Security researchers have disclosed new "Plug and Pwn" attacks that abuse the Windows Plug and Play feature to trigger Windows into installing vulnerable or insecure vendor software and gain SYSTEM ...

GloriousEggroll's community-maintained Proton layer released its most significant controller update today, delivering finalized haptic feedback, speaker audio, and hotplug support for the DualSense, ...

A weekend project turned my neglected 2021 Fire tablet into a Debian workstation using proot, RVNC, and Termux.

WSL gives Windows users an entire Linux system at the command line, with less overhead than a VM. The lion’s share of the ...

A cloud tenant who rents a single virtual machine can now bring down every other VM on the physical host running it — or take root on the host itself and access every guest on that machine. That is ...

Trusted host lists can help keep PowerShell remoting working in mixed domain and workgroup environments, but only if admins avoid overwriting existing WinRM settings. When it comes to using PowerShell ...

From VS Code to Azure's free tier, here are 50 Microsoft tools you can try for free right now, organized by category ahead of Build 2026 on June 2-3.

Microsoft recently announced Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit North America 2026 in Minneapolis. Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based, general-purpose server distribution ...

Microsoft released its first full Linux distro: Azure Linux 4.0. Azure Linux ix split into Azure Container Linux and the virtual machine edition. Microsoft effectively admits that it's a de facto ...

Linux will turn 35 this year, with the free and open source operating system launching in 1991. Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel, and since then, it has been built upon by an army of ...

Microsoft Defender is investigating a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) affecting multiple major Linux distributions including Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and AWS ...

It's not often that a major vulnerability is found in the Linux kernel, but when it does happen, it demands attention. Such is the case with "Copy Fail", which has just been found and disclosed by ...