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Firefox's new redesign is only step one in Mozilla's plan to crush Chrome

Head of Firefox Ajit Varma has an old-school plan to beat Google: Build a better browser. With Firefox 157's Nova redesign, ...

Fedora Everything let me build the Linux desktop I actually want – like the old days

If you miss the early days of Linux, when you were the one who decided what was installed on your OS, Fedora has a treat for ...

Real-time web scraping for live competitive intelligence

Real-time web scraping is no longer a luxury for competitive intelligence but a critical requirement for market survival. In ...

File-notification systems can expose your activity across popular operating systems, even when attackers can’t access your files

TU Graz researchers found file-notification flaws letting apps track your Windows, Linux, Android, or macOS activity without ...
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BTR attack pulls Linux root password hash in minutes by abusing stale CPU branch predictions

Researchers disclosed Branch Target Reuse (BTR), an attack that exploits stale branch predictions left in the CPU after JIT code is reused. This article examines the Linux root-hash experiment, what ...

Instruction Manual for the "Stamp & Emoji Maker" That Lets You Create LINE Stamps Using Only a Browser

In this day and age, even if you cannot draw, anyone can create LINE stamps as long as they can use generative AI.Many of the ...
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Web & Internet

A study comparing 27 AI models across 155 topics found that chatbot answers contain less diverse knowledge than web search ...
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I replaced Microsoft’s default Windows apps with open-source alternatives and never looked back

Windows comes with an app for almost everything, but that doesn’t mean I have to use Microsoft’s defaults. Over time, I ...

New Spectre v2 attack variant leaks Linux root password hash in minutes

A new Branch Target Reuse (BTR) attack has been devised that can recover root password hashes on Intel computers running ...

Firefox 157 is here with its Nova design, hardware AV1 decoding, and major HDR Fixes

Firefox 157 is rolling out with the new Nova design, hardware AV1 decoding, and major HDR video fixes. Check out what is new and how to download it early.

After updating Lubuntu, PostgreSQL was also upgraded. What happened to my previous data?

Last time, the upgrade to Lubuntu 26.04 LTS was completed.However, the work does not end there. With this update, PostgreSQL, ...

Decades-old file security flaws found in Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows

Security researchers affiliated with Austria's Graz University of Technology have found flaws in the implementation of file notification systems on Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows that leak ...