2026.3 after overhauling the public build scripts it uses to produce every official image. The refreshed scripts share the same features, …
RemoveMacAI turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and deletes its models
A developer has released RemoveMacAI, a free command-line tool that turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and deletes about 12 GB of downloaded AI models. It requires a Mac …
NetBSD 10.2 security fixes close a remote kernel bug in ipfilter
A NetBSD box at the edge of a network, filtering traffic with ipfilter, has been carrying a kernel flaw that someone outside the machine can set off. The bug is a remotely …
Cloudflare OS goes open source with a record of everything its agents read
Cloudflare open sourced Cloudflare OS, the agent platform whose first version its own employees have used since May. Every resource an agent reads gets recorded, the record …
Debian 13.6 security update patches over a hundred advisories in trixie
Most PCs still run with a UEFI Secure Boot certificate authority, installed by default since 2013, that has now expired. That certificate signed the bootloaders letting …
macOS is becoming a proving ground for AI agents
Somewhere right now, a Mac Mini is sitting on a shelf doing someone’s chores. Nobody’s watching it. It reads a version number out of Terminal, hops over to Safari, …
Meet Fractal, an OS made for microarchitecture reverse engineering
Probing how a CPU isolates user code from kernel code is messy work. Researchers patch kernels, write drivers, or boot stripped-down bare-metal programs, and any of those …
Debian 13.5 point release lands with security fixes, bug patches
Debian 13.5 is the fifth point release for the stable distribution “trixie.” The update folds in roughly 100 Debian Security Advisories and corrections for more …
Rocky Linux launches opt-in security repository for urgent fixes
Rocky Linux has introduced a Security Repository that allows the distribution to ship urgent security fixes ahead of upstream Enterprise Linux when public exploit code exists …
Fedora Hummingbird brings the container security model to a Linux host OS
Container image security pipelines have spent the past several years pushing toward minimal footprints, hermetic builds, and continuous CVE remediation. The Fedora Project is …
Linux developers weigh emergency “killswitch” for vulnerable kernel functions
Linux kernel developers are reviewing a proposal for an emergency risk mitigation mechanism (“Killswitch”) that would allow administrators to disable vulnerable …
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